Nabadwip (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Nabadwip
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Nabadwip is located in West Bengal
Nabadwip
Nabadwip
Location in West Bengal
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Country  India
State West Bengal
District Nadia
Constituency No 84
Type Open
Lok Sabha constituency 12. Krishnanagar
Electorate (year) 199,952 (2011)

Nabadwip (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 84 Nabadwip (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Nabadwip municipality, Nabadwip community development block, and Bhaluka and Joania gram panchayats of Krishnanagar I community development block.[1]

Nabadwip (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 13 Ranaghat (SC) (Lok Sabha constituency).[1] It was earlier part of Nabadwip (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election
Year		 Constituency Name of M.L.A. Party Affiliation
1951 Nabadwip Niranjan Modak Indian National Congress[3]
1957 Niranjan Modak Indian National Congress[4]
1962 Debi Prasad Basu Communist Party of India [5]
1967 Sachindra Mohan Nandy Indian National Congress[6]
1969 Sachindra Mohan Nandy Indian National Congress[7]
1971 Debi Prasad Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
1972 Radha Raman Saha Indian National Congress[9]
1977 Debi Prosad Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1982 Debi Prosad Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1987 Biswanath Mitra Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1991 Biswanath Mitra Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
1996 Biswanath Mitra Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2001 Pundarikhsya Saha All India Trinamool Congress[15]
2006 Pundarikhsya Saha All India Trinamool Congress[16]
2011 Pundarikhsya Saha All India Trinamool Congress[17]

Election results

2011

In the 2011 election, Pundarkshya Saha of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Sumit Biswas of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Nabadwip constituency[17][18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Trinamool Congress Pundarkshya Saha 94,117 53.45 -2.53#
CPI(M) Sumit Biswas 71,282 40.49 -3.64
BJP Pinki Agarwal 7,303 4.15
CPI(ML) Liberation Parikshit Paul 336
Turnout 176,069 88.06
Trinamool Congress hold Swing 1.11

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. On its own the Trinamool Congress vote percentage was +2.35% and the swing was 5.99%.

e • d West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Nadia district summary
Party Seats won Seat change
Trinamool Congress 13 Increase11
Indian National Congress 1 Increase0
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 3 Decrease8
Revolutionary Socialist Party 0 Decrease1

Note: New constituencies – 3, constituencies abolished – 1 (See template talk page for details)


1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections,[16]Pundarikhsya Saha of Trinamool Congress won the Nabadwip assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Chhaya Sen Sharma of CPI (M). Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001,[15]Pundarikhsya Saha of Trinamool Congress defeated Jamuna Brahmachari of CPI (M). In 1996,[14]Biswanath Mitra of CPI (M) defeated Kartick Chatterjee of Congress. In 1991[13]and 1987[12]Biswanath Mitra of CPI(M) defeated Satish Debnath of Congress. In 1982[11]and 1977 Debi Prosad Basu of CPI (M) defeated Sasthi Bhusan Pal of Congress.[10][19]

1951–1972

Radha Raman Saha of Congress won in 1972.[9]Debi Prasad Basu of CPI(M) won in 1971.[8]Sachindra Mohan Nandy of Congress won in 1969[7]and 1967.[6]Debi Prasad Basu of CPI won in 1962.[5]In 1957[4]and in independendent India’s first election in 1951, Niranjan Modak of Congress won the Nabadwip seat.[3]

References

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