# Behala Purba Assembly constituency

Behala Purba Assembly constituency (earlier known as Behala East Assembly constituency) is a Legislative Assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas 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.
Behala Purba Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

| Election | Member | Party Affiliation |
| Behala |||
| 1952 | Biren Roy | All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar) |
| 1957 | Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay | Communist Party of India |
| 1962 | Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay | Communist Party of India |
| Behala East |||
| 1967 | Niranjan Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1969 | Niranjan Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1971 | Niranjan Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1972 | Indrajit Majumdar | Indian National Congress |
| 1977 | Niranjan Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1982 | Niranjan Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1987 | Niranjan Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1991 | Kumkum Chakraborti | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1996 | Kumkum Chakraborti | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 2001 | Parash Dutta | All India Trinamool Congress |
| 2006 | Kumkum Chakraborti | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Behala Purba |||
| 2011 | Sovan Chatterjee | All India Trinamool Congress |
| 2016 | Sovan Chatterjee | All India Trinamool Congress |
| 2021 | Ratna Chatterjee | All India Trinamool Congress |

## Election results
### 2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Purba :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | AITC | Ratna Chatterjee | 110,968 | 50.01 |
| | BJP | Payel Sarkar | 73,540 | 33.15 |
| | CPI(M) | Samita Har Chowdhury | 30,172 | 13.60 |
| | None of the Above | None of the above | 2,835 | 1.28 |
| | BSP | Rina Roy | 1,175 | 0.53 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 37,428 | 17.08 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,21,885 | 71.97 |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | |

### 2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Purba :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | AITC | Sovan Chatterjee | 96,621 | 47.33 |
| | Independent | Ambikesh Mahapatra | 72,327 | 35.43 |
| | BJP | Chandra Bhan Singh | 21,854 | 10.71 |
| | SS | Sumit Banerjee | 3,649 | 1.79 |
| | None of the Above | None of the above | 3,919 | 1.92 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 24,294 | 11.90 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,05,294 | 73.83 |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | |

### 2011

In 2011 Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kumkum Chakraborty of CPI(M),
2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Behala Purba :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Sovan Chatterjee | 1,16,709 | 60.28 | +14.33 |
| | CPI(M) | Kumkum Chakraborty | 68,536 | 35.40 | −15.33 |
| | BJP | A. Biswajit Naidu | 3,692 | 1.91 | |
| | BSP | Indrajit Kumar Halder | 1,170 | 0.60 | |
| | IND | Tarun Kanti Das | 1,131 | 0.58 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 48,173 | 24.88 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,94,208 | 79.79 | |
| | AITC gain from CPI(M) | AITC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | 30.50# | |
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

### 1977–2006

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.

### 1952–1972

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.