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{{Short description|West Bengal Legislative Assembly constituency}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Amta
| type= SLA
| map_image = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=y|frame-width=300|frame-height=300|frame-align=center|type=shape|from=Vidhan Sabha constituencies/West Bengal/Amta.map}}
| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Amta Assembly Constituency
| map_alt =
| mla = Amit Samanta
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| alliance =
| latest_election_year = [[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| district = [[Howrah district|Howrah]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Uluberia (Lok Sabha constituency)|Uluberia]]
| constituency_no = 181
| established = 1951
| electors = 206,691
| reservation = None
| abolished =
}}

'''Amta Assembly constituency''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Howrah district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 181, Amta Assembly constituency is composed of the following: [[Amta II (community development block)|Amta II]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]], and Bainan, Baksirhat, Kalyanpur and Sabsit [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Bagnan I (community development block)|Bagnan I]] community development block.<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/WestBengal/FINAL%20ORDER%20NOTIFICATION_English.pdf | title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006 | access-date=25 July 2015|work= West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission of India}}</ref> Amta Assembly constituency is part of No. 26 [[Uluberia (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Name
!colspan=2|Party
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]
|Arabinda Roy ''(Amta South)''
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|Tarapada Pramanick ''(Amta Central)''
|-
|[[Alamohan Das]] ''(Amta North)''
|{{Full party name with color|Independent}}
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
|Gobinda Charan Maji ''(Amta East)''
|{{Full party name with color|Praja Socialist Party}}
|-
|Arabinda Roy ''(Amta West)''
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|Tarapada Pramanick
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|rowspan="2"|Nitai Bhandari
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|dab=yes|rowspan=3}}
|-
|[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|-
|[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]
|Bapindra Koley
|-
|[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|Afiabuddin Mondal
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|rowspan="4"|[[Barindra Nath Koley]]
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|dab=yes|rowspan=7}}
|-
|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|-
|[[1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|-
|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|-
|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|rowspan="3"|Pratyush Mukherjee
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|rowspan="2"|Asit Mitra
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|Sukanta Kumar Paul
|{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress}}
|-
|[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
|Amit Samanta
|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|-
|}

==Election results==

===1951–1972===
Aftabuddin Mondal of Congress won in 1972.<ref name=vidhansabha1972>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |title =General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref> [[Barindra Nath Koley|Barindranath Koley]] of CPI(M) won in 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No ?|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref> Nitai Bhandari of CPI(M) won in 1969<ref name=vidhansabha1969>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref> and 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref> Tarapada Pramanick of Congress won in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]].<ref name=vidhansabha1962>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref> In [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]]<ref name=vidhansabha1957>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref> Amta had two seats. Gobinda Charan Maji of [[Praja Socialist Party|PSP]] won the Amta East seat. Arabinda Roy of Congress won the Amta West seat. In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|1951]]<ref name=vidhansabha1952>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref> Amta had three seats. Arabinda Roy of Congress won the Amta South seat. Tarapada Pramanick of Congress won the Amta Central seat. [[Alamohan Das]], Independent, won the Amta North seat.

===1977–2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]], 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections, Pratyush Mukherjee of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won the Amta assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Ashok Maji of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] in 2006<ref name=vidhansabha2006>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_WB_2006.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref> and 2001,<ref name=vidhansabha2001>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref> and Prasun Bakuly of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996.<ref name=vidhansabha1996>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-WB96.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref> Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Barindranath Koley of CPI(M) defeated Aftabuddin Mondal of Congress in 1991<ref name=vidhansabha1991>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-West%20Bengal91.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No | publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref> and 1987,<ref name=vidhansabha1987>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1987/StatisticalReportWestBengal87.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref> Ainuddin Sk. of Congress in 1982,<ref name=vidhansabha1982>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref> and Aftabuddin Mondal of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp175.htm |title =175 - Amta Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 25 November 2010}}</ref>

===2011===
In the 2011 election, Asit Mitra of Congress defeated his nearest rival Rabindra Nath Mitra of CPI(M).
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election]]: Amta constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=181| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120519163745/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=181| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 19 May 2012|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Amta| publisher = Empowering India |access-date = 1 May 2011 }}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = [[Asit Mitra]]
|votes = 88,264
|percentage = 51.82
|change = +6.58#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Rabindra Nath Mitra
|votes = 74,545
|percentage = 43.76
|change = -8.17
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Sanat Hazra
|votes = 3,781
|percentage = 2.22
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Ratan Chandra Malick
|votes = 1,757
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Asit Sengupta
|votes = 1,155
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Dilip Kumar Hait
|votes = 835
|percentage = 0.49
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 170,337
|percentage = 82.41
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Indian National Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing = 14.57#
}}
{{Election box end}}
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

===2016===
In the 2016 election, Asit Mitra of Indian National Congress defeated his nearest rival Tushar Kanti Sil of Trinamool Congress.
{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal state assembly election]]: Amta constituency}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = [[Asit Mitra]]
|votes = 89,149
|percentage = 47.05
|change = -4.77
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Tushar Kanti Sil
|votes = 84,645
|percentage = 44.67
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Suman Sarkar
|votes = 11,045
|percentage = 5.83
|change = +3.61
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 1,794
|percentage = 0.95
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Ratan Chandra Malick
|votes = 1,379
|percentage = 0.73
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Sanjib Santra
|votes = 789
|percentage = 0.42
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Dilip Kumar Hait
|votes = 674
|percentage = 0.36
|change = -0.13
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 189,475
|percentage = 79.86
|change = -2.55
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Indian National Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2021===
In the 2021 election, Sukanta Kumar Paul of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Debtanu Bhattacharjee of Bharatiya Janata Party.
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Amta constituency}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Sukanta Kumar Paul
|votes = 102445
|percentage = 49.06
|change = +2.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Debtanu Bhattacharjee
|votes = 76240
|percentage = 36.51
|change = +30.68
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Asit Mitra
|votes = 25109
|percentage = 12.02
|change = -32.65
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 1302
|percentage = 0.62
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Ratan Chandra Malick
|votes = 1,379
|percentage = 0.73
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Sanjib Santra
|votes = 1139
|percentage = 0.55
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Dilip Kumar Hait
|votes = 674
|percentage = 0.36
|change = -0.13
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 208810
|percentage = 79.86
|change = -2.55
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Indian National Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2026===
{{Election box begin|title=[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Amta}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|candidate = Amit Samanta
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes = 1,04,649
|percentage = 44.16
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Sukanta Kumar Paul
|party = Trinamool Congress
|votes = 1,00,195
|percentage = 42.28
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Joshimuddin Mallick
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|votes = 23,193
|percentage = 9.79
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Tapan Das
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = 2,350
|percentage = 0.99
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Baisakhi Malik
|party = Independent
|votes = 1,498
|percentage = 0.63
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = SK Sapiyar Ali
|party = Independent
|votes = 789
|percentage = 0.33
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Kamal Krishna Malik
|party = Independent
|votes = 709
|percentage = 0.30
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Sanjeeb Santara
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|votes = 614
|percentage = 0.26
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Saraswati Patra Sarkar
|party = Independent
|votes = 370
|percentage = 0.16
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Ashish Dolui
|party = Independent
|votes = 262
|percentage = 0.11
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = SK Masarekul Anowar
|party = Aam Janata Unnayan Party
|votes = 186
|percentage = 0.08
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Abhijit Hazra
|party = Independent
|votes = 175
|percentage = 0.07
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Abhijit Show
|party = Independent
|votes = 156
|percentage = 0.07
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|party = None of the above (India)
|votes = 1,855
|percentage = 0.78
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 4,454
|percentage = 1.88
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 2,37,001
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = BJP
|loser = AITC
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Howrah topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Howrah district]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1951]]
[[Category:1951 establishments in West Bengal]]

Amta Assembly constituency - Revision history

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