Pandua Assembly constituency

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

Pandua
Constituency No. 192 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Pandua Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Lok Sabha constituency	Hooghly
Established	1962
Total electors	207,112
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ratna De
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 192 Pandua Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Pandua community development block.^[1]

Pandua Assembly constituency is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1] It was earlier part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1962	Pandua	Radhanath Das	Indian National Congress[2]
1967		R.Kundu	Indian National Congress[3]
1969		Deb Narayan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[4]
1971		Deb Narayan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
1972		Sailendra Chattopadhyay	Indian National Congress[6]
1977		Deb Narayan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1982		Deb Narayan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
1987		Deb Narayan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1991		Deb Narayan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1996		Sk. Majed Ali	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
2001		Sk. Majed Ali	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
2006		Sk. Majed Ali	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2011		Sk. Amjad Hossain	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2016		Sk. Amjad Hossain	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021		Dr. Ratna De (Nag)	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Pandua^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr. Ratna De (Nag)	102,874	45.99	+2.97
	BJP	Partha Sharma	71,016	31.75	+23.59
	CPI(M)	Sk. Amjad Hossain	41,474	18.54	−25.14
	BSP	Mina Roy	1650	0.74	−0.14
	LJP	Sk. Nasiruddin	1244	0.56
	SUCI(C)	Paban Mazumder	1982	0.89
	API	Balai Saren	1260	0.56
	None of the Above	NOTA	2164	0.97	−0.33
Turnout			2,23,664	82.39
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Pandua

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Sk. Amjad Hossain	91,489	43.68	−2.96
	AITC	Syed Rahim Nabi	90,097	43.02	−3.40
	BJP	Ashok Bhattacharya	17,081	8.16	+5.25
	Independent	Sk. Amjad Hossain	2477	1.18	+0.79
	PDS	Abdul Goni Sarkar	1947	0.93
	BSP	Lakshminarayan Bauldas	1852	0.88	+0.12
	CPI(ML)L	Niranjan Bag	1759	0.84	−1.34
	None of the Above	NOTA	2731	1.30
Turnout			2,09,433	85.78
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Pandua constituency^[14][16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Sk. Amjad Hossain	84,832	46.64	−13.96
	AITC	Nargis Begum	84,433	46.42	+15.38
	BJP	Debaprasad Chakraborty	5,297	2.91
	CPI(ML)L	Subhashish Chattopadhyay	3,956	2.18
	BSP	Lakshminarayan Bauldas	1,379	0.76
	JDP	Kalidasi Hembram	1,279
	Independent	Dilip Kumar Talukdar Chowdhury	704	0.39
Turnout			181,878	87.82
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	−29.36

1977–2006

In the 2006^[13] 2001^[12] and 1996^[11] state assembly elections Sk Majed Ali of CPI (M) won the Pandua assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Alam Kazi Rowshan of Trinamool Congress, Sailen Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress and Madhusudan Banerjee of Congress, in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Deb Narayan Chakraborty of CPI (M) won the seat in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977 defeating his nearest rivals, Hrishikesh Ghosh of Congress in 1991^[10] and 1987,^[9] Haren Singha Roy of Congress in 1982^[8] and Sailendra Chattopadhya of Congress in 1977.^[7][17]

1962–1972

Sailendra Chattopadhyay of Congress won in 1972.^[6] Debnarayan Chakraborty of CPI(M) won in 1971^[5] and 1969.^[4] R.Kundu of Congress won in 1967.^[3] Radha Nath Das of Congress won in 1962.^[2] Prior to that the Pandua seat did not exist.