| Chowrangee | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 162 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Chowrangee Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Kolkata |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Kolkata Uttar |
| Established | 1957 |
| Total electors | 208,157 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Chowrangee Assembly constituency is aLegislative Assembly constituency ofKolkata district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal. Located at the heart of Kolkata, the capital city of the state, this has been a bastion ofTrinamool Congress since the party's formation. Earlier, it was a stronghold ofIndian National Congress, from which party two chief ministers,Bidhan Chandra Roy andSiddhartha Shankar Ray, had been elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
As per order of theDelimitation Commission in respect of theDelimitation of constituencies in theWest Bengal, Chowrangee Assembly constituency is composed of the following:
Chowrangee Assembly constituency is part of No. 24Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency).[1][2]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Bijoy Singh Nahar | Indian National Congress | |
| 1962 | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy | ||
| 1967 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | ||
| 1969 | |||
| 1971 | Sankar Ghose | ||
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | Sandip Das | Janata Party | |
| 1982 | Sisir Kumar Bose | Indian National Congress | |
| 1987 | Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay | ||
| 1991 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | ||
| 1993^ | Anil Chatterjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1996 | Subrata Mukherjee | Indian National Congress | |
| 2001 | All India Trinamool Congress | ||
| 2006 | Subrata Bakshi | ||
| 2011 | Sikha Chowdhury (Mitra) | ||
| 2014^ | Nayna Bandyopadhyay | ||
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Nayna Bandyopadhyay | 70,101 | 62.87 | ||
| BJP | Devdutta Maji | 24,757 | 22.20 | ||
| INC | Santosh Pathak | 14,266 | 12.80 | ||
| NOTA | None of the Above | 1,212 | 1.09 | ||
| BSP | Swaminath Kori | 264 | 0.24 | ||
| Majority | 45,344 | 41.07 | |||
| Turnout | 1,11,625 | 53.61 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | + | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Nayna Bandyopadhyay | 55,119 | 47.29 | +7.15 | |
| INC | Somen Mitra | 41,903 | 36.95 | +12.53 | |
| BJP | Ritesh Tiwari | 15,707 | 13.48 | −11.64 | |
| None of the Above | None of the Above | 2,183 | 1.87 | New | |
| SUCI(C) | Kartik Kumkar | 612 | 0.53 | ||
| Majority | 13,216 | 10.34 | −4.68 | ||
| Turnout | 1,16,557 | 56.20 | +8.51 | ||
| AITChold | Swing | +7.15 | |||
A by-election was held on 13 September 2014 following the resignation of the sitting MLA, Shikha Chowdhury (Mitra) who switched over from Trinamool Congress to Congress.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Nayna Bandyopadhyay | 38,328 | 40.14 | −31.76 | |
| BJP | Ritesh Tiwari | 23,984 | 25.12 | +20.78 | |
| INC | Santosh Kumar Pathak | 23,317 | 24.42 | New | |
| CPI(M) | Adv. Faiyaz Ahmed Khan | 8,890 | 9.09 | New | |
| Majority | 14,344 | 15.02 | −37.23 | ||
| Turnout | 96,650 | 47.69 | −4.56 | ||
| AITChold | Swing | -31.76 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sikha Chowdhury (Mitra) | 79,450 | 71.90 | ||
| RJD | Bimal Singh | 21,711 | 19.65 | ||
| BJP | Shahnawaz Ahmed | 4,799 | 4.34 | ||
| AIMF | Abdul Wahab | 1,640 | 1.48 | ||
| Majority | 57,739 | 52.25 | |||
| Turnout | 1,10,506 | 54.42 | |||
| AITCwin | |||||
