Kalna Assembly constituency

Kalna
Kalna
Constituency No. 264 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Interactive Map Outlining Kalna Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Bardhaman Purba
Established	1951
Total electors	187,158
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
	18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Siddhartha Majumdar
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2026

Kalna Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 264 Kalna (SC) assembly constituency covers Kalna municipality, Kalna II community development block and Bagnapara, Hatkalna and Krishnadevpur gram panchayats of Kalna I community development block.^[1]

As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency from 2009.^[1] Kalna (SC) assembly segment was part of Katwa Lok Sabha constituency prior to 2009.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member
1951	Baidyanath Sanyal	Indian National Congress
1951	Rash Behari Sen	Indian National Congress
1957	Hare Krishna Konar	Communist Party of India
1957	Jamadar Majhi
1962	Hare Krishna Konar
1967		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1969
1971
1972	Nurul Islam Mollah	Indian National Congress
1977	Guruprasad Sinha Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982	Anju Kar
1987
1991
1996
2001
2006	Anjali Mondal
2011	Biswajit Kundu	Trinamool Congress
2016	Biswajit Kundu
2021	Deboprasad Bag
2026	Siddhartha Majumdar	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2026

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Siddhartha Majumdar	110,790	51.96	9.56
	AITC	Deboprasad Bag	82,160	38.53	7.45
	CPI(M)	Sharmistha Nag Saha	13,784	6.46	2.64
	INC	Amal Kumar Saha	2,563	1.2
	NOTA	None of the above	1,333	0.63	0.57
Majority			28,630	13.43	9.85
Turnout			213,233	94.11	7.58
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Deboprasad Bag	96,073	45.98	4.34
	BJP	Biswajit Kundu	88,595	42.4	33.32
	CPI(M)	Nirab Khan	19,005	9.1	28.17
	BSP	Radheshyam Mandal	2,084	1.0	0.02
	NOTA	None of the above	2,507	1.2
Majority			7,478	3.58
Turnout			208,951	86.53
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Biswajit Kundu	97,430	50.32	0.34
	CPI(M)	Sukul Chandra Sikdar	72,169	37.27	5.29
	BJP	Newton Majumdar	17,577	9.08	5.54
	NOTA	None of the above	2,865	1.48
	BSP	Radheshyam Mandal	1,976	1.02	0.18
	CPI(ML)L	Pejush Kumar Sahana	1,612	0.83	0.14
Majority			25,261	13.05	5.63
Turnout			1,93,629	88.00	2.69
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Biswajit Kundu	85,096	49.98
	CPI(M)	Sukul Chandra Sikdar	72,459	42.56
	BJP	Dilip Mondal	6,021	3.54
	Independent	Tapas Das	2,053	1.21
	CPI(ML)L	Pejush Kumar Sahana	1,647	0.97
	PDS	Shibu Halder	1,557	0.91
	BSP	Radheshyam Mandal	1,437	0.84
Majority			12,637	7.42
Turnout			1,70,270	90.69
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2006

2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Anjali Mondal	90,046	59.74
	AITC	Asis Chakraborty	42,999	28.53
	INC	Lakshman Kumar Roy	15,665	10.39
	BSP	Rabindra Nath Halder	2,027	1.34
Majority			47,047	31.21
Turnout
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

2001

2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Anju Kar	79,401	54.29
	AITC	Sridhar Banerjee	54,448	37.23
	BJP	Shankar Halder	8,135	5.56
	PDS	Hemanta Mukherjee	2,932	2.00
	CPI(ML)L	Jagannath Mondal	1,349	0.92
Majority			24,953	17.06
Turnout			146,359	87.48
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1996

1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Anju Kar	72,329	52.40
	INC	Lakshman Kumar Roy	55,825	40.44
	BJP	Biswanath Ghosh	6,400	4.64
	JMM	Baidyanath Murmu	2,201	1.59
	CPI(ML)L	Jagannath Mondal	729	0.53
	Independent	Rabindranath Haldar	225	0.16
	Independent	Ranu Goldar	167	0.12
	Independent	Sukanta Pal	163	0.12
Majority			16,504	11.96
Turnout			140,100	88.57
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1991

1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Anju Kar	64,560	54.43
	INC	Dhirendra Nath Chattopadhayay	37,910	31.96
	BJP	Debasish Bhattacharaya	13,941	11.75
	JMM	Soren Madhu	1,337	1.13
	BSP	Ranu Goldar	872	0.74
Majority			26,650	22.47
Turnout			120,489	83.76
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1987

1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Anju Kar	59,092	60.32
	INC	Dhirendra Nath Chatterjee	36,978	37.75
	Independent	Madhu Soren	1,091	1.11
	Independent	Subodh Naskar	619	0.63
	Independent	Ajoy Kumar Ghosh	177	0.18
Majority			22,114	22.57
Turnout			99,397	82.15
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1982

1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Anju Kar	47,829	56.77
	INC	Sudhir Ghosh	34,365	40.79
	Independent	Gopal Garai	2,060	2.44
Majority			13,464	15.98
Turnout			85,798	82.53
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1977

1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Guruprasad Sinha Roy	31,826	56.06
	JP	Debendra Bejoy Ghosh	13,074	23.03
	INC	Nurul Islam	11,868	20.91
Majority			18,752	33.03
Turnout			57,621	64.49
	Swing to CPI(M) from INC		Swing

1972

1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Nubul Islam Molia	62,476	97.81
	CPI(M)	Dilip Kumar Dubey	952	1.49
	Independent	Soren Madhu	444	0.70
Majority			61,524	96.32
Turnout			64,170	78.25
	Swing to INC from CPI(M)		Swing

1971

1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Konar Harf Krishna	31,896	54.45
	INC	Nurul Islam Molla	24,930	42.56
	Jharkhand Party	Kanka Murmu	1,754	2.99
Majority			6,966	11.89
Turnout			60,709	75.55
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1969

1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Hare Krishna Konar	29,384	56.98
	INC	Debendra Bejoy Ghosh	22,188	43.02
Majority			7,196	13.96
Turnout			52,559	72.90
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1967

1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	H. K. Konar	22,128	47.58
	INC	D. B. Ghosh	20,877	44.89
	PSP	N. K. Roy	3,240	6.97
	Independent	K. Das	266	0.57
Majority			1,251	2.69
Turnout			48,754	70.18
	Swing to CPI(M) from CPI		Swing

1962

1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kalna
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI	Hare Krishna Konar	23,924	53.36
	INC	Dehendra Bejoy Ghosh	20,222	45.10
	Independent	Suresh Chandra Kumar	690	1.54
Majority			3,702	8.26
Turnout			47,188	60.56
	CPI win (new seat)

1957

1957 WB Legislative Assembly election: Kalna (ST) *(Double-member constituency)*
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI	Hare Krishna Konar	32,996	25.95
	CPI	Jamadar Majhi	32,043	25.20
	INC	Baidyanath Majhi	26,900	21.16
	INC	Rashbehari Sen	22,084	17.37
	Independent	Anandagopal Kumar	9,568	7.53
	Independent	Kalo Majhi	2,062	1.62
	Independent	Dubraj Majhi	1,492	1.17
Majority			5,143	4.04
Turnout			127,145	99.55

1951

1951 WB Legislative Assembly election: Kalna *(Double-member constituency)*
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Baidyanath Santal	21,120	22.49
	INC	Rash Behari Sen	18,390	19.58
	CPI	Jamadar Majhi	18,070	19.24
	KMPP	Ananda Gopal Kumar	17,453	18.58
	ABJS	Krishna Kinkar Nandy	11,092	11.81
	Independent	Hilaram Chattopadhyay	2,364	2.52
	Independent	Kali Krishna Das	1,823	1.94
	Independent	Radha Raman Sen	1,379	1.47
	Independent	Pashu Santal	1,291	1.37
	Independent	Kali Prasanna Chaudhury	931	0.99
Majority			320	0.34
Turnout			93,913	88.18

References

1 2 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
↑ "West Bengal General Legislative Election 2026 Statistical Report". Election Commission of India.
↑ "West Bengal General Legislative Election 2021 Statistical Report". Election Commission of India.

[delimitation-1] 1 2 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.

[election2026-2] "West Bengal General Legislative Election 2026 Statistical Report". Election Commission of India.

[election2021-3] "West Bengal General Legislative Election 2021 Statistical Report". Election Commission of India.

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