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| name = Dum Dum 
| official_name =
| other_name =
| native_name = 
| settlement_type = Assembly constituency 
| total_type = 
| motto = 
| pushpin_map = India Kolkata
| map_caption = Location in Kolkata
| coordinates = {{coord|22|37|0|N|88|25|0|E|region:IN-{{IndAbbr|[[West Bengal]]}}|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{IND}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[North 24 Parganas district|North 24 Parganas]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No.]]
| subdivision_name3 = 114
| subdivision_type4 = Type
| subdivision_name4 = Open
| subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
| subdivision_name5 = [[Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency)|16. Dum Dum]]
| subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
| subdivision_name6 = 232,545 (2019)
| area_code =
| website =
| footnotes =
| leader_party =
| leader_name = [[Bratya Basu]]
| image_skyline = Bratya Basu.jpg
| image_caption = [[Bratya Basu]],current [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] and [[Incumbent]] [[Education]] Minister of [[West Bengal]]
| leader_title = Current [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]
| leader_title1 = [[Political party]]
| leader_name1 = {{Party index link|All India Trinamool Congress}}
}}
'''Dum Dum Assembly constituency''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[North 24 Parganas 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. 114 Dum Dum Assembly constituency is composed of the following: [[Dum Dum]] municipality and Ward Nos.1-17 of [[South Dumdum|South Dum Dum]] 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= 15 October 2010|work = West Bengal| publisher= Election Commission of India}}</ref>

Dum Dum Assembly constituency is part of No. 16 [[Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable"ìÍĦĤĠčw
|-
! Election Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
|-
|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]||Dum Dum||Kanai Lal Das||[[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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||||Pabitra Mohan Roy||[[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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||||Tarun Kumar Sengupta||[[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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||||Tarun Kumar Sengupta||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Tarun Kumar Sengupta||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Tarun Kumar Sengupta||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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1972||||Lal Bahadur Singh||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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||Santi Ranjan Ghatak||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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||Santi Ranjan Ghatak||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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||Santi Ranjan Ghatak||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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1991||||[[Sankar Sen]]||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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1996||||Sankar Sen||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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||Arunava Ghosh||[[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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Rekha Goswami||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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||||[[Bratya Basu]]||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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|2016
|
|[[Bratya Basu]]
|[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|-
|2021
|
|[[Bratya Basu]]
|[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|}

==Election results==

===2021===
{{Election box begin
|title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Dum Dum}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Bratya Basu]]
|votes = 87,999
|percentage = 47.48
|change = +0.75
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Prof. Bimal Shankar Nanda
|votes = 61,268
|percentage = 33.06
|change = +24.73
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Palash Das
|votes = 30,653
|percentage = 16.54
|change = -24.85
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 2,039
|percentage = 1.10
|change = -0.90
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Subrata Kumar Majumder
|votes = 980
|percentage = 0.53
|change = -0.44
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Rupa Sarkar
|votes = 774
|percentage = 0.42
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Bharatiya Nyay - Adhikar Raksha Party
|candidate = Rana Pal Choudhury
|votes = 739
|percentage = 0.40
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Shree Raju Ghosh
|votes = 464
|percentage = 0.25
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Subrata Sen
|votes = 418
|percentage = 0.23
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 26,731
|percentage = 14.42
|change = +9.80
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 185,334
|percentage = 74.77
|change = -4.29
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
{{Election box begin
|title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Dum Dum}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Bratya Basu]]
|votes = 81,579
|percentage = 46.73
|change = -10.77
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Palash Das
|votes = 72,263
|percentage = 41.39
|change = +3.44
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Uma Singha
|votes = 14,550
|percentage = 8.33
|change = +5.70
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Subrata Kumar Majumdar
|votes = 1,705
|percentage = 0.97
|change = +0.07
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Subrata Sen
|votes = 959
|percentage = 0.54
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 3,506
|percentage = 2.00
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 9,316
|percentage = 5.34
|change = -14.21
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 174,562
|percentage = 79.06
|change = -2.16
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===
In the 2011 elections, Bratya Basu of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Gautam Deb of CPI(M).

{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Dum Dum constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=114|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Dum Dum| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 24 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Bratya Basu]]
|votes = 92,635
|percentage = 57.50
|change = +14.72#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = [[Gautam Deb]]
|votes = 61,138
|percentage = 37.95
|change = -16.01
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Anjana Chaturvedi
|votes = 4,236
|percentage = 2.63
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Party of Democratic Socialism (India)
|candidate = Tushar Kanti Roy
|votes = 1,640
|percentage = 1.02
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Narendranath Ghosh
|votes = 1,446
|percentage = 0.90
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 31,497
|percentage = 19.55
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 161,095
|percentage = 81.22
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing = 30.73#
}}
{{Election box end}}

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
===2006===
In the 2006 elections, Rekha Goswami of [[CPI(M)]] defeated his nearest rival Udayan Namboodiry of [[Trinamool Congress]].

{{Election box begin | title=[[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2006]]: Dum Dum constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=114|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2006 |work =Dum Dum| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 24 April 2006}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Rekha Goswami
|votes = 99,054
|percentage = 57.50
|change = +14.72#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Udayan Namboodiry
|votes = 68,816
|percentage = 37.95
|change = -16.01
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Ahindra Majumder (Ahin)
|votes = 11,541
|percentage = 2.63
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Sudhir Deb Barma
|votes = 2,380
|percentage = 1.02
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
|candidate = Partha Sarathi Dasgupta
|votes = 1,770
|percentage = 0.90
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 161,095
|percentage = 81.22
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|loser = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing = 30.73#
}}
{{Election box end}}

.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress
BJP vote percentages taken together in 2006.

===2001===
In the 2001 elections, Arunava Ghosh of [[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]] defeated his nearest rival Ajit Choudhury of [[CPIM]].

{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2001]]: Dum Dum constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2001/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=114|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2001 |work =Dum Dum| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 24 April 2001}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Arunava Ghosh
|votes = 81,228
|percentage = 46.70
|change = +14.72#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Ajit Choudhury
|votes = 81,004
|percentage = 46.57
|change = -16.01
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Ramen Bhattacharya
|votes = 8,564
|percentage = 4.92
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Mrinal Paul
|votes = 1,350
|percentage = 0.78
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Nationalist Congress Party
|candidate = Amit Kumar Roy
|votes = 1,206
|percentage = 0.69
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)|Independent
|candidate = Debashis Banerjee
|votes = 590
|percentage = 0.34
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 161,095
|percentage = 81.22
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing = 30.73#
}}
{{Election box end}}

.# Swing calculated on Congress+ Trinamool
Congress vote percentages taken together in 2001.

===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006 state assembly elections]],<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> Rekha Goswami of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won from the Dum Dum assembly constituency defeating her nearest rival Udayan Namboodiry of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Arunava Ghosh of Trinamool Congress defeated Ajit Chowdhury of CPI(M) in 2001.<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> Sankar Sen of CPI(M) defeated Nitai Ghosh of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and Ramesh Bhattacharjee of Congress in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Santi Ranjan Ghatak of CPI(M) defeated Harashit Ghosh of Congress in 1987,<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> and Lal Bahadur Singh of Congress in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref name="Election Commission of India">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp138.htm |title = 138 - Dum Dum Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 15 October 2010}}</ref>

===1951-1972===
Lal Bahadur Singh of Congress won in 1972.<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> Tarun Kumar Sengupta of CPI(M) won in 1971,<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> 1969<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> and 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Tarun Kumar Sengupta representing [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] won in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]].<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> Pabitra Mohan Roy of [[Praja Socialist Party|PSP]] won in [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]].<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1951]], kanai Lal Das of Congress won from the Dum Dum constituency.<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{North 24 Parganas topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of North 24 Parganas district]]

Dum Dum Assembly constituency - Revision history

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