Champdani Assembly constituency

Champdani Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 187 Champdani Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Champdani Municipality, Baidyabati Municipality, Ward Nos. 1 & 2 and 20 to 24 of Sreerampur Municipality and Payarapur gram panchayat of Sreerampur-Uttarpara community development block.
The towns of Sheoraphuli and Baidyabati falls under this jurisdiction.
Champdani Assembly constituency is part of No. 27 Sreerampur Lok Sabha constituency.

Election results

1977-2006

In the [2006 West Bengal state Vidhan Sabha|assembly election|2006 state assembly elections], Jibesh Chakraborty of CPI(M) won the Champdani assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Abdul Mannan of Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Abdul Mannan of Congress defeated Kaji Abdul Hai of CPI in 2001, and Sunil Sarkar of CPI in 1996 and 1991. Sunil Sarkar of CPI defeated Gouri Sankar Banerjee of Congress in 1987. Sailendra Nath Chattopadhyay of CPI defeated Swaraj Mukhopadhyay of Congress in 1982 and Bibhas Chandra Ghosh of Janata Party in 1977.

1967-1972

Girija Bhushan Mukhopadhyay of CPI won in 1972. Haripada Mukherjee of CPI won in 1971 and 1969. Byomkesh Majumdar of Congress won in 1967. Prior to that the Champdani seat did not exist.