Pandua (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Pandua
—  Vidhan Sabha constituency  —
Pandua
Location in West Bengal
Coordinates:
Country  India
State West Bengal
District Hooghly
Constituency No. 192
Type Open
Lok Sabha constituency 28. Hooghly
Electorate (year) 207,112 (2011)

Pandua (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: পাণ্ডুয়া বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Contents

Extent

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 192 Pandua (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Pandua community development block.[1]

Pandua (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]It was earlier part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency).

Results

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Pandua [2][3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Amzad Hossain 84,830 46.64 -13.96
Trinamool Congress Nargis Begum 84,433 46.42 +15.38
BJP Debaprasad Chakraborty 5,297 2.91
CPI(ML)(L) Subhashish Chattopadhyay 3,956
BSP Lakshminarayan Bauldas 1,379
Jharkhand Disom Party Kalidasi Hembram 1,279
Independent Dilip Kumar Talukdar Chowdhury 704
Turnout 181,878 87.82
CPI(M) hold Swing -29.36
e • d West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Hooghly district summary
Party Seats won Seat change
Trinamool Congress 16 14
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 1 11
Forward bloc 1 2
Marxist Forward Bloc 0 1

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections Sk Majed Ali of CPI (M) won the Pandua assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Alam Kazi Rowshan of Trinamool Congress, Sailen Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress and Madhusudan Banerjee of Congress, in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Deb Narayan Chakraborty of CPI (M) won the seat in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977 defeating his nearest rivals, Hrishikesh Ghosh of Congress in 1991 and 1987, Haren Singha Roy of Congress in 1982 and Sailendra Chattopadhya of Congress in 1977.[5]

1962-1972

Sailendra Chattopadhyay of Congress won in 1972. Debnarayan Chakraborty of CPI(M) won in 1971 and 1969. R.Kundu of Congress won in 1967. Radha Nath Das of Congress won in 1962.[6]Prior to that the Pandua seat did not exist.

References

  1. ^ a b "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006". Government of West Bengal. http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf. Retrieved 2010-12-01. 
  2. ^ "Pandua". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS25192.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-17. 
  3. ^ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Pandua. Empowering India. http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=192. Retrieved 2011-05-01. 
  4. ^ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Pandua. Election Commission of India. http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_4th_phase.pdf. Retrieved 2011-05-01. 
  5. ^ "189 - Pandua Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp189.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-01. 
  6. ^ "Statistical Reports of Elections". General Election Results and Statistics. Election Commission of India. http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/electionstatistics.asp. Retrieved 2010-12-01.