Behala Purba Assembly constituency (earlier known as Behala East Assembly constituency) is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Behala Purba Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 115, 116, 117, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 142, 143 and 144 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
Borough Ward No. Councillor2021 WinnerXIII115Ratna Sur116Krishna Singh117Amit Singh120Susanta GhoshXIV121Rupak GangulyXIII122Soma ChakrabortyXVI123Sudip Polley124Rajib Kumar Das142Raghunath Patra143Christina Biswas144Shefali Pramanik
Behala Purba Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency.
Members of the Legislative Assembly YearNamePartyBehala1952Biren Roy1957Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay1962Behala East1967Niranjan Mukherjee196919711972Indrajit Majumdar1977Niranjan Mukherjee198219871991Kumkum Chakraborti19962001Parash Dutta2006Kumkum ChakrabortiMajor boundary changes; constituency renamed as Behala Purba
Behala Purba (since 2011) PortraitName Tenure in office Political PartyElectionFromToTime in office 1Sovan Chaterjee20 May 20118 May 2021Trinamool Congress201120162Ratna Chaterjee8 May 20217 May 202620213Sankar Sikder 13 May 2026Incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party2026
Election results
2026 In the 2026 elections, Sankar Sikder of the Bharatiya Janata Party defeated his nearest rival Subhasish Chakraborty of the TMC by 25,137 votes and by 10.72% of votes ending the 15- year rule of TMC in the constituency. The BJP gained 16.07% votes whereas the TMC lost 11.51% votes as compared to the 2021 elections. The CPI (M) lose -4.23% votes as compared to the 2021 elections by scoring just 9.37% of votes.
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2016
2011 In 2011 Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kumkum Chakraborty of CPI(M),
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
2006 In the 2006 state assembly elections, Kumkum Chakraborti of Communist Party of India (Marxist) won the Behala East assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Parash Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) in 2001. Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) defeated Sonali Guha of Congress in 1996, and Sailen Dasgupta of Congress in 1991. Niranjan Mukherjeee of CPI(M) defeated Debashis Bhattacharya of Congress in 1987, Balaram Goswami of Congress in 1982, and Indrajit Mazumdar of Congress in 1977.
1972 Indrajit Majumdar of Congress won the Behala East seat in 1972. Niranjan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971, 1969 and 1967. Prior to that Behala was a single seat. Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay of CPI won the Behala seat in 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1952, Biren Roy of Forward Bloc (RG) won the Behala seat.
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