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| Constituency No. 12 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
Interactive Map Outlining Alipurduars Assembly Constituency
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Alipurduar |
| LS constituency | Alipurduars |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 260,652 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Alipurduars Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Alipurduar district in the Indian stateofWest Bengal.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 12 Alipurduars Assembly constituency covers Alipurduar municipality, Alipurduar Railway Junction, Banchukamari, Chakowakheti, Mathura, Parorpar, Patlakhawa, Shalkumar I, Shalkumar II, Tapsikhata, Vivekananda II, Vivekananda I gram panchayatsofAlipurduar I community development block, and Chaporerpar I, Chaporerpar II, and Tatpara II gram panchayats of Alipurduar II community development block.[1]
Alipurduars Assembly constituency is part of No. 2 Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency) (ST).[1]
Narayan Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP won in 1969 and 1967. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, it was a joint seat. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee and Dhirandra Brahma Mandal, both from Congress, won.
Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections, Nirmal Das of RSP defeated Sourav Chakraborty of Congress, Prasanta Narayan Majumdar of Trinamool Congress, Manindralal Rakshit of Congress and Biswa Ranjan Sarkar of Congress, respectively. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP defeated Debabrata Chatterjee of Congress in 1987, Pallab Ghosh of Congress in 1982 and Narayan Bhattachary of Congress in 1977.
In the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Debaprasad Roy of Congress defeated his nearest rival Kshiti Goswami of RSP.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| INC | Debaprasad Roy | 79,605 | 46.02 | Winner | |
| RSP | Kshiti Goswami | 72,822 | 42.10 | ||
| BJP | Manik Chandra Saha | 8,238 | 4.76 | ||
| Independent | Santosh Kumar Balo | 3,072 | 1.78 | ||
| JMM | Manohar Bhagat | 1,864 | 1.08 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Abhijit Roy | 1,508 | 0.87 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Chanchal Kumar Das | 1,438 | 0.83 | ||
| Independent | Parimal Roy | 1,396 | 0.81 | ||
| Independent | Sanjit Das | 1,301 | 0.75 | ||
| BSP | Mantu Barman | 1,195 | 0.69 | ||
| Rashtriya Deshaj Party | Bishwanath Gop | 530 | 0.31 | ||
| Majority | 6,783 | 3.92 | |||
| Turnout | 1,72,969 | 86.04 | |||
| INC gain from RSP | Swing | ||||
In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Sourav Chakraborty of TMC defeated his nearest rival Biswaranjan Sarkar of Congress.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| AITC | Sourav Chakraborty | 89,695 | 44.09 | Winner | |
| INC | Biswaranjan Sarkar | 77,737 | 38.21 | ||
| BJP | Kushal Chatterjee | 20,098 | 9.88 | ||
| RSP | Nirmal Das | 7,324 | 3.60 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Alokesh Das | 2,308 | 1.13 | ||
| AMB | Dalendra Nath Ray | 1,341 | 0.66 | ||
| Independent | Santosh Kumar Balo | 989 | 0.49 | ||
| BSP | Gouri Roy | 974 | 0.48 | ||
| None of the Above | None of the Above | 2,980 | 1.46 | ||
| Majority | 11,958 | 5.88 | |||
| Turnout | 2,03,446 | 86.16 | |||
| AITC gain from INC | Swing | ||||
In the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Suman Kanjilal of BJP defeated his nearest rival Sourav Chakraborty of TMC.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| BJP | Suman Kanjilal | 107,333 | 48.19 | Winner | |
| AITC | Sourav Chakraborty | 91,326 | 41.00 | ||
| INC | Debprosad Roy | 15,651 | 7.03 | ||
| Independent | Nikhil Chandra Raibir | 2,351 | 1.06 | ||
| Independent | Rinku Ghosh | 1,393 | 0.63 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Pijush Kanti Sarma | 1,111 | 0.5 | ||
| Independent | Ashim Roy | 696 | 0.31 | ||
| Independent | Kushal Kumar Roy | 620 | 0.28 | ||
| Independent | Abinash Das | 270 | 0.12 | ||
| None of the Above | None of the Above | 1,981 | 0.89 | ||
| Turnout | 2,22,732 | ||||
| BJP gain from AITC | Swing | ||||
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