Deganga Assembly constituency

This article is about the assembly constituency in West Bengal, India. For 1 its namesake village, see Deganga, North 24 Parganas. For 2 its namesake community development block, see Deganga.

Deganga Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Deganga
Constituency No. 120 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Deganga Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Barasat
Established	1951
Total electors	175,754
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rahima Mondal
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 120 Deganga Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kadambagachhi and Katra gram panchayats of Barasat I community development block, and Amulia, Berachampa I, Berachampa II, Chakla, Chaurasi, Hadipur Jhikra I, Kalsur, Nur Nagar and Sohai-Shwetpur gram panchayats of Deganga community development block.^[1]

Deganga Assembly constituency is part of No. 17 Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1951	Rafiuddin Ahmed		Indian National Congress
1957
1957	Atul Krishna Roy
1962	Maulana Bazlur Rahman Durgapuri
1967	J. Kabir		Bangla Congress
1969	Harun-Or-Rashid		Progressive Muslim League
1971
1972	M. Shaukat Ali		Indian National Congress
1977	A. K. M. Hassan Uzzaman		Indian Union Muslim League
1982	Mortaza Hossain		All India Forward Bloc
1987	A. K. M. Hassan Uzzaman		Indian Union Muslim League
1991	Md. Yakub		All India Forward Bloc
1996
2001
2006	Mortaza Hossain
2011	Dr. Nuruzjjaman		All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Rahima Mondal
2021

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Deganga

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rahima Mondal	100,105	46.70	4.17
	ISF	Karim Ali	67,568	31.52	New
	BJP	Dipika Chatterjee	38,446	17.93	11.63
	AIFB	Md. Hasanoor Jaman Chowdhury	2,942	1.37	35.92
	NOTA	None of the above	2,100	0.98	0.15
	BSP	Sattar Ali	1,354	0.63	1.59
	WPOI	Md. Rafikul Islam	1,078	0.50	0.71
	SUCI(C)	Ajoy Sadhukhan	787	0.37	0.55
Turnout			214,380
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Deganga constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rahima Mondal	97,412	50.87	+1.48
	AIFB	Md. Hasanoor Jaman Chowdhury	71,422	37.29	−1.20
	BJP	Tarun Kanti Ghosh	12,074	6.30	−1.01
	BSP	Baki Billah Karikar	3,562	2.22	−0.02
	WPOI	Rafikul Islam	2,317	1.21
	SUCI(C)	Ajoy Sadhukhan	1,754	0.92
	NOTA	None of the above	1,589	0.83
	LJP	Rita Panda	694	0.36
Turnout			191,509	88.75	−1.55
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr Nuruzjjaman	78,395	49.39	+11.84
	AIFB	Dr. Mortaza Hossain	61,095	38.49	−8.89
	BJP	Tarun Kanti Ghosh	11,606	7.31
	BSP	Roushan Ali	3,562	2.24
	Paschim Banga Rajya Muslim League	Kausar Ali Mullick	1,708
	Independent	Bhaskar Ghosh	1,369
	Independent	Abdul Ahed Molla	979
Turnout			158,714	90.3
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing	20.73

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections,^[4] Dr. Mortoza Hossain of AIFB won the Deganga assembly seat defeating Mafidul Haque Sahaji of AITC. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Md. Yakub of Forward Bloc defeated Abdur Rouf of Trinamool Congress in 2001,^[5] Idris Ali of Congress in 1996,^[6] and Ashanullah of Congress in 1991.^[7] A.K.M. Hassan Uzzaman of IUML defeated Dr. Mortoza Hossain of Forward Bloc in 1987.^[8] Dr. Mortoza Hossain of Forward Bloc defeated A.K.M. Hassan Uzzaman of IUML in 1982.^[9] A.K.M. Hassan Uzzaman of IUML defeated Md. Yakub of Forward Bloc in 1977.^[10][11]

1951-1972

M. Shaukat Ali of Congress won in 1972.^[12] Harun-Or-Rashid Independent/Progressive Muslim League won in 1971^[13] and 1969.^[14] J.Kabir of Bangla Congress won in 1967.^[15] Maulana Bazlur Rahman Durgapuri of Congress won in 1962.^[16] Rafiuddin Ahmed and Atul Krishna Roy, both of Congress, won the Deganaga joint seat in 1957.^[17] In independent India's first election in 1951, Rafiuddin Ahmed of Congress won the Deganga seat.^[18]