| Karimpur | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 77 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Karimpur Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Nadia |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Murshidabad |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 251,039 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Karimpur Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inNadia district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
In line with theDelimitation Commission, No. 77 Karimpur Assembly constituency is composed ofKarimpur Icommunity development block and Dhoradaha I, Dhoradaha II, Murutia, Natidanga I, Natidanga II and Rahamatpurgram panchayats ofKarimpur II CD Block.[1]
Karimpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 11Murshidabad Lok Sabha constituency.[1]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Haripada Chattopadhyay | Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party | |
| 1957 | Bijoy Lal Chattopadhyay | Indian National Congress | |
| 1962 | Smarajit Bandopadhyay | ||
| 1967 | Nalinaksha Sanyal | Bangla Congress | |
| 1969 | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1971 | Samarendra Nath Sanyal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1972 | Arabinda Mandal | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Samarendra Nath Sanyal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1982 | Chitta Ranjan Biswas | ||
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | |||
| 2001 | Prafulla Kumar Bhowmick | ||
| 2006 | |||
| 2011 | Samarendranath Ghosh | ||
| 2016 | Mahua Moitra | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2019^ | Bimalendu Sinha Roy | ||
| 2021 | |||
Arabinda Mandal of Congress won in 1972.[2] Samarendra Nath Sanyal of CPI(M) won in 1971.[3]Nalinaksha Sanyal ofBangla Congress / Congress won in 1969[4] and 1967.[5] Samarjit Bandopadhyay of Congress won in1962.[6] Bijoy Lal Chattopadhyay of Congress won in1957.[7] Inindependent India's first election in 1951, Haripada Chatterjee ofKMPP won the Karimpur seat.[8]
In the2006[9] and 2001[10] state assembly elections, Prafulla Kumar Bhowmick ofCPI(M) won the Karimpur assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Arabinda Mondal ofCongress and Chira Ranjan Mandal ofTrinamool 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[11] and 1991,[12] and Arabinda Mandal of Congress in 1987[13] and 1982.[14] Samarendra Nath Sanyal of CPI(M) defeated Arabinda Mandal of Congress in 1977.[15][16]
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
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Samarendranath Ghosh | 82,244 | 46.17 | −1.01 | |
| AITC | Dr. Ramen Sarkar | 77,159 | 43.32 | −13.12 | |
| BJP | Indrajit Mondal | 8,098 | 4.55 | ||
| Independent | Rajib Sekh | 3,626 | |||
| BSP | Swapan Kumar Biswas | 2,628 | |||
| Independent | Bikash Chandra Biswas | 2,054 | |||
| IUML | Rejaul Sekh | 1,446 | |||
| People's Democratic Conference of India | Abdulla Biswas | 86 | |||
| Turnout | 178,118 | 90.66 | |||
Rajib Sekh, contesting as an independent candidate, was a rebel Congress candidate.[19]
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Mahua Moitra | 90,989 | 45.24 | +1.92 | |
| CPI(M) | Samarendranath Ghosh | 75,000 | 37.29 | −8.88 | |
| BJP | Subhasis Bhattacharya | 23,302 | 11.59 | +7.04 | |
| SS | Mahitosh Sarkar | 4,554 | 2.26 | N/A | |
| WPOI | Sahabuddin Mandal | 2,140 | 1.06 | N/A | |
| BSP | Jitendra Nath Halder | 1,769 | 0.88 | −0.60 | |
| SUCI(C) | Azad Rahaman | 1,104 | 0.55 | N/A | |
| IUML | Rejaul Sekh | 799 | 0.40 | −0.41 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,449 | 0.72 | N/A | |
| Majority | 15,989 | 7.59 | |||
| Turnout | 2,01,106 | 88.53 | −2.13 | ||
| Registered electors | 2,27,166 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Bimalendu Sinha Roy | 1,03,278 | 50.43 | +5.19 | |
| BJP | Jayprakash Majumdar | 79,368 | 38.75 | +27.16 | |
| CPI(M) | Golam Rabbi | 18,627 | 9.09 | −28.20 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,568 | 0.77 | +0.05 | |
| Majority | 23,910 | 11.68 | +4.09 | ||
| Turnout | 2,04,807 | 84.72 | −4.00 | ||
| Registered electors | 2,40,000 | ||||
Due toMahua Moitra resignation as MLA, By poll was held.[20]Bimalendu Sinha Roy won by 24,119 votes[21]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Bimalendu Sinha Roy | 1,10,911 | |||
| BJP | Samarendra Nath Ghosh | 87,336 | |||
| CPI(M) | Pravas Majumdar | 17,185 | |||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Majority | 23,575 | ||||
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