| Mangalkot | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 272 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Mangalkot Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Purba Bardhaman |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Bolpur |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 202,581 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Mangalkot Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inPurba Bardhaman district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 272 Mangalkot assembly constituency coversMongalkote community development block and Saragram, Gidhgram and Alampur gram panchayats ofKatwa I CD Block.[1]
Mangalkot assembly constituency is part of No. 41Bolpur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Bhakta Chandra Roy | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | No seat | ||
| 1962 | Narayandas Das | Communist Party of India | |
| 1967 | N. Sattar | Indian National Congress | |
| 1969 | Nikhilananda Sar | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1971 | |||
| 1972 | Jyotirmoy Mojumdar | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Nikhilananda Sar | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | Samar Baora | ||
| 1996 | Sadhana Mallick | ||
| 2001 | |||
| 2006 | |||
| 2011 | Sahajahan Choudhary | ||
| 2016 | Siddiqullah Chowdhury | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2021 | Apurba Chowdhury (Achal) | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Apurba Chowdhury (Achal) | 107,596 | 49.51 | +20.98 | |
| BJP | Rana Protap Goswami | 85,259 | 39.23 | +310.29 | |
| CPI(M) | Sahajahan Chowdhury | 16,783 | 7.72 | −78.59 | |
| BSP | Abdus Sabur Sk. | 2,476 | 1.14 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Rasik Saren | 1,389 | 0.64 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,826 | 1.76 | ||
| Turnout | 217,329 | ||||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Siddiqullah Chowdhury | 89,812 | 45.87 | −0.28 | |
| CPI(M) | Sahajahan Chowdhury | 77,938 | 39.81 | −6.41 | |
| BJP | Gopal Chattopadhyay | 20,780 | 10.61 | +6.5 | |
| BSP | Ramkrishna Malik | 3,315 | 1.69 | +0.2 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,210 | 1.13 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Rasik Saren | 1,731 | 0.88 | ||
| Turnout | 195,786 | 85.75 | −1.09 | ||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Sajahan Choudhury | 81,316 | 46.22 | −13.02 | |
| AITC | Apurba Chaudhuri | 81,190 | 46.15 | +9.01# | |
| BJP | Alok Taranga Goswami | 7,224 | 4.11 | ||
| JDP | Anil Kumar Mardi | 3,567 | |||
| BSP | Sukumar Malik | 2,630 | |||
| Turnout | 175,927 | 86.84 | |||
| CPI(M)hold | Swing | -22.03# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2006 taken together.
Sadhana Mallik ofCPI(M) won the Mangalkot assembly seat in2006, 2001, and 1996 defeating Abdul Based Shekh ofTrinamool Congress in 2006, Chandranath Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress in 2001, and Absar Nurul Mondal ofCongress in 1996. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Samar Baora of CPI(M) defeated Hriday Kishan Sar of Congress in 1991.Nikhilananda Sar of CPI(M) defeated Jagadish Dutta of in 1987, Seikh Borshed of Congress in 1982, and Madan Chowdhury of Congress in 1977.[9]
Jyotirmoy Majumder ofCongress won in 1972. Nikhilananda Sar ofCPI(M) won in 1971 and 1969. N.Sattar of Congress won in 1967. Narayan Das ofCPI won in1962. The Mangalkot seat was not there in 1957. Inindependent India's first election in 1951, Bhakta Chandra Roy of Congress won the Mangalkot seat.[10]
