| Behala Purba | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 153 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Behala Purba Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | South 24 Parganas |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Kolkata Dakshin |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 308,157 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Behala Purba Assembly constituency (earlier known asBehala East Assembly constituency) is aLegislative Assembly constituency ofSouth 24 Parganas district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per order of theDelimitation Commission in respect of theDelimitation of constituencies in theWest Bengal, Behala Purba Assembly constituency is composed of the following:
Behala Purba Assembly constituency is part of No. 23Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).[1][2]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behala | |||
| 1952 | Biren Roy | All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar) | |
| 1957 | Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay | Communist Party of India | |
| 1962 | |||
| Behala East | |||
| 1967 | Niranjan Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1969 | |||
| 1971 | |||
| 1972 | Indrajit Majumdar | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Niranjan Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | Kumkum Chakraborti | ||
| 1996 | |||
| 2001 | Parash Dutta | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2006 | Kumkum Chakraborti | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Behala Purba | |||
| 2011 | Sovan Chatterjee | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | Ratna Chatterjee | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Ratna Chatterjee | 110,968 | 50.01 | ||
| BJP | Payel Sarkar | 73,540 | 33.15 | ||
| CPI(M) | Samita Har Chowdhury | 30,172 | 13.60 | ||
| None of the Above | None of the above | 2,835 | 1.28 | ||
| BSP | Rina Roy | 1,175 | 0.53 | ||
| Majority | 37,428 | 17.08 | |||
| Turnout | 2,21,885 | 71.97 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sovan Chatterjee | 96,621 | 47.33 | ||
| Independent | Ambikesh Mahapatra | 72,327 | 35.43 | ||
| BJP | Chandra Bhan Singh | 21,854 | 10.71 | ||
| SS | Sumit Banerjee | 3,649 | 1.79 | ||
| None of the Above | None of the above | 3,919 | 1.92 | ||
| Majority | 24,294 | 11.90 | |||
| Turnout | 2,05,294 | 73.83 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
In 2011 Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kumkum Chakraborty of CPI(M),
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sovan Chatterjee | 1,16,709 | 60.28 | +14.33 | |
| CPI(M) | Kumkum Chakraborty | 68,536 | 35.40 | −15.33 | |
| BJP | A. Biswajit Naidu | 3,692 | 1.91 | ||
| BSP | Indrajit Kumar Halder | 1,170 | 0.60 | ||
| IND | Tarun Kanti Das | 1,131 | 0.58 | ||
| Majority | 48,173 | 24.88 | |||
| Turnout | 1,94,208 | 79.79 | |||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | 30.50# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
In the2006 state assembly elections,[5] Kumkum Chakraborti ofCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won the Behala East assembly seat defeating her nearest rivalSovan Chatterjee ofTrinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned.Parash Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) in 2001.[6] Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) defeated Sonali Guha ofCongress in 1996,[7] and Sailen Dasgupta of Congress in 1991.[8] Niranjan Mukherjeee of CPI(M) defeated Debashis Bhattacharya of Congress in 1987,[9] Balaram Goswami of Congress in 1982,[10] and Indrajit Mazumdar of Congress in 1977.[11][12]
Indrajit Majumdar of Congress won the Behala East seat in 1972.[13] Niranjan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,[14] 1969[15] and 1967.[16] Prior to that Behala was a single seat. Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay ofCPI won the Behala seat in1962[17] and1957.[18] Inindependent India's first election in 1952,[19] Biren Roy ofForward Bloc (RG) won the Behala seat.
