| Rajarhat New Town | |
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| Constituency No. 115 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Rajarhat New Town Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | North 24 Parganas |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Barasat |
| Established | 1962 |
| Total electors | 183,790 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Rajarhat New Town Assembly constituency is aLegislative Assembly constituency ofNorth 24 Parganas district in the Indian state ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of theDelimitation Commission, No. 115 Rajarhat New Town Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1–5,12-14,20-21 ofBidhannagar Municipal Corporation (Before 2015 Wards 1-6 & 10-13 ofRajarhat-Gopalpur Municipality) and Ward 27 ofBidhannagar Municipal Corporation(formerly Mahisbathan–II gram panchayat ofRajarhat CD Block) and remainingRajarhat CD Block[1]
Rajarhat New Town Assembly constituency is part of No. 17Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency).[1] Rajarhat (SC) was part ofDum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]
| Year | Name | Party | |
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| Rajarhat | |||
| 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) | |
| Rajarhat New Town | |||
| 2011 | Sabyasachi Dutta | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | Tapash Chatterjee | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Tapash Chatterjee | 127,374 | 54.22 | +8.62 | |
| BJP | Bhaskar Roy | 70,942 | 30.20 | +23.22 | |
| CPI(M) | Saptarshi Deb | 31,543 | 13.43 | −27.53 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,032 | 0.87 | −0.30 | |
| Independent | Subhendu Ghosh | 1,313 | 0.56 | ||
| BSP | Bhaskar Roy | 1,137 | 0.48 | −0.52 | |
| Independent | Subir Samaddar | 565 | 0.24 | ||
| Majority | 56,432 | 24.02 | +17.40 | ||
| Turnout | 234,906 | ||||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sabyasachi Dutta | 90,671 | 45.58 | −3.65 | |
| CPI(M) | Narendranath Chatterjee | 81,478 | 40.96 | −3.54 | |
| BJP | Nupur Ghosh | 17,877 | 8.98 | +6.65 | |
| WPOI | Sheikh Md. Salim | 3,087 | 1.55 | ||
| BSP | Bhaskar Roy | 1,998 | 1.00 | ||
| Independent | Samir Sardar | 1,447 | 0.72 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,332 | 1.17 | ||
| Majority | 8,923 | 4.62 | −0.11 | ||
| Turnout | 198,890 | 84.29 | −4.95 | ||
| Registered electors | 235,946 | ||||
| AITChold | Swing | -0.06 | |||
In the 2011 election, Sabyasachi Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Tapash Chatterjee of CPI(M).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sabyasachi Dutta | 80,738 | 49.23 | +1.83# | |
| CPI(M) | Tapash Chatterjee | 72,991 | 44.50 | −5.76 | |
| BJP | Priyalal Dutta | 3,827 | 2.33 | ||
| IUML | Md. Salim Makkar | 1,474 | |||
| Independent | Tapan Kumar Paul | 1,159 | |||
| Independent | Himangsu Mallick | 1,093 | |||
| Independent | Gopal Chakraborty | 881 | |||
| BSP | Basudeb Naskar | 834 | |||
| Independent | Kashem Gazi | 665 | |||
| Independent | Atin Kumar Roy | 34 | |||
| Turnout | 164,000 | 89.24 | |||
| AITCwin (new seat) | |||||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
In the2006 state assembly elections,[5]Rabindranath Mondal 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 defeatedRabindranath Mondal 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,[9] Tanmoy Mondal of Congress in 1982[10] and Amalendu Sekhar Naskar of Congress in 1977.[11][12]
Khagendranath Mondal of Congress won in 1972[13] and 1971.[14]Rabindranath Mondal of CPI(M) won in 1969.[15] S.N.Das of CPI(M) won in 1967.[16] Pranab Prasad Roy of CPI won in1962.[17] Prior to that the Rajarhat seat was not there.
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