Durgapur Purba Assembly constituency

Durgapur Purba Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Durgapur Purba
Constituency No. 276 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Durgapur Purba Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Bardhaman–Durgapur
Established	1962
Total electors	201,250
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Pradip Mazumdar
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 276 Durgapur Purba assembly constituency covers ward nos. 1 – 10, 23 – 28 of Durgapur municipal corporation and Amlajora, Gopalpur and Molandighi gram panchayats of Kanksa community development block.^[1]

As per orders of Delimitation Commission Durgapur Purba Assembly constituency is part of No. 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Durgapur

Year	Name	Party
1962	Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay		Indian National Congress
1967	Dilip Kumar Mazumdar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1969
1971
1972	Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay		Indian National Congress

Durgapur II

Year	Name	Party
1977	Tarun Chatterjee		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982
1987
1991
1996	Debabrata Banerjee		Communist Party of India
2001	Apurba Mukherjee		All India Trinamool Congress
2006	Biprendu Kumar Chakraborty		Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Durgapur Purba

Year	Name	Party
2011	Dr. Nikhil Kumar Banerjee		All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Santosh Debray		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021	Pradip Mazumdar		All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Durgapur Purba^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Pradip Mazumdar	79,303	41.16	+5.65
	BJP	Col. Diptansu Chaudhury	75,557	39.21
	CPI(M)	Abhash Ray Chaudhuri	29,063	15.08	−64.48
	NOTA	None of the above	2,628	1.36
	IND	Dipak Dhali	1,884	0.98
Majority			3,746	1.97
Turnout			1,92,929	75.21
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Durgapur Purba^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Santosh Debray	84,200	44.21	−1.16#
	AITC	Pradip Mazumdar	75,069	39.42	−10.90#
	BJP	Akhil Mondal	23,302	12.23	+7.92#
	SUCI(C)	Asit Baran Mondal	1,676	0.88
	NOTA	None of the above	3,680
Majority			9,131	4.80
Turnout			1,90,525	81.42
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2011 taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote for Durgapur Purba constituency.

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Durgapur Purba^[4][5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nikhil Kumar Banerjee	87,050	50.32	+7.18#
	CPI(M)	Alpana Chowdhury	78,484	45.37	−4.46#
	BJP	Lakshman Ghorui	7,449	4.31
Majority			8,566	4.95
Turnout			1,73,749	85.82
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+11.64

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2006 taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote for Durgapur II constituency.

1977-2006

In 2006 assembly elections, Biprendu Kumar Chakraborty of CPI (M) won the Durgapur II seat defeating his nearest rival Apurba Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Apurba Mukherjee won the seat in 2001 defeating Debabrata Banerjee of CPI (M). In 1996, Debabrata Banerjee had won the seat defeating Malay Kanti Dutta of Congress. In 1991, Tarun Chatterjee of CPI (M) had won the seat defeating Asit Chattaraj of Congress. Tarun Chatterjee won it in 1987 defeating Narayan Hazara Chowdhury of Congress. In 1982, Tarun Chaterjee defeated Baren Roy of Congress. Tarun Chatterjee defeated Ajit Banerjee of Congress in 1977.^[7]

1962-1972

Ananda Gopal Mukherjee of Congress won the Durgapur seat in 1972. Dilip Mazumdar of CPI (M) won the seat in 1971, 1969 and 1967. Ananda Gopal Mukherjee of INC won the seat in 1962.^[8]