Asansol Uttar Assembly constituency

Asansol Uttar
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Asansol Uttar Location in West Bengal Asansol Uttar Asansol Uttar (India)
Coordinates: 23°41′N 86°59′E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Bardhaman
Constituency No.	281
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	40. Asansol
Electorate (year)	198,342(2011)

Asansol Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It covers most of the area earlier under Asansol constituency. There is another constituency named Asansol Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency).

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, there are two constituencies, namely Asansol Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and Asansol Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency). No. 281 Asansol Uttar covers ward nos. 1 to 8, 10 to 17, 19, 21 to 33 of Asansol municipal corporation. No. 280 Asansol Dakshin covers ward nos. 9, 18, 20, 34 to 50 of Asansol municipal corporation and Amrasota, Egra, Ballavpur, Jemari and Tirat gram panchayats of Raniganj community development block.

Asansol Uttar and Asansol Dakshin assembly segments are part of No. 40 Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency).

Election results

2016 result

West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2016: Asansol Uttar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Moloy Ghatak	84,715	46.12	-16.02
	BJP	Nirmal Karmakar	60,818	33.11	+28.74
	INC	Indrani Mishra	31,892	17.36	-13.85#
	BMP	Dipali Ruidas	2,178	1.18	N/A
	ABHM	Shyama Charan Dutta	1,268	0.69	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	2,795	1.52	N/A
Majority			23,897	13.01	-17.92
Turnout			183,666
	AITC hold		Swing	-22.38

1. Joint candidate of CPI(M), CPI, JD(U), RJD, NCP and INC. As the CPI(M) contested the previous election, the performance of this candidate is based on the previous election

Asansol Uttar constituency 2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Asansol Uttar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Moloy Ghatak	96,011	62.14	+11.26#
	CPI(M)	Ranu Roychowdhury	48,218	31.21	-17.91
	BJP	Madan Mohan Choubey	6,750	4.37
	JD(U)	Bijay Prasad Singh	3,536
Majority			47,793	30.93
Turnout			154,515	77.90
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+29.17

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages in 2006 taken together. Template:Bardhaman 2011 election summary

Asansol constituency 1977-2006

In 2006 state assembly elections. Prativa Ranjan Mukherjee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)) won the Asansol seat defeating his nearest rival Kalyan Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, Kalyan Banerjee had defeated Goutam Roy Choudhuri of CPI (M). In 1996, Tapas Banerjee of Congress had defeated Goutam Roy Choudhury. In 1991, Goutam Roy Choudhury had won the seat defeating Bajrangi Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In 1987, Prabuddha Laha of Congress had defeated Goutam Roy Choudhury. In 1982, Bejoy Pal of CPI (M) defeated his nearest rival Sukumar Banerjee of Congress. In 1977, Haradhan Roy of CPI (M) defeated Gopika Ranjan Mitra of Congress.

Asansol constituency 1951-1972

In 1972, Niranjan Dihidar of Communist Party of India won the seat. In 1969 and 1971, Dr. Lokesh Ghosh of CPI (M) won the seat. In 1967, Gopika Ranjan Mitra of Congress won the seat. In 1962, Bijoy Pal of CPI won. In 1957, it was won by Shibdas Ghatak of Congress. In independent India’s first election in 1951, Atindra Nath Bose of Forward Bloc (Ruikar) won the seat defeating Yogendranath Roy of Congress.