Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency

Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Howrah Uttar
Constituency No. 170 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Howrah Uttar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Howrah
Lok Sabha constituency	Howrah
Established	1951
Total electors	171,318
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Gautam Chowdhuri
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 170 Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 7 and 10 to 16 of Howrah Municipal Corporation.^[1]

Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Howrah North	Biren Banerjee	Communist Party of India[2]
1957		Samar Mukhopadhyay	Communist Party of India[3]
1962		Saila Kumar Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[4]
1967			Indian National Congress[5]
1969		Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[6]
1971		Shankar Lal Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[7]
1972			Indian National Congress[8]
1977		Chittabrata Majumdar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982		Ashok Ghosh	Indian National Congress[10]
1987			Indian National Congress[11]
1991		Lagan Deo Singh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996			Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2001			Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2006			Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
2011	Howrah Uttar	Ashok Ghosh	Trinamool Congress[16]
2016		Laxmi Ratan Shukla	Trinamool Congress
2021		Gautam Chowdhuri	Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Uttar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Gautam Chowdhuri	71,575	47.81
	BJP	Umesh Rai	66,053	44.12
	CPI(M)	Pawan Singh	8,133	5.43
	NOTA	None of the above	1,670	1.12
	IND	Subhash Kumar Singhi	911	0.61
Majority			5,522	3.69
Turnout			1,49,762	68.53
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Uttar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Laxmi Ratan Shukla	61,917	46.40
	INC	Santosh Kumar Pathak	34,958	26.20
	BJP	Roopa Ganguly	31,416	23.50
	IND	Subodh Pathak	1,146	0.9
	NOTA	None of the above	1,070	0.79
Majority			26,959	20.02
Turnout			1,34,764	67.98
	AITC hold		Swing

.# Swing calculated on LF+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2016.

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Uttar^[16][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ashoke Ghosh	61,468	49.25	+7.29
	CPI(M)	Nemai Samanta	41,858	33.54	−20.46
	BJP	Umesh Rai	16,494	13.22
	IND	Hitendranath Mondal	1,514	1.21
	BSP	Siddhartha Sarkar	761	0.61
Majority			19,610	15.71
Turnout			1,24,865	72.52
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	27.75#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections Lagan Deo Singh of CPI(M) won the Howrah North assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Bani Singha of Trinamool Congress in 2006, Asok Ghosh of Congress in the three other years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Asok Ghosh of Congress defeated Lagan Deo Singh of CPI(M) in 1987 and Chittabrata Majumdar of CPI(M) in 1982. Chittabrata Mazumdar of CPI(M) defeated Supriya Basu of Congress in 1977.^[18]

1967-1972

Shankarlal Mukherjee of Congress won in 1972^[8] and 1971.^[7] Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee of Congress won in 1969.^[6] S.K.Mukherjee of Congress won in 1967.^[5]

1951-1962

During the period Howrah had four Vidhan Sabha constituencies.

Howrah North

Saila Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962.^[4] Samar Mukhopadhyay of CPI won in 1957.^[3] Biren Banerjee of CPI won in 1951.^[2]

Howrah West

Anadi Dass, Independent, won in 1962.^[4] Bankim Chandra Kar of Congress won in 1957^[3] and 1951.^[2]

Howrah East

Bejoy Bhattacharyya of Congress won in 1962.^[4] Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in 1957.^[3] Saila Kumar Mukhopdhyay of Congress won in 1951.^[2]

For results of Howrah South constituency see Howrah Dakshin Assembly constituency