| Howrah Uttar | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 170 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Howrah Uttar Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Howrah |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Howrah |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 171,318 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inHowrah district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 170 Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 7 and 10 to 16 ofHowrah Municipal Corporation.[1]
Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency is part of No. 25Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howrah North | |||
| 1951 | Biren Banerjee | Communist Party of India | |
| 1957 | Samar Mukhopadhyay | ||
| 1962 | Saila Kumar Mukherjee | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | |||
| 1969 | Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee | ||
| 1971 | Shankar Lal Mukherjee | ||
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | Chittabrata Majumdar | Communist Party of India | |
| 1982 | Ashok Ghosh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | Lagan Deo Singh | Communist Party of India | |
| 1996 | |||
| 2001 | |||
| 2006 | |||
| Constituency renamed as Howrah Uttar from 2011 | |||
| 2011 | Ashok Ghosh | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016 | Laxmi Ratan Shukla | ||
| 2021 | Gautam Chowdhuri | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Gautam Chowdhuri | 71,575 | 47.81 | ||
| BJP | Umesh Rai | 66,053 | 44.12 | ||
| CPI(M) | Pawan Singh | 8,133 | 5.43 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,670 | 1.12 | ||
| IND | Subhash Kumar Singhi | 911 | 0.61 | ||
| Majority | 5,522 | 3.69 | |||
| Turnout | 1,49,762 | 68.53 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Laxmi Ratan Shukla | 61,917 | 46.40 | ||
| INC | Santosh Kumar Pathak | 34,958 | 26.20 | ||
| BJP | Roopa Ganguly | 31,416 | 23.50 | ||
| IND | Subodh Pathak | 1,146 | 0.9 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,070 | 0.79 | ||
| Majority | 26,959 | 20.02 | |||
| Turnout | 1,34,764 | 67.98 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
.# Swing calculated onLF+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2016.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Ashoke Ghosh | 61,468 | 49.25 | +7.29 | |
| CPI(M) | Nemai Samanta | 41,858 | 33.54 | −20.46 | |
| BJP | Umesh Rai | 16,494 | 13.22 | ||
| IND | Hitendranath Mondal | 1,514 | 1.21 | ||
| BSP | Siddhartha Sarkar | 761 | 0.61 | ||
| Majority | 19,610 | 15.71 | |||
| Turnout | 1,24,865 | 72.52 | |||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | 27.75# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
In the2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections Lagan Deo Singh ofCPI(M) won the Howrah North assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Bani Singha ofTrinamool Congress in 2006, Asok Ghosh ofCongress in the three other years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Asok Ghosh of Congress defeated Lagan Deo Singh of CPI(M) in 1987 andChittabrata Majumdar of CPI(M) in 1982. Chittabrata Mazumdar of CPI(M) defeated Supriya Basu of Congress in 1977.[4]
Shankarlal Mukherjee of Congress won in 1972[5] and 1971.[6] Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee of Congress won in 1969.[7] S.K.Mukherjee of Congress won in 1967.[8]
During the period Howrah had four Vidhan Sabha constituencies.
Saila Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962.[9] Samar Mukhopadhyay ofCPI won in 1957.[10] Biren Banerjee of CPI won in 1951.[11]
Anadi Dass, Independent, won in 1962.[9] Bankim Chandra Kar of Congress won in 1957[10] and 1951.[11]
Bejoy Bhattacharyya of Congress won in 1962.[9] Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in 1957.[10] Saila Kumar Mukhopdhyay of Congress won in 1951.[11]
For results of Howrah South constituency seeHowrah Dakshin Assembly constituency
