Bhabanipur
Constituency No. 159 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Bhabanipur Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
Lok Sabha constituency	Kolkata Dakshin
Established	1951
Total electors	160,313 (2026)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Suvendu Adhikari
Party	BJP
Elected year	2026
Preceded by	Mamata Banerjee

Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. In the 2026 Assembly election, Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP wrested this constituency from the incumbent Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee by a margin of 15,105 votes.^[1]

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.^[2]

Borough	Ward No.	Councillor	2021 Winner
VII	63	Susmita Bhattacharya Chatterjee		Trinamool Congress
VIII	70	Ashim Kumar Bose
IX	71	Papiya Singh
VIII	72	Sandip Ranjan Bakshi
IX	73	Kajari Banerjee
	74	Debalina Biswas
	77	Shamima Rehan Khan
	82	Firhad Hakim

Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency.^[2]

Year	Name	Party
1952	Mira Datta Gupta		Indian National Congress
1957	Siddhartha Shankar Ray
1962			Independent
Constituency renamed as Kalighat
1967	Beva Mitra		Indian National Congress
1969	Sadhan Gupta		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1971	Rathin Talukdar		Indian National Congress
1972
1977–2009: Constituency did not exist
2011	Subrata Bakshi		Trinamool Congress
2011^	Mamata Banerjee
2016
2021	Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
2021^	Mamata Banerjee
2026	Suvendu Adhikari		Bharatiya Janata Party

• ^ by-election

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suvendu Adhikari	73,917	53.02	30.73
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	58,812	42.19	29.71
	CPI(M)	Shrijeeb Biswas	3,556	2.55	1.01
	INC	Pradip Prasad	1,257	0.9
	NOTA	None of the above	829	0.59	0.64
Majority			15,105	10.83	38.78
Turnout			1,39,413
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

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 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-election: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	85,263	71.90	14.19
	BJP	Priyanka Tibrewal	26,428	22.29	12.87
	CPI(M)	Shrijeeb Biswas	4,226	3.56	New
	NOTA	None of the above	1,453	1.23	Hold
Majority			58,835	49.61	27.06
Turnout			1,18,614	57.49	4.30
	AITC hold		Swing	14.19

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sovandeb Chatterjee	73,505	57.71	10.04
	BJP	Rudranil Ghosh	44,786	35.16	16.03
	INC	Md. Shadab Khan	5,211	4.09	25.17
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,570	1.23	0.56
	BSP	Anita Rajwar	564	0.44	0.17
Majority			28,719	22.55	4.14
Turnout			1,27,536	61.79	5.04
	AITC hold		Swing	10.04

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	65,520	47.67	29.79
	INC	Deepa Dasmunshi	40,219	29.26	New
	BJP	Chandra Kumar Bose	26,299	19.13	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,461	1.79	New
	BSP	Nirmal Kanti Samaddar[3]	669	0.27	New
Majority			25,301	18.41	38.62
Turnout			1,37,475	66.83	22.11
	AITC hold		Swing	29.79

The bypoll to the Bhowanipore 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.^[4]

Bye-election, 2011: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	73,635	77.46	12.69
	CPI(M)	Nandini Mukherjee	19,422	20.43	7.55
	Independent	Sujay Krishna Bhadra	809	0.85	New
Majority			54,213	57.03	20.24
Turnout			95,064	44.73	19.04
	AITC hold		Swing	12.69

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subrata Bakshi	87,903	64.77
	CPI(M)	Narayan Prasad Jain	37,967	27.98
	BJP	Ram Chandra Jaiswal	5,078	3.74
	BSP	Dulal Mistri	1,050	0.77
Majority			49,936	36.79
Turnout			1,35,741	63.78
	AITC win