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{{Short description|West Bengal Legislative Assembly constituency}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
'''Baharampur Assembly constituency''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Murshidabad district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Baharampur
| 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/Baharampur.map}}
| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Baharampur Assembly Constituency
| map_alt =
| mla = [[Subrata Maitra (politician)|Subrata Maitra (Kanchan)]]
| party = {{Party index link|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
| latest_election_year = [[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| district = [[Murshidabad district|Murshidabad]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Baharampur]]
| constituency_no = 72
| established = 1951
| electors = 260,667
| reservation = None
| abolished =
}}

{{Pie chart
| value1 = 55.55
| value2 = 11.11
| value3 = 16.67
| value4 = 5.56
| value5 = 11.11
| label1 = [[Indian National Congress]] (10 times)
| label2 = [[Communist Party of India]] (2 times)
| label3 = [[Revolutionary Socialist Party]] (3 times)
| label4 = [[Independent politician]] (1 time)
| label5 = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (2 times)
| color1 = {{party color|Indian National Congress}}
| color2 = {{party color|Communist Party of India}}
| color3 = {{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
| color4 = {{party color|Independent politician}}
| color5 = {{party color|Bhartiya Janata Party}}
| caption = Most Successful parties from Murshidabad assembly
}}

==Overview==
As per orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], No. 72 Baharampur Assembly constituency covers [[Baharampur]] municipality, and Bhakuri I, Daulatabad, Gurudaspur, Hatinagar and Manindranagar [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Berhampore (community development block)|Berhampore]] [[Community Development Block in India|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 | access-date = 13 July 2014 | work = West Bengal| publisher = Election Commission of India}}</ref>

Baharampur Assembly constituency is part of No. 10 [[Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name =delimitation/>

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Name
!colspan=2|Party
|-
!colspan="4"|''Berhampore''
|-
|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]
|rowspan="2"|Bijoy Kumar Ghosh
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|Sanat Kumar Raha
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India}}
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|S. Bhattacharya
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|Sanat Kumar Raha
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India}}
|-
|[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]
|rowspan="2"|Sankar Das Paul
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|-
|[[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|rowspan="3"|[[Debabrata Bandyopadhyay]]
|{{Full party name with color|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|rowspan=3}}
|-
|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|-
|[[1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|-
|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|Sankar Das Paul
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=3}}
|-
|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|rowspan="2"|[[Maya Rani Paul]]
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|[[Manoj Chakraborty]]
|{{Full party name with color|Independent}}
|-
!colspan="4"|''Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Baharampur''
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|rowspan="2"|[[Manoj Chakraborty]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|rowspan=2|[[Subrata Maitra (politician)|Subrata Maitra]]
|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
|-
|}

==Election results==
===2026===
{{Election box begin|title=[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Baharampur}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link||candidate=[[Subrata Maitra (politician)| Subrata Maitra]]|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|votes=91,088|percentage=40.61|change={{Decrease}}4.59}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=[[Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury]]|party=Indian National Congress|votes=73,540|percentage=32.79|change={{increase}}12.46}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Naru Gopal Mukherjee|party=Trinamool Congress|votes=49,586|percentage=22.11|change={{decrease}}9.51}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Sukbor Molla|party=Janata Unnayan Party|votes=4,207|percentage=1.88|change={{New}}}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=[[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]|party=None of the above (India)|votes=1,359|percentage=0.61|change={{Decrease}}0.67}}
{{Election box majority||votes=17,548|percentage=7.82|change={{Decrease}}5.77}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=224,268|percentage=|change=}}

{{Election box hold with party link
|winner =BJP
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2021===
{{Election box begin
|title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Baharampur}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Subrata Maitra (politician)|Subrata Maitra]]
|votes = 89,340
|percentage = 45.21
|change = {{increase}}35.01
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=Naru Gopal Mukherjee|votes=62,488|percentage=31.62|change={{increase}}12.42}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=[[Manoj Chakraborty]]|votes=40,167|percentage=20.33|change={{decrease}}48.87}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above (India)|candidate=None of the above|votes=2,525|percentage=1.28|change=}}
{{Election box majority|votes=26,852|percentage=13.59|change={{decrease}}36.41}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=1,97,607|percentage=75.81|change={{decrease}}4.39}}
{{Election box Registered electors
|reg. electors = 2,60,667}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = Indian National Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
In the 2016 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress defeated his nearest rival Sujata Banerjee of Trinamool Congress.

{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2016]]: Baharampur 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=72| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120327190351/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=72| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 27 March 2012|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Baharampur| publisher = Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = [[Manoj Chakraborty]]
|votes = 127,762
|percentage = 69.20%
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Dr. Sujata Banerjee
|votes = 35,489
|percentage = 19.20%
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Mala Banerjee
|votes = 18,805
|percentage = 10.20%
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = SUCI(C)
|candidate = Kousik Chatterjee
|votes = 1,727
|percentage = 0.90%
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)|Independent
|candidate = Sujit Kumar Das
|votes = 881
|percentage = 0.50%
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 92,273
|percentage = 50.00%
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,84,664
|percentage = 80.20%
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Indian National Congress
|swing = +3.34#
}}
{{Election box end}}
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.

===2011===
In the 2011 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress defeated his nearest rival Tarit Brahmachari of RSP.

{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Baharampur constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=72| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120327190351/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=72| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 27 March 2012|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Baharampur| publisher = Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = [[Manoj Chakraborty]]
|votes = 91,578
|percentage = 54.90
|change = +4.52#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
|candidate = Tarit Brahmachari
|votes = 48,265
|percentage = 28.93
|change = -7.86
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Debasis Sarkar
|votes = 12,758
|percentage = 7.65
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Debjani Saha
|votes = 8,162
|percentage = 4.89
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Social Democratic Party of India
|candidate = Tayebdul Islam
|votes = 3,787
|percentage = 2.30
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian People's Forward Bloc
|candidate = Sujit Kumar Das
|votes = 1,331
|percentage = 0.80
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Janata Dal (United)
|candidate = Sunil Kumar Mondal
|votes = 940
|percentage = 0.60
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 43,313
|percentage = 26.0
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 166,821
|percentage = 81.13
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Indian National Congress
|swing = +3.34#
}}
{{Election box end}}
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2011.

===2006===
In the 2006 election, Manoj Chakraborty of Congress MP of [[Baharampur]], [[Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury]] Supported Independent defeated his nearest rival Amal Karmakar of RSP.

{{Election box begin | title=[[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2006]]: Baharampur constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=72| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120327190351/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=72| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 27 March 2012|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2006 |work = Baharampur| publisher = Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)|Independent/[[Indian National Congress|INC]] supported
|candidate = [[Manoj Chakraborty]]
|votes = 94,562
|percentage = 50.60
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
|candidate = Amal Karmakar
|votes = 68,836
|percentage = 36.80
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Maya Rani Paul
|votes = 16,596
|percentage = 8.90
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Apurba Banerjee
|votes = 2,834
|percentage = 1.50
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)|Independent
|candidate = Sunil Kumar Mandal
|votes = 2,737
|percentage = 1.50
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)|Independent
|candidate = Md. Hayatur Rahaman
|votes = 1,516
|percentage = 0.80
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 187,081
|percentage = 81.13
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Indian National Congress
|swing = +3.34#
}}
{{Election box end}}
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Manoj Chakraborty (Independent) vote percentages taken together in 2006.

===1977–2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006 state assembly elections]]<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref> [[Manoj Chakraborty]], Independent, won the Berhampore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Amal Karmakar of [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]]. Manoj Chakraborty, contesting as an independent, was a rebel congress candidate put up by [[Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury|Adhir Choudhury]] as a protest against the official Congress candidate Maya Rani Paul.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060512/asp/bengal/story_6214010.asp| archive-url = https://archive.today/20120912213550/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060512/asp/bengal/story_6214010.asp| url-status = dead| archive-date = 12 September 2012|title = Adhir beats Cong at home | publisher = The Telegraph 12 May 2006|access-date = 13 May 2011| location=Calcutta, India| date= 12 May 2006}}</ref> He was subsequently taken back into the Congress.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110417/jsp/bengal/story_13864257.jsp | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120913234738/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110417/jsp/bengal/story_13864257.jsp | url-status = dead | archive-date = 13 September 2012 |title = Didi turns up heat on dissidents | publisher = The Telegraph 17 April 2011|access-date = 25 May 2011| location=Calcutta, India | first=Alamgir | last=Hussain | date=17 April 2011}}</ref> Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Maya Rani Paul of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] defeated Kartick Sahana of RSP in 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref> and Biswanath Banerjee of RSP 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref> Sankar Das Paul of Congress defeated Ipsita Gupta of RSP 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref> Debabrata Bandopadhyay of RSP defeated Sankar Das Paul of Congress in 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref> and 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref> and Subrata Saha 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp63.htm | title = 63 - Berhampore Assembly Constituency | work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India| access-date = 26 September 2010}}</ref>

===1951–1972===
Sankar Das Paul 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref> and 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref> Sanat Kumar Raha of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 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|publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref> S. Bhattacharya of Congress won in 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref> Sanat Kumar Raha of CPI 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref> Bejoy Kumar Ghosh of Congress won 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref> and in [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 20 July 2014}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

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

Baharampur Assembly constituency - Revision history

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