Chhatna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Chhatna
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Chhatna Location in West Bengal
Coordinates:
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Bankura
Constituency No.	248
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	36. Bankura
Electorate (year)	194,663 (2011)

Chhatna (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 248 Chhatna (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Chhatna community development block; Veduasol, Brahmandiha, Hatgram, Indpur and Raghunathpur gram panchayats of Indpur community development block.

Chhatna (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 36 Bankura (Lok Sabha constituency).

Election results

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Chhatna

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Trinamool Congress	Subhasis Batabyal	70,340	45.58	+5.21#
	RSP	Anath Bandhu Mondal	62,576	40.55	-11.49
	Independent	Madan Layek	6,156
	BJP	Rabindranath Mandal	4,221
	JMM	Kanai Banerjee	2,597
	JDP	Dhaneswar Hansda	2,224
	CPI(ML) Liberation	Avijit Hansda	2,016
	Independent	Bharati Mudi	1,709
	BSP	Jagadananda Roy	1,579
	JVM(P)	Soumendra Mukherjee	89
Turnout			154,316	79.27
	Trinamool Congress gain from RSP		Swing	16.70#

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

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Bankura district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	8	8
Indian National Congress	1	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	3	7
Forward Bloc	0	1
Revolutionary Socialist Party	0	1
Communist Party of India	0	1

Note: New constituency – 1, constituencies abolished – 2 (See template talk page for details)

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Anath Bandhu Mondal of RSP won the Chhatna assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Mahasweta Mondal of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Subhas Goswami of RSP won the seat six times in a row defeating Swapan Mondal of Trinamool Congress/ Congress in 2001 and 1996, Santi Singha of Congress in 1991, Tapan Banerjee of Congress in 1987, Arun Patra of Congress in 1982 and Kamalakanta Hembram of Congress in 1977.

1952-1972

Kamalakanta Hembram of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Sudarson Singh of SSP won in 1969. J.Koley of Congress won in 1967. Kamalakanta Hembram of Congress won in 1962. Chhatna had a dual seat in 1957. Dhirendranath Chattopadhyay and Kamalakanta Hembram, both of Congress won in 1957. Probodh Chandra Dutta of Hindu Mahasabha won in independent India’s first election in 1952.