in the 2006 state assembly elections, kumkum chakraborti of communist party of india (marxist) won the behala east assembly seat defeating her nearest rival sovan chatterjee of trinamool congress. contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. parash dutta of trinamool congress defeated kumkum chakraborti of cpi(m) in 2001. kumkum chakraborti of cpi(m) defeated sonali guha of congress in 1996, and sailen dasgupta of congress in 1991. niranjan mukherjeee of cpi(m) defeated debashis bhattacharya of congress in 1987, balaram goswami of congress in 1982, and indrajit mazumdar of congress in 1977.