Jagatballavpur Assembly constituency

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

Jagatballavpur
Constituency No. 183 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Jagatballavpur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Howrah
Lok Sabha constituency	Serampore
Established	1951
Total electors	225,602
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sitanath Ghosh
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 183 Jagatballavpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following:Baragachhia I, Baragachhia II, Hantal Anantabati, Jagatballavpur I, Jagatballavpur II, Pantihal, Shankarhati I, Shankarhati II, Shialdanga, Laskarpur, Polgustia, Gobindapur, Islampur and Maju gram panchayats of Jagatballavpur community development block and Begari, Domjur, Dakshin Jhapardaha, Parbatipur, Rudrapur, Uttar Jhapardaha and Makardah I gram panchayats of Domjur community development block.^[1]

Jagatballavpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 27 Sreerampur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1951	Amritalal Hazra		Indian National Congress
1957	Brindaban Behari Basu		Forward Bloc (Marxist)
1962	Satyanarayan Khan		Indian National Congress
1967	B.B. Bose		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1969	Tarapada Dey
1971
1972
1977	M. Ansaruddin
1982
1987
1991
1996
2001	Biman Chakraborty		All India Trinamool Congress
2006	Biplab Majumdar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2011	Abul Kasem Molla		All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Muhammad Abdul Ghani
2021	Sitanath Ghosh

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Jagatballavpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sitanath Ghosh	116,562	49.00
	BJP	Anupam Ghosh	87,366	37.00
	ISF	Sk Sabbir Ahmed	25,362	11.00
		NOTA (None of the above) + Rest of the candidates	~6,400	2.80
Majority			29,196
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

Trinamul Congress candidate Muhammad Abdul Ghani wins the seat.

2011

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Abul Kasem Molla	102,580	54.19	+6.16#
	CPI(M)	Kaji Jaffar Ahmed	74,800	39.51	−9.25
	BJP	Baij Nath Sha	5,561	2.94
	People’s Democratic Conference of India	A.S.Md. Monjurul Hoque Syed	2,180
	Independent	Shankari Makhal	1,981
	Independent	Nil Ratan Ram	948
	Indian Unity Centre	Gobardhan Manna	811
	Independent	Abul Kasem Khandakar	450
Turnout			189,311	83.91
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	15.41#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections^[4] Biplab Majumdar of CPI(M) won in the Jagatballavpur seat defeating his nearest rival Biman Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2001^[5] elections Biman Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress defeated M. Ansaruddin of CPI(M). M. Ansaruddin of CPI(M) defeated Nityananda Maity of Congress in 1996,^[6] Pulak Sarkar of Congress in 1991,^[7] Binodananda Banerjee of Congress in 1987,^[8] Nemai Porel, Independent in 1982^[9] and Brindaban Ghosh of Congress in 1977.^[10][11]

1951-1977

Tarapada Dey of CPI(M) won in 1972,^[12] 1971^[13] and 1969.^[14] B.B.Bose of CPI(M) won in 1967.^[15] Satyanarayan Khan of Congress won in 1962.^[16] Brindaban Behari Basu of Forward Bloc (Marxist) won in 1957.^[17] Amrita Lal Hazra of Congress won in 1951.^[18]