Katulpur Assembly constituency

Katulpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Katulpur
Constituency No. 256 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Katulpur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Bankura
Lok Sabha constituency	Bishnupur
Established	1957
Total electors	189,915
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Harakali Protiher[a]
Party	AITC
Alliance	AITC+
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 256 Katulpur Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Deshra-koyalpara, Gopinathpur, Kotulpur, Lego, Mirzapur and Sihar gram panchayats of Kotulpur community development block; Gelia, Jagannathpur, Kuchiakol, Maynapur, Salda, Uttarbarh, Hetia, Routkhanda and Shyamnagar gram panchayats of Joypur community development block.^[1]

Katulpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 37 Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1957	Jagannath Kolay		Indian National Congress
1962
1967	S. Sarkar		Bangla Congress
1969	Niranjan Bhadra
1971	Jatadhari Mukhopadhyay		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1972	Akshay Kumar Kolay		Indian National Congress
1977	Gunadhar Choudhury		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982
1987	Gouripada Dutta
1991
1996
2001	Manashi Ghose
2006	Kalpana Koley
2011	Saumitra Khan		Indian National Congress
2014^	Shyamal Santra		Trinamool Congress
2016
2021	Harakali Protiher[b]		Bharatiya Janata Party
			Trinamool Congress

• ^ by-election

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Katulpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Harakali Protiher[c]	106,022	47.31	37.76
	AITC	Sangeeta Malik	94,237	42.05	6.98
	INC	Akshay Santra	17,757	7.92	30.58
	BSP	Haru Roy	2,519	1.12	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,856	0.83	0.89
	SUCI(C)	Mohan Santra	1,732	0.77	New
Majority			11,785	5.26	5.27
Turnout			2,24,123	90.82	0.16
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Katulpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Shyamal Santra	98,901	49.03	3.61
	INC	Akshay Santra	77,653	38.50	34.55
	BJP	Tarun Kumar Kotal	19,255	9.55	2.71
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,470	1.72	0.13
Majority			21,248	10.53	10.96
Turnout			2,01,712	90.66	0.67
	AITC hold		Swing

2014 by-election

The bypoll was necessitated after sitting MLA of Congress Saumitra Khan switched to the Trinamool Congress & was elected as MP of Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency.

West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-election, 2014: Katulpur^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Shyamal Santra	98,878	52.64	New
	CPI(M)	Sital Kaibartya	58,521	31.15	15.44
	BJP	Lakshmi Kanta Majumdar	23,037	12.26	8.75
	INC	Akshay Santra	7,419	3.95	43.45
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,043	1.59	New
Majority			40,357	21.49	20.68
Turnout			1,91,051	89.99	2.6
	AITC gain from INC		Swing

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Katulpur^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Saumitra Khan	83,355	47.40
	CPI(M)	Purnima Bagdi	81,922	46.59
	BJP	Tarun Kumar Kotal	6,180	3.51
	SUCI(C)	Mohan Santra	4,389	2.50
Majority			1,433	0.81
Turnout			1,75,846	92.59
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Kalpana Koley of CPI(M) won the Katulpur assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Aloka Sen Majumdar of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Manashi Ghose of CPI(M) defeated Sunil Das of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Gouripada Dutta of CPI(M) defeated Nikhil Bose of Congress in 1996, Akshay Kumar Koley of Congress in 1991, and Bablu Kolay of Congress in 1987. Gunadhar Choudhury of CPI(M) defeated Aksay Kumar Koley of Congress in 1982 and 1977.^[5]

1957-1972

Akshay Kumar Kolay of Congress won in 1972. Jatadhari Mukhopadhyay of CPI(M) won in 1971, Niranjan Bhadra of Bangla Congress won in 1969. S.Sarkar of Bangla Congress won in 1967. Jagannath Kolay of Congress won in 1962 and 1957. Prior to that the Katulpur seat was not there.^[6]

Notes

1. Harakali Protiher was elected as a BJP MLA. However, on 27 October 2023, he defected to the Trinamool Congress
2. Harakali Protiher was elected as a BJP MLA. However, on 27 October 2023, he defected to the Trinamool Congress
3. Harakali Protiher was elected as BJP MLA. However, on 27 October 2023 he defected to the Trinamool Congress.