Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in West Bengal, Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 63, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77 and 82 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
Borough Ward No. Councillor2021 WinnerVII63Susmita Bhattacharya ChatterjeeVIII70Ashim Kumar BoseIX71Papiya SinghVIII72Sandip Ranjan BakshiIX73Kajari Banerjee74Debalina Biswas77Shamima Rehan Khan82Firhad Hakim
Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency.
Members of the Legislative Assembly YearPortraitNameParty1952Mira Datta Gupta1957Siddhartha Shankar Ray1962Constituency renamed as Kalighat1967Beva Mitra1969Sadhan Gupta1971Rathin Talukdar19721977–2009: Constituency did not exist2011Subrata Bakshi2011^Mamata Banerjee20162021Sovandeb Chattopadhyay2021^Mamata Banerjee2026Suvendu Adhikari ^ by-election
Election results
2026
2021 by-election
Following her narrow loss in the 2021 Nandigram Assembly constituency to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari she needed to win a by-election to retain her position as Chief Minister of West Bengal. Sovandeb Chattopadhyay who won the Bhabanipur seat in the April 2021 assembly elections, resigned from his position on May 21, 2021, to vacate the seat for Mamata.
2021
2016
2011 by-election The bypoll to the Bhawanipore seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Trinamool Congress Subrata Bakshi resigned to make way for the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to contest. She had to become a member of the state assembly within six months of her assuming office as Chief Minister as per the rules of the Constitution of India.
2011
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