Kamarhati Assembly constituency

Kamarhati Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Kamarhati
Constituency No. 112 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Kamarhati Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Dum Dum
Established	1967
Total electors	160,967
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Madan Mitra
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 112 Kamarhati Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 16 and 21 to 35 of Kamarhati Municipality.^[1]

Kamarhati Assembly constituency is part of No. 16 Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1967	Radhika Ranjan Banerjee		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1969
1971
1972	Pradip Kumar Palit		Indian National Congress
1977	Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982
1987
1991	Santi Ghatak
1996
2001	Manash Mukherjee
2006
2011	Madan Mitra		All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Manash Mukherjee		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021	Madan Mitra		All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kamarhati

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Madan Mitra	73,491	51.17
	BJP	Anindya Raju Banerjee	38,235	26.64
	CPI(M)	Sayandeep Mitra	28,138	19.62
Turnout
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Manas Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Madan Mitra of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Kamarhati constituency^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Manash Mukherjee	62,194	45.09	+6.18
	AITC	Madan Mitra	57,996	42.04	−15.92
	BJP	Krishanu Mitra	10,797	+7.83	6.50
	NOTA	None of the above	2,623	1.90	+1.90
	Independent	Manas Mukherjee	1,009	0.73
	Independent	Subhojit Dutta	923	0.67
	BSP	Rekha Devi	848	0.61
	CPI(ML)L	Archana Ghatak	399	0.29
	PDS	Santanu Chatterjee	352	0.26
Turnout			1,37,943	74.85	−4.59
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Madan Mitra of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Manas Mukherjee of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Kamarhati constituency^[2][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Madan Mitra	74,112	57.96	+17.25#
	CPI(M)	Manash Mukherjee	49,758	38.91	−17.49
	BJP	Shikha Sarkar	1,699	1.33
	Independent	Sushanta Dey	1,079
	CPI(ML)L	Nabendu Dasgupta	739
	PDS	Tarak Bhadra	479
Turnout			127,866	79.44
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	34.74#

2006

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Manash Mukherjee	71,322
	AITC	Subhrangshu Bhattacharya	40,634
	INC	Sambhu Nath Dutta	10,845
	Independent	Shambhu Dutta	1981
	BSP	Ram Bachchan	1679
Turnout			126461
	CPIM hold		Swing	{{{swing}}}

1977-2006

In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections Manash Mukherjee of CPI(M), won from the Kamarhati assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Subhrangshu Bhattacharya of Trinamool Congress in 2006^[5] and Chittaranjan Bag of Trinamool Congress in 2001.^[6] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Santi Ghatak of CPI(M) had won it in 1996^[7] and in 1991^[8] defeating his nearest rivals Sambhunath Dutta of Congress in 1996 and Salil Biswas of Congress in 1991. Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee of CPI(M) had won this seat in 1987, 1982, and in 1977defeating Ajoy Ghosal of Congress in 1987,^[9] Purnendu Bimal Dutta of Congress in 1982^[10] and Jayanta Chandra Sen of Congress in 1977.^[11][12]

1967-1972

Pradip Kumar Palit of Congress won in 1972.^[13] Radhika Ranjan Banerjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,^[14] 1969^[15] and in 1967.^[16] Prior to that the Kamarhati seat did not exist.