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{{Short description|Former constituency of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2018}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Burtola
| type= SLA
| map_image =
| map_caption =
| map_alt =
| mla =
| party =
| alliance =
| latest_election_year =
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| district = [[Kolkata district|Kolkata]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Calcutta North East (Lok Sabha constituency)|Calcutta North East]]
| constituency_no = 158
| established = 1951
| electors =
| reservation = None
| abolished = 2011
}}

'''Burtola Assembly constituency''' was a [[Vidhan Sabha|Legislative Assembly]] constituency of [[Kolkata district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As a consequence of the orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], Burtola Assembly constituency ceases to exist from 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |title=Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006 |access-date=2010-11-15 |publisher=Government of West Bengal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918130255/http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |archive-date=2010-09-18 }}</ref>

It was part of [[Calcutta North East (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/LS_2004/Vol_III_LS_2004.pdf | title = Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha | access-date = 2010-11-15 | work = Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies | publisher = Election Commission of India }}</ref>

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"ìÍĦĤĠčw
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! Election<br/> Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party affiliation
|-
|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]||Burtola||Nirmal Chandra Dey||Independent<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. 176 |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 3 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||Burtola North||Sudhir Chandra Roy Choudhury||[[Praja Socialist Party]]<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 129|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 3 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||Burtola South||Amarendra Nath Basu||Independent<ref name="vidhansabha1957"/>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||Burtola South||Amarendra Nath Basu ||[[Communist Party of India]]<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 127|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 3 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||||Nikhil Das||[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]<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 146|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 3 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Nikhil Das||Revolutionary Socialist Party<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 146|publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 2 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||[[Ajit Kumar Panja]]||[[Indian National Congress]]<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 144|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 3 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1972||||Ajit Kumar Panja||Indian National Congress<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 144|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 3 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||Nikhil Das||Revolutionary Socialist Party<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 154|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 3 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||Ajit Kumar Panja||Indian National Congress<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 154|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 3 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||[[Sadhan Pande]]y||Indian National Congress<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 154|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 3 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1991||||Sadhan Pandey||Indian National Congress <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 154|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 3 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1996||||Sadhan Pandey||Indian National Congress<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 154|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 3 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||Sadhan Pandey||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<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 154|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 3 December 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Sadhan Pandey||All India Trinamool Congress<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 154|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 3 December 2014}}</ref>
|}

==Results==

===1977-2006===
Sadhan Pande representing [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] won the 158 Burtolla assembly seat defeating Kalyan Mukherjee of [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] in [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]] and 2001.<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> Earlier, Sadhan Pande, representing [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] defeated Parimal Routh of RSP in 1996<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and 1991,<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> and Sunil Sengupta of RSP in 1987.<ref name=vidhansabha1952/> [[Ajit Kumar Panja]] of Congress defeated Nikhil Das of RSP in 1982.<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> Nikhil Das of RSP defeated Ajit Kumar Panja of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp158.htm |title =158 - Burtola Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977| publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 15 November 2010}}</ref>

===1951-1972===
Ajit Kumar Panja won in 1972<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> and 1971<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> defeating Lakshmi Kanta Roy of CPI(M) in both years. Nikhil Das of RSP won in 1969<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> defeating Ajit Kumar Panja of Congress and in 1967<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> defeating S.C.R. Chaudhuri of Congress. Amarendra Nath Basu of CPI won the Burtolla South in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]]<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> defeating Suhrid Rudra of Congress. In [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]],<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> Burtolla had two seats. Sudhir Chandra Ray Chaudhuri of [[Praja Socialist Party|PSP]] won the Burtola North seat defeating Aparesh Bhattacharya of Congress. Amarendra Nath Basu Independent won the Burtola South seat defeating Suhrid Rudra of Congress. In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India’s first election]] Nirmal Chandra De of Congress won the Burtola seat defeating Sudhir Roy Chuoudhury of [[Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party|KMPP]] by 492 votes, Nilamber Chatterjee of [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc (Marxists)]] and others.<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>

==References==
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{{Kolkata constituencies}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}
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[[Category:Former assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Kolkata district]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1951]]
[[Category:1951 establishments in West Bengal]]
[[Category:Constituencies disestablished in 2011]]
[[Category:2011 disestablishments in India]]

Burtola Assembly constituency - Revision history

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