Serampore Assembly constituency

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

Serampore
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Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Lok Sabha constituency	Serampore
Established	1951
Total electors	206,868
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sudipto Roy
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 186 Sreerampur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 3 to 19 and 25 of Serampore Municipality, Rishra Municipality, Rajyadharpur and Rishra gram panchayats of Sreerampur Uttarpara community development block.^[1]

Sreerampur Assembly constituency is part of No. 27 Srerampur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Serampore	Jitendra Nath Lahiri	Indian National Congress[2]
1957	Serampore	Panchu Gopal Bhaduri	Communist Party of India[3]
1962	Serampore	Panchu Gopal Bhaduri	Communist Party of India[4]
1967	Serampore	Gopal Das Nag	Indian National Congress[5]
1969	Serampore	Panchu Gopal Bhaduri	Communist Party of India[6]
1971	Serampore	Gopal Das Nag	Indian National Congress[7]
1972	Serampore	Gopal Das Nag	Indian National Congress[8]
1977	Serampore	Kamal Krishna Bhattacharya	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982	Serampore	Arun Kumar Goswami	Indian National Congress[10]
1987	Serampore	Arun Kumar Goswami	Indian National Congress[11]
1991	Serampore	Arun Kumar Goswami	Indian National Congress[12]
1996	Serampore	Jyoti Chowdhury	Indian National Congress[13]
2001	Serampore	Ratna De	All India Trinamool Congress[14]
2006	Serampore	Ratna De	All India Trinamool Congress[15]
2009 by election	Serampore	Sudipto Roy	All India Trinamool Congress[16]
2011	Sreerampur	Sudipto Roy	All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Sreerampur	Sudipto Roy	All India Trinamool Congress
2021	Sreerampur	Sudipto Roy	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

In 2021 West Bengal Assembly Election All Indian Trinamool Congress candidate Sudipta Roy defeated with thumping majority his nearest rival Kabir Sankar Bose of Bharatiya Janta Party and by 2 lakh+ votes

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sreerampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sudipto Roy	210,000	90.01	+50
	BJP	Adv. Kabir Shankar Bose	7000	2.9	−3
	INC	Alok Ranjan Banerjee	6500	2.7	−37
	NOTA	None of the above	6000	2.2	+2
Majority			203000	85.21
Turnout			238500
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Sudipto Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Subhankar Sarkar of Congress.

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Sreerampur constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sudipto Roy	74,995	43.78
	INC	Subhankar Sarkar	65,088	37.99
	BJP	Bhaskar Bhattacharya	24,059	14.04
	BSP	Samir Mitra	1,584	0.92
	SUCI(C)	Tapan Chowdhury	1,523
	Independent	Mangal Sarkar	1,082
	NOTA	None of the above	2,965
Majority			9,907
Turnout			171,296
	AITC hold		Swing

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. Intervening by election not taken into account because of lack of data.

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Sreerampur constituency^[17][18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sudipto Roy	97,540	63.83	−0.90#
	CPI	Partha Sarathi Rej	45,849	30.00	1.65
	BJP	Vidyasagar Pandey	7,101	4.65
	BSP	Sabitri Das	2,328	1.52
Majority			51,691	33.83
Turnout			152,818	73.87
	AITC hold		Swing	0.75#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. Intervening by election not taken into account because of lack of data.

2009 bye election

The bypoll to the Serampore Occurred Due To Resignation of the sitting MLA of AITC, Ratna De. Who Was Elected In Indian Parliament from Hooghly on 16 May 2009.

West Bengal state assembly bye election, 2009: Serampore constituency^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sudipto Roy	56,979
	CPI	Prasanta Mukherjee	27,301
Majority			29,678
Turnout			168,756	86.46
	AITC hold		Swing

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI vote percentage, in 2006. Data for comparison not available for the 2009 by-election.

1977-2009

In the 2009 by elections consequent to the election of Ratna De to Parliament from Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency), Sudipto Roy of Trinamool Congress won the 180 Serampore assembly seat.^[16]

In the state assembly elections, contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Ratna De defeated Dhirendra Nath Dasgupta of CPI in 2006^[15] and Kesto Mukherjee, Independent, in 2001.^[14] Jyoti Chowdhury of Congress defeated Asimes Goswami of CPI(M) in 1996.^[13] Arun Kumar Goswami of Congress defeated Sanjay Deb Banerjee of Janata Dal in 1991,^[12] Ajit Bag of CPI(M) in 1987,^[11] and Kamal Krishna Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) in 1982.^[10] Kamal Krishna Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) defeated Gopal Das Nag of Congress in 1977.^[9][20]

1951-1972

Gopal Das Nag of Congress won in 1972^[8] and 1971.^[7] Panchu Gopal Bhaduri of CPI won in 1969.^[6] Gopal Das Nag of Congress won in 1967.^[5] Panchu Gopal Bhaduri of CPI won in 1962^[4] and 1957.^[3] In independent India's first election in 1951 Jitendra Nath Lahiri of Congress won the Serampore seat.^[2]