# Bhabanipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency

Bhabanipur 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, Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is composed of the following:
* Ward Nos. 63, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77 and 82 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

| Election | Member | Party |
| 1952 | Mira Datta Gupta | Indian National Congress |
| 1957 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | Indian National Congress |
| 1962 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | Independent |
| Constituency renamed as Kalighat ||||
| 1967 | Beva Mitra | Indian National Congress |
| 1969 | Sadhan Gupta | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1971 | Rathin Talukdar | Indian National Congress |
| 1972 | Rathin Talukdar | Indian National Congress |
| 1977-2009:Constituency did not exist ||||
| 2011 | Subrata Bakshi | Trinamool Congress |
| 2011^ | Mamata Banerjee | Trinamool Congress |
| 2016 | Mamata Banerjee | Trinamool Congress |
| 2021 | Sovandeb Chattopadhyay | Trinamool Congress |
| 2021^ | Mamata Banerjee | Trinamool Congress |
^By poll

## Election results
### 2026

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | |
| | BJP | | |
| | CPI(M) | | |
| | INC | | |
| | NOTA | None of the above | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | |
| | | | Swing |

### 2021 by-election

Bye-election, 2021: Bhabanipur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 85,263 | 71.90 | 14.19 |
| | BJP | Priyanka Tibrewal | 26,428 | 22.29 | 12.87 |
| | CPI(M) | Shrijeeb Biswas | 4,226 | 3.56 | |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 1,453 | 1.23 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 58,835 | 49.61 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | | |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | 14.19 | |

### 2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Sovandeb Chatterjee | 73,505 | 57.71 | 10.04 |
| | BJP | Rudranil Ghosh | 44,786 | 35.16 | 16.03 |
| | INC | Md. Shadab Khan | 5,211 | 4.09 | 25.17 |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 1,570 | 1.23 | 0.56 |
| | BSP | Anita Rajwar | 564 | 0.44 | 0.17 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 28,719 | 22.55 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,27,536 | 61.79 | |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | 10.04 | |

### 2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 65,520 | 47.67 | 29.79 |
| | INC | Deepa Dasmunshi | 40,219 | 29.26 | New |
| | BJP | Chandra Kumar Bose | 26,299 | 19.13 | New |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 2,461 | 1.79 | New |
| | BSP | Nirmal Kanti Samaddar | 669 | 0.27 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 25,301 | 18.41 | 38.62 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,37,475 | 66.83 | 22.11 |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | 29.79 | |

### Bye-election, 2011

The bypoll to the Bhowanipore seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Trinamool Congress Subrata Bakshi resigned to make way for the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to contest. She had not contested the state assembly elections earlier. She had to become a member of the state assembly within six months of her assuming office as Chief Minister as per the rules of the Constitution of India.
Bye-election, 2011: Bhabanipur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Mamata Banerjee (CM Candidate) | 73,635 | 77.46 | +12.69 |
| | CPI(M) | Nandini Mukherjee | 19,422 | 20.43 | −7.55 |
| | Independent | Sujay Krishna Bhadra | 809 | 0.85 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 54,213 | 57.03 | +20.24 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 95,064 | 44.73 | −19.04 |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | +12.69 | |

### 2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Subrata Bakshi | 87,903 | 64.77 | |
| | CPI(M) | Narayan Prasad Jain | 37,967 | 27.98 | |
| | BJP | Ram Chandra Jaiswal | 5,078 | 3.74 | |
| | BSP | Dulal Mistri | 1,050 | 0.77 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 49,936 | 36.79 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,35,741 | 63.78 | |
| | AITC win | AITC win | AITC win | AITC win | AITC win |