Dum Dum Assembly constituency

Dum Dum Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Most Successful parties from Dumdum assembly

1. Communist Party of India (Marxist) (9 times) (52.94%)
2. All India Trinamool Congress (4 time) (23.53%)
3. Indian National Congress(2 times) (11.76%)
4. Communist Party of India (1 time) (5.88%)
5. Praja Socialist Party (1 time) (5.88%)

Dum Dum
Constituency No. 114 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Dum Dum Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Dum Dum
Established	1951
Total electors	232,545
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Bratya Basu
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 114 Dum Dum Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Dum Dum Municipality and Ward Nos.1-17 of South Dum Dum Municipality.^[1]

Dum Dum Assembly constituency is part of No. 16 Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party Affiliation
1951	Kanai Lal Das	Indian National Congress[2]
1957	Pabitra Mohan Roy	Praja Socialist Party[3]
1962	Tarun Kumar Sengupta	Communist Party of India[4]
1967	Tarun Kumar Sengupta	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
1969	Tarun Kumar Sengupta	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1971	Tarun Kumar Sengupta	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1972	Lal Bahadur Singh	Indian National Congress[8]
1977	Santi Ranjan Ghatak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982	Santi Ranjan Ghatak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1987	Santi Ranjan Ghatak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1991	Sankar Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996	Sankar Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2001	Arunava Ghosh	All India Trinamool Congress[14]
2006	Rekha Goswami	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
2011	Bratya Basu	All India Trinamool Congress[16]
2016	Bratya Basu	All India Trinamool Congress
2021	Bratya Basu	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Dum Dum

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Bratya Basu	87,999	47.48	+0.75
	BJP	Prof. Bimal Shankar Nanda	61,268	33.06	+24.73
	CPI(M)	Palash Das	30,653	16.54	−24.85
	BSP	Subrata Kumar Majumder	980	0.53	−0.44
	Independent	Rupa Sarkar	774	0.42
	Bharatiya Nyay - Adhikar Raksha Party	Rana Pal Choudhury	739	0.40
	Independent	Shree Raju Ghosh	464	0.25
	Independent	Subrata Sen	418	0.23
	NOTA	None of the above	2,039	1.10	−0.90
Majority			26,731	14.42	+9.80
Turnout			185,334	74.77	−4.29
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Dum Dum

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Bratya Basu	81,579	46.73	−10.77
	CPI(M)	Palash Das	72,263	41.39	+3.44
	BJP	Uma Singha	14,550	8.33	+5.70
	BSP	Subrata Kumar Majumdar	1,705	0.97	+0.07
	Independent	Subrata Sen	959	0.54	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	3,506	2.00	N/A
Majority			9,316	5.34	−14.21
Turnout			174,562	79.06	−2.16
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Bratya Basu of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Gautam Deb of CPI(M).

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Bratya Basu	92,635	57.50	+14.72#
	CPI(M)	Gautam Deb	61,138	37.95	−16.01
	BJP	Anjana Chaturvedi	4,236	2.63
	PDS	Tushar Kanti Roy	1,640	1.02
	BSP	Narendranath Ghosh	1,446	0.90
Majority			31,497	19.55
Turnout			161,095	81.22
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	30.73#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.

2006

In the 2006 elections, Rekha Goswami of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Udayan Namboodiry of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Dum Dum constituency^[15][18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Rekha Goswami	99,054	57.50	+14.72#
	AITC	Udayan Namboodiry	68,816	37.95	−16.01
	INC	Ahindra Majumder (Ahin)	11,541	2.63
	Bahujan Samaj Party	Sudhir Deb Barma	2,380	1.02
	JMM	Partha Sarathi Dasgupta	1,770	0.90
Turnout			161,095	81.22
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing	30.73#

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

2001

In the 2001 elections, Arunava Ghosh of AITC defeated his nearest rival Ajit Choudhury of CPIM.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2001: Dum Dum constituency^[14][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Arunava Ghosh	81,228	46.70	+14.72#
	CPI(M)	Ajit Choudhury	81,004	46.57	−16.01
	BJP	Ramen Bhattacharya	8,564	4.92
	Independent	Mrinal Paul	1,350	0.78
	NCP	Amit Kumar Roy	1,206	0.69
	Independent	Debashis Banerjee	590	0.34
Turnout			161,095	81.22
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	30.73#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+ Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2001.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections,^[15] Rekha Goswami of CPI(M) won from the Dum Dum assembly constituency defeating her nearest rival Udayan Namboodiry of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Arunava Ghosh of Trinamool Congress defeated Ajit Chowdhury of CPI(M) in 2001.^[14] Sankar Sen of CPI(M) defeated Nitai Ghosh of Congress in 1996^[13] and Ramesh Bhattacharjee of Congress in 1991.^[12] Santi Ranjan Ghatak of CPI(M) defeated Harashit Ghosh of Congress in 1987,^[11] and Lal Bahadur Singh of Congress in 1982^[10] and 1977.^[9][20]

1951-1972

Lal Bahadur Singh of Congress won in 1972.^[8] Tarun Kumar Sengupta of CPI(M) won in 1971,^[7] 1969^[6] and 1967.^[5] Tarun Kumar Sengupta representing CPI won in 1962.^[4] Pabitra Mohan Roy of PSP won in 1957.^[3] In independent India's first election in 1951, kanai Lal Das of Congress won from the Dum Dum constituency.^[2]