Howrah Uttar

Howrah Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: হাওড়া উত্তর বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) (earlier known as Howrah North) is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Howrah Uttar
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Howrah Uttar
Location in West Bengal
Howrah Uttar
Howrah Uttar (India)
Coordinates: 22°36′36″N 88°20′42″E
Country India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictHowrah
Constituency No.170
TypeOpen
Lok Sabha constituency25. Howrah
Electorate (year)171,318 (2011)

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 170 Howrah Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 7 and 10 to 16 of Howrah Municipal Corporation.[1]

Howrah Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly
Election
Year		ConstituencyName of M.L.A.Party Affiliation
1951Howrah NorthBiren BanerjeeCommunist Party of India[2]
Howrah SouthBeni Charan DuttaIndian National Congress[2]
Howrah WestBankim Chandra KarIndian National Congress[2]
Howrah EastSaila Kumar MukhopadhyayIndian National Congress[2]
1957Howrah NorthSamar MukhopadhyayCommunist Party of India[3]
Howrah SouthKanai Lal BhattacharyaAll India Forward Bloc[3]
Howrah WestBankim Chandra KarIndian National Congress[3]
Howrah EastBeni Charan DuttaIndian National Congress[3]
1962Howrah NorthSaila MukherjeeIndian National Congress[4]
Howrah SouthKanai Lal BhattacharyaAll India Forward Bloc[4]
Howrah WestAnadi DassIndependent[4]
Howrah EastBejoy BhattacharyaIndian National Congress[4]
1967Howrah NorthS.K.MukherjeeIndian National Congress[5]
1969Nirmal Kumar MukherjeeIndian National Congress[6]
1971Shankar Lal MukherjeeIndian National Congress[7]
1972Shankar Lal MukherjeeIndian National Congress[8]
1977Chittabrata MajumdarCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982Ashok GhoshIndian National Congress[10]
1987Ashok GhoshIndian National Congress[11]
1991Lagan Deo SinghCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996Lagan Deo SinghCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2001Lagan Deo SinghCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2006Lagan Deo SinghCommunist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
2011Howrah UttarAshok GhoshAll India Trinamool Congress[16]
2016Howrah UttarLaxmi Ratan ShuklaAll India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2016
2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Uttar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Laxmi Ratan Shukla 61,917 46.40
INC Santosh Kumar Pathak 34,958 26.20
BJP Roopa Ganguly 31,416 23.50
Independent Subodh Pathak 1146 0.9
BSP Shewnarayan Chandel 988 0.7
Independent Bina Ganguly Mukherjee 716 0.5
SHS Praveen Kumar Saraf 473 0.4
Independent Ravi Shankar Yadav 447 0.3
Independent Dadan Singh 333 0.3
RPI(G) Sudarsan Manna 245 0.2
Independent Arvind Kumar Dubey 229 0.2
Independent Tapan Bose 183 0.1
Independent Anu Das 182 0.1
Independent Jayant Gupta 182 0.1
Independent Ashish Agarwal 161 0.1
Majority 26,959 20.2
Turnout 1,33,576 69.0
AITC hold Swing

.# Swing calculated on LF+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2016.

2011
West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Howrah Uttar constituency [16][17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Ashoke Ghosh 61,468 49.25 +7.29#
CPI (M) Nemai Samanta 41,858 33.54 -20.46
BJP Ram Narayn Chowrasia 16,494 13.22
Independent Hitendranath Mondal 1,514
BSP Siddhartha Sarkar 761
Independent Murli Dhar Roy 704
Independent Arvind Kumar Dubey 490
Independent Raktendu Naskar 417
Samajtantic Party of India Sudarshan Manna 404
JD(U) Binod Kumar Singh 360
JD(S) Shyam Bihari Singh 326
Turnout 124,794 72.84
AITC gain from CPI (M) Swing 27.75#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Howrah district summary
Party Seats won Seat change
Trinamool Congress 15 13
Indian National Congress 1 1
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 0 11
Forward bloc 0 3

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.[18]

1967-1972

Shankarlal Mukherjee of Congress won in 1972[8] and 1971.[7] Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee of Congress won in 1969.[6] S.K.Mukherjee of Congress won in 1967.[5]

1951-1962

During the period Howrah had four Vidhan Sabha constituencies.

Howrah North

Saila Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962.[4] Samar Mukhopadhyay of CPI won in 1957.[3] Biren Banerjee of CPI won in 1951.[2]

Howrah West

Anadi Dass, Independent, won in 1962.[4] Bankim Chandra Kar of Congress won in 1957[3] and 1951.[2]

Howrah East

Bejoy Bhattacharyya of Congress won in 1962.[4] Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in 1957.[3] Saila Kumar Mukhopdhyay of Congress won in 1951.[2]

For results of Howrah South constituency see Howrah Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

References
  1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
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  7. "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No ?. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  8. "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
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  10. "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  11. "General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  12. "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  13. "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  14. "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  15. "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  16. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  17. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Howrah Uttar. Empowering India. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  18. "162 - Howrah North Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
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