Country India District South 24 Parganas Type Open | State West Bengal Constituency No 154 Lok Sabha constituency Kolkata Dakshin | |
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Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (earlier known as Behala West) is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Behala is a neighborhood in Kolkata.
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Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 154 Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: 118, 119, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131,and 132 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation,
Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).Behala West was earlier part of Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency).
2016
In the 2016 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kaustav Chatterjee of CPI(M).
.# Swing calculated on LF+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2016.
Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 8 (See template talk page for details)
2011
In the 2011 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Anupam Deb Sarkar of CPI(M).
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 8 (See template talk page for details)
1977-2006
In the 2006 and 2001 Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress won the Behala West assembly constituency defeating his nearest rivals Niranjan Mukherjee of CPI(M) in 2006and Nirmal Mukherjee of CPI(M) in 2001.Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Nirmal Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Kumud Bhattacharya of Congress in 1996,and Lakshmi Kanta Basu of Congress in 1991.Rabin Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Lakshmi Kanta Basu of Congress in 1987,Aruna Ghosh Dastidar of Congress in 1982and Subodh Chandra Das of Congress in 1977.
1951-1972
Biswanath Chakraborty of CPI won in 1972.Rabin Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971, 1969and 1967.Prior to that Behala was a single seat. Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay of CPI won the Behala seat in 1962and 1957. In independent India’s first election in 1951, Biren Roy of Forward Bloc (RG) won the Behala seat.