Jangipara Assembly constituency

Jangipara
Constituency No. 195 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Jangipara Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
LS constituency	Serampore
Established	1957
Total electors	203,355
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Snehasis Chakraborty
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Jangipara Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 195 Jangipara Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Jangipara community development block and Ainya, Haripur, Masat and Shiyakhala gram panchayata of Chanditala I community development block.^[1]

Jangipara Assembly constituency is part of No. 27 Sreerampur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1957	Jangipara	Biswanath Saha	Indian National Congress[2]
		Kanai Dey	Indian National Congress[2]
1962		Biswanath Saha	Indian National Congress[3]
1967		Manindranath Jana	Communist Party of India (Marxist)|[4]
1969		Manindranath Jana	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
1971		Manindranath Jana	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1972		Ganesh Hatui	Indian National Congress[7]
1977		Ganesh Chandra Hatui	Indian National Congress[8]
1982		Ganesh Chandra Halui	Indian National Congress[9]
1987		Dwipen Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[10]
1991		Manindranath Jana	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1996		Ibha Dey	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
2001		Ibha Dey	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2006		Prof. Sudarsan Ray Choudhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2011		Snehasis Chakraborty	All India Trinamool Congress[15]
2016		Snehasis Chakraborty	All India Trinamool Congress[16]
2021		Snehasis Chakraborty	All India Trinamool Congress [17]

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Jangipara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Snehasis Chakraborty	101,885	48.00
	BJP	Debjit Sarkar	83,959	40.00
	ISF	Sk. Moinuddin	17,756	8.00
Majority			17,926
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Snehasis Chakraborty	99,324
	CPI(M)	Pabitra Singha Roy	75,719
	BJP	Prosenjit Bag	13,716
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Jangipara constituency^[15]^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Snehasis Chakraborty	87,133	50.54	+8.12#
	CPI(M)	Prof. Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury	74,157	42.95	−14.62
	BJP	Prasenjit Bag	5,663	3.28
	People’s Democratic Conference of India	Pradip Ghosh	2,143
	Independent	Md Kutubuddin Purkait	1,427
	JDP	Bharati Kisku	1,149
	Independent	Tarun Kumar Bank	837
Turnout			172,409	84.78
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	22.74#

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

2006

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Jangipara constituency^[14]^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Prof. Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury	79,418	57.60
	AITC	Ehsanul Haque Kazi (Badsha)	50,645	36.70
	INC	Subhas Dey	7,878	5.70
Majority			28,773	(20.9%)
Turnout			137,988	82.4
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections,^[8] Sudarshan Raychaudhuri of CPI(M) won the Jangipara assembly seat defeating Ehsanul Haque Kazi of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Ibha Dey of CPI(M) defeated Shahbazin Khan Munshi of Trinamool Congress in 2001^[13] and Dwipen Mukherjee of Congress in 1996.^[12] Manindranath Jana of CPI(M) defeated Gayatri Roy of Congress in 1991,^[11] Dwipen Mukherjee of Congress in 1987,^[10] Ganesh Chandra Hatui of Congress 1982^[9] and 1977.^[8][20]

1957-1972

Ganesh Hatui of Congress won in 1972.^[7] Manindranath Jana of CPI(M) won in 1971,^[6] 1969^[5] and 1967.^[4] Biswanath Saha of Congress won in 1962.^[3] Biswanath Saha and Kanai Dey, both of Congress, won the Jangipara double seat in 1957.^[2] Prior to that the Jangipara assembly seat did not exist.

References

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16. "2016 Winner Snehasis Chakraborty". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
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