Rajarhat New Town Assembly constituency

Rajarhat New Town Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 115 Rajarhat New Town Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1–5,12-14,20-21 of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation and Ward 27 of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation and remaining Rajarhat CD Block
Rajarhat New Town Assembly constituency is part of No. 17 Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency). Rajarhat was part of Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).

Election results

2011

In the 2011 election, Sabyasachi Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Tapash Chatterjee of CPI.
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977–2006 Rajarhat

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Rabindranath Mondal of CPI(M) won the Rajarhat assembly seat defeating Tanmoy Mondal of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001 Tanmoy Mondal of Trinamool Congress defeated Rabindranath Mondal of CPI. Prior to that Rabindranath Mondal had won the seat five times in a row defeating Tanmoy Mondal representing Congress in 1996, Sukumar Roy of Congress in 1991, Biswananda Naskar of Congress in 1987, Tanmoy Mondal of Congress in 1982 and Amalendu Sekhar Naskar of Congress in 1977.

1962–1972 Rajarhat

Khagendranath Mondal of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Rabindranath Mondal of CPI won in 1969. S.N.Das of CPI won in 1967. Pranab Prasad Roy of CPI won in 1962. Prior to that the Rajarhat seat was not there.