Country India District Kolkata Type Open | State West Bengal Constituency No 159 Lok Sabha constituency 23. Kolkata Dakshin | |
 | ||
Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (archaic spelling Bhowanipore) (Bengali: ভবানীপুর বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. This page includes information about the defunct Kalighat (Vidhan Sabha constituency).
Contents
Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 159 Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 63, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77 and 82 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).
2011 bye election
The bypoll to the Bhowanipore seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Trinamool Congress Subrata Bakshi resigned to make way for the Chief Minister to contest. She had not contested the state assembly elections earlier. She had to become a member of the state assembly within six months of her assuming office as Chief Minister,
Percentage swing with respect to General Election 2011.
Note: New constituencies – 3, constituencies abolished – 10
1951-1962 Bhawanipur
There was an assembly seat at Bhawanipur from 1951 to 1962. Contests in most years were multi cornered but mostly winners and runners are being mentioned. In independent India’s first election in 1951, Mira Dutta Gupta of Indian National Congress defeated Debnath Das, Independent, Saumendra Nath Tagore of Revolutionary Socialist Party and others. In 1957, Siddhartha Shankar Ray of Indian National Congress defeated Saila Sen of Praja Socialist Party. In 1962, Siddhartha Shankar Ray contesting as an independent candidate defeated Pritin Kr. Roy Choudhury Indian National Congress.
1951-1972 Kalighat
There was an assembly seat at Kalighat from 1951 to 1972. In 1951, Manikuntala Sen of Communist Party of India defeated Debabrata Mookherjee IndianNational Congress, Santi Bhusan Bose Bharatiya Jana Sangh and others. In 1957, Manikuntala Sen CPI defeated Bivabati Mitra INC. In 1962, Beva Mitra of INC defeated Manikuntala Sen of CPI. 1967 B.Mitra of INC defeated D.Mazumder of CPI(M). 1969 Sadhan Gupta Communist Party of India (Marxist) defeated Beva Mitra of INC Kalighat. In 1971, Rathin Talukdar of INC defeated Sadhan Gupta of CPI(M). In 1972, Rathin Talukdar of INC defeated Ashoke Kumar Bose of CPI(M). .....