Howrah Uttar


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

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 170 Howrah Uttar is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 7 and 10 to 16 of Howrah Municipal Corporation.
Howrah Uttar is part of No. 25 Howrah.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2016

.# Swing calculated on LF+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2016.

2011

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

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections Lagan Deo Singh of CPI won the Howrah North assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Bani Singha of Trinamool Congress in 2006, Asok Ghosh of Congress in the three other years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Asok Ghosh of Congress defeated Lagan Deo Singh of CPI in 1987 and Chittabrata Majumdar of CPI in 1982. Chittabrata Mazumdar of CPI defeated Supriya Basu of Congress in 1977.

1967-1972

Shankarlal Mukherjee of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee of Congress won in 1969. S.K.Mukherjee of Congress won in 1967.

1951-1962

During the period Howrah had four Vidhan Sabha constituencies.

Howrah North

Saila Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962. Samar Mukhopadhyay of CPI won in 1957. Biren Banerjee of CPI won in 1951.

Howrah West

Anadi Dass, Independent, won in 1962. Bankim Chandra Kar of Congress won in 1957 and 1951.

Howrah East

Bejoy Bhattacharyya of Congress won in 1962. Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in 1957. Saila Kumar Mukhopdhyay of Congress won in 1951.
For results of Howrah South constituency see Howrah Dakshin