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Chandannagar
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| Country | India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Hooghly |
| Constituency No. | 189 |
| Type | Open |
| Lok Sabha constituency | 28. Hooghly |
| Electorate (year) | 198,602 (2011) |
Chandannagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (earlier spelt as Chandernagore) (Bengali: চন্দননগর বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 189 Chandanagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Chandannagar municipal corporation and Bhadreswar municipality.[1]
Chandannagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Chandannagar [2][3][4] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Trinamool Congress | Ashoke Kumar Shaw | 96,430 | 60.76 | +9.91# | |
| CPI(M) | Sibaprasad Banerjee | 53,391 | 33.64 | -12.01 | |
| BJP | Satya Bhusan Pathak | 5,109 | 3.22 | ||
| Independent | Subodh Ghoshal | 3,780 | 2.38 | ||
| Turnout | 158,710 | 79.91 | |||
| Trinamool Congress gain from CPI(M) | Swing | 21.92# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
| Party | Seats won | Seat change |
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| Trinamool Congress | 16 | 14 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 1 | 11 |
| Forward bloc | 1 | 2 |
| Marxist Forward Bloc | 0 | 1 |
In the 2006 state assembly elections Sibaprosad Bandopadhyay of CPI(M) won the 182 Chandernagore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Ram Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kamal Mukherjee of Congress defeated Ratan Lal Dasgupta of CPI(M) in 2001 and Sandhya Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) in 1996. Sandhya Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Kamal Mukherjee of Congress in 1991 and 1987. Bhabani Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Indumati Bhattacharya of Congress in 1982 and Asit Mukhopadhyay of Congress in 1977.[5]
Bhabani Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1972, 1971, 1969 and 1967. Bhabani Mukherjee of CPI won in 1962. Hirendra Kumar Chattopadhyay, Independent, won in 1957.[6]
The Bhadreswar seat was there between 1951 and 1962. Girija Bhushan Mukhopadhyay of CPI won in 1962. Byomkesh Majumdar of Congress won in 1957 and in independent India’s first election in 1951.[6]
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