Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)


Bhabanipur is an assembly constituency in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 159 Bhabanipur is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 63, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77 and 82 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
Bhabanipur is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2016 election

2011 bye election

The bypoll to the Bhowanipore seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Trinamool Congress Subrata Bakshi resigned to make way for the Chief Minister to contest. She had not contested the state assembly elections earlier. She had to become a member of the state assembly within six months of her assuming office as Chief Minister,
Percentage swing with respect to General Election 2011.

2011 State assembly elections

1951–1962 Bhawanipur

There was an assembly seat at Bhawanipur from 1951 to 1962. Contests in most years were multi cornered but mostly winners and runners are being mentioned. In independent India's first election in 1951, Mira Dutta Gupta of Indian National Congress defeated Debnath Das, Independent, Saumendra Nath Tagore of Revolutionary Socialist Party and others. In 1957, Siddhartha Shankar Ray of Indian National Congress defeated Saila Sen of Praja Socialist Party. In 1962, Siddhartha Shankar Ray contesting as an independent candidate defeated Pritin Kr. Roy Choudhury Indian National Congress.

1951–1972 Kalighat

There was an assembly seat at Kalighat from 1951 to 1972. In 1951, Manikuntala Sen of Communist Party of India defeated Debabrata Mookherjee IndianNational Congress, Santi Bhusan Bose Bharatiya Jana Sangh and others. In 1957, Manikuntala Sen CPI defeated Bivabati Mitra INC. In 1962, Beva Mitra of INC defeated Manikuntala Sen of CPI. 1967 B.Mitra of INC defeated D.Mazumder of CPI. 1969 Sadhan Gupta Communist Party of India defeated Beva Mitra of INC Kalighat. In 1971, Rathin Talukdar of INC defeated Sadhan Gupta of CPI. In 1972, Rathin Talukdar of INC defeated Ashoke Kumar Bose of CPI......