Khanakul Assembly constituency

Khanakul Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Khanakul
Constituency No. 202 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Khanakul Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Lok Sabha constituency	Arambagh
Established	1957
Total electors	219,368
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Susanta Ghosh
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 202 Khanakul Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Khanakul II community development block, and Ghoshpur, Khanakul I, Khanakul II, Kishorpur I, Kishorpur II, Pole II, Thakuranichak I, and Thakuranichak II gram panchayats of Khanakul I community development block.^[1]

Khanakul Assembly constituency is part of No. 29 Arambagh (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Constituency	Member	Party
1957[a]	Khanakul	Panchanan Digpati		Indian National Congress[2]
		Prafulla Chandra Sen[2]
1962		Krishna Pada Pandit[3]
1967		Madan Saha		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[4]
1969[5]
1971[6]
1972		Basudeb Hajra		Indian National Congress[7]
1977		Panchanan Digpati		Janata Party[8]
1982		Sachindra Nath Hazra		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1987[10]
1991[11]
1996		Banshi Badan Maitra[12]
2001[13]
2006[14]
2011		Iqbal Ahmed		Trinamool Congress[15]
2016
2021		Susanta Ghosh		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Khanakul constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Susanta Ghosh	107,403	49.27	+40.33
	AITC	Munsi Nazbul Karim	94,519	43.36	−10.68
	ISF	Faisal Khan	8,732	4.01
	NOTA	None of the above	3,278	1.50	−0.34
	Independent	Chandan Samanta	2,088	0.96
	Independent	Aditya Manik	1,045	0.48
	Independent	Atanu Samanta	926	0.42
Turnout			217,991
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Khanakul constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Iqbal Ahmed	106,878	54.04
	CPI(M)	Islam Ali Khan	63,391	32.05
	BJP	Bikash Chandra Dolui	17,686	8.94
	NOTA	None of the above	3,638	1.84
	Independent	Chandan Mondal	2,451	8.94
	Independent	Sanjib Karmakar	2,305	1.17
	Independent	Subhasis Dutta	1,431	0.72
Turnout			197,780	78.89
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Iqbal Ahmed of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Subhra Parui of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Khanakul constituency^[15][16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Iqbal Ahmed	102,450	55.56	+12.57#
	CPI(M)	Subhra Parui	74,571	40.44	−16.58
	BJP	Arobindo Maity	7,360	3.99
Turnout			184,381	84.05
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	29.15#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections Banshi Badan Maitra of CPI(M) won the Khanakul assembly seat (SC) defeating Kalyan Maji of Trinamool Congress in 2006,^[14] Tarapada Dolui of Trinamool Congress in 2001,^[13] and Basudeb Hajra of Congress in 1996.^[12] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sachindra Nath Hazra of CPI(M) defeated Banshari Mohan Sardar of Congress in 1991,^[11] Basudeb Hajra of Congress in 1987^[10] and 1982.^[9] Panchanan Digpati of Janata Party defeated Sachindra Nath Hazra of CPI(M) in 1977.^[8][17]

1957-1972

Basudeb Hajra of Congress won in 1972.^[7] Madan Saha of CPI(M) won in 1971,^[6] 1969^[5] and 1967.^[4] Krishna Pada Pandit of Congress won in 1962.^[3] Panchanan Digpati and Prafulla Chandra Sen, both of Congress, won the dual seat at Khanakul in 1957.^[2]

Notes

1. Khanakul had dual seat in 1957.