# Bijpur Assembly constituency

Bijpur 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. 103 Bijpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kanchrapara municipality and Halisahar municipality.
Bijpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 15 Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency).

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

| Election | Member | Party Affiliation |
| 1951 | Bipin Behari Ganguli | Indian National Congress |
| 1957 | Niranjan Sengupta | Communist Party of India |
| 1962 | Monoranjan Roy | Communist Party of India |
| 1967 | Jagadish Chandra Das | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1969 | Jagadish Chandra Das | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1971 | Jagadish Chandra Das | Indian National Congress |
| 1972 | Jagadish Chandra Das | Indian National Congress |
| 1977 | Jagadish Chandra Das | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1982 | Jagadish Chandra Das | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1987 | Jagadish Chandra Das | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1991 | Jagadish Chandra Das | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1996 | Kamal Sengupta Basu | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 2001 | Jagadish Chandra Das | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 2006 | Dr. Nirjharini Chakraborty | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 2011 | Subhranshu Roy | All India Trinamool Congress |
| 2016 | Subhranshu Roy | AITC, but later suspended - joined BJP in 2019 |
| 2021 | Subodh Adhikary | All India Trinamool Congress |

## Election results
### 2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bijpur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Subodh Adhikary | 66,625 | 47.90% | −13.68 |
| | BJP | Subhranshu Roy | 53,278 | 38.30% | +27.3 |
| | CPI(M) | Sukanta Rakshit (Babin) | 14,490 | 10.42% | −13.08 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 13,347 | 9.65 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,37,869 | 72.54 | +3.03 |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | | |

### 2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Bijpur constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Subhranshu Roy | 76,744 | 61.58 | +10.09 |
| | CPI(M) | Dr. Rabindra Nath Mukherjee | 28,888 | 23.15 | −18.42 |
| | BJP | Alo Rani Sarkar | 13,723 | 11 | +7.19 |
| | SUCI(C) | Kalipada Debnath | 1,714 | | |
| | None of the Above | None of the Above | 1,483 | | |
| | BSP | Krishna Gopal Majhi | 1,001 | | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 47,954 | 38.43 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,24,504 | 69.51 | –10.73 |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | | |

### 2011

In the 2011 elections, SubhransHu Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Nirjharini Chakraborty of CPI(M).
West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Bijpur constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Subhranshu Roy | 65,479 | 51.49 | +4.57# |
| | CPI(M) | Nirjharini Chakarborty | 52,867 | 41.57 | −11.08 |
| | BJP | Kamala Kanta Chowdhury | 4,841 | 3.81 | |
| | Independent | Ramen Mallick | 2,005 | | |
| | BSP | Sarat Chandra Biswas | 1,982 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 127,174 | 80.24 | |
| | AITC gain from CPI(M) | AITC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | 15.66%* | |
.*Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

### 1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections Dr. Nirjharini Chakraborty of CPI(M) won the Bijpur seat defeating Kalyani Biswas (Basu) of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, Jagadish Chandra Das of CPI(M) won defeating Jagadish Das, son of Akul Das, of Trinamool Congress. Kamal Sengupta Basu of CPI(M) defeated Mrinal Kanti Singha Roy of Congress in 1996. Jagadish Chandra Das of CPI(M) defeated Bimalananda Dutta of Congress in 1991 and 1987, Prabir Bandopadhyay of Congress in 1982 and Jagadish Chandra Das, s/o Akul in 1977.

### 1951-1972

Jagadish Chandra Das, s/o Akul, of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Jagadish Chandra Das of CPI(M) won in 1969 and 1967. Monoranjan Roy of CPI won in 1962.Niranjan Sengupta of CPI won in 1957 and in independent India's first election in 1951.