| Rajarhat Gopalpur | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 117 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Rajarhat Gopalpur Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | North 24 Parganas |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Dum Dum |
| Established | 1962 |
| Total electors | 239,551 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Rajarhat-Gopalpur Assembly constituency is aLegislative Assembly constituency ofNorth 24 Parganas district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of theDelimitation Commission, No. 117 Rajarhat-Gopalpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 6-11,15-19,22-26 ofBidhannagar Municipal Corporation (Before 2015 Wards 7-9 & 14-27 ofRajarhat-Gopalpur Municipality) and Ward Nos. 18 and 21-27 ofSouth Dum Dum Municipality.[1]
Rajarhat-Gopalpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 16Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).[1] Rajarhat (SC) was also part of Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Pranab Prasad Roy | Communist Party of India | |
| 1967 | S. N. Das | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1969 | Rabindranath Mondal | ||
| 1971 | Khagendranath Mondal | Indian National Congress | |
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | Rabindranath Mondal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | |||
| 2001 | Tanmoy Mondal | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2006 | Rabindranath Mondal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 2011 | Purnendu Basu | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | Aditi Munshi | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Aditi Munshi | 87,650 | 49.04 | +4.74 | |
| BJP | Samik Bhattacharya | 62,354 | 34.89 | +22.92 | |
| CPI(M) | Subhajit Dasgupta | 24,511 | 13.71 | −26.40 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,258 | 1.26 | −1.04 | |
| Turnout | 178,723 | 69.42 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Purnendu Bose | 72,793 | 44.30 | −15.46 | |
| CPI(M) | Nepaldev Bhattacharya | 65,919 | 40.11 | +4.12 | |
| BJP | Dilip Mitra | 19,683 | 11.97 | +9.42 | |
| Independent | Ranjit Kumar Dutta | 1,244 | 0.75 | N/A | |
| Independent | Shyamal Mondal | 895 | 0.54 | N/A | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,780 | 2.30 | N/A | |
| Majority | 6,874 | 4.19 | −19.58 | ||
| Turnout | 164,314 | ||||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
In the 2011 election, Purnendo Bose of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Robin Mondal of CPI(M).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Purnendo Bose | 89,829 | 59.76 | ||
| CPI(M) | Rabindranath Mondal | 54,104 | 35.99 | ||
| BJP | Manoranjan Das | 3,837 | 2.55 | ||
| Independent | Sunil Kumar Paul | 785 | |||
| Independent | Purnendu Basu | 613 | |||
| Independent | Jahar Roy | 603 | |||
| Independent | Abhijit Maity | 538 | |||
| Majority | 35,725 | 23.77 | |||
| Turnout | 150,327 | 78.20 | |||
| AITCwin (new seat) | |||||
In the2006 state assembly elections,[5] Rabindranath Mandal ofCPI(M) won the Rajarhat (SC) assembly seat defeating Tanmoy Mondal ofTrinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001[6] Tanmoy Mondal of Trinamool Congress defeated Rabindranath Mandal of CPI(M). Prior to that Rabindranath Mondal had won the seat five times in a row defeating Tanmoy Mondal representingCongress in 1996,[7] Sukumar Roy of Congress in 1991,[8] Biswananda Naskar of Congress in 1987, Tanmoy Mondal of Congress in 1982[9] and Amalendu Sekhar Naskar of Congress in 1977.[10][11]
Khagendranath Mondal of Congress won in 1972[12] and 1971.[13] Rabindranath Mondal of CPI(M) won in 1969.[14] S.N.Das of CPI(M) won in 1967.[15] Pranab Prasad Roy of CPI(M) won in1962.[16] Prior to that the Rajarhat seat did not exist.
| Current |
|  |
|---|---|---|
| Defunct |
| |
