# Alipurduars Assembly constituency

Alipurduars Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Alipurduar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

## Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 12 Alipurduars Assembly constituency covers Alipurduar municipality, Alipurduar Railway Junction, Banchukamari, Chakowakheti, Mathura, Parorpar, Patlakhawa, Shalkumar I, Shalkumar II, Tapsikhata, Vivekananda II, Vivekananda I gram panchayats of Alipurduar I community development block, and Chaporerpar I, Chaporerpar II, and Tatpara II gram panchayats of Alipurduar II community development block.
Alipurduars Assembly constituency is part of No. 2 Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency) (ST).

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

| Election | Name | Party |
| 1951 | Pijush Kanti Mukherjee | Indian National Congress |
| 1957 | Pijush Kanti Mukherjee | Indian National Congress |
| 1962 | Pijush Kanti Mukherjee | Indian National Congress |
| 1967 | Nani Bhattacharya | Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| 1969 | Nani Bhattacharya | Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| 1971 | Narayan Bhattacharya | Indian National Congress |
| 1972 | Narayan Bhattacharya | Indian National Congress |
| 1977 | Nani Bhattacharya | Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| 1982 | Nani Bhattacharya | Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| 1987 | Nani Bhattacharya | Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| 1991 | Nirmal Das | Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| 1996 | Nirmal Das | Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| 2001 | Nirmal Das | Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| 2006 | Nirmal Das | Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| 2011 | Debaprasad Roy | Indian National Congress |
| 2016 | Sourav Chakraborty | All India Trinamool Congress |
| 2021 | Suman Kanjilal | Bharatiya Janata Party |

## Election results
### 1951–1972

Narayan Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP won in 1969 and 1967. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, it was a joint seat. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee and Dhirandra Brahma Mandal, both from Congress, won.

### 1977-2006

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections, Nirmal Das of RSP defeated Sourav Chakraborty of Congress, Prasanta Narayan Majumdar of Trinamool Congress, Manindralal Rakshit of Congress and Biswa Ranjan Sarkar of Congress, respectively. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP defeated Debabrata Chatterjee of Congress in 1987, Pallab Ghosh of Congress in 1982 and Narayan Bhattachary of Congress in 1977.

### 2011

In the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Debaprasad Roy of Congress defeated his nearest rival Kshiti Goswami of RSP.
2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Alipurduars constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | INC | Debaprasad Roy | 79,605 | 46.02 | Winner |
| | RSP | Kshiti Goswami | 72,822 | 42.10 | |
| | BJP | Manik Chandra Saha | 8,238 | 4.76 | |
| | Independent | Santosh Kumar Balo | 3,072 | 1.78 | |
| | JMM | Manohar Bhagat | 1,864 | 1.08 | |
| | SUCI(C) | Abhijit Roy | 1,508 | 0.87 | |
| | CPI(ML)L | Chanchal Kumar Das | 1,438 | 0.83 | |
| | Independent | Parimal Roy | 1,396 | 0.81 | |
| | Independent | Sanjit Das | 1,301 | 0.75 | |
| | BSP | Mantu Barman | 1,195 | 0.69 | |
| | Rashtriya Deshaj Party | Bishwanath Gop | 530 | 0.31 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 6,783 | 3.92 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,72,969 | 86.04 | |
| | INC gain from RSP | INC gain from RSP | Swing | | |

### 2016

In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Sourav Chakraborty of TMC defeated his nearest rival Biswaranjan Sarkar of Congress.
2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Alipurduars constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Sourav Chakraborty | 89,695 | 44.09 | Winner |
| | INC | Biswaranjan Sarkar | 77,737 | 38.21 | |
| | BJP | Kushal Chatterjee | 20,098 | 9.88 | |
| | RSP | Nirmal Das | 7,324 | 3.60 | |
| | SUCI(C) | Alokesh Das | 2,308 | 1.13 | |
| | AMB | Dalendra Nath Ray | 1,341 | 0.66 | |
| | Independent | Santosh Kumar Balo | 989 | 0.49 | |
| | BSP | Gouri Roy | 974 | 0.48 | |
| | None of the Above | None of the Above | 2,980 | 1.46 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 11,958 | 5.88 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,03,446 | 86.16 | |
| | AITC gain from INC | AITC gain from INC | Swing | | |

### 2021

In the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Suman Kanjilal of BJP defeated his nearest rival Sourav Chakraborty of TMC.
2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Alipurduars constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Suman Kanjilal | 107,333 | 48.19 | Winner |
| | AITC | Sourav Chakraborty | 91,326 | 41.00 | |
| | INC | Debprosad Roy | 15,651 | 7.03 | |
| | Independent | Nikhil Chandra Raibir | 2,351 | 1.06 | |
| | Independent | Rinku Ghosh | 1,393 | 0.63 | |
| | SUCI(C) | Pijush Kanti Sarma | 1,111 | 0.5 | |
| | Independent | Ashim Roy | 696 | 0.31 | |
| | Independent | Kushal Kumar Roy | 620 | 0.28 | |
| | Independent | Abinash Das | 270 | 0.12 | |
| | None of the Above | None of the Above | 1,981 | 0.89 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,22,732 | | |
| | BJP gain from AITC | BJP gain from AITC | Swing | | |