About Joynagar Assembly Constituency
Joynagar is constituency No. 136 of West Bengal legislative assembly. It is situated in South 24 Parganas district. It is part of Lok Sabha constituency No. 19 which goes by the same name. Joynagar became a reserved (Scheduled Castes) constituency from 2011.
According to the Election Commission of India, Joynagar has 1,74,871 registered voters. There are 91,890 male and 82,981 female voters.
In the 2011 assembly elections, Tarun Kanti Naskar of Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) won this seat. Joynagar has been a SUCI stronghold for a considerable time. Naskar defeated his nearest rival, CPI(M) candidate Shyamali Halder, by a margin of 26,590 votes. While Naskar secured 71,566 votes, Halder got 44,976. The voter turnout was 82.91%.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Joynagar Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Joynagar assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Vote |
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| 2011 | 165 | Joynagar | (SC) | Tarun Kanti Naskar | M | SUCI | 71566 | Shyamali Halder | F | CPM | 44976 |
| 2006 | 103 | Joynagar | GEN | Debaprasad Sarkar | M | IND | 59749 | Asish Ghosh | M | CPI(M) | 46263 |
| 2001 | 103 | Joynagar | GEN | Debaprasad Sarkar | M | IND | 49534 | Abul Hossain Laskar | M | CPM | 33853 |
| 1996 | 103 | Joynagar | GEN | Deba Prasad Sarkar | M | IND | 52718 | Rabindra Nath Basu | M | CPM | 27224 |
| 1991 | 103 | Joynagar | GEN | Deba Prasad Sarkar | M | IND | 43375 | Prasanta Sarkhel | M | INC | 31191 |
| 1987 | 103 | Joynagar | GEN | Deba Prasad Sarkar | M | SUC | 43087 | Kumud Bhattacharya | M | INC | 34526 |
| 1982 | 103 | Joynagar | GEN | Deva Prasad Sarkar | M | SUC | 33147 | Kumud Bhattacherjee | M | ICS | 32737 |
| 1977 | 103 | Joynagar | GEN | Deba Prosad Sarkar | M | SUC | 27778 | Jnantosh Chakraborti | M | JNP | 13258 |
| 1972 | 97 | Joynagar | GEN | Prosun Ghosh | M | INC | 29675 | Subodh Banerjee | M | SUC | 27840 |
| 1972 | By Polls | Joynagar | GEN | N.K.Saha | M | INC | 25053 | M.H.M.Rehman | M | IND | 4575 |
| 1971 | 97 | Joynagar | GEN | Subodh Banerjee | M | SUC | 23904 | Prosun Ghosh | M | INC | 23656 |
| 1969 | 97 | Joynagar | GEN | Subodh Banerjee | M | SUC | 31873 | Rabindra Nath Bhose | M | INC | 25546 |
| 1967 | 97 | Joynagar | GEN | S.Banerjee | M | IND | 34772 | J.Chakravartty | M | INC | 14355 |
| 1957 | 166 | Joynagar | (SC) | Subodh Banerjee | M | IND | 22933 | Suhrit Gopal Datta | M | INC | 15669 |
| 1957 | 166 | Joynagar | (SC) | Renupada Halder (Sc) | M | IND | 16668 | Sailendra Nath Haider (Sc) | M | IND | 14819 |
| 1951 | 143 | Joynagar | GEN | Subodh Banerjee | M | IND | 14244 | Dhirendra Nath Mondal | M | BJS | 11689 |
| 1951 | 143 | Joynagar | GEN | Dintaran Moni | M | IND | 12265 | Hari Sankar Chatterji | M | INC | 10368 |
Last Updated on June 04, 2020