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Krishnanagar Uttar
Krishnanagar Uttar
Constituency No. 83 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Nadia
LS constituency	Krishnanagar
Established	1951
Total electors	238,220
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Mukul Roy
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Krishnanagar Uttar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 83 Krishnanagar Uttar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Krishnanagar municipality, and Bhandar Khola, Bhimpur, Asannagar, Dogachhi and Pora Gachha gram panchayats of Krishnanagar I community development block.^[1]

Krishnanagar Uttar Assembly constituency is part of No. 12 Krishnanagar (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Krishnagar	Bejoy Lal Chattopadhyay	Indian National Congress^[2]
1957		Jagannath Majumdar	Indian National Congress^[3]
1962		Kashi Kanta Maitra	Praja Socialist Party^[4]
1967	Krishnagar East	Kashi Kanta Maitra	Samyukta Socialist Party^[5]
	Krishnagar West	Amritendu Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[5]
1969	Krishnagar East	Kashi Kanta Maitra	Samyukta Socialist Party^[6]
	Krishnagar West	Amritendu Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[6]
1971	Krishnagar East	Kashi Kanta Maitra	Independent^[7]
	Krishnagar West	Amritendu Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[7]
1972	Krishnagar East	Kashi Kanta Maitra	Indian National Congress^[8]
	Krishnagar West	Shibdas Mukherjee	Indian National Congress^[8]
1977	Krishnagar East	Kashi Kanta Maitra	Janata Party^[9]
	Krishnagar West	Amritendu Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[9]
1982	Krishnagar East	Sadhan Chattopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[10]
	Krishnagar West	Amritendu Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[10]
1987	Krishnagar East	Sadhan Chattopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[11]
	Krishnagar West	Amritendu Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[11]
1991	Krishnagar East	Shibdas Mukherjee	Indian National Congress^[12]
	Krishnagar West	Sunil Kumar Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[12]
1996	Krishnagar East	Shibdas Mukherjee	Indian National Congress^[13]
	Krishnagar West	Sunil Kumar Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[13]
2001	Krishnagar East	Shibdas Mukherjee	Trinamool Congress^[14]
	Krishnagar West	Sunil Kumar Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[14]
2006	Krishnagar East	Subinay Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[15]
	Krishnagar West	Ashok Banerjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[15]
2011	Krishnanagar Uttar	Abani Mohan Joardar	Trinamool Congress^[16]
2016		Abani Mohan Joardar
2021		Mukul Roy

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Krishnanagar Uttar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Mukul Roy	109,357	54.19	39.92
	AITC	Koushani Mukherjee	74,268	36.8	7.34
	INC	Silvi Saha	11,407	5.65	31.61
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,851	0.92
Turnout
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	{{{swing}}}

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Krishnanagar Uttar constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Abani Mohan Joardar	82,864	44.14
	INC	Asim Kumar Saha	69,949	37.26
	BJP	Chanchal Kumar Biswas	26,796	14.27
	None of the Above	None of the Above	3,175	1.69
Turnout			1,87,738	85.58
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Abani Mohan Joardar of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Subinay Ghosh of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Krishnanagar Uttar constituency^[16]^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Abani Mohan Joardar	96,677	56.69	+10.90#
	CPI(M)	Subinay Ghosh	61,567	36.10	−12.70
	BJP	Ramen Biswas	5,967	3.50
	Independent	Jagannath Guha	2,980
	CPI(ML)L	Amal Tarafdar	1,830
	BSP	Birendra Nath Mondal	1,508
Turnout			170,529	85.09
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+23.60#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006 for the Krishnanagar East. seat.

1977-2006

Till 2006, Krishnanagar had two Vidhan Sabha constituencies Krishnagar East and Krishnagar West.

Krishnagar East

In the 2006 state assembly elections,^[15] Subinay Ghosh of CPI(M) won the Krishnagar East assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Dr. Ramendranath Sarkar of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Shibdas Mukherjee, representing Trinamool Congress in 2001 and Congress in 1996 and 1991, defeated Radhanath Biswas of CPI(M) in 2001^[14] and 1996,^[13] and Sadhan Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) in 1991.^[12] Sadhan Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Shibdas Mukherjee of Congress in 1987^[11] and Kashikanta Maitra of Janata Party in 1982.^[10] Kashikanta Maitra of Janata Party defeated Sadhan Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) in 1977.^[9]^[18]

Krishnagar West

In the 2006 state assembly elections,^[15] Asoke Banerjee of CPI(M) won the Krishnagar West assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Ujjal Biswas of Trinamool Congress. Sunil Kumar Ghosh of CPI(M) defeated Ujjal Biswas of Trinamool Congress in 2001,^[14] Biswarup Mukherjee of Congress in 1996^[13] and Ujjal Biswas of Congress in 1991.^[12] Amritendu Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated Gouri Sankar Dutta of Congress in 1987^[11] and 1982,^[10] and Mohadeb Bhattacharya of Janata Party in 1977.^[9]^[19]

1967-1972

Krishnagar East

Kashi Kanta Maitra representing Congress won in 1972,^[8] contesting as an independent candidate won in 1971,^[7] and representing SSP won in 1969^[6] and 1967.^[5]

Krishnagar West

Shibdas Mukherjee of Congress won in 1972.^[8] Amritendu Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,^[7] 1969^[6] and 1967.^[5]

1951-1962 Krishnagar

Kashi Kanta Maitra of PSP won the Krishnagar seat in 1962.^[4] Jagannath Majumdar of Congress won in 1957.^[3] In independent India's first election in 1951 Bejoy Lal Chattopadhyay of Congress won the Krishnagar seat.^[2]