Chhatna Assembly constituency

Chhatna Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Chhatna
Constituency No. 248 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Chhatna Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Bankura
Lok Sabha constituency	Bankura
Established	1951
Total electors	194,663
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 248 Chhatna Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Chhatna community development block; Veduasol, Brahmandiha, Hatgram, Indpur and Raghunathpur gram panchayats of Indpur community development block.^[1]

Chhatna Assembly constituency is part of No. 36 Bankura (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Members[2]	Party
2011	Subhasis Batabyal	All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Dhirendra Nath Layek	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
2021	Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chhatna

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay	90,233	45.84	+38.42
	AITC	Subhasis Batabyal	83,069	42.20	+2.42
	RSP	Falguni Mukherjee	9,700	4.93	−36.20
	NOTA	None of the above	3,514	1.79	−2.52
	Independent	Rabindranath Bouri	2,866	1.46
	Independent	Dinanath Chatterjee	2,602	1.32
	BMP	Dinabandhu Bauri	1,838	0.93	+0.11
	Independent	Abir Chandra Mandal	1,227	0.62
	SUCI(C)	Sadananda Mandal	978	0.50	−1.26
	Independent	Anath Bauri	809	0.41
Majority			7,164	3.64	+2.30
Turnout			196,836	84.52	+3.58
	BJP gain from RSP		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Chhatna

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RSP	Dhirendra Nath Layek	73,648	41.13	+0.58
	AITC	Subhasis Batabyal	71,231	39.78	−5.80
	BJP	Swapan Mukherjee	13,287	7.42	+4.69
	NOTA	None of the above	7,709	4.31	+4.31
	Independent	Bankim Mishra	3,339	1.86
	SUCI(C)	Sadananda Mandal	3,145	1.76
	BSP	Manik Bouri	1,661	0.93	−0.09
	JMM	Satyaban Bauri	1,585	0.89	−0.79
	BMP	Uttam Kundu	1,476	0.82
	CPI(ML)L	Ramnibas Baskey	1,152	0.64	−0.66
	JDP	Panmani Besra	835	0.47	−0.97
Majority			2,417	1.34
Turnout			1,79,069	80.94	+1.67
	RSP gain from AITC		Swing

2011

2011 West Bengal state assembly election: Chhatna^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subhasis Batabyal	70,340	45.58	+5.21#
	RSP	Anath Bandhu Mondal	62,576	40.55	−11.49
	Independent	Madan Layek	6,156	3.98
	BJP	Rabindranath Mandal	4,221	2.73
	JMM	Kanai Banerjee	2,597	1.68
	JDP	Dhaneswar Hansda	2,224	1.44
	CPI(ML)L	Avijit Hansda	2,016	1.30
	Independent	Bharati Mudi	1,709	1.10
	BSP	Jagadananda Roy	1,579	1.02
	JVM(P)	Soumendra Mukherjee	89	0.05
Majority			7,764	5.03
Turnout			154,316	79.27
	AITC gain from RSP		Swing	+16.70#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Anath Bandhu Mondal of RSP won the Chhatna assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Mahasweta Mondal of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Subhas Goswami of RSP won the seat six times in a row defeating Swapan Mondal of Trinamool Congress/Congress in 2001 and 1996, Santi Singha of Congress in 1991, Tapan Banerjee of Congress in 1987, Arun Patra of Congress in 1982 and Kamalakanta Hembram of Congress in 1977.^[5]

1951-1972

Kamalakanta Hembram of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Sudarson Singh of SSP won in 1969. J.Koley of Congress won in 1967. Kamalakanta Hembram of Congress won in 1962. Chhatna had a dual seat in 1957. Dhirendranath Chattopadhyay and Kamalakanta Hembram, both of Congress won in 1957. Probodh Chandra Dutta of Hindu Mahasabha and Kamalakanta Hembram of Congress both won in independent India’s first election in 1951.^[6]