| Monteswar | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 263 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Monteswar Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Purba Bardhaman |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Bardhaman–Durgapur |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 191,654 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Monteswar Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inPurba Bardhaman district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 263 Monteswar assembly constituency covers Baghsan, Vagra Mulgram, Denur, Jamna, Kusumgram, Majhergram, Mamudpur I, Monteswar, Pipalan and Shushunia gram panchayats ofManteswar community development block and Barapalason I, Barapalason II, Bohar I, Bohar II, Bijur I, Bijur II and Satgachhia I gram panchayats ofMemari II community development block.[1]
Monteswar assembly segment was earlier part ofKatwa (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 39Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Annada Prasad Mandal | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Bhakta Chandra Roy | Independent politician | |
| 1962 | Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah | Communist Party of India | |
| 1967 | N. C. Chaudhuri | Indian National Congress | |
| 1969 | Kashinath Hazra Choudhury | Communist Party of India | |
| 1971 | |||
| 1972 | Tuhin Kumar Samanta | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Hemanta Kumar Roy | Communist Party of India | |
| 1982 | Hemanta Roy | ||
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | Abu Ayesh Mondal | ||
| 1996 | |||
| 2001 | |||
| 2006 | Chaudhuri Md. Hedayetullah | ||
| 2011 | |||
| 2016 | Sajal Panja | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016^ | Saikat Panja | ||
| 2021 | Siddiqullah Chowdhury | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Siddiqullah Chowdhury | 105,460 | 50.44 | −27.73 | |
| BJP | Saikat Panja | 73,655 | 35.24 | +20.46 | |
| CPI(M) | Anupam Ghosh | 24,740 | 11.48 | +23.53 | |
| CPI(ML)L | Ansarul Aman Mondal (Babu) | 1,877 | 0.90 | ||
| PDS | Nasimul Gani Sayed | 1,693 | 0.81 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,611 | 0.77 | ||
| Turnout | 209,036 | ||||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Saikat Panja | 147,316 | 77.59 | +33.48 | |
| CPI(M) | Md. Osman Gani Sarkar | 20,189 | 10.63 | −33.11 | |
| BJP | Biswajit Poddar | 16,073 | 8.47 | +0.37 | |
| INC | Bulbul Ahammed Sekh | 2,885 | 1.52 | N/A | |
| CPI(ML)L | Ansarul Aman Mondal | 1,463 | 0.77 | N/A | |
| PDS | Sheikh Ekramul Hossain | 778 | 0.41 | N/A | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,168 | 0.62 | −0.66 | |
| Majority | 127,127 | 66.96 | +66.59 | ||
| Turnout | 189,872 | 86.90 | −0.39 | ||
| Registered electors | 218,480 | ||||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sajal Panja | 84,134 | 44.11 | ||
| CPI(M) | Chaudhuri Mohd. Hidayatullah | 83,428 | 43.74 | ||
| BJP | Biswajit Poddar | 15,452 | 8.10 | ||
| BSP | Khokan Das | 2,644 | 1.38 | ||
| MPI | Jagabandhu Malik | 1,437 | 0.75 | ||
| JDP | Premchand Soren | 1,190 | 0.62 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,445 | 1.28 | ||
| Majority | 706 | 0.37 | |||
| Turnout | 190,730 | 87.29 | |||
| Registered electors | 218,480 | ||||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Choudhury Mohd. Hedaetullaha | 81,822 | 47.24 | −10.69 | |
| AITC | Abu Ayesh Mondal | 78,524 | 45.34 | +6.51# | |
| People's Democratic Conference of India | Abdul Kased Shaikh | 4,890 | |||
| BJP | Sakshi Gopal Ghosh | 4,027 | |||
| JDP | Sunil Soren | 2,036 | |||
| BSP | Sukumar Das | 1,064 | |||
| CPI(ML)L | Annada Prasad Bhattacharyya | 824 | |||
| Turnout | 173,187 | 90.36 | |||
| CPI(M)hold | Swing | -17.20# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2006 taken together.
Narayan Hazra Chowdhury ofTrinamool Congress lost the Monteswar Assembly seat in2006 defeated by Chaudhuri Md. Hedayatullah ofCPI(M) . Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, 1996 and 1991,Abu Ayesh Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Narayan Hazara Choudhury of Trinamool Congress, Debabrata Roy of Congress and Biseswar Bhattacharya of Congress in the respective years. In 1982 and 1977, Hemanta Roy of CPI(M) defeated Tuhin Samanta of Congress.[6]
In 1972, Tuhin Samanta of Congress won the seat. In 1971 and 1969, Kashinath Hazra Choudhury of CPI(M) won the seat. N.C.Chaudhuri of Congress won the seat in 1967.Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah of CPI won the seat in1962. Bhakta Chandra Roy (Independent) won the seat in1957. Ananda Prasad Mondal of Congress won the seat inindependent India's first election in 1951.[7]
