| Basirhat Uttar | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 125 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Basirhat Uttar Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | North 24 Parganas |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Basirhat |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 2,38,426 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | AITC |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inNorth 24 Parganas district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of theDelimitation Commission, 125 Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency is composed of the following:Basirhat IIcommunity development block, and Amlani, Bhebia, Makhal Gachha, Murarishagram panchayats ofHasnabad community development block.[1]
Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency is part of 18.Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency.[1]
| Election | Member | Party Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basirhat | |||
| 1951 | Profulla Nath Banerjee | Indian National Congress[2] | |
| 1957[3] | |||
| 1962 | Bijesh Chandra Sen[4] | ||
| 1967 | A.B. Bandopadhyay | Communist Party of India[5] | |
| 1969[6] | |||
| 1971 | Lalit Kumar Ghosh | Indian National Congress[7] | |
| 1972[8] | |||
| 1977 | Narayan Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9] | |
| 1982[10] | |||
| 1987[11] | |||
| 1991[12] | |||
| 1996[13] | |||
| 2001[14] | |||
| 2006[15] | |||
| Basirhat Uttar | |||
| 2011 | Mostafa Bin Qaseem | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[16] | |
| 2011^ | ATM Abdullah | Trinamool Congress[17] | |
| 2016 | Rafikul Islam Mondal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 2021 | Trinamool Congress | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | |||||
| BJP | |||||
| LF | |||||
| INC | |||||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Rafikul Islam Mondal | 137,216 | 57.55 |  12.01 | |
| ISF | Mohammad Baijid Amin | 47,865 | 20.08 | New | |
| BJP | Narayan Chandra Mondal | 47,505 | 19.92 | 13.81 | |
| Independent | Taslima Khatun | 2,014 | 0.84 | New | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,952 | 0.82 |  0.42 | |
| Independent | Mohammad Kased Ali Sardar | 1,874 | 0.79 | New | |
| Majority | 89,351 | 37.47 | 37.24 | ||
| Turnout | 2,38,426 | 88.95 | 0.67 | ||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Rafikul Islam Mondal | 97,828 | 45.74 | 8.85 | |
| AITC | ATM Abdullah | 97,336 | 45,51 | 11.44 | |
| BJP | Tarafan Ali Gazi | 13,072 | 6.11 | 1.62 | |
| BSP | Abul Kasem Dhali | 3,006 | 1.41 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,636 | 1.24 | N/A | |
| Majority | 492 | 0.23 | 19.83 | ||
| Turnout | 2,13,885 | 89.62 | |||
| CPI(M)gain fromAITC | Swing | ||||
The percentage changes of the 2016 election is calculated based upon the 2011 Bypoll.
A by-election in 2011 was necessitated by the death of Mostafa bin Kassem, the CPI(M) MLA from Basirhat Uttar, who was found dead outside Kyd street MLA's Hostel on 29 May 2011.[19]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | ATM Abdullah | 87,899 | 56.95 | 14.12 | |
| CPI(M) | Subid Ali Gazi | 56,948 | 36.89 | 8.30 | |
| BJP | Subodh Kumar Chakraborty | 6,938 | 4.49 | 1.08 | |
| Independent | Ajit Pramanick | 2,964 | |||
| Turnout | 154,339 | 80.35 | 6.49 | ||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | ||||
The percentage changes of the bypoll is calculated from the 2011 assembly election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Mostafa Bin Qaseem | 75,576 | 45.19 | ||
| AITC | Sardar Amzad Ali | 71,632 | 42.83 | ||
| BJP | Somen Mandal | 9,316 | 5.57 | ||
| People’s Democratic Conference of India | Rafikul Mandal | 7,327 | |||
| BSP | Prosanta Biswas | 1,829 | |||
| All india Minorities Front | Anwar Hossain Mollah | 1,569 | |||
| Turnout | 167,248 | 86.84 | |||
| CPI(M)win (new seat) | |||||
As per 2011 census the total population of basirhat uttar is 338937,Hindu 115986,Muslim 222264,Other 687.Hindu 34.22%,Muslim 65.58%,Other 0.20%.
During the period Narayan Mukherjee ofCPI(M) won seven elections in a row from 95 Basirhat assembly constituency, defeating his nearest rivals Asit Majumdar ofINC in2006,[15] Souren Sen ofTrinamool Congress in 2001,[14] Asit Majumdar of Congress in 1996,[13] Dilip Mazumdar of Congress in 1991[12] and 1987,[11] and Debi Prasad Nanda of Congress in 1982[10] and 1977.[9][21]
Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Lalit Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1972[8] and 1971.[7] A.B.Bandopadhyay ofCPI won in 1969[6] and 1967.[5] Bijesh Chandra Sen of Congress won in1962.[4] Profulla Nath Banerjee of Congress won in1957[3] and inindependent India's first election in 1951.[2]
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