| Haringhata | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 93 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Haringhata Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Nadia |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Bangaon |
| Established | 1957 |
| Total electors | 240,606 |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | BJP |
| Alliance | NDA |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Haringhata Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inNadia district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal. It is reserved forscheduled castes.
As per orders of theDelimitation Commission, No. 93 Haringhata Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following:Haringhata municipality,Haringhatacommunity development block, and Dewli and Hingaragram panchayats ofChakdaha community development block.[1]
Haringhata Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 14Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).[1] It was earlier part of theNabadwip (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Smarajit Bandopadhyay | Indian National Congress | |
| Promatha Ranjan Thakur | |||
| 1962 | Narendra Nath Sarkar | ||
| 1967 | Mohammad Karim Baksh | Independent politician | |
| 1969 | |||
| 1971 | Nani Gopal Malakar | Communist Party of India | |
| 1972 | Sakti Kumar Bhattacharya | ||
| 1977 | Nani Gopal Malakar | Communist Party of India | |
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | Mili Hira | ||
| 2001 | Bankim Chandra Ghosh | ||
| 2006 | |||
| 2011 | Nilima Nag (Mallick) | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | Asim Kumar Sarkar | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Ashim Kumar Sarkar | 97,666 | 46.31 | ||
| AITC | Nilima Nag (Mallick) | 82,466 | 39.11 | ||
| CPI(M) | Alakesh Das | 24,800 | 11.76 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| BJPgain fromAITC | Swing | ||||
In the 2011 election, Nilima Nag (Mallick) of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Dr. Biswajit Paul of CPI(M).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Nilima Nag (Mallick) | 83,366 | 49.45 | +6.76# | |
| CPI(M) | Dr. Biswajit Paul | 70,363 | 41.74 | −10.16 | |
| BJP | Binay Krishna Biswas | 8,780 | 5.21 | ||
| PDS | Shyam Prasad Mondal | 3,810 | |||
| BSP | Bidyut Mallick | 2,261 | |||
| Turnout | 168,580 | 89.89 | |||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | +16.92# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
In the 2006 election, Bankim Chandra Ghosh ofCPIM won the seat.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Bankim Chandra Ghosh | 95,524 | |||
| AITC | Dipak Basu | 68,058 | |||
| CPI(M)hold | Swing | {{{swing}}} | |||
In the2006[7] and 2001 state assembly elections,[8] Bankim Chandra Ghosh ofCPI (M) won the Haringhata assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Dipak Basu and Saradindu Biswas (both ofTrinamool Congress) in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 1996,[9] Mili Hira of CPI (M) defeated Ratna Ghosh ofCongress. In 1991,[10] 1987,[11] 1982[12] and 1977[13] Nani Gopal Malakar of CPI (M) defeated Pratap Roy of Congress, Dilip Roy of Congress, Phani Bhusan Das ofICS and Manas Kumar Ganguly of Congress in the respective years.[14]
Sakti Kumar Bhattacharya ofCPI won in 1972.[15] Nani Gopal Malakar of CPI won in 1971.[16] Mohammad Karim Baksh, Independent, won in 1969[17] and 1967.[18] Narendra Nath Sarkar of Congress won in1962.[19] In1957 Haringhata was a joint seat with one seat reserved for SC. Smarajit Bandopadhyay and Promatha Ranjan Thakur, both of Congress, won in 1957.[20] The Haringhata seat was not there in 1951.
