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Santipur Assembly constituency (also spelt Shantipur) is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Santipur
Assembly constituency
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Coordinates: 23°15′0″N 88°26′0″E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Nadia
Constituency No	86
Lok Sabha constituency	13. Ranaghat (SC)
Electorate (year)	190,634 (2011)[1] 225,358 (2016)[2] 255,619 (2021)[3]

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 86 Santipur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Shantipur municipality, and Babla, Baganchra, Belgoria I, Belgoria II Gayeshpur and Haripur gram panchayats of the Santipur community development block.[4]

Santipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 13 Ranaghat (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).[4] It was earlier part of Nabadwip (Lok Sabha constituency).[5]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1951	Sashi Bhusan Khan	Indian National Congress[6]
1957	Haridas Dey	Indian National Congress[7]
1962	Kanai Pal	Independent[8]
1967	K.Pal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1969	M. Mokshed Ali	Revolutionary Communist Party of India[10]
1971	Bimalananda Mukherjee	Revolutionary Communist Party of India[11]
1972	Asamanja De	Indian National Congress[12]
1977	Bimalananda Mukherjee	Independent[13]
1982		Revolutionary Communist Party of India[14]
1987		Revolutionary Communist Party of India[15]
1991	Ajoy Dey	Indian National Congress[16]
1996		Indian National Congress[17]
2001		Indian National Congress[18]
2006		Indian National Congress[19]
2011		Indian National Congress[20]
By-Election, 2014		All India Trinamool Congress
2016	Arindam Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress[21]
2021	Jagannath Sarkar	Bharatiya Janata Party
2021 by-election	Braja Kishore Goswami	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021 By-election

By-election, 2021: Santipur[22][23][24][25]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Braja Kishore Goswami	112,087	54.89	+12.17
	BJP	Niranjan Biswas	47,412	23.22	-26.72
	CPI(M)	Soumen Mahato	39,958	19.57	+19.57
	INC	Raju Pal	2,877	1.41	-3.07
	NOTA	None of the above	1,880	0.92
Majority			64,675	31.67
Turnout			204,469	80.08
	AITC gain from BJP		Swing

2021 Assembly Election

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Santipur[26]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jagannath Sarkar	1,09,722	49.94
	AITC	Ajoy Dey	93,844	42.72
	INC	Riju Ghoshal	9,848	4.48
	NOTA	None of the above	2,385	1.09
Majority			15,878	7.28
Turnout			2,20,238	86.16
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2016

In the 2016 elections, the 6 times MLA Ajoy Dey was defeated by the West Bengal State Youth Congress, President, Arindam Bhattacharya. Arindam Bhattacharya a young leader and a corporate and International Trade Law expert registered a historical win over his rival, securing a 1,03,566 (52.25%) votes[27] with a winning margin of 19,488 votes.

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Santipur[28]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Arindam Bhattacharya	103,566	51.76
	AITC	Ajoy Dey	84,078	42.02
	BJP	Swapan Kumar Dam	7,495	3.75
Majority			19,488	9.74
Turnout			2,00,178	88.83
	INC gain from AITC		Swing

2014 General election

Santipur Assembly constituency is part of Ranaghat (Lok Sabha constituency). Ranaghat went to the polls on May 12, 2014 in phase 5 of the 2014 general election in West Bengal.[29] The result of Santipur in this election is given below.[30]

Party		Candidate	Valid Votes	Votes recorded on Postal Ballot papers
	AITC	Tapas Mandal	69,651	N/A
	CPI(M)	Archana Biswas	52,403
	BJP	Supravat Biswas	31,070
	INC	Pratap Kanti Ray	25,885
Rejected Votes			0
NOTA			2,122
Tendered Votes			0
Majority			17,248
Turnout			186,767

2014 By-election

A by-election was held on 12 April 2014 following the resignation of the sitting MLA, Ajoy Dey who switched over to Trinamool Congress from Congress.

By-election, 2014: Santipur[31][32][33]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ajoy Dey	71,973	38.95
	CPI(M)	Anup Kumar Ghosh	51,838	28.05
	INC	Kumares Chakraborty	36,645	19.83
	BJP	Sufal Sarkar	24,324	13.16
Majority			20,135	10.90
Turnout			1,87,088	86.94
	AITC gain from INC		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Ajoy Dey of Congress defeated his nearest rival Yar Mullick of RCPI.

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Santipur [20][34][35]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ajoy Dey	98,902	57.77	+10.09
	RCPI	Yar Mullick	60,744	35.48	-11.18#
	BJP	Kanoj Biswas	11,543	6.74
Majority			38,158	22.29
Turnout			1,71,255	89.83
	INC hold		Swing	+21.27

.# Swing calculated on CPI(M)'s vote percentage in 2006.

1977–2006

In the 2006,[19] 2001,[18] 1996[17] and 1991[16] state assembly elections, Ajoy Dey of Congress won the Santipur seat, defeating his nearest rivals Sanatanu Chakrabarti of CPI (M), Badal Basak, Independent, Bimalananda Mukherjee of RCPI (R), and Asim Ghosh of RCPI in respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 1987,[15] 1982[14] and 1977,[13] Bimalananda Mukherjee, RCPI/Independent candidate defeated Ajay Dey, Asamanja De (both of Congress) and Jnanendra Nath Pramanik of Janata Party in the respective years.[36]

1951–1972

Asamanja De of Congress won in 1972.[12] Bimalananda Mukherjee of RCPI won in 1971.[11] M. Mokshed Ali of RCPI won in 1969.[10] K.Pal of CPI(M) won in 1967.[9] Kanai Pal, Independent, won in 1962.[8] Haridas Dey of Congress won in 1957.[7] In independent India's first election in 1951, Sashi Bhusan Khan of Congress won the Santipur seat.[6]

References

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