Kandi Assembly constituency

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

Kandi
Constituency No. 68 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Kandi Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Murshidabad
Lok Sabha constituency	Baharampur
Established	1951
Total electors	238,973
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Apurba Sarkar
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 68 Kandi Assembly constituency covers Kandi municipality, Kandi community development block, and Satui Chaurigachha gram panchayat of Berhampore community development block.^[1]

Kandi Assembly constituency is part of No. 10 Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Kandi	Goalbadan Trivedi	Indian National Congress[2]
1957		Sudhir Mondal	Indian National Congress[3]
		Bimal Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress[3]
1962		Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress[4]
1967		G.Trivedi	Indian National Congress[5]
1969		Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha	Independent[6]
1971		Atish Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress[7]
1972		Atish Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress[8]
1977		Atish Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress[9]
1982		Atish Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress[10]
1987		Syed Wahid Reza	Communist Party of India[11]
1991		Atish Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress[12]
1996		Atish Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress[13]
2001		Atish Chandra Sinha	Indian National Congress[14]
2006		Apurba Sarkar	Independent[15]
2011		Apurba Sarkar	Indian National Congress[16]
2016		Apurba Sarkar	Indian National Congress[17]
2019		Safiul Alam Khan(Bonu khan)	Indian National Congress
2021		Apurba Sarkar	Trinamool Congress[18]

Election results

2026

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kandi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC
	BJP
	INC
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kandi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Apurba Sarkar	95,399	51.16	15.6
	BJP	Goutam Roy	57,319	30.74	19.4
	INC	Shafiul Islam Khan	27,555	14.78	33.6
	NOTA	None of the above	3,131	1.68	0.59
Majority			38,080	20.42	7.6
Turnout			1,86,481	78.03	4.99
	AITC gain from INC		Swing

2019 by-election

2019 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-election: Kandi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Shafiul Alam Khan	79,698	48.38	2.84
	AITC	Goutam Roy	58,578	35.56	2.64
	BJP	Sanat Mondal	18,693	11.34	5.5
	CPI	Debojyoti Roy	5,291	3.21	New
	NOTA	None of the above	1,799	1.09	New
Majority			21,120	12.82	0.2
Turnout			1,64,710	73.04	3.6
	INC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kandi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Apurba Sarkar	81,723	51.22	5.12
	AITC	Santanu Sen	60,943	38.2	New
	BJP	Binay Bhushan Das	9,317	5.84	2.82
	NOTA	None of the above	2,464	1.54	New
Majority			20,780	13.02
Turnout			1,59,553	76.64	4.27
	INC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Apurba Sarkar of Congress defeated his nearest rival Ainal Haque of CPI.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Kandi constituency^[16][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Apurba Sarkar	66,513	46.10	13.59
	CPI	Ainal Haque	58,703	40.68	7.64
	Independent	Sahitya Pradip Sinha	9,836	6.82
	BJP	Dhananjoy Mandal	4,351	3.02
	BSP	Amit Kumar Das	1,429
	CPI(ML)L	Manirul Islam	1,254
	Independent	Sasti Konai	850
	JD(U)	Nazimul Islam	736
	MLKSC	Majibur Rahaman Sheikh	615
Turnout			1,44,287	80.91
	INC hold		Swing	21.51

Sahitya Pradip Sinha, contesting as an independent, was reportedly backed by Trinamool Congress.^[20]

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Rebel Congress (Independent) vote percentages taken together in 2006. Calculated only on the vote percentages secured by Apurba Sarakar in 2006 and 2011 the swing is +3.59%.

2006

In the 2006 election, Apurba Sarkar of Congress MP of Baharampur, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Supported Independent defeated his nearest rival Abdul Hamid of CPI.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Kandi constituency^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Apurba Sarkar	50,157	34.87	13.87
	CPI	Abdul Hamid	47,525	33.04	7.64
	INC	Atish Chandra Sinha	36,103	25.10
	Independent	Hari Prasad Chandra	2,204	1.53
	AITC	Partha Mukherjee	1,787
	CPI(ML)L	Syed Fazle Alam	1,532
	Independent	Md. Safiuddin Sk.	1184
	Independent	Uday Das	996
	Independent	Narendra Narayan Roy	893
	Independent	Babu Bagdhi	884
	Independent	Md. Shahzamal	561
Turnout			143,829
	INC hold		Swing	-21.51#

1977–2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections^[15] Apurba Sarkar, Independent, won the 68 Kandi assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Abdul Hamid of CPI. Apurba Sarkar, contesting as an independent, was a rebel congress candidate put up by Adhir Choudhury as a protest against the official Congress candidate Atish Sinha.^[22] He was subsequently taken back into the Congress.^[23] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Atish Chandra Sinha of Congress defeated Chandan Sen of CPI in 2001,^[14] Syed Wahid Reza of CPI in 1996^[13] and 1991.^[12] Syed Wahid Reza of CPI defeated Bankim Trivedi of Congress in 1987.^[11] Atish Chandra Sinha of Congress defeated Syed Abdur Razzaque of CPI in 1982^[10] and Jagadish Sinha of Janata Party in 1977.^[9][24]

1951–1972

Atish Chandra Sinha won in 1972^[8] and 1971.^[7] Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha, Independent, won in 1969.^[6] G. Trivedi of Congress won in 1967.^[5] Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha of Congress won in 1962.^[4] Kandi was a joint seat in 1957.^[3] Sudhir Mondal and Bimal Chandra Sinha, both of Congress, won the seat jointly. In independent India's first election in 1951 Goalbadan Trivedi of Congress won from the Kandi seat.^[2]