Chapra, West Bengal Assembly constituency

For disambiguation, see Chapra (disambiguation). For the constituency in Bihar, see Chapra, Bihar Assembly constituency.

Chapra Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Chapra
Constituency No. 82 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Chapra Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Nadia
Lok Sabha constituency	Krishnanagar
Established	1962
Total electors	248,014
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rukbanur Rahman
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 82 Chapra Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Chapra community development block.^[1]

Chapra Assembly constituency is part of No. 12 Krishnanagar (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1962	Mohananda Haldar		Sanjukta Biplabi Parishad
1967	Jagannath Majumdar		Bangla Congress
1969	Salil Behari Hundle
1971	Sahabuddin Mondal		Communist Party of India
1972	Ghiasuddin Ahmad		Indian National Congress
1977	Sahabuddin Mondal		Communist Party of India
1982
1987	Mir Quasem Mondal
1991
1996
2001	Shamsul Islam Mollah
2006
2011	Rukbanur Rahman		All India Trinamool Congress
2016
2021

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rukbanur Rahman	73,866	34.65	−13.14
	Independent	Jeber Sekh	61,748	28.97
	BJP	Kalyan Kumar Nandi	58,168	27.29	+19.35
	CPI(M)	Jahangir Biswas (Raju)	11,722	5.50	−35.11
	ISF	Kanchan Moitra	3,865	1.81
	NOTA	None of the above	2,023	0.95	−0.06
	BSP	Rokibul Hossain Molla	1,070	0.50
	SUCI(C)	Mozammel Hossain Mondal	713	0.33
Turnout			213,175
	AITC hold		Swing

.# Jeber Sekh, contesting as an Independent candidate, was a rebel Trinamool Congress member.

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Chapra^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rukbanur Rahman	89,556	47.79	+0.65
	CPI(M)	Shamsul Islam Mollah	76,093	40.61	−4.93
	BJP	Sutirtha Chakraborty (Chuni)	14,887	7.94	+3.63
	SS	Samaresh Biswas	4,081	2.18
	NOTA	None of the above	1,894	1.01
	CPI(ML)L	Dhananjay Ganguly	884	0.47
Turnout			187,895	85.23	−2.62
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Rukbanur Rahaman of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Shamsul Islam Mollah of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Chapra constituency^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rukbanur Rahaman	77,435	47.14	−9.10#
	CPI(M)	Shamsul Islam Mollah	74,802	45.54	+2.22
	BJP	Baidyanath Biswas	7,078	4.31
	CPI(ML)L	Bijoy Kumar Saha	2,765
	JD(U)	Soumen Mandal	2,180
Turnout			164,260	87.87
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	-11.32#

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

1977-2006

In 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections, Shamsul Islam Mollah of CPI(M) won the Chapra assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals, Abdur Rashid Mollick of Congress in 2006^[5] and Julfikar Khan of Trinamool Congress in 2001.^[6] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Mir Quasem Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Julfikar Khan representing Congress in 1996,^[7] and Arun Kumar Ghosh of Congress in 1991.^[8] Mir Qusem of CPI(M) defeated Dilip Dutta of Congress in 1987.^[9] Sahabauddin Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Arun Biswas, Independent, in 1982^[10] and Kazi Safluddin of Janata Party in 1977.^[11][12]

1962–1972

Ghiasuddin Ahmad of Congress won in 1972.^[13] Sahabuddin Mondal of CPI(M) won in 1971.^[14] Salil Behari Hundle of Bangla Congress won in 1969.^[15] J.Mojumdar of Bangla Congress won in 1967.^[16] Mohananda Haldar of Sanjukta Biplabi Parishad won in 1962,^[17] The Chapra constituency did not exist prior to that.