Chowrangee Assembly constituency

Chowrangee Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Located at the heart of Kolkata, the capital city of the state, this has been a bastion of Trinamool Congress since the party's formation. Prior to it was a stronghold of Indian National Congress, from which party two Chief ministers, Bidhan Chandra Roy and Siddhartha Shankar Ray had been won member of seat, during the tenure.

Chowrangee
Constituency No. 162 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Chowrangee Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
Lok Sabha constituency	Kolkata Uttar
Established	1957
Total electors	208,157
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Nayna Bandyopadhyay
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Chowrangee Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

• Ward Nos. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 and 62 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.^[1]

Chowrangee Assembly constituency is part of No. 24 Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1][2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election		Member	Party Affiliation
	1957	Bijoy Singh Nahar	Indian National Congress[3][4][5][6][7][8]
	1962	Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
	1967	Siddhartha Shankar Ray
	1969
	1971	Sankar Ghose
	1972
	1977	Sandip Das	Janata Party[9]
	1982	Sisir Kumar Bose	Indian National Congress[10][11][12]
	1987	Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay
	1991	Siddhartha Shankar Ray
	By-election, 1993	Anil Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
	1996	Subrata Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[13]
	2001		All India Trinamool Congress[14][15][16][17]
	2006	Subrata Bakshi
	2011	Sikha Chowdhury(Mitra)
	By-election, 2014	Nayna Bandyopadhyay
	2016
	2021

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowrangee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nayna Bandyopadhyay	70,101	62.87
	BJP	Devdutta Maji	24,757	22.20
	INC	Santosh Pathak	14,266	12.80
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,212	1.09
	BSP	Swaminath Kori	264	0.24
Majority			45,344	41.07
Turnout			1,11,625	53.61
	AITC hold		Swing	+

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowrangee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nayna Bandyopadhyay	55,119	47.29	+7.15
	INC	Somen Mitra	41,903	36.95	+12.53
	BJP	Ritesh Tiwari	15,707	13.48	−11.64
	None of the Above	None of the Above	2,183	1.87	New
	SUCI(C)	Kartik Kumkar	612	0.53
Majority			13,216	10.34	−4.68
Turnout			1,16,557	56.20	+8.51
	AITC hold		Swing	+7.15

By-election, 2014

A by-election was held on 13 September 2014 following the resignation of the sitting MLA, Shikha Chowdhury (Mitra) who switched over from Trinamool Congress to Congress.^[17]

By-election, 2014: Chowrangee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nayna Bandyopadhyay	38,328	40.14	−31.76
	BJP	Ritesh Tiwari	23,984	25.12	+20.78
	INC	Santosh Kumar Pathak	23,317	24.42	New
	CPI(M)	Adv. Faiyaz Ahmed Khan	8,890	9.09	New
Majority			14,344	15.02	−37.23
Turnout			96,650	47.69	−4.56
	AITC hold		Swing	-31.76

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowrangee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sikha Chowdhury (Mitra)	79,450	71.90
	RJD	Bimal Singh	21,711	19.65
	BJP	Shahnawaz Ahmed	4,799	4.34
	AIMF	Abdul Wahab	1,640	1.48
Majority			57,739	52.25
Turnout			1,10,506	54.42
	AITC win