# Bhatpara Assembly constituency

Bhatpara Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

## Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 105 Bhatpara Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos.1 to 17 of Bhatpara municipality.
Bhatpara Assembly constituency is part of No. 15 Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency).

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

| Election | Member | Party Affiliation |
| 1951 | Dayaram Beri | Indian National Congress |
| 1957 | Sitaram Gupta | Communist Party of India |
| 1962 | Dayaram Beri | Indian National Congress |
| 1967 | Dayaram Beri | Indian National Congress |
| 1969 | Sitaram Gupta | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1971 | Satyanarayan Singh | Indian National Congress |
| 1972 | Satyanarayan Singh | Indian National Congress |
| 1977 | Sitaram Gupta | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1982 | Sitaram Gupta | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1987 | Satyanarayan Singh | Indian National Congress |
| 1991 | Bidyut Ganguly | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1996 | Bidyut Ganguly | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 2001 | Arjun Singh | Trinamool Congress |
| 2006 | Arjun Singh | Trinamool Congress |
| 2011 | Arjun Singh | Trinamool Congress |
| 2016 | Arjun Singh | Trinamool Congress |
| 2019 | Pawan Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2021 | Pawan Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party |

## Election results
### 2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhatpara :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Pawan Kumar Singh | 57,244 | 53.4 | −4.69 |
| | AITC | Jitendra Shaw (Jitu) | 43,557 | 40.63 | +5.63 |
| | INC | Dharmendra Shaw | 2,169 | 2.02 | |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 1,160 | 1.08 | −0.76 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 13,687 | 12.76 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,07,197 | 69.69 | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 1,54,037 | | |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | | |

### 2019 By-Election

Bye-Election, 2019: Bhatpara :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Pawan Kumar Singh | 58,119 | 58.09 | +44.89 |
| | AITC | Madan Mitra | 35,015 | 35.00 | −19.57 |
| | CPI(M) | Ranjit Kumar Mandal | 3,589 | 3.59 | |
| | Independent | Saikat Kumar Dey | 796 | 0.80 | |
| | INC | Khwaja Ahmed Hussain | 746 | 0.75 | |
| | Independent | Santu Dey | 725 | 0.72 | |
| | Independent | Sanjay Singh | 138 | 0.14 | |
| | Independent | Goutam Maity | 68 | 0.07 | |
| | Independent | Ritesh Kumar Singh | 59 | 0.06 | |
| | Independent | Dharmendra Singh | 36 | 0.04 | |
| | Independent | Pramod Singh | 34 | 0.03 | |
| | Independent | Debraj Ghosh | 30 | 0.03 | |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 701 | 0.70 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 23,104 | 23.09 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,00,056 | 66.99 | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 1,49,371 | | |
| | BJP gain from AITC | BJP gain from AITC | Swing | +32.23 | |

### 2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhatpara :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | AITC | Arjun Singh | 59,253 | 54.57 |
| | Independent | Jitendra Shaw | 30,318 | 27.92 |
| | BJP | Rumesh Kumar Handa | 14,333 | 13.20 |
| | Independent | Gopal Raut | 788 | 0.73 |
| | SUCI(C) | Partha Bhattacharya | 688 | 0.63 |
| | Independent | Dharmendra Singh | 678 | 0.62 |
| | Independent | Shatrughna Singh | 504 | 0.46 |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 2,015 | 1.86 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 28,935 | 26.65 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,08,577 | 75.02 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 1,44,737 | |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | |

### 2011

In the 2011 election, Arjun Singh of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Nepaldeb Bhattacharya of CPI(M).
West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Bhatpara constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Arjun Singh | 66,938 | 70.94 | +2.78 |
| | CPI(M) | Nepaldeb Bhattacharya | 22,553 | 23.90 | −2.58 |
| | BJP | Pradyot Kumar Choudhary | 2,099 | 2.22 | |
| | Independent | Manoj Kumar Chatterjee | 1,632 | | |
| | BSP | Sushanto Barai | 637 | | |
| | Independent | Gopal Rout | 494 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 94,353 | 76.62 | |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | 5.36# | |
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

### 1977–2006

In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections Arjun Singh of Trinamool Congress won the Bhatpara assembly seat defeating Harimohan Nath of CPI (M) in 2006 and Ramprasad Kundu of CPI (M) in 2001. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Bidyut Ganguly of CPI (M) defeated Dharampal Gupta of Congress in 1996 and Kedar Singh of Congress 1991. Satyanarayan Singh of Congress defeated Siva Prasad Bhattacharya of CPI (M) in 1987. Sita Ram Gupta of CPI (M) defeated Debi Ghosal of Congress in 1982 and Satya Narayan Singh of Congress in 1977.

### 1951–1972

Satyanarayan Singh of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Sitaram Gupta of CPI(M) won in 1969. Dayaram Beri of Congress won in 1967 and 1962. Sitaram Gupta of CPI won in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Dayaram Beri of Congress won from Bhatpara.