Swarupnagar Assembly constituency

This article is about the assembly constituency in West Bengal, India. For 1 its namesake village, see Swarupnagar, North 24 Parganas. For 2 its namesake community development block, see Swarupnagar.

Swarupnagar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Swarupnagar
Constituency No. 98 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Swarupnagar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Bangaon
Established	1951
Total electors	246,109
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Bina Mondal
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 98 Swarupnagar Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Swarupnagar community development block, and Ramchandrapur Uday and Sayesta Nagar I gram panchayats of Baduria community development block.^[1]

Swarupnagar Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 14 Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1] It was earlier part of Basirhat (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Swarupnagar	Mohammad Ishaque	Indian National Congress[3]
1957		Mohammad Ishaque	Indian National Congress[4]
1962		Abdul Gafur	Indian National Congress [5]
1967		Jamini Ranjan Sen	Communist Party of India[6]
1969		Jamini Ranjan Sen	Communist Party of India[7]
1971		Chandranath Misra	Indian National Congress[8]
1972		Chandranath Misra	Indian National Congress[9]
1977		Anisur Rahman Biswas	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1982		Anisur Rahman Biswas	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1987		Anisur Rahman Biswas	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1991		Mustafa Bin Quassem	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
1996		Mustafa Bin Quassem	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2001		Mustafa Bin Quassem	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
2006		Mustafa Bin Quassem	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[16]
2011		Bina Mondal	All India Trinamool Congress[17]

Election results

2021

In the 2021 elections, Bina Mondol of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival, Brindaban Sarkar of BJP.

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Swarupnagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Bina Mondal	99,784	47.11	−1.45
	BJP	Brindaban Sarkar	64,984	30.68	+24.02
	CPI(M)	Biswajit Mandal	43,282	20.43	−21.95
	NOTA	None of the above	1,256	0.59	−0.40
	Independent	Mrinmoy Mondal	923	0.44
	SUCI(C)	Debabrata Biswas	821	0.39	−0.45
	Independent	Prabir Sarkar	754	0.36
Turnout			211,804	86.06	+0.32
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

In the 2016 elections, Bina Mondol of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival, Dhiman Sarkar of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Swarupnagar (SC) constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Bina Mondal	93,807	48.56	−0.38
	CPI(M)	Dhiman Sarkar	81,866	42.38	−2.22
	BJP	Mihir Kumar Bagchi	12,866	6.66	+3.34
	NOTA	None of the above	1,916	0.99
	SUCI(C)	Shibani Halder	1,618	0.84
	BSP	Santosh Kumar Biswas	1,088	0.56
Turnout			193,161	85.74	−1.64
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Bina Mondol of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Shiva Pada Das of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Swarupnagar (SC) constituency^[17][18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Bina Mondal	83,641	48.94	−1.78#
	CPI(M)	Shiva Pada Das	76,227	44.60	−2.08
	BJP	Rakhal Halder	5,682	3.32
	RPI(A)	Sukriti Ranjan Biswas	4,063
	BSP	Renuka Sarkar	1,286
Turnout			170,899	87.38
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	1.30#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 Mustafa Bin Quassem of CPI(M) won the Swarupnagar assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals - Narayan Goswami of Trinamool Congress in 2006,^[16] Swaraj Misra of Trinamool Congress in 2001,^[15] Dipti Jana of Congress in 1996^[14] and Abdul Hai Siddiqui of Congress in 1991.^[13] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Anisur Rahman Biswas of CPI(M) defeated Abdul Hai Siddiqui of Congress in 1987,^[12] Harasit Ghosh of Congress in 1982^[11] and Chandranath Misra of Congress in 1977.^[10][19]

1951-1972

Chandranath Misra of Congress won in 1972^[9] and 1971.^[8] Jamini Ranjan Sen of CPI won in 1969^[7] and 1967.^[6] Abdul Gafur of Congress won in 1962.^[5] Mohammad Ishaque of Congress won in 1957^[4] and in independent India's first election in 1951.^[3]