Bhabanipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency
Legislative Assembly constituency in West Bengal, India
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Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
| Bhabanipur | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 159 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Bhabanipur Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Kolkata |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Kolkata Dakshin |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 160,313 (2026) |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
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| Incumbent | |
| Party | AITC |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Overview
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in West Bengal, Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is composed of the following:
| Borough | Ward No. | Councillor | 2021 Winner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VII | 63 | Susmita Bhattacharya Chatterjee | Trinamool Congress | |
| VIII | 70 | Ashim Kumar Bose | ||
| IX | 71 | Papiya Singh | ||
| VIII | 72 | Sandip Ranjan Bakshi | ||
| IX | 73 | Kajari Banerjee | ||
| 74 | Debalina Biswas | |||
| 77 | Shamima Rehan Khan | |||
| 82 | Firhad Hakim | |||
Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency.[1]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Mira Datta Gupta | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | ||
| 1962 | Independent | ||
| Constituency renamed as Kalighat | |||
| 1967 | Beva Mitra | Indian National Congress | |
| 1969 | Sadhan Gupta | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1971 | Rathin Talukdar | Indian National Congress | |
| 1972 | |||
| 1977–2009: Constituency did not exist | |||
| 2011 | Subrata Bakshi | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2011^ | Mamata Banerjee | ||
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | Sovandeb Chattopadhyay | ||
| 2021^ | Mamata Banerjee | ||
| 2026 | |||
- ^ by-election
Election results
2026
In March 2026, Mamata Banerjee made a controversial statement that: "We exist, that is why all of you are safe. Had we not been here and if a certain community had come together as a group and surrounded you, they would have finished you off in one second".
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Mamata Banerjee |  | |||
| BJP | Suvendu Adhikari |  | |||
| CPI(M) | Shrijeeb Biswas | ||||
| INC | Pradip Prasad | ||||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Majority | | ||||
| Turnout | | ||||
| AITC hold | Swing | |
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2021
Following her narrow loss in the 2021 Nandigram Assembly constituency to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari she needed to win a by-election to retain her position as Chief Minister of West Bengal. Sovandeb Chattopadhyay who won the Bhabanipur seat in the April 2021 assembly elections, resigned from his position on May 21, 2021, to vacate the seat for Mamata.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 85,263 | 71.90 | 14.19 | |
| BJP | Priyanka Tibrewal | 26,428 | 22.29 | 12.87 | |
| CPI(M) | Shrijeeb Biswas | 4,226 | 3.56 | New | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,453 | 1.23 | Hold | |
| Majority | 58,835 | 49.61 | 27.06 | ||
| Turnout | 118,614 | 57.49 | 4.30 | ||
| AITC hold | Swing | 14.19 |
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2021
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sovandeb Chatterjee | 73,505 | 57.71 | 10.04 | |
| BJP | Rudranil Ghosh | 44,786 | 35.16 | 16.03 | |
| INC | Md. Shadab Khan | 5,211 | 4.09 | 25.17 | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 1,570 | 1.23 | 0.56 | |
| BSP | Anita Rajwar | 564 | 0.44 | 0.17 | |
| Majority | 28,719 | 22.55 | 4.14 | ||
| Turnout | 1,27,536 | 61.79 | 5.04 | ||
| AITC hold | Swing | 10.04 |
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2016
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 65,520 | 47.67 | 29.79 | |
| INC | Deepa Dasmunshi | 40,219 | 29.26 | New | |
| BJP | Chandra Kumar Bose | 26,299 | 19.13 | New | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 2,461 | 1.79 | New | |
| BSP | Nirmal Kanti Samaddar[2] | 669 | 0.27 | New | |
| Majority | 25,301 | 18.41 | 38.62 | ||
| Turnout | 1,37,475 | 66.83 | 22.11 | ||
| AITC hold | Swing | 29.79 |
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Bye-election, 2011
The bypoll to the Bhowanipore seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Trinamool Congress Subrata Bakshi resigned to make way for the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to contest. She had to become a member of the state assembly within six months of her assuming office as Chief Minister as per the rules of the Constitution of India.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Mamata Banerjee (CM Candidate) | 73,635 | 77.46 | 12.69 | |
| CPI(M) | Nandini Mukherjee | 19,422 | 20.43 | 7.55 | |
| Independent | Sujay Krishna Bhadra | 809 | 0.85 | New | |
| Majority | 54,213 | 57.03 | 20.24 | ||
| Turnout | 95,064 | 44.73 | 19.04 | ||
| AITC hold | Swing | 12.69 |
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2011
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Subrata Bakshi | 87,903 | 64.77 | ||
| CPI(M) | Narayan Prasad Jain | 37,967 | 27.98 | ||
| BJP | Ram Chandra Jaiswal | 5,078 | 3.74 | ||
| BSP | Dulal Mistri | 1,050 | 0.77 | ||
| Majority | 49,936 | 36.79 | |||
| Turnout | 1,35,741 | 63.78 | |||
| AITC win | |||||