Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Behala Paschim
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Behala Paschim is located in Kolkata
Behala Paschim
Behala Paschim
Location in Kolkata
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Country  India
State West Bengal
District South 24 Parganas
Constituency No 154
Type Open
Lok Sabha constituency Kolkata Dakshin
Electorate (year) 259,713 (2011)

Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (earlier known as Behala West) is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Behala is a neighborhood in Kolkata.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 154 Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: 118, 119, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131,and 132 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation,[1]

Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]Behala West was earlier part of Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election
Year		 Constituency Name of M.L.A. Party Affiliation
1951 Behala Biren Roy All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar)[3]
1957 Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay Communist Party of India[4]
1962 Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay Communist Party of India[5]
1967 Behala West Rabin Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1969 Rabin Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1971 Rabin Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
1972 Biswanath Chakraborty Communist Party of India[9]
1977 Nirmal Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1982 Nirmal Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1987 Nirmal Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1991 Nirmal Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
1996 Nirmal Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2001 Partha Chatterjee West Bengal Trinamool Congress [15]
2006 Partha Chatterjee All India Trinamool Congress[16]
2011 Behala Paschim Partha Chatterjee All India Trinamool Congress[17]

Election results

2011

In the 2011 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Anupam Deb Sarkar of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Behala Paschim constituency[17][18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Trinamool Congress Partha Chatterjee 127,870 62.96 10.57#
CPI(M) Anupam Debsarkar 68,849 33.90 -11.54
BJP Amalendu Roy Chowdhary 4,248 2.09
Independent Jayanta Datta 2,140
Turnout 203,107 78.2
Trinamool Congress hold Swing 22.11#

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

e • d West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Dakshin 24 Parganas district summary
Party Seats won Seat change
Trinamool Congress 26 Increase19
Indian National Congress 0 Decrease2
SUCI(C) 1 Decrease1
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 3 Decrease15
Revolutionary Socialist Party 1 Decrease2

Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 8 (See template talk page for details)


1977-2006

In the 2006 and 2001 Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress won the Behala West assembly constituency defeating his nearest rivals Niranjan Mukherjee of CPI(M) in 2006[16]and Nirmal Mukherjee of CPI(M) in 2001.[15]Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Nirmal Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Kumud Bhattacharya of Congress in 1996,[14]and Lakshmi Kanta Basu of Congress in 1991.[13]Rabin Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Lakshmi Kanta Basu of Congress in 1987,[12]Aruna Ghosh Dastidar of Congress in 1982[11]and Subodh Chandra Das of Congress in 1977.[10][19]

1951-1972

Biswanath Chakraborty of CPI won in 1972.[9]Rabin Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,[8] 1969[7]and 1967.[6]Prior to that Behala was a single seat. Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay of CPI won the Behala seat in 1962[5]and 1957.[4] In independent India’s first election in 1951,[3] Biren Roy of Forward Bloc (RG) won the Behala seat.

References

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