| Kandi | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 68 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Kandi Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Murshidabad |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Baharampur |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 238,973 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Kandi Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inMurshidabad district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of theDelimitation Commission, No. 68 Kandi Assembly constituency coversKandi municipality,Kandicommunity development block (CDB), and Satui Chaurigachhagram panchayat ofBerhampore CDB.[1]
Kandi Assembly constituency is part of No. 10Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Goalbadan Trivedi | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Sudhir Mondal | ||
| Bimal Chandra Sinha | |||
| 1962 | Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha | ||
| 1967 | G. Trivedi | ||
| 1969 | Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha | Independent politician | |
| 1971 | Atish Chandra Sinha | Indian National Congress | |
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | |||
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | Syed Wahid Reza | Communist Party of India | |
| 1991 | Atish Chandra Sinha | Indian National Congress | |
| 1996 | |||
| 2001 | |||
| 2006 | Apurba Sarkar | Independent politician | |
| 2011 | Indian National Congress | ||
| 2016 | |||
| 2019^ | Safiul Alam Khan (Bonu Khan) | ||
| 2021 | Apurba Sarkar | Trinamool Congress | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | |||||
| BJP | |||||
| INC | |||||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Apurba Sarkar | 95,399 | 51.16 |  15.6 | |
| BJP | Goutam Roy | 57,319 | 30.74 | 19.4 | |
| INC | Shafiul Islam Khan | 27,555 | 14.78 |  33.6 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,131 | 1.68 | 0.59 | |
| Majority | 38,080 | 20.42 | 7.6 | ||
| Turnout | 1,86,481 | 78.03 | 4.99 | ||
| AITCgain fromINC | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Shafiul Alam Khan | 79,698 | 48.38 | 2.84 | |
| AITC | Goutam Roy | 58,578 | 35.56 | 2.64 | |
| BJP | Sanat Mondal | 18,693 | 11.34 | 5.5 | |
| CPI | Debojyoti Roy | 5,291 | 3.21 | New | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,799 | 1.09 | New | |
| Majority | 21,120 | 12.82 | 0.2 | ||
| Turnout | 1,64,710 | 73.04 | 3.6 | ||
| INChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Apurba Sarkar | 81,723 | 51.22 | 5.12 | |
| AITC | Santanu Sen | 60,943 | 38.2 | New | |
| BJP | Binay Bhushan Das | 9,317 | 5.84 | 2.82 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,464 | 1.54 | New | |
| Majority | 20,780 | 13.02 | |||
| Turnout | 1,59,553 | 76.64 | 4.27 | ||
| INChold | Swing | ||||
In the 2011 election, Apurba Sarkar of Congress defeated his nearest rival Ainal Haque of CPI.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Apurba Sarkar | 66,513 | 46.10 | 13.59 | |
| CPI | Ainal Haque | 58,703 | 40.68 | 7.64 | |
| Independent | Sahitya Pradip Sinha | 9,836 | 6.82 | ||
| BJP | Dhananjoy Mandal | 4,351 | 3.02 | ||
| BSP | Amit Kumar Das | 1,429 | |||
| CPI(ML)L | Manirul Islam | 1,254 | |||
| Independent | Sasti Konai | 850 | |||
| JD(U) | Nazimul Islam | 736 | |||
| MLKSC | Majibur Rahaman Sheikh | 615 | |||
| Turnout | 1,44,287 | 80.91 | |||
| INChold | Swing | 21.51 | |||
Sahitya Pradip Sinha, contesting as an independent, was reportedly backed by Trinamool Congress.[4]
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Rebel Congress (Independent) vote percentages taken together in 2006. Calculated only on the vote percentages secured by Apurba Sarakar in 2006 and 2011 the swing is +3.59%.
In the 2006 election, Apurba Sarkar of Congress MP ofBaharampur,Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Supported Independent defeated his nearest rival Abdul Hamid of CPI.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Apurba Sarkar | 50,157 | 34.87 | 13.87 | |
| CPI | Abdul Hamid | 47,525 | 33.04 | 7.64 | |
| INC | Atish Chandra Sinha | 36,103 | 25.10 | ||
| Independent | Hari Prasad Chandra | 2,204 | 1.53 | ||
| AITC | Partha Mukherjee | 1,787 | |||
| CPI(ML)L | Syed Fazle Alam | 1,532 | |||
| Independent | Md. Safiuddin Sk. | 1184 | |||
| Independent | Uday Das | 996 | |||
| Independent | Narendra Narayan Roy | 893 | |||
| Independent | Babu Bagdhi | 884 | |||
| Independent | Md. Shahzamal | 561 | |||
| Turnout | 143,829 | ||||
| INChold | Swing | -21.51# | |||
In the2006 state assembly elections[6] Apurba Sarkar, Independent, won the 68 Kandi assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Abdul Hamid ofCPI. Apurba Sarkar, contesting as an independent, was a rebel congress candidate put up byAdhir Choudhury as a protest against the official Congress candidateAtish Sinha.[7] He was subsequently taken back into the Congress.[8] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned.Atish Chandra Sinha ofCongress defeated Chandan Sen of CPI in 2001,[9] Syed Wahid Reza of CPI in 1996[10] and 1991.[11] Syed Wahid Reza of CPI defeated Bankim Trivedi of Congress in 1987.[12] Atish Chandra Sinha of Congress defeated Syed Abdur Razzaque of CPI in 1982[13] and Jagadish Sinha ofJanata Party in 1977.[14][15]
Atish Chandra Sinha won in 1972[16] and 1971.[17] Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha, Independent, won in 1969.[18] G. Trivedi of Congress won in 1967.[19] Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha of Congress won in1962.[20] Kandi was a joint seat in1957.[21] Sudhir Mondal and Bimal Chandra Sinha, both of Congress, won the seat jointly. Inindependent India's first election in 1951 Goalbadan Trivedi of Congress won from the Kandi seat.[22]
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