Kandi Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Kandi
কান্দি বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র | |
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Assembly constituency | |
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Coordinates: 23°57′N 88°02′E | |
Country | India |
State | West Bengal |
District | Murshidabad |
Constituency No | 68 |
Type | Open |
Lok Sabha constituency | 10. Baharampur |
Electorate (year) | 178,692 (2011)[1] 208,187 (2016)[2] 238,973 (2021)[3] |
Government | |
• Incumbent MLA | Apurba Sarkar |
• Political Party | AITC |
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 68 Kandi Assembly constituency covers Kandi municipality, Kandi community development block, and Satui Chaurigachha gram panchayat of Berhampore community development block.[4]
Kandi Assembly constituency is part of No. 10 Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency).[4]
Election Year | Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation |
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1951 | Kandi | Goalbadan Trivedi | Indian National Congress[5] |
1957 | Sudhir Mondal | Indian National Congress[6] | |
Bimal Chandra Sinha | Indian National Congress[6] | ||
1962 | Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha | Indian National Congress[7] | |
1967 | G.Trivedi | Indian National Congress[8] | |
1969 | Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha | Independent[9] | |
1971 | Atish Chandra Sinha | Indian National Congress[10] | |
1972 | Atish Chandra Sinha | Indian National Congress[11] | |
1977 | Atish Chandra Sinha | Indian National Congress[12] | |
1982 | Atish Chandra Sinha | Indian National Congress[13] | |
1987 | Syed Wahid Reza | Communist Party of India[14] | |
1991 | Atish Chandra Sinha | Indian National Congress[15] | |
1996 | Atish Chandra Sinha | Indian National Congress[16] | |
2001 | Atish Chandra Sinha | Indian National Congress[17] | |
2006 | Apurba Sarkar | Congress-Supported Independent[18] | |
2011 | Apurba Sarkar | Indian National Congress[19] | |
2016 | Apurba Sarkar | Indian National Congress[20] | |
2019 | Safiul Alam Khan(Bonu khan) | Indian National Congress |
|- |2021|||| Apurba Sarkar||Trinomul Congress|[21]
In the 2011 election, Apurba Sarkar of Congress defeated his nearest rival Ainal Haque of CPI.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Apurba Sarkar (David) | 66,513 | 46.10 | + 13.59# | |
CPI | Ainal Haque | 58,703 | 40.68 | +7.64 | |
Independent | Sahitya Pradip Sinha | 9,836 | 6.82 | ||
BJP | Dhananjoy Mandal | 4,351 | 3.02 | ||
BSP | Amit Kumar Das | 1,429 | |||
CPI(ML)L | Manirul Islam | 1,254 | |||
Independent | Sasti Konai | 850 | |||
JD(U) | Nazimul Islam | 736 | |||
MLKSC | Majibur Rahaman Sheikh | 615 | |||
Turnout | 144,287 | 80.91 | |||
INC hold | Swing | -21.51# | |||
Sahitya Pradip Sinha, contesting as an independent, was reportedly backed by Trinamool Congress.[23]
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Rebel Congress (Independent) vote percentages taken together in 2006. Calculated only on the vote percentages secured by Apurba Sarakar in 2006 and 2011 the swing is +3.59%.
In the 2006 election, Apurba Sarkar of Congress MP of Baharampur, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Supported Independent defeated his nearest rival Abdul Hamid of CPI.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Apurba Sarkar (David) | 50,157 | 34.87 | - 13.87# | |
CPI | Abdul Hamid | 47,525 | 33.04 | +7.64 | |
INC | Atish Chandra Sinha | 36,103 | 25.10 | ||
Independent | Hari Prasad Chandra | 2,204 | 1.53 | ||
AITC | Partha Mukherjee | 1,787 | |||
CPI(ML)L | Syed Fazle Alam | 1,532 | |||
Independent | Md. Safiuddin Sk. | 1184 | |||
Independent | Uday Das | 996 | |||
Independent | Narendra Narayan Roy | 893 | |||
Independent | Babu Bagdhi | 884 | |||
Independent | Md. Shahzamal | 561 | |||
Turnout | 143,829 | ||||
INC hold | Swing | -21.51# | |||
In the 2006 state assembly elections[18] Apurba Sarkar, Independent, won the 68 Kandi assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Abdul Hamid of CPI. Apurba Sarkar, contesting as an independent, was a rebel congress candidate put up by Adhir Choudhury as a protest against the official Congress candidate Atish Sinha.[25] He was subsequently taken back into the Congress.[26] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Atish Chandra Sinha of Congress defeated Chandan Sen of CPI in 2001,[17] Syed Wahid Reza of CPI in 1996[16] and 1991.[15] Syed Wahid Reza of CPI defeated Bankim Trivedi of Congress in 1987.[14] Atish Chandra Sinha of Congress defeated Syed Abdur Razzaque of CPI in 1982[13] and Jagadish Sinha of Janata Party in 1977.[12][27]
Atish Chandra Sinha won in 1972[11] and 1971.[10] Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha, Independent, won in 1969.[9] G. Trivedi of Congress won in 1967.[8] Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha of Congress won in 1962.[7] Kandi was a joint seat in 1957.[6] Sudhir Mondal and Bimal Chandra Sinha, both of Congress, won the seat jointly. In independent India's first election in 1951 Goalbadan Trivedi of Congress won from the Kandi seat.[5]
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