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{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Chandannagar
| 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/Chandannagar.map}}
| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Chandannagar Assembly Constituency
| map_alt =
| mla = [[Dipanjan Guha]]
| party = {{Party index link|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
| alliance = {{Party index link|National Democratic Alliance}}+
| latest_election_year = [[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| district = [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency|Hooghly]]
| constituency_no = 189
| established = 1957
| electors = 198,602
| reservation = None
| abolished =
}}

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

==Overview==
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 189 Chandanagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: [[Chandernagore Municipal Corporation|Chandannagar Municipal Corporation]] and [[Bhadreswar Municipality]].<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= 26 July 2015|work = West Bengal| publisher=Election Commission of India}}</ref>

Chandannagar Assembly constituency is part of No. 28 [[Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency]].<ref name=delimitation/>

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Name
!colspan=2|Party
|-
!colspan="4"|''Chandernagore''
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
|Hirendra Kumar Chattopadhyay
|{{Full party name with color|Independent}}
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|rowspan="7"|Bhabani Mukherjee
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India}}
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|rowspan=8|dab=yes}}
|-
|[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|-
|[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]
|-
|[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|-
|[[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|-
|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|-
|[[1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|rowspan="2"|Sandhya Chattopadhyay
|-
|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|-
|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|rowspan="2"|Kamal Mukherjee
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|Siba Prasad Bandopadhyay
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|dab=yes}}
|-
!colspan="4"|''Chandannagar''
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|Ashok Kumar Shaw
|{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=3}}
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|rowspan="2"|[[Indranil Sen]]
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|-
|[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
|Dipanjan Guha
|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|-
|}

==Election results==
===2026===
{{Election box begin|title=[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Chandannagar}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|candidate = Dipanjan Guha
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes = {{formatnum:}}
|percentage =
|change =
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Indranil Sen]]
|party = Trinamool Congress
|votes = {{formatnum:}}
|percentage =
|change =
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Manish Pandey
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|votes = {{formatnum:}}
|percentage =
|change =
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Ratan Kumar Goldar
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = {{formatnum:}}
|percentage =
|change =
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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)
|votes = {{formatnum:}}
|percentage =
|change =
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{{Election box majority|
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{{Election box turnout|
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{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2021===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Chandannagar}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Indranil Sen]]
|votes = 86,778
|percentage = 47.63
|change = {{increase}}2.80
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Dipanjan Guha
|votes = 55,749
|percentage = 30.60
|change = {{increase}}22.77
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Gautam Sarkar
|votes = 33,702
|percentage = 18.50
|change = {{decrease}}25.08
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above (India)
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the Above]]
|votes = 3,023
|percentage = 1.66
|change = {{decrease}}0.62
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Ratan Kumar Chatterjee
|votes = 1,184
|percentage = 0.65
|change = {{new}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Uday Veer Choudhury
|votes = 538
|percentage = 0.30
|change = {{new}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Subrata Dey
|votes = 532
|percentage = 0.29
|change = {{new}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Tandra Bhattacharjee
|votes = 365
|percentage = 0.20
|change = {{new}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Praloy Mukherjee
|votes = 307
|percentage = 0.17
|change = {{new}}
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 31,029
|percentage = 17.03
|change = {{increase}}15.78
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,82,178
|percentage = 79.36
|change = {{increase}}0.45
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Trinamool Congress
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Chandannagar}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Indranil Sen]]
|votes = 75,727
|percentage = 44.83
|change = {{decrease}}15.93
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Gautam Sarkar
|votes = 73,613
|percentage = 43.58
|change = {{increase}}9.94
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Tandra Bhattacharjee
|votes = 13,233
|percentage = 7.83
|change = {{increase}}4.61
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above (India)
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the Above]]
|votes = 3,853
|percentage = 2.28
|change = {{new}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Gautam Sarkar
|votes = 1,477
|percentage = 0.87
|change = {{new}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Milan Rakshit
|votes = 1,002
|percentage = 0.59
|change = {{new}}
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 2,114
|percentage = 1.25
|change = {{decrease}}25.87
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,68,905
|percentage = 78.91
|change = {{decrease}}0.29
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Trinamool Congress
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Chandannagar<ref name="vidhansabha2011">{{cite web |url=https://www.elections.in/west-bengal/assembly-constituencies/2016-election-results.html|title = General Elections, India, 2016, 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=189| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120519164053/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=189| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 19 May 2012|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Chandannagar| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 1 May 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Ashok Kumar Shaw
|votes = 96,430
|percentage = 60.76
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Siba Prosad Bandyopadhyay
|votes = 53,391
|percentage = 33.64
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Satya Bhushan Pathak
|votes = 5,109
|percentage = 3.22
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Subodh Ghoshal
|votes = 3,780
|percentage = 2.38
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 43,039
|percentage = 27.12
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,58,710
|percentage = 79.20
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006 state assembly elections]] Sibaprosad Bandopadhyay of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won the 182 Chandernagore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Ram Chakraborty of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kamal Mukherjee of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] defeated Ratan Lal Dasgupta of CPI(M) in 2001 and Sandhya Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) in 1996. Sandhya Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Kamal Mukherjee of Congress in 1991 and 1987. Bhabani Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Indumati Bhattacharya of Congress in 1982 and Asit Mukhopadhyay of Congress in 1977.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp182.htm |title =182 - Chandernagore Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 1 December 2010}}</ref>

===1957-1972===
Bhabani Mukherjee of CPI(M) 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> 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> 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> Bhabani Mukherjee 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, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref> Hirendra Kumar Chattopadhyay, Independent, 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, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>

===1951-1962===
The Bhadreswar seat was there between 1951 and 1962. Girija Bhushan Mukhopadhyay of CPI won in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]].<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> Byomkesh Majumdar of Congress won in [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]]<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> and in [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1951]].<ref>{{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>

==References==
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[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1957]]
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