Chowranghee (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Chowrangee
Constituency No. 162 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Chowrangee Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
Lok Sabha constituency	Kolkata Uttar
Established	1957
Total electors	208,157
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Nayna Bandyopadhyay
Party	AITC
Alliance	AITC+
Elected year	2026

Chowrangee Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Located at the heart of Kolkata, the capital city of the state, this has been a bastion of Trinamool Congress since the party's formation. Earlier, it was a stronghold of Indian National Congress, from which party two chief ministers, Bidhan Chandra Roy and Siddhartha Shankar Ray, had been elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

Overview

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Chowrangee Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

Ward Nos. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 and 62 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.^[1]

Borough	Ward No.	Councillor
V	44	Rehana Khatoon	Trinamool Congress
V	45	Santosh Kumar Pathak	Bharatiya Janata Party
VI	46	Priyanka Saha	Trinamool Congress
VI	47	Bimal Singh
V	48	Biswarup Dey
	49	Monalisa Banerjee
	50	Sajal Ghosh	Bharatiya Janata Party
VI	51	Indranil Kumar	Trinamool Congress
	52	Sohini Mukherjee
	53	Indrani Saha Banerjee
	62	Sana Ahmed

Chowrangee Assembly constituency is part of No. 24 Kolkata Uttar Lok Sabha constituency.^[1]^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name
1957	Bijoy Singh Nahar	Indian National Congress
1962	Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
1967	Siddhartha Shankar Ray
1969	Siddhartha Shankar Ray
1971	Sankar Ghose
1972	Sankar Ghose
1977	Sandip Das	Janata Party
1982	Sisir Kumar Bose	Indian National Congress
1987	Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay
1991	Siddhartha Shankar Ray
1993^	Anil Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1996	Subrata Mukherjee	Indian National Congress
2001	Subrata Mukherjee	Trinamool Congress
2006	Subrata Bakshi
2011	Sikha Chowdhury
2014^	Nayna Bandyopadhyay
2016
2021
2026

^ denotes by-election

Election results

2026

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowrangee^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nayna Bandyopadhyay	62,938	57.15	5.72
	BJP	Santosh Kumar Pathak	40,936	37.17	14.97
	CPI(M)	Sanjay Basu	2,602	2.36
	INC	Manash Sarkar	2,117	1.92	10.88
	SUCI(C)	Prabir Seal	178	0.16
	Independent	Sayantan Patra	118	0.11
	Independent	Tejash Bhole	115	0.10
	RRP	Debasish Bhadra	111	0.10
	Independent	Sumanta Bhowmick	76	0.07
	Independent	MD Ehsan Elahi	65	0.06
	Independent	Johar Iqbal	34	0.03
	NOTA	None of the above	832	0.76	0.33
Majority			22,002	19.98	20.69
Turnout			110,122	86.91	33.36
	AITC hold		Swing

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowrangee^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Nayna Bandyopadhyay	70,101	62.87
	BJP	Devdutta Maji	24,757	22.2
	INC	Santosh Kumar Pathak	14,266	12.8
	NOTA	None of the above	1,212	1.09
Majority			45,344	40.67
Turnout			111,493	53.55
	AITC hold		Swing	+

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowrangee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nayna Bandyopadhyay	55,119	47.29	+7.15
	INC	Somen Mitra	41,903	36.95	+12.53
	BJP	Ritesh Tiwari	15,707	13.48	−11.64
	None of the Above	None of the Above	2,183	1.87	New
	SUCI(C)	Kartik Kumkar	612	0.53
Majority			13,216	10.34	−4.68
Turnout			1,16,557	56.20	+8.51
	AITC hold		Swing	+7.15

2014 by-election

A by-election was held on 13 September 2014 following the resignation of the sitting MLA, Shikha Chowdhury who switched over from Trinamool Congress to Congress.^[5]

By-election, 2014: Chowrangee^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nayna Bandyopadhyay	38,328	40.14	−31.76
	BJP	Ritesh Tiwari	23,984	25.12	+20.78
	INC	Santosh Kumar Pathak	23,317	24.42	New
	CPI(M)	Faiyaz Ahmed Khan	8,890	9.09	New
Majority			14,344	15.02	−37.23
Turnout			96,650	47.69	−4.56
	AITC hold		Swing	-31.76

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowrangee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Sikha Chowdhury	79,450	71.90
	RJD	Bimal Singh	21,711	19.65
	BJP	Shahnawaz Ahmed	4,799	4.34
	AIMF	Abdul Wahab	1,640	1.48
Majority			57,739	52.25
Turnout			1,10,506	54.42
	AITC win

2006

2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowringhee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Subrata Bakshi	23,000	38.19
	CPI(M)	Narayan Jain	20,790	34.52
	INC	Subrata Mukherjee	15,213	25.26
	IND	Raghunath Bhowmick	437	0.73
	IJP	Karan Singh	200	0.33
	IND	Pannalal Chowdhury	198	0.33
	IND	Md. Mustafa	138	0.23
	IND	Biswanath Potodeia	136	0.23
	IND	Aditya Neogi	113	0.19
Majority			2,210	3.67
Turnout			60,225
	AITC hold		Swing

2001

2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowringhee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Subrata Mukherjee	39,728	66.58
	JD(S)	Zahid Hossain	14,367	24.08
	IND	Md. Iqbal	1,996	3.35
	IND	Ramendra Pandey	953	1.60
	IND	Pannalal Chowdhury	592	0.99
	IND	Agarwal Mohanlal	486	0.81
	IND	Vijay Gaur	468	0.78
	IND	Bhim Singh Verma	445	0.75
	IND	Piyali Bhattacharya	435	0.73
	IND	Omprakash Pandey	199	0.33
Majority			25,361	42.50
Turnout			59,671	42.14
	Swing to AITC from INC		Swing

1996

1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowringhee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Subrata Mukherjee	48,648	60.62
	JD	Paul Mantosh	19,968	24.88
	BJP	Mrinal Kanti Das	9,551	11.90
	BMSM	M. E. Chand	1,228	1.53
	IND	Sakal Deo Sharma	341	0.42
	IND	Ramendra Pandey	200	0.25
	IND	Vijay Gaur	181	0.23
	IUML	Md. Asif Hussain	137	0.17
Majority			28,680	35.74
Turnout			82,532	60.78
	Swing to INC from CPI(M)		Swing

1993 by-election

1991

1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowringhee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Siddhartha Shanker Ray	38,866	55.75
	CPI(M)	Ashok Mitra	22,033	31.60
	BJP	Sabyasachi Bagchi	8,339	11.96
	IND	Sakkal Deb Sharma	183	0.26
	IND	Rajranchhor Chand Bhandari	83	0.12
	IND	M. E. Chand	81	0.12
	IND	Vijay Kumar Gaur	54	0.08
	IND	Arun Biswas	48	0.07
	IND	Surendra Nath Mitra	30	0.04
Majority			16,833	24.15
Turnout			71,247	56.98
	INC hold		Swing

1987

1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowringhee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay	39,361	62.24
	CPI(M)	Badsa Alam	21,867	34.58
	IND	Sisir Kumar Basu	1,648	2.61
	IND	Gopal Ghosh	157	0.25
	IND	Ram Murti Singh	123	0.19
	IND	Subrata Das	80	0.13
Majority			17,494	27.66
Turnout			64,408	59.69
	INC hold		Swing

1982

1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowringhee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Sisir Kumar Bose	30,316	55.69
	CPI(M)	Zahurul Hoque	20,063	36.86
	JP	Sandip Das	1,268	2.33
	IND	Lachman Das Daswani	1,232	2.26
	BJP	Benoy Sankar Sinha Roy	728	1.34
	IND	Pravash Chandra Shyam	504	0.93
	IND	Nawab Khan Waryah	249	0.46
	IND	Ananga Mohan Ash	74	0.14
Majority			10,253	18.83
Turnout			55,618	55.89
	Swing to INC from JP		Swing

1977

1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowringhee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JP	Sandip Das	14,166	38.78
	CPI(M)	Amal Datta	11,995	32.83
	INC	Prasanta Behari Mukherjee	9,604	26.29
	IND	Quamuddin Ahmed	284	0.78
	IND	Dhirendra Ghosh	241	0.66
	IND	Sudhir Bera	158	0.43
	IND	Karuna Nidhan Roy	85	0.23
Majority			2,171	5.95
Turnout			37,103	38.74
	Swing to JP from INC		Swing

1972

1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowringhee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Sankar Ghose	23,654	70.60
	CPI(M)	Amal Dutta	9,851	29.40
Majority			13,803	41.20
Turnout			34,278	47.21
	INC hold		Swing

1971

1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowringhee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Sankar Ghose	16,363	54.13
	CPI(M)	Parbati Prasanna Basu	7,862	26.01
	INC(O)	Asoka Krishna Dutt	4,259	14.09
	AIFB	Md. Yakub	1,743	5.77
Majority			8,501	28.12
Turnout			31,603	44.14
	INC hold		Swing

1969

1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowringhee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	20,937	57.83
	IND	Akantalal Singh	15,268	42.17
Majority			5,669	15.66
Turnout			36,915	55.72
	INC hold		Swing

1967

1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowringhee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	S. S. Ray	22,954	62.27
	CPI(M)	S. Gupta	11,658	31.62
	ABJS	G. A. W. Roze	2,252	6.11
Majority			11,296	30.65
Turnout			38,035	57.47
	INC hold		Swing

1962

1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowringhee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Bidhan Chandra Roy	22,556	72.08
	CPI	Biswanath Mukherjee	7,390	23.62
	IND	Kazi Mohammad Ali	758	2.42
	SWA	Ajit Kumar Majumdar	305	0.97
	ABJS	Amal Ray	282	0.90
Majority			15,166	48.46
Turnout			32,088	61.07
	INC hold		Swing

1957

1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Chowringhee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Bijoy Singh Nahar	15,019	69.61
	PSP	Hazi Md. Ariff	5,869	27.20
	IND	Shamsul Haq	688	3.19
Majority			9,150	42.41
Turnout			21,576	42.37
	INC win (new seat)

References

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"Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha" (PDF). Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
"West Bengal General Legislative Election 2026 Statistical Report". Election Commission of India.
"West Bengal General Legislative Election 2021 Statistical Report". Election Commission of India.
"162 Chowrangee Assembly Constituency" (PDF). By election 2014. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2014.