Monteswar Assembly constituency

Monteswar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Monteswar
Constituency No. 263 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Monteswar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Bardhaman–Durgapur
Established	1951
Total electors	191,654
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Siddiqullah Chowdhury
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 263 Monteswar assembly constituency covers Baghsan, Vagra Mulgram, Denur, Jamna, Kusumgram, Majhergram, Mamudpur I, Monteswar, Pipalan and Shushunia gram panchayats of Manteswar community development block and Barapalason I, Barapalason II, Bohar I, Bohar II, Bijur I, Bijur II and Satgachhia I gram panchayats of Memari II community development block.^[1]

Monteswar assembly segment was earlier part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Monteswar	Annada Prasad Mandal	Indian National Congress[2]
1957		Bhakta Chandra Roy	Independent[3]
1962		Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah	Communist Party of India[4]
1967		N.C.Chaudhuri	Indian National Congress[5]
1969		Kashinath Hazra Choudhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1971		Kashinath Hazra Choudhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1972		Tuhin Kumar Samanta	Indian National Congress[8]
1977		Hemanta Kumar Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982		Hemanta Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1987		Hemanta Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1991		Abu Ayesh Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996		Abu Ayesh Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2001		Abu Ayesh Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2006		Chaudhuri Md. Hedayetullah	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15][16]
2011		Chaudhuri Md. Hedayatullah	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[17]
2016		Sajal Panja	All India Trinamool Congress[18]
2016 By election		Saikat Panja	All India Trinamool Congress
2021		Siddiqullah Chowdhury	All India Trinamool Congress[19]

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Monteswar^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Siddiqullah Chowdhury	105,460	50.44	−27.73
	BJP	Saikat Panja	73,655	35.24	+20.46
	CPI(M)	Anupam Ghosh	24,740	11.48	+23.53
	CPI(ML)L	Ansarul Aman Mondal (Babu)	1,877	0.90
	PDS	Nasimul Gani Sayed	1,693	0.81
	NOTA	None of the above	1,611	0.77
Turnout			209,036
	AITC hold		Swing

2016 by-election

2016 by-election: Monteswar, 19 November 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Saikat Panja	147,316	77.59	+33.48
	CPI(M)	Md. Osman Gani Sarkar	20,189	10.63	−33.11
	BJP	Biswajit Poddar	16,073	8.47	+0.37
	INC	Bulbul Ahammed Sekh	2,885	1.52	N/A
	CPI(ML)L	Ansarul Aman Mondal	1,463	0.77	N/A
	PDS	Sheikh Ekramul Hossain	778	0.41	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	1,168	0.62	−0.66
Majority			127,127	66.96	+66.59
Turnout			189,872	86.90	−0.39
Registered electors			218,480
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Monteswar^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sajal Panja	84,134	44.11
	CPI(M)	Chaudhuri Mohd. Hidayatullah	83,428	43.74
	BJP	Biswajit Poddar	15,452	8.10
	BSP	Khokan Das	2,644	1.38
	MPI	Jagabandhu Malik	1,437	0.75
	JDP	Premchand Soren	1,190	0.62
	NOTA	None of the above	2,445	1.28
Majority			706	0.37
Turnout			190,730	87.29
Registered electors			218,480
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Monteswar^[20][21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Choudhury Mohd. Hedaetullaha	81,822	47.24	−10.69
	AITC	Abu Ayesh Mondal	78,524	45.34	+6.51#
	People's Democratic Conference of India	Abdul Kased Shaikh	4,890
	BJP	Sakshi Gopal Ghosh	4,027
	JDP	Sunil Soren	2,036
	BSP	Sukumar Das	1,064
	CPI(ML)L	Annada Prasad Bhattacharyya	824
Turnout			173,187	90.36
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-17.20#

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

1977-2006

Narayan Hazra Chowdhury of Trinamool Congress lost the Monteswar Assembly seat in 2006 defeated by Chaudhuri Md. Hedayatullah of CPI(M) . Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, 1996 and 1991, Abu Ayesh Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Narayan Hazara Choudhury of Trinamool Congress, Debabrata Roy of Congress and Biseswar Bhattacharya of Congress in the respective years. In 1982 and 1977, Hemanta Roy of CPI(M) defeated Tuhin Samanta of Congress.^[22]

1951-1972

In 1972, Tuhin Samanta of Congress won the seat. In 1971 and 1969, Kashinath Hazra Choudhury of CPI(M) won the seat. N.C.Chaudhuri of Congress won the seat in 1967. Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah of CPI won the seat in 1962. Bhakta Chandra Roy (Independent) won the seat in 1957. Ananda Prasad Mondal of Congress won the seat in independent India's first election in 1951.^[23]