About Uttarpara Assembly Constituency
Uttarpara is constituency No. 185 of West Bengal legislative assembly. This constituency is situated in Hooghly district. It is part of Lok Sabha constituency No. 27 which is Sreerampur. It is an unreserved constituency.
According to the Election Commission of India, Uttarpara has 2,17,099 registered voters, out of which 1,11,129 are male and 1,05,970 female voters.
In the 2011 assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress won this seat convincingly. Anup Ghosal, the TMC frontrunner, won by a formidable margin of 43,193 votes. Ghosal pocketed 1,04,753 votes. Srutinath Praharaj, the CPI(M) contender, got 61,560. The voter turnout was 80.77%. Uttarpara constituency had been a CPI(M) domain since 1951. The TMC made its first successful foray into this constituency in 2001. The CPI(M) won it back in 2006 only to lose again to TMC in 2011.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Uttarpara Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Uttarpara 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 | 185 | Uttarpara | GEN | Anup Ghosal | M | AITC | 104753 | Prof. Dr. Srutinath Praharaj | M | CPM | 61560 |
| 2006 | 179 | Uttarpara | GEN | Prof. Dr. Srutinath Praharaj | M | CPI(M) | 73149 | Sudipta Roy | M | AITC | 72264 |
| 2003 | By Polls | Uttarpara | GEN | J.Krishna Chattopadhyay | M | CPM | 66826 | Indrajit Ghosh (Paba) | M | AITC | 50648 |
| 2001 | 179 | Uttarpara | GEN | Prof. Swaraj Mukherjee | M | AITC | 71699 | Jyoti Krishna Chattopadhyay | M | CPM | 69931 |
| 1996 | 179 | Uttarpara | GEN | Jyoti Krishna Chattapadhyay | M | CPM | 75680 | Pabitra Gupta | M | INC | 69929 |
| 1991 | 179 | Uttarpara | GEN | Santasir Chatterjee | M | CPM | 58066 | Jagat Chatterjee | M | INC | 53329 |
| 1987 | 179 | Uttarpara | GEN | Santashri Chatterjee | M | CPM | 57182 | Jagat Chatterjee | M | INC | 49757 |
| 1982 | 179 | Uttarpara | GEN | Santasri Chattapadhyay | M | CPM | 50127 | Sukumar Ghosh | M | INC | 28108 |
| 1977 | 179 | Uttarpara | GEN | Santashree Chattopadhyay | M | CPM | 36434 | Kashinath Banerjee | M | JNP | 10770 |
| 1972 | 169 | Uttarpara | GEN | Santasri Chattopadhyay | M | CPM | 27053 | Gobida Chatterjee | M | CPI | 27045 |
| 1971 | 169 | Uttarpara | GEN | Santosri Chattopadhyay | M | CPM | 29473 | Gobinda Chatterji | M | CPI | 17022 |
| 1969 | 169 | Uttarpara | GEN | Monoranjan Hazra | M | CPM | 33070 | N.N. Mukhopadhya | M | INC | 19974 |
| 1967 | 169 | Uttarpara | GEN | M . Hazra | M | CPM | 24618 | M . M . Mitra | M | INC | 20195 |
| 1962 | 153 | Uttarpara | GEN | Monoranjan Hazra | M | CPI | 25033 | Subrata Kumar Dinda | M | INC | 20738 |
| 1957 | 88 | Uttarpara | GEN | Monoranjan Hazra | M | CPI | 20745 | Bishnu Charan Banerjee | M | INC | 14371 |
| 1951 | 100 | Uttarpara | GEN | Monoranjan Hazra | M | CPI | 16568 | Amarnath Mukhopadhyay | M | INC | 10812 |
Last Updated on June 10, 2020