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Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Country
  
India

District
  
South 24 Parganas

Type
  
Open

State
  
West Bengal

Constituency No
  
153

Lok Sabha constituency
  
23. Kolkata Dakshin

Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (earlier known as Behala East) is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Behala is a neighbourhood in Kolkata.

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 153 Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 115, 116, 117, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 142, 143, 144, of Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Joka I and Joka II gram panchayats of Thakurpukur Mahestala CD Block.

Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin. Behala East was earlier part of Jadavpur.

2011

In 2011 Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kumkum Chakraborty 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 state assembly elections, Kumkum Chakraborti of Communist Party of India (Marxist) won the Behala East assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Parash Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) in 2001. Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) defeated Sonali Guha of Congress in 1996, and Sailen Dasgupta of Congress in 1991. Niranjan Mukherjeee of CPI(M) defeated Debashis Bhattacharya of Congress in 1987, Balaram Goswami of Congress in 1982, and Indrajit Mazumdar of Congress in 1977.

1951–1972

Indrajit Majumdar of Congress won the Behala East seat in 1972. Niranjan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971, 1969 and 1967. Prior to that Behala was a single seat. Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay of CPI won the Behala seat in 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Biren Roy of Forward Bloc (RG) won the Behala seat.

References

Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Wikipedia