| Bhabanipur | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 159 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Bhabanipur Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Kolkata |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Kolkata Dakshin |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 206,272 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
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| Incumbent | |
| Party | Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is aLegislative Assembly constituency ofKolkata district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per order of theDelimitation Commission in respect of theDelimitation of constituencies inWest Bengal, Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is composed of the following:
Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 23Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Mira Datta Gupta | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | ||
| 1962 | Independent politician | ||
| Constituency renamed as Kalighat | |||
| 1967 | Beva Mitra | Indian National Congress | |
| 1969 | Sadhan Gupta | Communist Party of India | |
| 1971 | Rathin Talukdar | Indian National Congress | |
| 1972 | |||
| 1977–2009: Constituency did not exist | |||
| 2011 | Subrata Bakshi | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2011^ | Mamata Banerjee | ||
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | Sovandeb Chattopadhyay | ||
| 2021^ | Mamata Banerjee | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | |||||
| BJP | |||||
| CPI(M) | |||||
| INC | |||||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 85,263 | 71.90 |  14.19 | |
| BJP | Priyanka Tibrewal | 26,428 | 22.29 |  12.87 | |
| CPI(M) | Shrijeeb Biswas | 4,226 | 3.56 | ||
| NOTA | None of the Above | 1,453 | 1.23 | ||
| Majority | 58,835 | 49.61 | |||
| Turnout | |||||
| AITChold | Swing | 14.19 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sovandeb Chatterjee | 73,505 | 57.71 | 10.04 | |
| BJP | Rudranil Ghosh | 44,786 | 35.16 | 16.03 | |
| INC | Md. Shadab Khan | 5,211 | 4.09 | 25.17 | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 1,570 | 1.23 | 0.56 | |
| BSP | Anita Rajwar | 564 | 0.44 | 0.17 | |
| Majority | 28,719 | 22.55 | |||
| Turnout | 1,27,536 | 61.79 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | 10.04 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 65,520 | 47.67 | 29.79 | |
| INC | Deepa Dasmunshi | 40,219 | 29.26 | New | |
| BJP | Chandra Kumar Bose | 26,299 | 19.13 | New | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 2,461 | 1.79 | New | |
| BSP | Nirmal Kanti Samaddar[7] | 669 | 0.27 | ||
| Majority | 25,301 | 18.41 | 38.62 | ||
| Turnout | 1,37,475 | 66.83 | 22.11 | ||
| AITChold | Swing | 29.79 | |||
The bypoll to the Bhowanipore seat was necessitated after sitting MLA ofTrinamool CongressSubrata Bakshi resigned to make way for the Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee to contest. She had not contested the state assembly elections earlier. She had to become a member of the state assembly within six months of her assuming office as Chief Minister as per the rules of theConstitution of India.[8]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Mamata Banerjee (CM Candidate) | 73,635 | 77.46 | +12.69 | |
| CPI(M) | Nandini Mukherjee | 19,422 | 20.43 | −7.55 | |
| Independent | Sujay Krishna Bhadra | 809 | 0.85 | ||
| Majority | 54,213 | 57.03 | +20.24 | ||
| Turnout | 95,064 | 44.73 | −19.04 | ||
| AITChold | Swing | +12.69 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Subrata Bakshi | 87,903 | 64.77 | ||
| CPI(M) | Narayan Prasad Jain | 37,967 | 27.98 | ||
| BJP | Ram Chandra Jaiswal | 5,078 | 3.74 | ||
| BSP | Dulal Mistri | 1,050 | 0.77 | ||
| Majority | 49,936 | 36.79 | |||
| Turnout | 1,35,741 | 63.78 | |||
| AITCwin | |||||
