Panchla Assembly constituency

Panchla
Constituency No. 175 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Panchla Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State West Bengal
District Howrah
LS constituency Howrah
Established 1962
Total electors 206,646
Reservation None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Gulshan Mallick
Party All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year 2021

Panchla Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 175 Panchla Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Panchla community development block and Gobindapur, Islampur, Laskarpur, Polegustia gram panchayats of Jagatballavpur community development block.

Panchla Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency). Panchla was earlier part of Sreerampur (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election
Year
Constituency Name of M.L.A. Party Affiliation
1962 Panchla Apurba Lal Mazumdar All India Forward Bloc
1967 A.P.Mukhopadhyay Indian National Congress
1969 Kanai Lal Bhattacharya All India Forward Bloc
1971 Ashoke Kumar Ghose Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1972 Sk Anwar Ali Indian National Congress
1977 Santosh Kumar Das All India Forward Bloc
1982 Anwar Ali Sheikh Indian National Congress
1987 Sailen Mondal All India Forward Bloc
1991 Sailen Mondal All India Forward Bloc
1996 Gulshan Mullick Indian National Congress
2001 Sailen Mondal All India Forward Bloc
2006 Doli Roy All India Forward Bloc
2011 Gulshan Mallick All India Trinamool Congress
2016 Gulshan Mallick All India Trinamool Congress
2021 Gulshan Mallick All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2016

AITC Candidate-Gulshan Mallik Votes-101126 Percentage-52.98 AIFB Candidate-Doli Roy Votes-69199 Percentage-36.25 BJP Candidate-Bhabani Prashad Roy Votes-16060 Percentage-8.42 Independent Candidate-Shyamal Mondal Votes-1018 Percentage-0.52 IUC Ahmed Hossain Middya Votes-891 Percentage-0.47

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Panchla constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Gulshan Mallick 76,628 45.76 -6.54#
AIFB Doli Roy 64,510 38.53 -9.27
Independent Mohit Lal Ghanti 14,487
BJP Shyamal Kumar Adak 7,523
BSP Sakirul Islam Sekh 1,870
Independent Shyamal Mondal 1,637
People’s Democratic Conference of India Mohiuddin Mollah 785
Turnout 167,440 81.03
AITC gain from AIFB Swing 2.83#

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Doli Roy of Forward Bloc won the Panchla assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Abul Kassem Molla of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Sk. Nazrul Islam of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Gulshan Mullick of Congress defeated Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc in 1996. Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Prafulla Santra of Congress in 1991, and Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress in 1987. Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress defeated Santosh Kumar Das of Forward Bloc in 1982. Santosh Kumar Das of Forward Bloc defeated Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress in 1977.

1962-1972

Sk Anwar Ali of Congress won in 1972. Asoke Kumar Ghosh of CPI(M) won in 1971. Kanai Lal Bhattacharya of Forward Bloc won in 1969. A.P.Mukhopadhyay of Congress won in 1967. Apurba Lal Majumdar of Forward Bloc won in 1962. The Panchla seat did not exist prior to that.