title: Pandua Assembly constituency
text: # Pandua Assembly constituency
  
  Pandua Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
  
  ## Overview
  
  As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 192 Pandua Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Pandua community development block.
  
  Pandua Assembly constituency is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency). It was earlier part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency).
  
  ## Members of the Legislative Assembly
  
  | Election Year | Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1962 | Pandua | Radhanath Das | Indian National Congress |
  | 1967 | | R.Kundu | Indian National Congress |
  | 1969 | | Deb Narayan Chakraborty | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
  | 1971 | | Deb Narayan Chakraborty | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
  | 1972 | | Sailendra Chattopadhyay | Indian National Congress |
  | 1977 | | Deb Narayan Chakraborty | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
  | 1982 | | Deb Narayan Chakraborty | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
  | 1987 | | Deb Narayan Chakraborty | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
  | 1991 | | Deb Narayan Chakraborty | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
  | 1996 | | Sk. Majed Ali | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
  | 2001 | | Sk. Majed Ali | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
  | 2006 | | Sk. Majed Ali | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
  | 2011 | | Sk. Amzad Hossain | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
  | 2016 | | Sk. Amzad Hossain | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
  | 2021 | | Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | All India Trinamool Congress |
  
  ## Election results
  
  ### 2021
  
  2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Pandua :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | TMC | Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | 1,02,874 | 45.99 | +2.97 |
  | | BJP | Partha Sharma | 71,016 | 31.75 | +23.59 |
  | | CPI(M) | Sk.Amzad Hossain | 41,474 | 18.54 | -25.14 |
  | | BSP | Mina Roy | 1650 | 0.74 | -0.14 |
  | | LJP | Sk. Nasiruddin | 1244 | 0.56 | |
  | | SUCI(C) | Paban Mazumder | 1982 | 0.89 | |
  | | API | Balai Saren | 1260 | 0.56 | |
  | | None of the Above | NOTA | 2164 | 0.97 | -0.33 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,23,664 | 82.39 | |
  | | TMC gain from CPI(M) | TMC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | | |
  
  ### 2016
  
  West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Pandua :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | CPI(M) | Sk. Amzad Hossain | 91,489 | 43.68 | −2.96 |
  | | TMC | Syed Rahim Nabi | 90,097 | 43.02 | −3.40 |
  | | BJP | Ashok Bhattacharya | 17,081 | 8.16 | +5.25 |
  | | Independent | Sk. Amjad Hossain | 2477 | 1.18 | +0.79 |
  | | PDS | Abdul Goni Sarkar | 1947 | 0.93 | |
  | | BSP | Lakshminarayan Bauldas | 1852 | 0.88 | +0.12 |
  | | CPI(ML)L | Niranjan Bag | 1759 | 0.84 | -1.34 |
  | | None of the Above | NOTA | 2731 | 1.30 | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,09,433 | 85.78 | |
  | | CPI(M) hold | CPI(M) hold | Swing | | |
  
  ### 2011
  
  West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Pandua constituency :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | CPI(M) | Sk.Amzad Hossain | 84,832 | 46.64 | −13.96 |
  | | TMC | Nargis Begum | 84,433 | 46.42 | +15.38 |
  | | BJP | Debaprasad Chakraborty | 5,297 | 2.91 | |
  | | CPI(ML)L | Subhashish Chattopadhyay | 3,956 | 2.18 | |
  | | BSP | Lakshminarayan Bauldas | 1,379 | 0.76 | |
  | | JDP | Kalidasi Hembram | 1,279 | | |
  | | Independent | Dilip Kumar Talukdar Chowdhury | 704 | 0.39 | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 181,878 | 87.82 | |
  | | CPI(M) hold | CPI(M) hold | Swing | −29.36 | |
  
  ### 1977–2006
  
  In the 2006 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections Sk Majed Ali of CPI (M) won the Pandua assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Alam Kazi Rowshan of Trinamool Congress, Sailen Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress and Madhusudan Banerjee of Congress, in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Deb Narayan Chakraborty of CPI (M) won the seat in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977 defeating his nearest rivals, Hrishikesh Ghosh of Congress in 1991 and 1987, Haren Singha Roy of Congress in 1982 and Sailendra Chattopadhya of Congress in 1977.
  
  ### 1962–1972
  
  Sailendra Chattopadhyay of Congress won in 1972. Debnarayan Chakraborty of CPI(M) won in 1971 and 1969. R.Kundu of Congress won in 1967. Radha Nath Das of Congress won in 1962. Prior to that the Pandua seat did not exist.
  
  