Canning Purba Assembly constituency

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Canning Purba Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian State of West Bengal.

Canning Purba
Constituency No. 139 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Canning Purba Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	South 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Jaynagar
Established	1957
Total electors	262,325
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Saokat Molla
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Canning Purba Assembly constituency is composed of the following:^[1]

• Deuli-I, Deuli-II, Kalikatala, Matherdighi, Sarengabad, Tambuldaha-I and Tambuldaha-II gram panchayats of Canning II community development block
• Bodra, Chandaneswar-I, Chandaneswar-II, Durgapur, Shanksahar and Tarda gram panchayats of Bhangar I community development block

Canning Purba Assembly constituency is a part of No. 19 Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
Canning
1957	Khagendra Nath Naskar		Indian National Congress
	Abdus Shukur
1962	Khagendra Nath Naskar
1967	A. C. Halder		Bangla Congress
1969	Narayan Naskar		Indian National Congress
1971	Gobinda Chandra Naskar
1972
Canning Purba
1977	Abdur Razzak Molla		Communist Party of India
1982
1987
1991
1996
2001
2006
2011
2016	Saokat Molla		All India Trinamool Congress
2021

Election Results

Legislative Assembly Election 2021

Legislative Assembly Election, 2021: Canning Purba

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Saokat Molla	122,301	52.54	−7.02
	ISF	Gaji Shahabuddin Siraji	69,294	29.77
	BJP	Kalipada Naskar	34,503	14.82	+8.47
	SUCI(C)	Rafik Akunje	2,686	1.15	−0.17
	NOTA	None of the above	2,267	0.97	−0.64
	Independent	Ajay Haldar	1,715	0.74
Turnout			232,766	97.20	+10.50
	AITC hold		Swing

Legislative Assembly Election 2016

Legislative Assembly Election, 2016: Canning Purba

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Saokat Molla	115,264	59.56
	CPI(M)	Ajijer Rahaman Molla	60,230	31.12	−24.00
	BJP	Sudarshan Goswami	12,293	6.35	+4.08
	NOTA	None of the above	3,193	1.61
	SUCI(C)	Sujit Naskar	2,548	1.32	−0.02
Turnout			193,528	87.70	−1.58
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

Legislative Assembly Election 2011

Legislative Assembly Election, 2011: Canning Purba^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Abdur Razzak Molla	85,105	55.12	−2.44
	INC	Ibrahim Molla	63,992	41.44	+2.97
	BJP	Ghanasyam Mondal	3,503	2.27
	SUCI(C)	Eahia Akhand	2,074	1.34
	SDPI	Anisur Rahaman	1,179	0.76
	BSP	Mahim Chandra Sardar	874	0.57
Turnout			154,403	89.28
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-5.41

Legislative Assembly Elections 1977-2006

Abdur Razzak Molla of CPI(M) has represented the Canning Purba Assembly constituency from 1977 to 2006. He defeated his nearest rivals, Amirul Islam of AITC in 2006,^[4] Mujibar Rahman Kayal of INC in 2001,^[5] Akram Laskar of INC in 1996,^[6] Abdus Sattar Molla of INC in 1991,^[7] Amar Nath Bandopadhyay of INC in 1987,^[8] Ahammad Nuruzzaman of INC in 1982^[9] and Osman Gani of INC in 1977.^[10][11]

Legislative Assembly Elections 1957-1972

Gobinda Chandra Naskar of INC won the Canning Assembly constituency in 1972^[12] and 1971.^[13] Narayan Naskar of INC won in 1969.^[14] A.C.Halder of Bangla Congress won in 1967.^[15] Khagendra Nath Naskar of INC won in 1962.^[16] In 1957,^[17] Canning Assembly constituency had joint seats. Khagendra Nath Naskar and Abdus Shukur, both of INC, won. The seat did not exist prior to that.