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|subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Nadia district|Nadia]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No]]
|subdivision_name3 = 82
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|subdivision_name4 = Open
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Krishnanagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|12. Krishnanagar]]
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|subdivision_name6 = 186,756 (2011)<ref>{{cite web|date=14 August 2018|title=West Bengal 2011|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3195-west-bengal-2011/|work=Election Commission of India|access-date=7 January 2022}}</ref> 219,864 (2016)<ref>{{cite web|date=16 August 2018|title=West Bengal General Legislative Election 2016|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3469-west-bengal-general-legislative-election-2016/|work=Election Commission of India|access-date=7 January 2022}}</ref> 248,014 (2021)<ref>{{cite web|date=21 June 2021|title=West Bengal General Legislative Election 2021|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/13605-west-bengal-general-legislative-election-2021/|work=Election Commission of India|access-date=7 January 2022}}</ref>

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'''Chapra (Vidhan Sabha 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. 82 Chapra (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: [[Chapra, Nadia (Community development block)|Chapra]] [[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>

Chapra (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 12 [[Krishnanagar (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable"ìÍĦĤĠčw
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! Election Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
|-
|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]||Chapra||Smarajit Bandopadhyay||[[Indian National Congress]]<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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||Haringhata||Smarajit Bandopadhyay||Indian National Congress<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>
|-
|||||Promatha Ranjan Thakur||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||Chapra||Mohananda Haldar||Sanjukta Biplabi Parishad <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>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||||Jagannath Majumdar||[[Bangla Congress]]<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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Salil Behari Hundle||Bangla Congress<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>
|-
|1971||||Sahabuddin Mondal||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<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>
|-
|1972||||Ghiasuddin Ahmad||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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||Sahabauddin Mondal||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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>
|-
|1982||||Sahabauddin Mondal||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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>
|-
|1987||||Mir Qusem||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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>
|-
|1991||||Mir Quasem Mondal||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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>
|-
|1996||||Mir Quasem Mondal||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||Shamsul Islam Mollah||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Shamsul Islam Mollah||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||||Rukbanur Rahaman||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<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>
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]||||Rukbanur Rahaman||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
|-
|2021
|Chapra
|Rukbanur Rahaman
|All India Trinamool Congress
|}

==Election results==
===2021===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2021]]: Chapra constituency}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Rukbanur Rahman
|votes = 73,866
|percentage = 34.65
|change = -13.14
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Jeber Sekh
|votes = 61,748
|percentage = 28.97
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Kalyan Kumar Nandi
|votes = 58,168
|percentage = 27.29
|change = +19.35
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Jahangir Biswas (Raju)
|votes = 11,722
|percentage = 5.50
|change = -35.11
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian Secular Front
|candidate = Kanchan Moitra
|votes = 3,865
|percentage = 1.81
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 2,023
|percentage = 0.95
|change = -0.06
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Rokibul Hossain Molla
|votes = 1,070
|percentage = 0.50
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Mozammel Hossain Mondal
|votes = 713
|percentage = 0.33
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 213,175
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
.# Jeber Sekh, contesting as an Independent candidate, was a rebel Trinamool Congress member.

===2016===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2016]]: Chapra constituency}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Rukbanur Rahman
|votes = 89,556
|percentage = 47.79
|change = +0.65
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Shamsul Islam Mollah
|votes = 76,093
|percentage = 40.61
|change = -4.93
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Sutirtha Chakraborty (Chuni)
|votes = 14,887
|percentage = 7.94
|change = +3.63
}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Shiv Sena
|candidate = Samaresh Biswas
|votes = 4,081
|percentage = 2.18
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 1,894
|percentage = 1.01
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
|candidate = Dhananjay Ganguly
|votes = 884
|percentage = 0.47
|change =
}}

{{Election box turnout
|votes = 187,895
|percentage = 85.23
|change = -2.62
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===
In the 2011 election, Rukbanur Rahaman of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Shamsul Islam Mollah of CPI(M).
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Chapra constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=82|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Chapra| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Rukbanur Rahaman
|votes = 77,435
|percentage = 47.14
|change = -9.10#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Shamsul Islam Mollah
|votes = 74,802
|percentage = 45.54
|change = +2.22
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Baidyanath Biswas
|votes = 7,078
|percentage = 4.31
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
|candidate = Bijoy Kumar Saha
|votes = 2,765
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Janata Dal (United)
|candidate = Soumen Mandal
|votes = 2,180
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 164,260
|percentage = 87.87
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing = -11.32#
}}
{{Election box end}}

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
===1977-2006===
In [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]] and 2001 state assembly elections, Shamsul Islam Mollah of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won the Chapra assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals, Abdur Rashid Mollick of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 2006<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> and Julfikar Khan of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] in 2001.<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Mir Quasem Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Julfikar Khan representing Congress in 1996,<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and Arun Kumar Ghosh of Congress in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Mir Qusem of CPI(M) defeated Dilip Dutta of Congress in 1987.<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Sahabauddin Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Arun Biswas, Independent, in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Kazi Safluddin of [[Janata Party]] in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp73.htm |title =73 - Chapra Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 5 October 2010}}</ref>

===1951–1972===
Ghiasuddin Ahmad of Congress won in 1972.<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> Sahabuddin Mondal of CPI(M) won in 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Salil Behari Hundle of [[Bangla Congress]] won in 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> J.Mojumdar of Bangla Congress won in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Mohananda Haldar of Sanjukta Biplabi Parishad won in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]],<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> The Chapra constituency was not there in [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]]. Smarajit Bandopadhyay and Promatha Ranjan Thakur, both of Congress, won from the Haringhata joint seat in 1957.<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1951]], Smarajit Bandopadhyay of Congress won the Chapra seat.<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>

==References==
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[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Nadia district]]

Chapra Vidhan Sabha constituency - Revision history

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