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{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Karimpur
| 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/Karimpur.map}}
| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Karimpur Assembly Constituency
| map_alt =
| mla = [[Bimalendu Sinha Roy]]
| party = [[Trinamool Congress]]
| alliance =
| latest_election_year = [[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| district = [[Nadia district|Nadia]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Murshidabad (Lok Sabha constituency)|Murshidabad]]
| constituency_no = 77
| established = 1951
| electors = 251,039
| reservation = None
| abolished =
}}

'''Karimpur 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==
In line with the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], No. 77 Karimpur Assembly constituency is composed of [[Karimpur I]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]] and Dhoradaha I, Dhoradaha II, Murutia, Natidanga I, Natidanga II and Rahamatpur ''[[gram panchayat]]s'' of [[Karimpur II]] CD 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>

Karimpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 11 [[Murshidabad (Lok Sabha constituency)|Murshidabad]] Lok Sabha constituency.<ref name=delimitation/>

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Name
! colspan=2|Party
|-
|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]
|Haripada Chattopadhyay
|{{Full party name with color|Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party}}
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
|Bijoy Lal Chattopadhyay
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|Smarajit Bandopadhyay
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|rowspan="2"|Nalinaksha Sanyal
|{{Full party name with color|Bangla Congress}}
|-
|[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]
|Samarendra Nath Sanyal
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|dab=yes}}
|-
|[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|Arabinda Mandal
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|Samarendra Nath Sanyal
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|dab=yes|rowspan=8}}
|-
|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|rowspan="4"|Chitta Ranjan Biswas
|-
|[[1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|-
|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|-
|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|rowspan="2"|Prafulla Kumar Bhowmick
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|Samarendranath Ghosh
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|Mahua Moitra
|{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=3}}
|-
|2019^
|rowspan="2"|Bimalendu Sinha Roy
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|}

* ^ denotes by-election

==Election results==
===1951–1972===
Arabinda Mandal 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> Samarendra Nath Sanyal 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> [[Nalinaksha Sanyal]] of [[Bangla Congress]] / 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> 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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 2 August 2014}}</ref> Samarjit Bandopadhyay 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> Bijoy Lal Chattopadhyay of Congress 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> In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1951]], Haripada Chatterjee of [[Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party|KMPP]] won the Karimpur seat.<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>

===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> and 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> state assembly elections, Prafulla Kumar Bhowmick of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won the Karimpur assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Arabinda Mondal of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] and Chira Ranjan Mandal of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] respectively. Contests in most years were multi-cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Chitta Ranjan Biswas of CPI(M) defeated Chira Ranjan Mandal of Congress in 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> and Arabinda Mandal of Congress 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> Samarendra Nath Sanyal of CPI(M) defeated Arabinda Mandal of Congress in 1977.<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/Partycomp69.htm |title = 69 Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 5 October 2010}}</ref>

===2011===
In the 2011 election, Samarendranath Ghosh of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) defeated his nearest rival Dr. Ramen Sarkar of All India Trinamool Congress
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Karimpur 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=77| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120327190637/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=77| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 27 March 2012|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Karimpur| publisher = Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Samarendranath Ghosh
|votes = 82,244
|percentage = 46.17
|change = -1.01
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Dr. Ramen Sarkar
|votes = 77,159
|percentage = 43.32
|change = -13.12
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Indrajit Mondal
|votes = 8,098
|percentage = 4.55
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Rajib Sekh
|votes = 3,626
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Swapan Kumar Biswas
|votes = 2,628
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Bikash Chandra Biswas
|votes = 2,054
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian Union Muslim League
|candidate = Rejaul Sekh
|votes = 1,446
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = People's Democratic Conference of India
|candidate = Abdulla Biswas
|votes = 86
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 178,118
|percentage = 90.66
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

Rajib Sekh, contesting as an independent candidate, was a rebel Congress candidate.<ref>''The Rebel Candidates in the Fray'', The Telegraph (print edition) 23 April 2011</ref>

<small>.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.</small>

===2016===
{{Election box begin
|title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Karimpur}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Mahua Moitra]]
|votes = 90,989
|percentage = 45.24
|change = +1.92
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Samarendranath Ghosh
|votes = 75,000
|percentage = 37.29
|change = -8.88
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Subhasis Bhattacharya
|votes = 23,302
|percentage = 11.59
|change = +7.04
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Shiv Sena
|candidate = Mahitosh Sarkar
|votes = 4,554
|percentage = 2.26
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Welfare Party of India
|candidate = Sahabuddin Mandal
|votes = 2,140
|percentage = 1.06
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Jitendra Nath Halder
|votes = 1,769
|percentage = 0.88
|change = -0.60
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Azad Rahaman
|votes = 1,104
|percentage = 0.55
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian Union Muslim League
|candidate = Rejaul Sekh
|votes = 799
|percentage = 0.40
|change = -0.41
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 1,449
|percentage = 0.72
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 15,989
|percentage = 7.59
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 2,01,106
|percentage = 88.53
|change = -2.13
}}
{{Election box Registered electors
|reg. electors = 2,27,166
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2019===
{{Election box begin
|title= Bye-election, 2019: Karimpur}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Bimalendu Sinha Roy]]
|votes = 1,03,278
|percentage = 50.43
|change = +5.19
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Jayprakash Majumdar
|votes = 79,368
|percentage = 38.75
|change = +27.16
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Golam Rabbi
|votes = 18,627
|percentage = 9.09
|change = -28.20
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 1,568
|percentage = 0.77
|change = +0.05
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 23,910
|percentage = 11.68
|change = +4.09
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 2,04,807
|percentage = 84.72
|change = -4.00
}}
{{Election box Registered electors
|reg. electors = 2,40,000
}}
{{Election box end}}

Due to [[Mahua Moitra]] resignation as MLA, By poll was held.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/tmc-bjp-gear-up-for-bypoll-challenge-next/story-NPodyVJc6nDIJ9sMwdbxdI.html|title=TMC, BJP gear up for bypoll challenge next|date=30 October 2019|website=Hindustan Times}}</ref> [[Bimalendu Sinha Roy]] won by 24,119 votes<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/karimpur-west-bengal-vidhan-sabha-assembly-bye-election-results-2019-live-winner-runner-up-6139910/|title=Karimpur (West Bengal) Assembly Bye-Election Results: TMC wins by 24,119 votes|date=28 November 2019}}</ref>

===2021===
{{Election box begin
|title= West Bengal legislative Assembly elections, 2021: Karimpur}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Bimalendu Sinha Roy]]
|votes = 1,10,911
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Samarendra Nath Ghosh
|votes = 87,336
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Pravas Majumdar
|votes = 17,185
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes =
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 23,575
|percentage =
|change =
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{{Election box turnout
|votes =
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{{Election box Registered electors
|reg. electors =
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{{Election box end}}

===2026===
{{Election box begin|title=[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Karimpur}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Soham Chakraborty]]
|party = Trinamool Congress
|votes = {{formatnum:}}
|percentage =
|change =
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Samarendra Nath Ghosh
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Pravas Majumder
|party = Left Front (West Bengal)
|votes = {{formatnum:}}
|percentage =
|change =
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Pooja Roy Chowdhury
|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)
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{{Election box hold with party link|
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{{Election box end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Nadia topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Nadia district]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1951]]
[[Category:1951 establishments in West Bengal]]

Karimpur Assembly constituency - Revision history

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