# Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency

Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

## Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 224 Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kharagpur municipality and Kharagpur Railway Settlement of Kharagpur I community development block.
Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency is part of No. 34 Medinipur (Lok Sabha constituency).

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

* 1957: Narayan Choubey (CPI)
* 1967: Narayan Choubey (CPI)
* 1969: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC)
* 1972: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC)
* 1977: Sudhir Das Sharma (Janata Party)
* 1982: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC)
* 2001: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC)
* 2006: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC)
* 2011: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC)
* 2016: Dilip Ghosh (BJP)
** Dilip Ghosh was elected to Lok Sabha in 2019 and vacated this Vidhan Sabha seat.
* ^2019^ by-poll: Pradip Sarkar (TMC)
* 2021: Hiran Chatterjee (BJP)

## Election results
### 2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kharagpur Sadar :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Hiran Chatterjee | 79,607 | 46.45 | +12.43 |
| | AITC | Pradip Sarkar | 75,836 | 44.25 | −3.41 |
| | INC | Reeta Sharma | 10,705 | 6.3 | −7.98 |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 2,392 | 1.54 | +0.43 |
| | HUMP | D. Madhusudan Rao | 1,701 | 0.99 | |
| | SUCI(C) | Suranjan Mahapatra | 807 | 0.47 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 3,771 | 2.23 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,71,460 | 73.06 | |
| | BJP gain from AITC | BJP gain from AITC | Swing | | |

### 2019 Bypoll

A bye- poll was necessitated due to the election of the incumbent MLA, Dilip Ghosh, to the Lok Sabha.
Bye-election, 2019: Kharagpur Sadar :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Pradip Sarkar | 72,893 | 47.66 | +25.93 |
| | BJP | Prem Chandra Jha | 52,040 | 34.02 | −5.27 |
| | INC | Chittaranjan Mandal | 22,631 | 14.28 | −7.45 |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 1,705 | 1.11 | −0.41 |
| | IND | Mata Prasad Gupta | 1,273 | 0.83 | +0.22 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 20,853 | 13.64 | +9.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,52,959 | 68.00 | |
| | AITC gain from BJP | AITC gain from BJP | Swing | | |

### 2016 Vidhan Sabha

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kharagpur Sadar :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Dilip Ghosh | 61,446 | 39.29 | 32.50 |
| | INC | Gyan Singh Sohanpal | 55,137 | 35.25 | 19.81 |
| | AITC | Rama Prasad Tewary | 34,086 | 21.73 | N/A |
| | SUCI(C) | Suranjan Mahapatra | 1,308 | 0.83 | 0.28 |
| | BSP | Sk. Asgar Ali | 1,058 | 0.67 | 0.01 |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 2,392 | 1.52 | N/A |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 6,309 | 4.04 | 19.5 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,56,487 | 71.71 | |
| | BJP gain from INC | BJP gain from INC | Swing | 26.16 | |

### 2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kharagpur Sadar :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | INC | Gyan Singh Sohanpal | 75,425 | 55.54 |
| | CPI(M) | Anil Kumar Das | 43,056 | 31.43 |
| | BJP | Prem Chandra Jha | 9,303 | 6.79 |
| | IND | Satya Deo Sharma | 5,191 | 3.78 |
| | SUCI(C) | Suranjan Mahapatra | 1,525 | 1.11 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 32,369 | 23.63 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,38,134 | 70.78 |
| | INC hold | INC hold | Swing | # |
.# CPI(M) did not contest this seat in 2006.

### 1977-2006

Gyan Singh Sohanpal of Congress won the Kharagpur Town assembly seat for six times in a row from 1982 to 2006 (for earlier victories see below), defeating Prem Chandra Jha of RJD in 2006, Lalji Pandey of CPI(M) in 2001, Kalidas Nayek of CPI(M) in 1996 and 1991, and Jatindra Mitra of CPI(M) in 1987 and 1982. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sudhir Das Sharma of Janata Party defeated Jatindra Mitra of CPI(M) in 1977.

### 1951-1972

Gyan Singh Sohanpal of Congress won in 1972, 1971 and 1969. Narayan Choubey of CPI won in 1967, 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Kharagpur had a single seat, which was won by Muhammad Momtaz Moulana of Congress.