Bally (Vidhan Sabha constituency)


Bally is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 169 Bally is composed of Bally Municipality which is merged with Howrah Municipal Corporation now.
Bally is part of No. 25 Howrah.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2016

In the 2016 election, Baishali Dalmiya of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Saumendranath Bera of CPI.
Election box candidate with party link|
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Baishali Dalmiya
|votes = 52,654
|percentage = 46.97
|change = -3.45
Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Communist Party of India
|candidate = Saumendranath Bera
|votes = 37,299
|percentage = 33.25
|change = -10.86
Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Kaushik Chakraborty
|votes = 17,418
|percentage = 15.53
|change = +12.97
Election box candidate with party link|
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 1,598
|percentage = 1.42
|change =
Election box turnout|
|votes = 1,12,192
|percentage = 70.15
|change = -3.38
Election box hold with party link|
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India
|swing =
Election box end

2011

In the 2011 election, Sultan Singh of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kanika Ganguly of CPI.
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.

2006

In the 2006 election, Kanika Ganguly of CPI defeated her nearest rival Rekha Raut of AITC.
.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress+BJP vote percentages taken together in 2006.

2001

In the 2001 election, Kanika Ganguly of CPI defeated her nearest rival Supriyo Basu of INC.
.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2001.

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections, Kanika Ganguly of CPI won the Bally assembly seat defeating her nearest rivals, Rekha Raut of Trinamool Congress in 2006, Supriyo Basu of Congress in 2001 and Bani Kumar Singha of Congress in 1996. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Patit Paban Pathak of CPI defeated Supriyo Basu of Congress in 1991. Supriyo Basu of Congress defeated Patit Paban Pathak of CPI in 1987. Patit Paban Pathak defeated Bani Kumar Singha of Congress in 1982 and Ganesh Pathak of Congress in 1977.

1951-1971

Bhabani Shankar Mukherjee of Congress won in 1972. Patit Paban Pathak of CPI won in 1971 and 1969. S.N.Mukherjee of Congress won in 1967. Shankar Lal Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962. Monilal Basu of Congress won in 1957. In independent India’s first election in 1951, Ratan Moni Chattopadhyay of Congress won the Bally seat.