Jagatdal Assembly constituency

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

Jagatdal
Constituency No. 106 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Jagatdal Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Barrackpore
Established	1977
Total electors	172,294
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Somenath Shyam Ichini
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 106 Jagatdal Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 18 to 35 of Bhatpara Municipality, and Kogachi I, Kogachi II, Mamudpur, Panpur Keutia gram panchayats of Barrackpore I community development block.^[1]

Jagatdal Assembly constituency is part of No. 15 Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1977	Jagatdal	Nihar Basu	All India Forward Bloc[2]
1982		Nihar Basu	All India Forward Bloc[3]
1987		Nihar Basu	All India Forward Bloc[4]
1991		Nihar Basu	All India Forward Bloc[5]
1996		Anay Gopal Sinha	Indian National Congress[6]
2001		Haripada Biswas	All India Forward Bloc[7]
2006		Haripada Biswas	All India Forward Bloc[8]
2011		Parash Dutta	All India Trinamool Congress[9]
2016		Parash Dutta	All India Trinamool Congress
2021		Somenath Shyam Ichini	All India Trinamool Congress[10]

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Jagatdal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Somnath Shyam	87,030	48.00
	BJP	Arindam Bhattacharya	68,666	38.00
	AIFB	Nemai Saha	16,748	9.00
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,568	1.00
	Independent	Suvamay Pan	1,522	1.00
Majority			18,364
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Parash Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Haripada Biswas of Forward Bloc.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Jagatdal constituency^[9][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Parash Dutta	86,388	58.80
	AIFB	Haripada Biswas	50,356	34.28
	BJP	Dilip Mitra	4,276	2.91
	BSP	Bimal Krishna Ray	2,657
	Independent	Mukul Sarkar	1,342
	Independent	Debashis Das	1,007
	Independent	Pronab Kumar De	884
Turnout			146,910	85.27
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing

Trinamool Congress did not contest this seat in 2006

1977-2006

In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections, Hari Pada Biswas of Forward Bloc won the Jagatdal assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Rahul (Biswajit) Sinha of BJP in 2006^[8] and Mukul Roy of AITC in 2001.^[7] Contests in most years were multi-cornered but only winners and runners are mentioned. Anay Gopal Sinha of Congress defeated Nihar Basu of Forward Bloc in 1996.^[6] Nihar Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Anay Gopal Sinha of Congress in 1991,^[5] Nani Gopal Sarkar of Congress in 1987,^[4] Mrigen Lahiry of Congress in 1982^[3] and Sudhin Bhattacharjee of Congress in 1977.^[2][12] Prior to that, the constituency did not exist.