| Alipurduars | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 12 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Alipurduars Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Alipurduar |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Alipurduars |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 260,652 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Alipurduars Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inAlipurduar district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of theDelimitation Commission, No. 12 Alipurduars Assembly constituency coversAlipurduar municipality,Alipurduar Railway Junction, Banchukamari, Chakowakheti, Mathura, Parorpar, Patlakhawa, Shalkumar I, Shalkumar II, Tapsikhata, Vivekananda II, Vivekananda Igram panchayats ofAlipurduar Icommunity development block, and Chaporerpar I, Chaporerpar II, and Tatpara II gram panchayats ofAlipurduar II community development block.[1]
Alipurduars Assembly constituency is part of No. 2Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency) (ST).[1]
Narayan Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1971 and 1972. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP won in 1967 and 1969. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee of Congress won in 1957 and 1962. Inindependent India's first election in 1951, it was a joint seat. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee and Dhirandra Brahma Mandal, both from Congress, won.
Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections, Nirmal Das ofRSP defeated Sourav Chakraborty ofCongress, Prasanta Narayan Majumdar ofTrinamool Congress, Manindralal Rakshit of Congress and Biswa Ranjan Sarkar of Congress, respectively. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP defeated Debabrata Chatterjee of Congress in 1987, Pallab Ghosh of Congress in 1982 and Narayan Bhattachary of Congress in 1977.
In the2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Debaprasad Roy of Congress defeated his nearest rival Kshiti Goswami of RSP.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Debaprasad Roy | 79,605 | 46.02 | Winner | |
| RSP | Kshiti Goswami | 72,822 | 42.10 | ||
| BJP | Manik Chandra Saha | 8,238 | 4.76 | ||
| Independent | Santosh Kumar Balo | 3,072 | 1.78 | ||
| JMM | Manohar Bhagat | 1,864 | 1.08 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Abhijit Roy | 1,508 | 0.87 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Chanchal Kumar Das | 1,438 | 0.83 | ||
| Independent | Parimal Roy | 1,396 | 0.81 | ||
| Independent | Sanjit Das | 1,301 | 0.75 | ||
| BSP | Mantu Barman | 1,195 | 0.69 | ||
| Rashtriya Deshaj Party | Bishwanath Gop | 530 | 0.31 | ||
| Majority | 6,783 | 3.92 | |||
| Turnout | 1,72,969 | 86.04 | |||
| INCgain fromRSP | Swing | ||||
In the2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Sourav Chakraborty of TMC defeated his nearest rival Biswaranjan Sarkar of Congress.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sourav Chakraborty | 89,695 | 44.09 | Winner | |
| INC | Biswaranjan Sarkar | 77,737 | 38.21 | ||
| BJP | Kushal Chatterjee | 20,098 | 9.88 | ||
| RSP | Nirmal Das | 7,324 | 3.60 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Alokesh Das | 2,308 | 1.13 | ||
| AMB | Dalendra Nath Ray | 1,341 | 0.66 | ||
| Independent | Santosh Kumar Balo | 989 | 0.49 | ||
| BSP | Gouri Roy | 974 | 0.48 | ||
| None of the Above | None of the Above | 2,980 | 1.46 | ||
| Majority | 11,958 | 5.88 | |||
| Turnout | 2,03,446 | 86.16 | |||
| AITCgain fromINC | Swing | ||||
In the2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Suman Kanjilal of BJP defeated his nearest rival Sourav Chakraborty of TMC.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Suman Kanjilal | 107,333 | 48.19 | Winner | |
| AITC | Sourav Chakraborty | 91,326 | 41.00 | ||
| INC | Debprosad Roy | 15,651 | 7.03 | ||
| Independent | Nikhil Chandra Raibir | 2,351 | 1.06 | ||
| Independent | Rinku Ghosh | 1,393 | 0.63 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Pijush Kanti Sarma | 1,111 | 0.5 | ||
| Independent | Ashim Roy | 696 | 0.31 | ||
| Independent | Kushal Kumar Roy | 620 | 0.28 | ||
| Independent | Abinash Das | 270 | 0.12 | ||
| None of the Above | None of the Above | 1,981 | 0.89 | ||
| Turnout | 2,22,732 | ||||
| BJPgain fromAITC | Swing | ||||
