https://indianpedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Bhabanipur_West_Bengal_Assembly_constituency Bhabanipur West Bengal Assembly constituency - Revision history 2026-08-01T19:31:36Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.45.4 https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Bhabanipur_West_Bengal_Assembly_constituency&diff=490591&oldid=prev Pianino.XMC.PL at 10:19, 7 May 2026 2026-05-07T10:19:26Z <p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Legislative Assembly constituency in West Bengal, India}}<br /> {{Use Indian English|date=January 2021}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}<br /> {{for|the constituency in Assam|Bhabanipur, Assam Assembly constituency}}<br /> {{Infobox Indian constituency<br /> | name = Bhabanipur<br /> | type = SLA<br /> | map_image = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=y|frame-width=300|frame-height=300|frame-align=center|type=shape|from=Vidhan Sabha constituencies/West Bengal/Bhabanipur.map}}<br /> | map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Bhabanipur Assembly Constituency<br /> | map_alt = <br /> | mla = [[Suvendu Adhikari]]<br /> | party = {{Party index link|Bharatiya Janata Party}}<br /> | alliance = <br /> | latest_election_year = [[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026]]<br /> | preceded_by = [[Mamata Banerjee]]<br /> | state = [[West Bengal]]<br /> | district = [[Kolkata district|Kolkata]]<br /> | loksabha_cons = [[Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency|Kolkata Dakshin]]<br /> | constituency_no = 159<br /> | established = 1951<br /> | electors = 160,313 (2026)<br /> | reservation = None<br /> | incumbent_image = Suvendu Adhikari at Esplanade Metro Rail Station, Kolkata, 6 March 2024.jpg<br /> | abolished = <br /> }}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Bhabanipur Assembly constituency&#039;&#039;&#039; is a [[Vidhan Sabha|Legislative Assembly]] constituency of [[Kolkata district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]]. In the [[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026 Assembly election]], [[Suvendu Adhikari]] of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] wrested this constituency from the incumbent [[Chief Minister of West Bengal|Chief Minister]], [[Mamata Banerjee]] by a margin of 15,105 votes.&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite web |last=Desk |first=India Today Video |date=2026-05-04 |title=Mamata Banerjee loses to Suvendu Adhikari in Bhabanipur |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/assembly/video/mamata-banerjee-loses-to-suvendu-adhikari-in-bhabanipur-2906617-2026-05-04 |access-date=2026-05-04 |website=India Today |language=en}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Overview==<br /> As per order of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]] in respect of the [[Delimitation of constituencies]] in [[West Bengal]], Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is composed of the following:<br /> * Ward Nos. [[Ward No. 63, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|63]], [[Ward No. 70, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|70]], [[Ward No. 71, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|71]], [[Ward No. 72, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|72]], [[Ward No. 73, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|73]], [[Ward No. 74, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|74]], [[Ward No. 77, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|77]] and [[Ward No. 82, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|82]] of [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation]].&lt;ref name=delimitation&gt;{{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 = 22 February 2015| work = West Bengal| publisher = Election Commission of India| archive-date = 19 June 2009| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090619064327/http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf| url-status = live}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable sortable&quot; style=&quot;text-align:center&quot;<br /> ! Borough<br /> ! Ward No.<br /> ! [[2021 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election|Councillor]]<br /> ! colspan=&quot;2&quot; |2021 Winner<br /> |-<br /> |VII<br /> |[[Ward No. 63, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|63]]<br /> |Susmita Bhattacharya Chatterjee<br /> |{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=8}}<br /> |-<br /> |VIII<br /> |[[Ward No. 70, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|70]]<br /> |Ashim Kumar Bose<br /> |-<br /> |IX<br /> |[[Ward No. 71, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|71]]<br /> |Papiya Singh<br /> |-<br /> |VIII<br /> |[[Ward No. 72, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|72]]<br /> |Sandip Ranjan Bakshi<br /> |-<br /> |rowspan=4|IX<br /> |[[Ward No. 73, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|73]]<br /> |Kajari Banerjee<br /> |-<br /> |[[Ward No. 74, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|74]]<br /> |Debalina Biswas<br /> |-<br /> |[[Ward No. 77, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|77]]<br /> |Shamima Rehan Khan<br /> |-<br /> |[[Ward No. 82, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|82]]<br /> |[[Firhad Hakim]]<br /> |}<br /> <br /> Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 [[Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency]].&lt;ref name=delimitation/&gt;<br /> <br /> == Members of the Legislative Assembly ==<br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable sortable&quot;<br /> !Year<br /> !Name<br /> !colspan=2|Party<br /> |-<br /> |[[1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1952]]<br /> |[[Mira Datta Gupta]]<br /> |{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}<br /> |-<br /> |[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]<br /> |rowspan=&quot;2&quot;|[[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]<br /> |-<br /> |[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]<br /> |{{party name with color|Independent}}<br /> |-<br /> !colspan=&quot;4&quot;|&#039;&#039;Constituency renamed as Kalighat&#039;&#039;<br /> |-<br /> |[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]<br /> |Beva Mitra<br /> |{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}<br /> |-<br /> |[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]<br /> |[[Sadhan Gupta]]<br /> |{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|dab=yes}}<br /> |-<br /> |[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]<br /> |rowspan=&quot;2&quot;|Rathin Talukdar<br /> |{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}<br /> |-<br /> |[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]<br /> |-<br /> !colspan=&quot;4&quot;|&#039;&#039;1977–2009: Constituency did not exist&#039;&#039;<br /> |-<br /> |[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]<br /> |[[Subrata Bakshi]]<br /> |{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=5}}<br /> |-<br /> |2011^<br /> |rowspan=&quot;2&quot;|[[Mamata Banerjee]]<br /> |-<br /> |[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]<br /> |-<br /> |[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]<br /> |[[Sovandeb Chattopadhyay]]<br /> |-<br /> |[[West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-elections (17th Session)|2021^]]<br /> |[[Mamata Banerjee]]<br /> |-<br /> |[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026]]<br /> |[[Suvendu Adhikari]]<br /> | {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}<br /> |-<br /> |}<br /> * ^ by-election<br /> <br /> ==Election results==<br /> ===2026===<br /> {{Election box begin|title=[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Bhabanipur}}{{Election box winning candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=[[Suvendu Adhikari]]|votes=73,917|percentage=53.02|change={{increase}}30.73}}{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Trinamool Congress|candidate=[[Mamata Banerjee]]|votes=58,812|percentage=42.19|change={{decrease}}29.71}}{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=Shrijeeb Biswas|votes=3,556|percentage=2.55|change={{decrease}}1.01}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Pradip Prasad|party=Indian National Congress|votes=1,257|percentage=0.9|change={{new}}}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=None of the above (India)|candidate=None of the above|votes=829|percentage=0.59|change={{decrease}} 0.64}}<br /> {{Election box majority||votes=15,105|percentage=10.83|change={{Decrease}}38.78}}<br /> {{Election box turnout||votes=1,39,413|percentage=|change={{decrease}}}}<br /> {{Election box gain with party link|<br /> |winner = Bharatiya Janata Party<br /> |loser = Trinamool Congress<br /> |swing = <br /> }}<br /> {{Election box end}}<br /> <br /> ===2021===<br /> {{Election box begin|title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-election]]: Bhabanipur}}<br /> Following her narrow loss in the 2021 [[Nandigram Assembly constituency]] to BJP’s [[Suvendu Adhikari]] she needed to win a by-election to retain her position as Chief Minister of West Bengal. [[Sovandeb Chattopadhyay]] who won the Bhabanipur seat in the April 2021 assembly elections, resigned from his position on May 21, 2021, to vacate the seat for Mamata.<br /> {{Election box winning candidate with party link<br /> |party=Trinamool Congress<br /> |candidate=[[Mamata Banerjee]]<br /> |votes={{formatnum:85,263}}<br /> |percentage=71.90<br /> |change={{increase}}14.19<br /> }}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Priyanka Tibrewal|votes={{formatnum:26428}}|percentage=22.29|change={{decrease}}12.87}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=Shrijeeb Biswas|votes={{formatnum:4226}}|percentage=3.56|change=&#039;&#039;New&#039;&#039;}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=None of the above (India)|candidate=None of the above|votes={{formatnum:1453}}|percentage=1.23|change=&#039;&#039;Hold&#039;&#039;}}<br /> {{Election box majority||votes={{formatnum:58835}}|percentage=49.61|change={{increase}}27.06}}<br /> {{Election box turnout||votes={{formatnum:1,18,614}}|percentage=57.49|change={{decrease}} 4.30}}<br /> {{Election box hold with party link|<br /> |winner = Trinamool Congress<br /> |loser = Bharatiya Janata Party<br /> |swing = {{increase}}14.19<br /> }}<br /> {{Election box end}}<br /> <br /> ===2021===<br /> <br /> {{Election box begin|title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Bhowanipore|Bhabanipur]]}}<br /> {{Election box winning candidate with party link||party=Trinamool Congress|candidate=[[Sovandeb Chattopadhyay|Sovandeb Chatterjee]]|votes=73,505|percentage=57.71|change={{increase}}10.04}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=[[Rudranil Ghosh]]|votes=44,786|percentage=35.16|change={{increase}}16.03}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Md. Shadab Khan|votes=5,211|percentage=4.09|change={{decrease}}25.17}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=None of the above (India)|candidate=None of the Above|votes=1,570|percentage=1.23|change={{decrease}}0.56}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Anita Rajwar|votes=564|percentage=0.44|change={{increase}}0.17}}<br /> {{Election box majority||votes=28,719|percentage=22.55|change={{increase}} 4.14}}<br /> {{Election box turnout||votes=1,27,536|percentage=61.79|change={{decrease}} 5.04}}<br /> {{Election box hold with party link|<br /> |winner = Trinamool Congress<br /> |loser = Bharatiya Janata Party<br /> |swing = {{increase}}10.04<br /> <br /> }}<br /> {{Election box end}}<br /> <br /> ===2016===<br /> {{Election box begin|title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Bhowanipore|Bhabanipur]]}}<br /> {{Election box winning candidate with party link||party=Trinamool Congress|candidate=[[Mamata Banerjee]]|votes=65,520|percentage=47.67|change={{decrease}}29.79}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=Indian National Congress|candidate=[[Deepa Dasmunshi]]|votes=40,219|percentage=29.26|change=&#039;&#039;New&#039;&#039;}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Chandra Kumar Bose|votes=26,299|percentage=19.13|change=&#039;&#039;New&#039;&#039;}}<br /> <br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=None of the above (India)|candidate=None of the Above|votes=2,461|percentage=1.79|change=&#039;&#039;New&#039;&#039;}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Nirmal Kanti Samaddar&lt;ref name=timesofindia&gt;{{cite web|title=Life’s all about running alone: BSP candidate|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/lifes-all-about-running-alone-bsp-candidate/articleshow/69016100.cms|website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com|accessdate=24 April 2019}}&lt;/ref&gt;|votes=669|percentage=0.27|change=&#039;&#039;New&#039;&#039;}}<br /> {{Election box majority||votes=25,301|percentage=18.41|change={{decrease}}38.62}}<br /> {{Election box turnout||votes=1,37,475|percentage=66.83|change={{increase}}22.11}}<br /> {{Election box hold with party link|<br /> |winner = Trinamool Congress<br /> |swing = {{decrease}} 29.79 <br /> }}<br /> {{Election box end}}<br /> <br /> ===Bye-election, 2011===<br /> The bypoll to the Bhowanipore seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of [[Trinamool Congress]] [[Subrata Bakshi]] resigned to make way for the Chief Minister [[Mamata Banerjee]] to contest. She had to become a member of the state assembly within six months of her assuming office as Chief Minister as per the rules of the [[Constitution of India]].&lt;ref name=vidhansabha2011by&gt;{{cite web| url = http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/current-affairs/mamata-banerjee-wins-assembly-bypoll_591641.html | title = Mamata Banerjee wins assembly bypoll | access-date = 28 September 2011 | publisher = PTI, 28 September 2011 }}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> {{Election box begin | title=Bye-election, 2011: Bhabanipur}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=[[Mamata Banerjee]]|votes=73,635|percentage=77.46|change={{increase}}12.69}} <br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=[[Nandini Mukherjee]]|votes=19,422|percentage=20.43|change={{decrease}}7.55}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent politician|candidate=Sujay Krishna Bhadra|votes=809|percentage=0.85|change= &#039;&#039;New&#039;&#039;}}<br /> {{Election box majority||votes=54,213|percentage=57.03|change={{increase}}20.24}}<br /> {{Election box turnout||votes=95,064|percentage=44.73|change= {{decrease}}19.04}}<br /> {{Election box hold with party link |<br /> |winner = All India Trinamool Congress<br /> |swing ={{increase}} 12.69<br /> }}<br /> {{Election box end}}<br /> <br /> ===2011===<br /> {{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Bhowanipore|Bhabanipur]]}}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link|<br /> |party = All India Trinamool Congress<br /> |candidate = [[Subrata Bakshi]]<br /> |votes = 87,903<br /> |percentage = 64.77<br /> |change = <br /> }} <br /> {{Election box candidate with party link|<br /> |party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)<br /> |candidate = Narayan Prasad Jain <br /> |votes = 37,967<br /> |percentage = 27.98<br /> |change = <br /> }}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link|<br /> |party = Bharatiya Janata Party<br /> |candidate = Ram Chandra Jaiswal<br /> |votes = 5,078<br /> |percentage = 3.74<br /> |change = <br /> }}<br /> {{Election box candidate with party link|<br /> |party = Bahujan Samaj Party<br /> |candidate = Dulal Mistri<br /> |votes = 1,050<br /> |percentage = 0.77<br /> |change = <br /> }}<br /> {{Election box majority|<br /> |votes = 49,936<br /> |percentage = 36.79<br /> |change =<br /> }}<br /> {{Election box turnout|<br /> |votes = 1,35,741<br /> |percentage = 63.78<br /> |change = <br /> }}<br /> {{Election box win|<br /> |winner = All India Trinamool Congress<br /> }}<br /> {{Election box end}}<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Kolkata constituencies}}<br /> {{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}<br /> <br /> {{West Bengal elections}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]<br /> [[Category:Politics of Kolkata district]]<br /> [[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1951]]<br /> [[Category:1951 establishments in West Bengal]]<br /> [[Category:Mamata Banerjee]]<br /> [[Category:Bhowanipore]]</div> Pianino.XMC.PL