English Bazar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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English Bazar
Vidhan Sabha constituency
English Bazar is located in West Bengal
English Bazar
English Bazar
Location in West Bengal
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Country  India
State West Bengal
District Maldah
Constituency No 51
Type Open
Lok Sabha constituency 8. Maldaha Dakshin
Electorate (year) 208,204 (2011)

English Bazar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Maldah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 51 English Bazar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers English Bazar municipality and Amriti, Binodpur, Jadupur I, Jadupur II, Kajigram, Kotwali and Mahadipur gram panchayats of English Bazar community development block,[1]

English Bazar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 8 Maldaha Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).[1] It was earlier part of Malda (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election
Year		 Constituency Name of M.L.A. Party Affiliation
1957 English Bazar Santi Gopal Sen Indian National Congress[2]
1962 Santi Gopal Sen Indian National Congress[3]
1967 Santi Gopal Sen Indian National Congress[4]
1969 Bimal Kanti Das Communist Party of India[5]
1971 Bimal Kanti Das Communist Party of India[6]
1972 Bimal Kanti Das Communist Party of India[7]
1977 Sailen Sarkar Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
1982 Sailen Sarkar Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1987 Sailen Sarkar Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1991 Prabhat Acharya Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1996 Goutam Chakraborty Indian National Congress[12]
2001 Samar Roy Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2006 Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury Indian National Congress[14]
2011 Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury Indian National Congress[15]
2013 bye election Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury All India Trinamool Congress [16]

Election results

2013 bye election

The 2013 by-election was necessitated by the switch-over of sitting Congress MLA Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury to Trinamool Congress.[16]

West Bengal legislative assembly bye election, 2013: English Bazar constituency[16][17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Trinamool Congress Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury 70,791 39.33 +39.33
CPI(M) Koushik Mishra (Saheb) 50,339 27.96 -11.19
INC Narendra Nath Tiwari 45,271 25.15 -26.64
BJP Sanjit Misra 9,442 5.24 -0.62
Independent Satish Rajbanshi 2,851 1.58
Independent Md. Anisur Rahaman 1,296
Turnout 179990
Trinamool Congress gain from INC Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Krishnendu Narayan Chowdhury of Congress defeated his nearest rival Samarananda Roy of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: English Bazar constituency[15][18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury 89,421 51.79 +0.48#
CPI(M) Samarananda Roy 67,592 39.15 -6.49
BJP Gobinda Chandra Mandal 10,116 5.86
Independent Satish Rajbanshi 2,527
Independent Uma Das 1,535
BSP Nitish Kumar Mandal 147
Turnout 172,662 82.93
INC hold Swing +6.97#

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

e • d West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Malda district summary
Party Seats won Seat change
Indian National Congress 8 Increase4
Trinamool Congress 1 Increase1
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 1 Decrease5
Revolutionary Socialist Party 1 Increase1
Forward bloc 1 Decrease0

Note: New constituencies – 4, constituencies abolished – 3 (See template talk page for details)


1977–2006

In the 2006[14] state assembly elections, Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury of Congress won the English Bazar assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Samar Roy of CPI(M). Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Samar Roy of CPI(M) defeated Goutam Chakraborty of Congress in 2001.[13] Goutam Chakraborty of Congress defeated Ashok Bhattacharya of CPI(M) in 1996.[12] Prabhat Acharya of CPI(M) defeated Pradip Kar of Congress in 1991.[11] Sailen Sarkar of CPI(M) defeated Ashok Kundu of Congress in 1987,[10] Swapan Mitra of Congress in 1982[9] and Hari Prasanna Mitra of Janata Party in 1977.[8][19]

1957–1972

Bimal Kanti Das of CPI won in 1972,[7] 1971[6] and 1969.[5] Santi Gopal Sen of Congress won in 1967,[4] 1962[3] and 1957.[2] Prior to that the English Bazar seat was not there.

References

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