Kolkata Port Assembly constituency

Kolkata Port
Constituency No. 158 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Kolkata Port Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
LS constituency	Kolkata Dakshin
Established	2011
Total electors	235,854
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Firhad Hakim
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Kolkata Port Assembly constituency (earlier known as Garden Reach 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 the West Bengal, Kolkata Port Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

• Ward Nos. 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 133, 134 and 135 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.[1]

Kolkata Port Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year		Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
	1952	S.M. Abdullah	Indian National Congress[2]
	1957	Shaikh Abdullah Farooquie	Communist Party of India[3]
	1962	S.M. Abdullah	Indian National Congress[4][5]
	1967
	1969	Arun Sen	Communist Party of India[6]
	1971	S.M. Abdullah	Indian National Congress[7]
	1972	Chhedilal Singh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8][9]
	1977
	1982	Samsuzzoha	Indian National Congress[10][11][12]
	1987	Fazle Azim Molla
	1991
	1996	Mohammed Amin	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13][14]
	2001
	2006	Abdul Khaleque Molla	Indian National Congress[15]
Constituency renamed from Garden Reach to Kolkata Port
	2011	Firhad Hakim	All India Trinamool Congress[16]
	2016
	2021

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kolkata Port

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Firhad Hakim	105,543	69.23
	BJP	Awadh Kishore Gupta	36,989	24.26
	INC	Md. Muktar	5,590	3.67
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,360	0.89
	IND	Sanjay Dey	1,139	0.75
Majority			68,554	44.97
Turnout			1,52,513	64.64
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kolkata Port

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Firhad Hakim	73,459	53.21	+4.58
	INC	Rakesh Singh	46,911	33.98	New
	BJP	Awadh Kishore Gupta	11,700	8.48	+6.42
	None of the Above	None of the Above	2,164	1.57	New
	IND	Vivek Kumar Thakur	1,019	0.74
Majority			26,548	19.23	+0.17
Turnout			1,38,050	63.42	−2.49
	AITC hold		Swing	+4.58

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kolkata Port

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Firhad Hakim	63,866	48.63
	AIFB	Moinuddin Sams	38,833	29.57
	IND	Ram Pyare Ram	22,131	16.85
	BJP	Raj Kumari Shaw	2,699	2.06
	IND	Sanjay Lal Das	2,046	1.56
Majority			25,033	19.06
Turnout			1,31,314	65.91
	AITC win

Ram Pyare Ram, contesting as an independent, was a rebel INC candidate.[17]

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
2. "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
3. "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
4. "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
5. "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
6. "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
7. "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
8. "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
9. "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
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11. "General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
12. "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
13. "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
14. "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
15. "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
16. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
17. "Fair-&-free chant in red and green camps - Congress suspends six more rebel candidates". The Telegraph, 19 April 2011. Archived from the original on 26 April 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2011.