Kalna Assembly constituency

Kalna is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Kalna
Constituency No. 264 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Kalna Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Bardhaman Purba
Established	1951
Total electors	187,158
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Deboprasad Bag
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 264 Kalna (SC) assembly constituency covers Kalna municipality, Kalna II community development block and Bagnapara, Hatkalna and Krishnadevpur gram panchayats of Kalna I community development block.^[1]

Kalna (SC) assembly segment was part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency) prior to 2009. As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency) from 2009.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Kalna	Baidyanath Sanyal and Rash Behari Sen	Indian National Congress[2]
1957		Hare Krishna Konar and Jamadar Majhi	Communist Party of India[3]
1962		Hare Krishna Konar	Communist Party of India[4]
1967		Hare Krishna Konar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
1969		Hare Krishna Konar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1971		Hare Krishna Konar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1972		Nurul Islam Mollah	Indian National Congress[8]
1977		Guruprasad Sinha Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982		Anju Kar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1987		Anju Kar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1991		Anju Kar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996		Anju Kar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2001		Anju Kar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2006		Anjali Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15][16]
2011		Biswajit Kundu	All India Trinamool Congress[17]
2016		Biswajit Kundu	All India Trinamool Congress[18][19]
2021		Deboprasad Bag (Poltu)	All India Trinamool Congress[20]

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Kalna^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Deboprosad Bag (Poltu)	96,073	45.98	4.34
	BJP	Biswjit Kundu	88,595	42.40	33.32
	CPI(M)	Nirab Khan	19,005	9.10	28.17
	BSP	Radheshyam Mondal	2,084	1.00	0.02
	SUCI(C)	Kali Charan Sardar	687	0.33
	NOTA	None of the above	2,507	1.2
Turnout			208,951
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna^[18][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Biswajit Kundu	97,430	50.32
	CPI(M)	Sukul Chandra Sikdar	72,169	37.27
	BJP	Newton Majumdar	17,577	9.08
	BSP	Radheshyam Mondal	1,976	1.02
	CPI(ML)L	Pejush Kumar Sahana	1,612	0.83
	NOTA	None of the above	2,865	1.48
Majority
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Kalna^[21][22][23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Biswajit Kundu	85,096	49.98	+11.01#
	CPI(M)	Sukul Chandra Sikdar	72,459	42.56	−17.18
	BJP	Dilip Mondal	6,021	3.54
	Independent	Tapan Das	2,053
	CPI(ML)L	Pijush Kumar Sahana	1,647
	PDS	Shibu Halder	1,557
	BSP	Radhesyam Mondal	1,437
Turnout			170,270	90.98
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+28.24#

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

1977–2006

Anjali Mondal of CPI(M) won the Kalna assembly seat in 2006, defeating her nearest rival Asis Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Anju Kar of CPI(M) won the seat 2001, 1996, 1991, 1987 and 1982 defeating her nearest rivals, Sridhar Banerjee of Trinamool Congress in 2001, Lakshman Kumar Roy of Congress in 1996, Dhirendranath Chaterjee of Congress in 1991 and 1987, and Sudhir Ghosh of Congress in 1982. Guruprasad Sinha Roy of CPI(M) won the seat in 1977 defeating Debendra Bejoy Ghosh of Janata Party in 1977.^[24]

1951–1972

Nurul Islam Mollah of Congress won the Kalna assembly seat in 1972. Hare Krishna Konar of CPI(M) won the seat in 1971, 1969, 1967 and 1962 (representing CPI). In 1957 and 1951, it was a double member seat. In 1957, it was won by Hare Krishna Konar and Jamadar Majhi, both representing CPI. In independent India's first election in 1951, it was won by Baidyanath Santal and Rasbehari, both Congress.^[25]