| Ashoknagar | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 101 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Ashoknagar Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | North 24 Parganas |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Barasat |
| Established | 1967 |
| Total electors | 257,180 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Ashoknagar Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inNorth 24 Parganas district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of theDelimitation Commission, No. 101 Ashoknagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following:Ashoknagar Kalyangarh municipality, andHabra IIcommunity development block.[1]
Ashoknagar Assembly constituency is part of No. 17Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Sadhan Kumar Sen | Communist Party of India | |
| 1969 | |||
| 1971 | Nani Kar | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1972 | Keshab Chandra Bhattacharya | Independent politician | |
| 1977 | Nani Kar | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | Nirode Roy Choudhury | ||
| 1999^ | Badal Bhattacharya | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2001 | Sarmistha Dutta | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 2006 | Satyasebi Kar | ||
| 2011 | Dhiman Roy | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | Narayan Goswami | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Narayan Goswami | 93,587 | 43.18 | −6.8 | |
| BJP | Tanuja Chakraborty | 70,055 | 32.32 | +24.95 | |
| ISF | Tapas Banerjee | 45,795 | 21.13 | +21.13 | |
| BSP | Jagadish Ray | 1,053 | 0.49 | −0.32 | |
| Turnout | 210,490 | 81.77 | −4.63 | ||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Dhiman Roy | 98,042 | 49.98 | −5.41 | |
| CPI(M) | Satyasebi Kar | 75,143 | 38.30 | −0.85 | |
| BJP | Tanuja Chakraborty | 16,429 | 8.37 | +5.93 | |
| BSP | Tarakeswar Hawlader | 1,582 | 0.81 | ||
| RPI(A) | Ajit Kumar Sarkar | 1,339 | 0.68 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Jayasri Das | 1,262 | 0.64 | ||
| Turnout | 196,181 | 86.40 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
In the 2011 election, Dhiman Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Satyasebi Kar of CPI(M).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Dhiman Roy | 94,451 | 55.39 | +6.30# | |
| CPI(M) | Satyasebi Kar | 66,759 | 39.15 | −6.93 | |
| BJP | Gopal Nandi | 4,168 | 2.44 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Jayasri Das | 1,783 | |||
| BSP | Tarakeswar Hawlader | 1,428 | |||
| Independent | Tapas Roy | 1,344 | |||
| Independent | Uttam Kumar Raha | 6,000 | |||
| Turnout | 170,533 | 88.55 | |||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | 13.43# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
In the 2006 election, Satyasebi Kar of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Dhiman Roy of All India Trinamool Congress .
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Satyasebi Kar | 73,250 | |||
| AITC | Dhiman Roy | 71,450 | |||
| CPI(M)hold | Swing | {{{swing}}} | |||
Keshab Chandra Bhattacharya, Independent, won in 1972.[4] Nani Kar of CPI(M) won in 1971.[5] Sadhan Kumar Sen ofCPI won in 1969[6] and 1967.[7] Prior to that the Ashoknagar seat was not there.
In the2006 state assembly elections,[8] Satyasebi Kar ofCPI(M) won the Ashoknagar assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival Dhiman Roy ofTrinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners-up are being mentioned. Sarmistha Dutta of CPI(M) defeated Ashok Krishna Dutt of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Badal Bhattacharya of BJP defeated Rekha Goswami of CPIM in the 1999 Bye election, caused by the death of sitting MLA, Nirode Roy Chowdhury.[9] Nirode Roy Choudhury of CPI(M) defeated Dhiman Roy ofCongress in 1996.[10] Nani Kar of CPI(M) defeated Keshab Chandra Bhattacharya of Congress/ Independent in 1991,[11] 1987,[12] 1982[13] and 1977.[14][15]
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