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{{Short description|State-level election constituency in West Bengal, India}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Chakdaha
| 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/Chakdaha.map}}
| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Chakdaha Assembly Constituency
| map_alt =
| mla = [[Bankim Chandra Ghosh]]
| party = {{Party index link|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
| alliance = {{Party index link|National Democratic Alliance}}
| latest_election_year = [[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| district = [[Nadia district|Nadia]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Ranaghat Lok Sabha constituency|Ranaghat]]
| constituency_no = 91
| established = 1957
| electors = 245,514
| reservation = None
| abolished =
}}

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

==Overview==
As per orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], No. 91 Chakdaha Assembly constituency is composed of the following: [[Chakdaha]] municipality, and Chanduria I, Dubra, Ghetugachhi, Rautari, Silinda I, Silinda II, Tatla I and Tatla II [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Chakdaha (Community development block)|Chakdaha]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]].<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web|url=http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |title=Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 |access-date=2010-08-21 |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>

Chakdaha Assembly constituency is part of No. 13 [[Ranaghat (Lok Sabha constituency)]] (SC).<ref name=delimitation/> It was earlier part of [[Nabadwip (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 = 1 October 2010 | work = Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies | publisher = Election Commission of India }}</ref>

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Name
!colspan=2|Party
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
|Suresh Chandra Banerjee
|{{Full party name with color|Praja Socialist Party}}
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|Santi Das
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|[[Haridas Mitra]]
|{{Full party name with color|Bangla Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|Subal Chandra Mandal
|-
|[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]
|Subhash Chandra Basu
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
|-
|[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|[[Haridas Mitra]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|Binoy Kumar Biswas
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|rowspan=7}}
|-
|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|rowspan="2"|Subhas Basu
|-
|[[1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|-
|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|rowspan="3"|[[Satya Sadhan Chakraborty]]
|-
|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|Malay Kumar Samanta
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|Naresh Chandra Chaki
|{{Full party name with color|All India Trinamool Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|[[Ratna Ghosh Kar]]
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|[[Bankim Chandra Ghosh]]
|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|-
|}

==Election Results==
===2026===
{{Election box begin|title=[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Chakdaha}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Subhankar Singha (Jishu)
|party = Trinamool Congress
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Bankim Ghosh
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Narayan dasgupta
|party = Left Front (West Bengal)
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|party = Indian National Congress
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|party = None of the above (India)
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{{Election box end}}

===2021===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Chakdaha<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=91| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120327191147/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=91| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 27 March 2012|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 |work =Chakdaha| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 4 April 2011}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=[[Bankim Chandra Ghosh]]|votes=99,368|percentage= 46.86|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Trinamool Congress|candidate=Subhankar Singha (Jishu)|votes=87,688|percentage=41.35|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=Narayan Dasgupta|votes=17812|percentage=8.4%|change=}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
In the 2016 election, Ratna Kar Ghosh of the All India Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Biswanath Gupta of CPI(M).
{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2016]]: Chakdaha 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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=91| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120327191147/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=91| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 27 March 2012|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Chakdaha| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 4 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=Ratna Kar Ghosh|votes=94241|percentage=49.63%|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=Biswanath Gupta|votes=70588|percentage=37.17%|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Pradip Kumar Sarkar|votes=16294|percentage=8.58%|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=NOTA|votes=2739|percentage=|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Shiv Sena|candidate=Sarnab Bose|votes=2579|percentage=|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Dhirendra Majumdar|votes=2077|percentage=|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Party of Democratic Socialism (India)|candidate=Ashok Kumar Kundu|votes=1368|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=189886|percentage=|change=}}{{Election box majority|votes=23,653|percentage=|change=}}{{Election box hold|color=Green|colour=Green|winner=AITC}}

{{Election box end}}

===2011===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=Naresh Chandra Chaki|votes=88771|percentage=51.2%|change=+12.06}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=Biswanath Gupta|votes=74,672|percentage=43.06|change=-12.11}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Biswajit Ghosh|votes=6,674|percentage=3.85|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Asutosh Sarker|votes=3,278|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=173,395|percentage=90.45|change=}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing = +24.17
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2006===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2006]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=Malay kumar Samanta|votes=109670|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=Naresh Chandra Chaki|votes=77801|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Party of Democratic Socialism (India)|candidate=Subhash Basu|votes=4658|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Arabinda Mandal|votes=4210|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=198797|percentage=|change=}}

{{Election box hold|colour=Red|winner=CPIM}}{{Election box end}}

===2011===
In the 2011 election, Naresh Chandra Chaki of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Biswanath Gupta of CPI(M).
===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 2 August 2014}}</ref> state assembly elections Malay Kumar Samanta of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI (M)]] won the Chakdaha assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Naresh Chandra Chaki of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. 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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref> 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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref> and 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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref> Satyasadhan Chakraborty of CPI (M) defeated his nearest rivals Gouri Sankar Dutta, Sukumar Sarkar and Sukumar Roy (all of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]]) in the respective years. 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 = 2 August 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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref> Subhas Basu of CPI (M) defeated Sanatanu Bhowmick and Narendra Nath Sarkar (both of Congress) in the respective years. In 1977, Binoy Kumar Biswas, Independent, defeated Saradindu Biswas of Congress.<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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp82.htm |title =82 - Chakdaha Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 5 October 2010}}</ref>

===1957-1972===
Hari Das Mitra 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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref> Subhash Chandra Basu 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 2 August 2014}}</ref> Subal Chandra Mandal of [[Bangla Congress]] 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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref> H.Mitra of Bangla 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, Inda, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 2 August 2014}}</ref> Santi Das 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 2 August 2014}}</ref> Suresh Chandra Banerjee of [[Praja Socialist Party|PSP]] 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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref> The Chakdaha seat was not there in 1951.

==References==
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Chakdaha Assembly constituency - Revision history

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