Chanchal Assembly constituency

Chanchal Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Chanchal
Constituency No. 45 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Chanchal Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Malda
Lok Sabha constituency	Maldaha Uttar
Established	2011
Total electors	249,402
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Nihar Ranjan Ghosh
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 45 Chanchal Assembly constituency covers Chanchal I community development block and Barui, Kusidha, Rashidabad and Tulsihatta gram panchayats of Harishchandrapur I community development block.^[1]

Chanchal Assembly constituency is part of No. 7 Maldaha Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party Affiliation
2011	Asif Mehbub	Indian National Congress[2]
2016	Asif Mehbub	Indian National Congress
2021	Nihar Ranjan Ghosh	All India Trinamool Congress

For MLAs from the area in previous years see Kharba Assembly constituency

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chanchal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nihar Ranjan Ghosh	115,966	58.00
	BJP	Dipankar Ram	48,628	24.00
	INC	Asif Mehbub	31,346	16.00
		Rest of the candidates + NOTA (None of the above)	~3,800	2.00
Majority			67,338
Turnout
	AITC gain from INC		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Asif Mehbub of Congress defeated his nearest rival Anjuman Ara Begum of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Chanchal constituency^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Asif Mehbub	68,586	48.69
	CPI(M)	Anjuman Ara Begam	54,399	38.62
	BJP	Sital Prasad Chakraborty	11,002	7.81
	Independent	Jayanta Kumar Sinha	2,867
	Independent	Abdul Khaleque	2,405
	BSP	Dally Choudhury Roy	1,593
Turnout			140,852	82.33