Khardaha Assembly constituency

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

Most Successful parties from Khardaha assembly

1. Communist Party of India (Marxist) (11 times) (64.7%)
2. All India Trinamool Congress (4 time) (23.5%)
3. Communist Party of India (1 time) (5.88%)
4. Praja Socialist Party (1 time) (5.88%)

Khardaha
Constituency No. 109 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Khardaha Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Dum Dum
Established	1957
Total electors	168,586
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 109 Khardaha Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Khardaha municipality, Ward Nos.15, 18 to 21 and 35 of Panihati municipality, and Bandipur, Bilkanda I, Bilkanda II and Patulia gram panchayats of Barrackpore II community development block.^[1]

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1957	Satkari Mitra		Praja Socialist Party
1962	Gopal Banerjee		Communist Party of India
1967	Sadhan Kumar Chakraborty		Communist Party of India
1969
1971
1972	Sisir Kumar Ghosh
1977	Kamal Sarkar
1982
1987	Dr. Asim Dasgupta
1991
1996
2001
2006
2011	Amit Mitra		All India Trinamool Congress
2016
2021	Kajal Sinha
2021^	Sovandeb Chattopadhyay

• ^ by-election

Election results

2021 Bye election

Bye-election, 2021: Khardaha^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sovandeb Chattopadhyay	114,086	73.59	+24.55
	BJP	Joy Saha	20,254	13.07	−20.6
	CPI(M)	Debajyoti Das(Subho)	16,110	10.39	−4.31
Majority			93,832	60.52
Turnout			1,55,069	66.73
	AITC hold		Swing

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Khardaha

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Kajal Sinha	89,807	49.04	−0.61
	BJP	Shilbhadra Dutta	61,667	33.67	+23.99
	CPI(M)	Debojyoti Das (Subho)	26,916	14.70
	NOTA	None of the above	2,415	1.32
	BSP	Samar Das	1,097	0.60
Majority			28,140	15.36
Turnout			1,83,221	78.76
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Khardaha^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr. Amit Mitra	83,680	49.65	−6.84
	CPI(M)	Dr. Asim Dasgupta	62,488	37.07	−1.75
	BJP	Mahadeb Basak	16,321	9.68	+7.2
	NOTA	None of the above	3,169	1.88
	BSP	Samar Das	1,568	0.93	−0.29
	PDS	Paritosh Sengupta	1,322	0.78	−0.21
Majority			21,200	12.58
Turnout			1,68,666	82.33
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Amit Kumar Mitra of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Asim Dasgupta of CPI(M).

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Khardaha^[8][9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr. Amit Kumar Mitra	83,608	56.49
	CPI(M)	Dr. Asim Dasgupta	57,454	38.82
	BJP	Anadi Kumar Biswas	3,673	2.48
	BSP	Sampa Biswas	1,813	1.22
	PDS	Jay Prakash Pandey	1,470	0.99
Majority			26,154	17.67
Turnout			1,48,050	87.26
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

Trinamool Congress did not contest this seat in 2006

1977–2006

In the 2006, 2001, 1996, 1991 and 1987 state assembly elections, Asim Dasgupta of CPI(M), won the Khardaha seat defeating his nearest rivals Mahadeb Basak of BJP in 2006,^[10] Ranjit Kumar Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress in 2001,^[11] Chinmoy Chatterjee of Congress in 1996,^[12] Sipta Bishnu of Congress in 1991^[13] and Sudhir Banerjee of Congress in 1987.^[14] Kamal Sarkar of CPI(M) had won this seat in 1982 and 1977 defeating Nirmal Ghosh of Congress in 1982^[15] and Harshadhari Bhattacharya of Congress in 1977.^[16][17]

1957–1972

Satkari Mitra of PSP won in 1957.^[18] Gopal Banerjee of CPI won in 1962.^[19] Sadhan Kumar Chakraborty of CPI(M) won in 1967,^[20] 1969^[21] and 1971.^[22] Sisir Kumar Ghosh of CPI won in 1972.^[23]

1952

The Khardaha constituency did not exist in 1952.