Jangipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency

For the constituency in UP, see Jangipur, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency.

Jangipur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Jangipur
Constituency No. 58 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Jangipur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Murshidabad
Lok Sabha constituency	Jangipur
Established	1957
Total electors	255,072
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Jakir Hossain
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 58 Jangipur Assembly constituency covers Jangipur municipality, Raghunathganj I community development block and Ahiran and Bansabati gram panchayats of Suti I community development block.^[1]

Jangipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 9 Jangipur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1957	Shyamapada Bhattacharya		Indian National Congress
1957	Kuber Chand Halder
1962	Muktipada Chatterjee
1967	Abdul Haque		Independent
1969			Revolutionary Socialist Party
1971	Radaruddin Ahammad		Independent
1972	Habibur Rahman		Indian National Congress
1977
1982
1987
1991	Abdul Haque		Revolutionary Socialist Party
1996	Habibur Rahman		Indian National Congress
2001	Abul Hasnat		Revolutionary Socialist Party
2006
2011	Md. Sohrab		Indian National Congress
2016	Jakir Hossain		Trinamool Congress
2021

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Jangipur^[2][3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Jakir Hossain	106,444	58.82	+21.59
	BJP	Sujit Das	43,964	22.17	+4.23
	RSP	Jane Alam Mian	39,067	16.71	+16.71
	NOTA	None of the above	4,557	2.3	+0.71
Majority			92,480	46.65	+35.16
Turnout			1,98,401	77.78
	AITC hold		Swing	+31.59

2016

In the 2016 election, Jakir Hossain of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Somnath Singha Ray of CPI(M).

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Jangipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Jakir Hossain	66,869	37.23	+37.23
	CPI(M)	Somnath Singha Ray	46,236	25.75	−16.70
	INC	Md. Sohrab	34,863	19.41	−27.35
	BJP	Sudhan Kumar Das	23,240	12.94	+4.90
	NOTA	None of the above	2,853	1.59
Majority			20,633	11.49	+7.18
Turnout			1,79,758	83.82	−1.74
	AITC gain from INC		Swing	+26.97

2011

In the 2011 election, Mohammad Sohrab of Congress defeated his nearest rival Purnima Bhattacharya of CPI(M).

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Jangipur^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Md. Sohrab	68,699	46.76	+8.53
	CPI(M)	Purnima Bhattacharya	62,363	42.45	−6.40
	BJP	Anamitra Banerjee	11,804	8.04
	SUCI(C)	Mirza Nashiruddin	4,038	2.75
Majority			6,336	4.31
Turnout			1,46,905	85.56
	INC gain from RSP		Swing

.# CPI(M) did not contest this seat in 2006. Change noted is based on RSP's vote percentage in 2006.

1977–2006

In the 2006^[7] and 2001^[8] state assembly elections Abul Hasnat of RSP won the Jangipur assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Habibur Rahaman of Congress/ Independent. Contests in most years were multi-cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Habibur Rahman of Congress defeated Abdul Haque of RSP in 1996.^[9] Abdul Haque of RSP defeated Habibur Rahaman of Congress in 1991.^[10] Habibur Rahaman of Congress defeated Abdul Haque of RSP in 1987,^[11] Badaruddin Ahmed, Independent, in 1982^[12] and Achintya Singha of SUC in 1977.^[13][14]

1957–1972

Habibur Rahaman of Congress won in 1972.^[15] Radaruddin Ahammad, Independent, won in 1971.^[16] Abdul Haque of RSP/Independent won in 1969^[17] and 1967.^[18] Muktipada Chatterjee of Congress won in 1962.^[19] Jangipur was joint seat in 1957. Shyamapada Bhattachacharya and Kuber Chand Halder, both of Congress, won.^[20]