Alipurduars
Constituency No. 12 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Alipurduars Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictAlipurduar
LS constituencyAlipurduars
Established1952
Total electors260,652
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2021

Alipurduars Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Alipurduar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 12 Alipurduars Assembly constituency covers Alipurduar municipality, Alipurduar Railway Junction, Banchukamari, Chakowakheti, Mathura, Parorpar, Patlakhawa, Shalkumar I, Shalkumar II, Tapsikhata, Vivekananda II, Vivekananda I gram panchayats of Alipurduar I community development block, and Chaporerpar I, Chaporerpar II, and Tatpara II gram panchayats of Alipurduar II community development block.[1]

Alipurduars Assembly constituency is part of No. 2 Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency) (ST).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Name Party
1951 Pijush Kanti Mukherjee Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967 Nani Bhattacharya Revolutionary Socialist Party
1969
1971 Narayan Bhattacharya Indian National Congress
1972
1977 Nani Bhattacharya Revolutionary Socialist Party
1982
1987
1991 Nirmal Das
1996
2001
2006
2011 Debaprasad Roy Indian National Congress
2016 Sourav Chakraborty All India Trinamool Congress
2021 Suman Kanjilal Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

1951–1972

Narayan Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP won in 1969 and 1967. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, it was a joint seat. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee and Dhirandra Brahma Mandal, both of Congress, won.

1977-2006

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections, Nirmal Das of RSP defeated Sourav Chakraborty of Congress, Prasanta Narayan Majumdar of Trinamool Congress, Manindralal Rakshit of Congress and Biswa Ranjan Sarkar of Congress respectively. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP defeated Debabrata Chatterjee of Congress in 1987, Pallab Ghosh of Congress in 1982 and Narayan Bhattachary of Congress in 1977.

2011

In the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Debaprasad Roy of Congress defeated his nearest rival Kshiti Goswami of RSP.

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Alipurduars constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Debaprasad Roy 79,605 46.02 Winner
RSP Kshiti Goswami 72,822 42.10
BJP Manik Chandra Saha 8,238 4.76
Independent Santosh Kumar Balo 3,072 1.78
JMM Manohar Bhagat 1,864 1.08
SUCI(C) Abhijit Roy 1,508 0.87
CPI(ML)L Chanchal Kumar Das 1,438 0.83
Independent Parimal Roy 1,396 0.81
Independent Sanjit Das 1,301 0.75
BSP Mantu Barman 1,195 0.69
Rashtriya Deshaj Party Bishwanath Gop 530 0.31
Majority 6,783 3.92
Turnout 1,72,969 86.04
INC gain from RSP Swing

2016

In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Sourav Chakraborty of TMC defeated his nearest rival Biswaranjan Sarkar of Congress.

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Alipurduars constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Sourav Chakraborty 89,695 44.09 Winner
INC Biswaranjan Sarkar 77,737 38.21
BJP Kushal Chatterjee 20,098 9.88
RSP Nirmal Das 7,324 3.60
SUCI(C) Alokesh Das 2,308 1.13
AMB Dalendra Nath Ray 1,341 0.66
Independent Santosh Kumar Balo 989 0.49
BSP Gouri Roy 974 0.48
None of the Above None of the Above 2,980 1.46
Majority 11,958 5.88
Turnout 2,03,446 86.16
AITC gain from INC Swing

2021

In the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Suman Kanjilal of BJP defeated his nearest rival Sourav Chakraborty of TMC.

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Alipurduars constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Suman Kanjilal 107,333 48.19 Winner
AITC Sourav Chakraborty 91,326 41.00
INC Debprosad Roy 15,651 7.03
Independent Nikhil Chandra Raibir 2,351 1.06
Independent Rinku Ghosh 1,393 0.63
SUCI(C) Pijush Kanti Sarma 1,111 0.5
Independent Ashim Roy 696 0.31
Independent Kushal Kumar Roy 620 0.28
Independent Abinash Das 270 0.12
None of the Above None of the Above 1,981 0.89
Turnout 2,22,732
BJP gain from AITC Swing

References

  1. 1 2 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
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