Chowrangee (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Chowrangee
including Fort
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Chowrangee including Fort is located in Kolkata
Chowrangee including Fort
Chowrangee
including Fort
Location in Kolkata
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Country  India
State West Bengal
District Kolkata
Constituency No 162
Type Open
Lok Sabha constituency 24. Kolkata Uttar
Electoral system First past the post

Chowrangee (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: চৌরঙ্গী বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. This page includes information about the defunct Fort (Vidhan Sabha constituency).

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 162 Chowranghee (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 and 62 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.[1]

Chowranghee (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 24 Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]Prior to the Indian general election, 2009 it was part of Calcutta South (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election
Year		 Constituency Name of M.L.A. Party Affiliation
1951 Fort Narendanath Sen Indian National Congress[3]
1957 Maitreyee Bose Indian National Congress[4]
Chowrangee Bijoy Singh Nahar Indian National Congress[4]
1962 Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy Indian National Congress[5]
1967 Siddhartha Shankar Ray Indian National Congress[6]
1969 Siddhartha Shankar Ray Indian National Congress[7]
1971 Sankar Ghose Indian National Congress[8]
1972 Sankar Ghose Indian National Congress[9]
1977 Sandip Das Janata Dal[10]
1982 Sisir Bose Indian National Congress[11]
1987 Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay Indian National Congress[12]
1991 Siddhartha Shankar Ray Indian National Congress[13]
1996 Subrata Mukherjee Indian National Congress[14]
2001 Subrata Mukherjee West Bengal Trinamool Congress[15]
2006 Subrata Bakshi All India Trinamool Congress[16]
2011 Sikha Mitra All India Trinamool Congress[17]
2014 Bye Election Nayana Bandopadhyay All India Trinamool Congress[18]

Election results

2014 Bye-election

A bye-election was held on 13 September 2014 following the resignation of the sitting MLA, Shikha Choudhury (Mitra) who switched over from Trinamool Congress to Congress.[18]

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West Bengal state assembly bye election, 2014: Chowranghee constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Trinamool Congress Nayana Bandopadhyay 38,328 40.14 -31.8
BJP Ritesh Tiwari 23,984 25.12 +20.8
INC Santosh Kumar Pathak 23,317 24.42 N/A
CPI(M) Faiyaz Ahmed Khan 8,890 9.31 N/A
Independent Sumanta Bhowmick 268 0.28 N/A
Independent Anirban Mukherjee 233 0.24 N/A
Independent Asish Agarwal 161 0.17 N/A
Independent Mahesh Kumar Sharma 159 0.17 N/A
Independent Ashim Mondal 139 0.15 N/A
Majority 14,344 15.02
Turnout 96,650 47.69 -6.7
Trinamool Congress hold Swing -26.3

2011

In the 2011 state assembly elections, Sikha Mitra of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Bimal Singh of RJD.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Chowranghee constituency [17][19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Trinamool Congress Sikha Mitra 79,450 71.90 8.44
RJD Bimal Singh 21,711 19.65 -14.88
BJP Shahnawaz Ahmed 4,799 4.34
AIMF Abdul Wahab 1,640 1.48
Independent Bimal Saha 792 0.72
Independent Syed Md Seraj Nabi 740 0.67
Independent Lakshmi Ojha 537 0.49
Jago Party Susheel Kumar Pandey 459 0.42
Independent Kakoli Ojha 378 0.34
Majority 57,739 52.25
Turnout 110,506 54.42
Trinamool Congress hold Swing +11.7


e • d West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Kolkata summary
Party Seats won Seat change
Trinamool Congress 11 Increase1
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 0 Decrease6
Forward Bloc 0 Decrease1
Rashtriya Janata Dal 0 Decrease1

Note: New constituencies – 3, constituencies abolished – 10


1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Subrata Bakshi of Trinamool Congress won the Chowranghee assembly seat defeating Narayan Jain of CPI(M). Subrata Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress/Congress won the seat in 2001 and 1996, defeating Sahid Hossain of JD(S) and Paul Mantosh of JD respectively. In 1991, Siddhartha Shankar Ray of Congress defeated Ashok Mitra of CPI(M). In 1987, Debi Prasad Chattopdahyay of Congress defeated Badsa Alam of CPI(M). Sisir Bose of Congress defeated Zahurul Hoque of CPI(M) in 1982. Sandip Das of JD defeated Amal Datta of CPI(M) in 1977.[20]

1957-1972 Chowranghee

Sankar Ghose of Congress won the seat in 1972[9]and 1971.[8]Siddhartha Shankar Ray of Congress won the seat in 1969[7]and 1967.[6]Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy of Congress won the seat in 1962 defeating Biswanath Mukherjee of CPI.[5] Bijoy Singh Nahar won the seat in 1957.[4] In independent India’s first general election in 1951,[3]there was no assembly constituency named Chowringhee.

1951-1957 Fort

In 1957 and 1951 there was an assembly constituency named Fort. Maitreyee Bose of Congress won in 1957.[4] Narendranath Sen of Congress won in 1951.[3]

References

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