Chandannagar Assembly constituency

Chandannagar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Chandannagar
Constituency No. 189 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Chandannagar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Lok Sabha constituency	Hooghly
Established	1957
Total electors	198,602
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Indranil Sen
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 189 Chandanagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Chandernagore Municipal Corporation and Bhadreswar Municipality.^[1]

Chandannagar Assembly constituency is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party Affiliation
Chandernagore
1957	Hirendra Kumar Chattopadhyay	Independent[2]
1962	Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India[3]
1967	Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[4]
1969	Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
1971	Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1972	Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1977	Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
1982	Bhabani Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1987	Sandhya Chattopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1991	Sandhya Chattopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1996	Kamal Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[12]
2001	Kamal Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[13]
2006	Sibaprasad Bandopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
Chandannagar
2011	Ashoke Kumar Shaw	All India Trinamool Congress[15]
2016	Indranil Sen	All India Trinamool Congress[16]
2021	Indranil Sen	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Chandannagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Indranil Sen	86,778	47.60
	BJP	Deepanjan Kumar Guha	55,749	30.70
	CPI(M)	Gautam Sarkar	33,702	18.40
Majority			31,029
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Chandannagar constituency^[16][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ashoke Kumar Shaw	96,430	60.76	+9.91#
	CPI(M)	Sibaprasad Banerjee	53,391	33.64	−12.01
	BJP	Satya Bhusan Pathak	5,109	3.22
	Independent	Subodh Ghoshal	3,780	2.38
Turnout			158,710	79.91
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	21.92#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections Sibaprosad Bandopadhyay of CPI(M) won the 182 Chandernagore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Ram Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kamal Mukherjee of Congress defeated Ratan Lal Dasgupta of CPI(M) in 2001 and Sandhya Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) in 1996. Sandhya Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Kamal Mukherjee of Congress in 1991 and 1987. Bhabani Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Indumati Bhattacharya of Congress in 1982 and Asit Mukhopadhyay of Congress in 1977.^[18]

1957-1972

Bhabani Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1972,^[7] 1971,^[6] 1969^[5] and 1967.^[4] Bhabani Mukherjee of CPI won in 1962.^[3] Hirendra Kumar Chattopadhyay, Independent, won in 1957.^[2]

1951-1962 Bhadreswar

The Bhadreswar seat was there between 1951 and 1962. Girija Bhushan Mukhopadhyay of CPI won in 1962.^[3] Byomkesh Majumdar of Congress won in 1957^[2] and in independent India's first election in 1951.^[19]