Chakulia Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Uttar Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It came into existence in 2011, as per orders of the Delimitation Commission.
Chakulia | |
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Assembly constituency | |
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Coordinates: 26°01′17″N 87°57′09″E | |
Country | ![]() |
State | West Bengal |
District | Uttar Dinajpur |
Constituency No | 31 |
Type | Open |
Lok Sabha constituency | 5. Raiganj |
Electorate (year) | 167,013 (2011)[1] 200,084 (2016)[2] 233,378 (2021)[3] |
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 31 Chakulia Assembly constituency covers Goalpokhar II community development block and Bazargaon I and Bazargaon II gram panchayats of Karandighi community development block.[4]
Chakulia Assembly constituency is part of No. 5. Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency).[4]
Election Year | MLA | Party | |
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Goalpokhar constituency | |||
1957 | Muzaffar Hussain | Indian National Congress | |
1962 | Mohammad Hayat Ali | Praja Socialist Party | |
1967 | Mohammad Salimuddin | ||
1969 | |||
1971 | Sheikh Sharafat Hossain | Indian National Congress | |
1972 | |||
1977 | Md. Ramjan Ali | All India Forward Bloc | |
1982 | |||
1987 | |||
1991 | |||
1996 | Hafiz Alam Sairani | ||
2001 | |||
2006 | Deepa Dasmunsi | Indian National Congress | |
2009 | Ali Imran Ramz | All India Forward Bloc | |
Chakulia constituency created - 2011 | |||
2011 | Ali Imran Ramz | All India Forward Bloc | |
2016 | |||
2021 | Minhazul Arfin Azad | Trinamool Congress |
bolded year = bye
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Minhajul Arfin Azad | 86,311 | 49.78 | +25.73 | |
BJP | Sachin Prasad | 52,474 | 30.26 | +5.90 | |
AIFB | Ali Imran Ramz (Victor) | 28,704 | 16.55 | -26.10 | |
BSP | Goutam Paul | 2,725 | 1.57 | -4.22 | |
NOTA | None of the above | 1,186 | 0.68 | -0.39 | |
Independent | Mazhar Imam | 1,046 | 0.60 | ||
JD(U) | Kamkshya Sarkar | 954 | 0.55 | ||
Turnout | 173,400 | ||||
AITC gain from AIFB | Swing | ||||
In the 2016 election, Ali Imran Ramz (Victor) of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Ashim Kumar Mridha of BJP.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AIFB | Ali Imran Ramz (Victor) | 64,185 | 42.65 | -9.48 | |
BJP | Ashim Kumar Mridha | 36,656 | 24.36 | +21.12 | |
AITC | Alema Noorie | 36,198 | 24.05 | ||
BSP | Goutam Chandra Paul | 8,719 | 5.79 | +1.57 | |
SP | Mir Masud Alam | 1,839 | 1.22 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 1,613 | 1.07 | +1.07 | |
Independent | Rafikul Alam | 1,290 | 0.86 | ||
Turnout | 1,50,500 | 75.22 | +0.25 | ||
AIFB hold | Swing | ||||
Note- Indian National Congress supported the All India Forward Bloc candidate Ali Imran Ramz (Victor) in 2016.
In the 2011 election, Ali Imran Ramz of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Serajul Islam of Congress.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AIFB | Ali Imran Ramz (Victor) | 65,265 | 52.13 | ||
INC | Serajul Islam | 44,852 | 35.82 | ||
BSP | Goutam Chandra Paul | 5,287 | 4.22 | ||
BJP | Kalipada Ghosh | 4,052 | 3.24 | ||
JDP | Durga Hemram | 3,081 | |||
Independent | Raj Kumar Jain | 2,661 | |||
Turnout | 125,198 | 74.97 | |||
AIFB win (new seat) |
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