Pandabeswar Assembly constituency

This article is about the assembly constituency in West Bengal. For 1 its namesake community development block, see Pandabeswar (community development block). For 2 its namesake operational area of ECL, see Pandaveswar Area. For 3 its namesake administrative centre, see Pandabeswar.

Pandabeswar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Pandabeswar
Constituency No. 275 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Pandabeswar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Asansol
Established	2011
Total electors	167,922
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Narendranath Chakraborty
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 275 Pandabeswar assembly constituency covers Pandabeswar and Faridpur-Durgapur community development blocks.^[1]

Pandabeswar assembly segment is part of No. 40 Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
2011	Pandabeswar	Gouranga Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[2]
2016		Jitendra Tiwari	All India Trinamool Congress[3]
2021		Narendranath Chakraborty	All India Trinamool Congress[4]

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Pandabeswar^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Narendranath Chakraborty	73,922	44.99	+7.86
	BJP	Jitendra Tiwari	70,119	42.68	+415.42
	CPI(M)	Subhas Bauri	12,196	7.42	−80.69
	IND	Sanjay Yadav	2,273	1.38
	BSP	Rakesh Kumar Das	1,137	0.69
Majority			3,803	2.35
Turnout			1,64,646	77.68
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Pandabeswar^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Kumar Jitendra Tewari	68,600	45.04
	CPI(M)	Gouranga Chatterjee	63,130	41.44
	BJP	Jiten Chatterjee	13,604	8.93
	SUCI(C)	Asim Kumar Bhattacharjee	1,580	1.04
	NOTA	None of the above	2,653	1.74
Majority			5,470	3.59
Turnout			1,52,403	79.81
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Pandabeswar^[5][6][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Gouranga Chatterjee	67,240	49.69	−16.31
	AITC	Md. Zahir Alam Ansari	59,429	43.92
	BJP	Ashish Garai	4,511	3.33
	IND	Ramprasad Mukherjee	2,161	1.60
	IND	Nayan Gope	1,976	1.46
Majority			7,811	5.77
Turnout			1,35,317	80.51
	CPI(M) win (new seat)

.# Change for CPI(M) calculated on the basis of its vote percentage in 2006 in the Ukhra constituency. Trinamool Congress did not contest the Ukhra seat in 2006.