Purbasthali Uttar

Purbasthali Uttar
Purbasthali Uttar
	Vidhan Sabha constituency
	Purbasthali Uttar Location in West Bengal Purbasthali Uttar Purbasthali Uttar (India)
	Coordinates: 23°28′04″N 88°19′46″E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Constituency No.	269
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	38. Bardhaman Purba (SC)
Electorate (year)	188,997 (2011)

Purbasthali Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: পূর্বস্থলী উত্তর বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, Purbasthali and Nadanghat constituencies ceased to exist and in its place Purbasthali now has two assembly constituencies. No. 268 Purbasthali Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Nandai, Kankuria, Begpur, Atghoria Simlan, Dhatrigram and Sultanpur gram panchayats of Kalna I community development block and Nasratpur, Samudragarh, Nagpur, Sreerampur and Nadanghat gram panchayats of Purbasthali I community development block. No. 269 Purbasthali Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Purbasthali II community development block, Jahannagar and Dogachia gram panchayats of Purbasthali I CD Block, and Bamunpara, Mamudpur II and Putsuri gram panchayats of Manteswar CD Block.[1]

The Purbasthali assembly segment was earlier part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of Delimitation Commission both Purbasthali Dakshin and Purbasthali Uttar are part of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Election results

2016

West Bengal state assembly elections, 2016: Purbasthali Uttar [2][3][4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Pradip Kumar Saha	71,107	41.00	-3.74#
	AITC	Tapan Chatterjee	68,300	42.63	2.68#
	BJP	Swapan Bhattachrya	17,222	10.32
	People's Democratic Conference of India	Amanullah Sekh	5,394
	CPI(ML)L	Ashoke Chowdhury	2,159
	BSP	Sanjib Hazra	1,957
Turnout			166,806	88.26
	CPI (M) gain from AITC		Swing	+9.42#

.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress+Congress vote percentages taken together and CPI(M) vote percentages in 2006, in Purbasthali constituency.

West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2016
Bardhaman district summary
Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	16	1
Indian National Congress	2	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	7	1\| style="text-align:left;" \|Forward bloc	0	1
Marxist Forward Bloc	0
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References

"Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
"Purbasthali Uttar". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
"West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Purbasthali Uttar. Empowering India. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
"West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Purbasthali Uttar. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2011.

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[delimitation-1] "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2010.

[2] "Purbasthali Uttar". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 28 May 2011.

[3] "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Purbasthali Uttar. Empowering India. Retrieved 10 May 2016.

[4] "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). Purbasthali Uttar. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2011.