Kolkata Port Assembly constituency

Kolkata Port Assembly constituency (earlier known as Garden Reach Assembly constituency) is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Kolkata Port
Constituency No. 158 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Kolkata Port Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
Lok Sabha constituency	Kolkata Dakshin
Established	2011
Total electors	235,854
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Firhad Hakim
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Kolkata Port Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

• Ward Nos. 74 (partly), 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137 and 138 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.^[1]

Kolkata Port Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1952	S.M. Abdullah		Indian National Congress
1957	Shaikh Abdullah Farooquie		Communist Party of India
1962	S.M. Abdullah		Indian National Congress
1967
1969	Arun Sen		Communist Party of India
1971	S.M. Abdullah		Indian National Congress
1972	Chhedilal Singh		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1977
1982	Samsuzzoha		Indian National Congress
1987	Fazle Azim Molla
1991
1996	Mohammed Amin		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2001
2006	Abdul Khaleque Molla		Indian National Congress
Constituency renamed from Garden Reach to Kolkata Port
2011	Firhad Hakim		All India Trinamool Congress
2016
2021

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kolkata Port

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Firhad Hakim	105,543	69.23
	BJP	Awadh Kishore Gupta	36,989	24.26
	INC	Md. Muktar	5,590	3.67
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,360	0.89
	IND	Sanjay Dey	1,139	0.75
Majority			68,554	44.97
Turnout			1,52,513	64.64
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kolkata Port

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Firhad Hakim	73,459	53.21	+4.58
	INC	Rakesh Singh	46,911	33.98	New
	BJP	Awadh Kishore Gupta	11,700	8.48	+6.42
	None of the Above	None of the Above	2,164	1.57	New
	IND	Vivek Kumar Thakur	1,019	0.74
Majority			26,548	19.23	+0.17
Turnout			1,38,050	63.42	−2.49
	AITC hold		Swing	+4.58

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kolkata Port

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Firhad Hakim	63,866	48.63
	AIFB	Moinuddin Sams	38,833	29.57
	IND	Ram Pyare Ram	22,131	16.85
	BJP	Raj Kumari Shaw	2,699	2.06
	IND	Sanjay Lal Das	2,046	1.56
Majority			25,033	19.06
Turnout			1,31,314	65.91
	AITC win

Ram Pyare Ram, contesting as an independent, was a rebel INC candidate.^[2]