Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency
Vidhan Sabha constituency
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Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
| Howrah Uttar | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 170 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Howrah Uttar Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Howrah |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Howrah |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 171,318 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 170 Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 7 and 10 to 16 of Howrah Municipal Corporation.[1]
Howrah Uttar Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howrah North | |||
| 1951 | Biren Banerjee | Communist Party of India | |
| 1957 | Samar Mukhopadhyay | ||
| 1962 | Saila Kumar Mukherjee | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | |||
| 1969 | Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee | ||
| 1971 | Shankar Lal Mukherjee | ||
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | Chittabrata Majumdar | Communist Party of India | |
| 1982 | Ashok Ghosh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | Lagan Deo Singh | Communist Party of India | |
| 1996 | |||
| 2001 | |||
| 2006 | |||
| Constituency renamed as Howrah Uttar from 2011 | |||
| 2011 | Ashok Ghosh | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016 | Laxmi Ratan Shukla | ||
| 2021 | Gautam Chowdhuri | ||
| 2026 | |||
Election results
2026
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Gautam Chowdhuri | ||||
| BJP | Umesh Rai | ||||
| CPI(M) | Gautam Roy | ||||
| INC | Om Prakash Jaiswal | ||||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
2021
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Gautam Chowdhuri | 71,575 | 47.81 |  1.41 | |
| BJP | Umesh Rai | 66,053 | 44.12 | 20.62 | |
| CPI(M) | Pawan Singh | 8,133 | 5.43 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,670 | 1.12 | 0.33 | |
| IND | Subhash Kumar Singhi | 911 | 0.61 | ||
| Majority | 5,522 | 3.69 | |||
| Turnout | 1,49,762 | 68.53 | |||
| AITC hold | Swing | 1.41 |
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2016
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Laxmi Ratan Shukla | 61,917 | 46.4 |  2.85 | |
| INC | Santosh Kumar Pathak | 34,958 | 26.2 | ||
| BJP | Roopa Ganguly | 31,416 | 23.5 | 12.28 | |
| IND | Subodh Pathak | 1,146 | 0.9 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,070 | 0.79 | ||
| Majority | 26,959 | 20.02 | |||
| Turnout | 1,34,764 | 67.98 | |||
| AITC hold | Swing | 2.85 |
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2011
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Ashoke Ghosh | 61,468 | 49.25 | 7.29 | |
| CPI(M) | Nemai Samanta | 41,858 | 33.54 | 20.46 | |
| BJP | Umesh Rai | 16,494 | 13.22 | ||
| IND | Hitendranath Mondal | 1,514 | 1.21 | ||
| BSP | Siddhartha Sarkar | 761 | 0.61 | ||
| Majority | 19,610 | 15.71 | |||
| Turnout | 1,24,865 | 72.52 | |||
| AITC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | 27.75 |
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1977–2006
In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections Lagan Deo Singh of CPI(M) won the Howrah North assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Bani Singha of Trinamool Congress in 2006, Asok Ghosh of Congress in the three other years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Asok Ghosh of Congress defeated Lagan Deo Singh of CPI(M) in 1987 and Chittabrata Majumdar of CPI(M) in 1982. Chittabrata Mazumdar of CPI(M) defeated Supriya Basu of Congress in 1977.[4]
1967–1972
Shankarlal Mukherjee of Congress won in 1972[5] and 1971.[6] Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee of Congress won in 1969.[7] S.K.Mukherjee of Congress won in 1967.[8]
1951–1962
During the period Howrah had four Vidhan Sabha constituencies.
Howrah North
Saila Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962.[9] Samar Mukhopadhyay of CPI won in 1957.[10] Biren Banerjee of CPI won in 1951.[11]
Howrah West
Anadi Dass, Independent, won in 1962.[9] Bankim Chandra Kar of Congress won in 1957[10] and 1951.[11]
Howrah East
Bejoy Bhattacharyya of Congress won in 1962.[9] Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in 1957.[10] Saila Kumar Mukhopdhyay of Congress won in 1951.[11]