Basirhat Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Basirhat Uttar
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Basirhat Uttar is located in West Bengal
Basirhat Uttar
Basirhat Uttar
Location in West Bengal
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Country  India
State West Bengal
District North 24 Parganas
Constituency No 125
Type Open
Lok Sabha constituency Basirhat
Electorate (year) 192,587 (2011)

Basirhat Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Prior to 2011 Basirhat had one assembly constituency. From 2011 it will have two constituencies Basirhat Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and Basirhat Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Hasnabad (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from 2011.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, 125 Basirhat Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Basirhat II community development block, and Amlani, Bhebia, Makhal Gachha, Murarisha gram panchayats of Hasnabad community development block.[1]

Basirhat Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of 18. Basirhat (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election
Year		 Constituency Name of M.L.A. Party Affiliation
1951 Basirhat Profulla Nath Banerjee Indian National Congress[2]
1957 Profulla Nath Banerjee Indian National Congress[3]
1962 Bijesh Chandra Sen Indian National Congress[4]
1967 A.B.Bandopadhyay Communist Party of India[5]
1969 A.B.Bandopadhyay Communist Party of India[6]
1971 Lalit Kumar Ghosh Indian National Congress[7]
1972 Lalit Kumar Ghosh Indian National Congress[8]
1977 Narayan Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982 Narayan Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1987 Narayan Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1991 Narayan Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996 Narayan Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2001 Narayan Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2006 Narayan Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
2011 Basirhat Uttar Mostafa Bin Kasem Communist Party of India (Marxist)[16]
2011 By-election ATM Abdullah All India Trinamool Congress[17]

Election results

2011

A by-election in 2011 was necessitated by the death of Mostafa bin Kassem, the CPI(M) MLA from Basirhat Uttar, who was found dead outside Kyd street MLA’s Hostel on 29 May 2011.[18]

West Bengal state assembly bye election, 2011: Basirhat Uttar constituency[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Trinamool Congress ATM Abdullah 87,899
CPI(M) Subid Ali Gazi 56,948
BJP Subodh Kumar Chakraborty 6,938
Independent Ajit Pramanick 2,964
Turnout 154,339 80.35
Trinamool Congress gain from CPI(M) Swing
West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Basirhat Uttar constituency[16][19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Mostafa Bin Kasem 75,575 45.19
Trinamool Congress Sardar Amzad Ali 71,632 42.83
BJP Somen Mandal 9,316 5.57
People’s Democratic Conference of India Rafikul Mandal 7,327
BSP Prosanta Biswas 1,829
All india Minorities Front Anwar Hossain Mollah 1,569
Turnout 167,248 86.84
CPI(M) win (new seat)
e • d West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Uttar 24 Parganas district summary
Party Seats won Seat change
Trinamool Congress 28 Increase23
Congress 1 Increase1
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 3 Decrease16
Forward Bloc 0 Decrease3
Revolutionary Socialist Party 0 Decrease1
Communist Party of India 1 Increase1

Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 2 (See template talk page for details)

As per 2011 census the total population of basirhat uttar is 338937,Hindu 115986,Muslim 222264,Other 687.Hindu 34.22%,Muslim 65.58%,Other 0.20%.

1977-2006 Basirhat

During the period Narayan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won seven elections in a row from 95 Basirhat assembly constituency, defeating his nearest rivals Asit Majumdar of INC in 2006,[15]Souren Sen of Trinamool Congress in 2001,[14]Asit Majumdar of Congress in 1996,[13]Dilip Mazumdar of Congress in 1991[12]and 1987,[11]and Debi Prasad Nanda of Congress in 1982[10]and 1977.[9][20]

1951-1972 Basirhat

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Lalit Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1972[8]and 1971.[7]A.B.Bandopadhyay of CPI won in 1969[6]and 1967.[5]Bijesh Chandra Sen of Congress won in 1962.[4]Profulla Nath Banerjee of Congress won in 1957[3]and in independent India’s first election in 1951.[2]

References

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