Alipurduars Assembly constituency

Alipurduars Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Alipurduar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Alipurduars
Constituency No. 12 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictAlipurduar
LS constituencyAlipurduars
Established1951
Total electors260,652
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyAll India Trinamool Congress
Elected year2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 12 Alipurduars Assembly constituency covers Alipurduar municipality, Alipurduar Railway Junction, Banchukamari, Chakowakheti, Mathura, Parorpar, Patlakhawa, Shalkumar I, Shalkumar II, Tapsikhata, Vivekananda II, Vivekananda I gram panchayats of Alipurduar I community development block, and Chaporerpar I, Chaporerpar II, and Tatpara II gram panchayats of Alipurduar II community development block.[1]

Alipurduars Assembly constituency is part of No. 2 Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency) (ST).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

ElectionNameParty
1951Pijush Kanti MukherjeeIndian National Congress
1957
1962
1967Nani BhattacharyaRevolutionary Socialist Party
1969
1971Narayan BhattacharyaIndian National Congress
1972
1977Nani BhattacharyaRevolutionary Socialist Party
1982
1987
1991Nirmal Das
1996
2001
2006
2011Debaprasad RoyIndian National Congress
2016Sourav ChakrabortyAll India Trinamool Congress
2021Suman KanjilalBharatiya Janata Party

Election results

1951–1972

Narayan Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP won in 1969 and 1967. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, it was a joint seat. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee and Dhirandra Brahma Mandal, both from Congress, won.

1977-2006

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections, Nirmal Das of RSP defeated Sourav Chakraborty of Congress, Prasanta Narayan Majumdar of Trinamool Congress, Manindralal Rakshit of Congress and Biswa Ranjan Sarkar of Congress, respectively. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP defeated Debabrata Chatterjee of Congress in 1987, Pallab Ghosh of Congress in 1982 and Narayan Bhattachary of Congress in 1977.

2011

In the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Debaprasad Roy of Congress defeated his nearest rival Kshiti Goswami of RSP.

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Alipurduars constituency
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INCDebaprasad Roy79,60546.02Winner
RSPKshiti Goswami72,82242.10
BJPManik Chandra Saha8,2384.76
IndependentSantosh Kumar Balo3,0721.78
JMMManohar Bhagat1,8641.08
SUCI(C)Abhijit Roy1,5080.87
CPI(ML)LChanchal Kumar Das1,4380.83
IndependentParimal Roy1,3960.81
IndependentSanjit Das1,3010.75
BSPMantu Barman1,1950.69
Rashtriya Deshaj PartyBishwanath Gop5300.31
Majority6,7833.92
Turnout1,72,96986.04
INC gain from RSPSwing

2016

In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Sourav Chakraborty of TMC defeated his nearest rival Biswaranjan Sarkar of Congress.

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Alipurduars constituency
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITCSourav Chakraborty89,69544.09Winner
INCBiswaranjan Sarkar77,73738.21
BJPKushal Chatterjee20,0989.88
RSPNirmal Das7,3243.60
SUCI(C)Alokesh Das2,3081.13
AMBDalendra Nath Ray1,3410.66
IndependentSantosh Kumar Balo9890.49
BSPGouri Roy9740.48
None of the AboveNone of the Above2,9801.46
Majority11,9585.88
Turnout2,03,44686.16
AITC gain from INCSwing

2021

In the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Suman Kanjilal of BJP defeated his nearest rival Sourav Chakraborty of TMC.

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Alipurduars constituency
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJPSuman Kanjilal 107,333 48.19 Winner
AITCSourav Chakraborty91,32641.00
INCDebprosad Roy15,6517.03
IndependentNikhil Chandra Raibir2,3511.06
IndependentRinku Ghosh1,3930.63
SUCI(C)Pijush Kanti Sarma1,1110.5
IndependentAshim Roy6960.31
IndependentKushal Kumar Roy6200.28
IndependentAbinash Das2700.12
None of the AboveNone of the Above1,9810.89
Turnout2,22,732
BJP gain from AITCSwing

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