About Amta Assembly Constituency
Amta is constituency No. 181 of West Bengal legislative assembly. It is situated in Howrah district and comes under Uluberia Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.
According to data with the Election Commission of India, Amta has 2,06,749 registered voters. It comprises 1,11,160 male and 95,589 female registered voters.
The Congress clinched this seat in the 2011 Assembly elections. Asit Mitra, the winning Congress candidate, bagged 88,264 votes and beat his nearest contender by a margin of 13,719 votes. The runner-up was Rabindranath Mitra of CPI(M) who got 74,545 votes. Amta had been a CPI(M) dominion since 1977. The voter turnout was 82.47 %.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Amta Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Amta assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Vote |
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| 2011 | 181 | Amta | GEN | Asit Mitra | M | INC | 88264 | Rabindranath Mitra | M | CPM | 74545 |
| 2006 | 175 | Amta | GEN | Pratyush Mukherjee | M | CPI(M) | 64924 | Ashok Maji | M | AITC | 53257 |
| 2001 | 175 | Amta | GEN | Pratyush Mukherjee | M | CPM | 60363 | Asok Maji | M | AITC | 56929 |
| 1996 | 175 | Amta | GEN | Pratyush Mukherjee | M | CPM | 62001 | Prasun Bakuly | M | INC | 51807 |
| 1991 | 175 | Amta | GEN | Barindra Nath Koley | M | CPM | 56548 | Aftab Uddin Mondal | M | INC | 43449 |
| 1987 | 175 | Amta | GEN | Barindra Nath Koley | M | CPM | 50751 | Aftabuddin Mondal | M | INC | 39804 |
| 1982 | 175 | Amta | GEN | Barindra Nath Koley | M | CPM | 42464 | Ainuddin Sk. | M | INC | 30423 |
| 1977 | 175 | Amta | GEN | Barindra Nath Koley | M | CPM | 33747 | Aftabuddin Mondal | M | INC | 10527 |
| 1972 | 165 | Amta | GEN | Afiabuddin Mondal | M | INC | 26322 | Barindra Koley | M | CPM | 24710 |
| 1971 | 165 | Amta | GEN | Bapindra Koley | M | CPM | 30671 | Gunkar Singh | M | INC | 11717 |
| 1969 | 165 | Amta | GEN | Nitai Bhandari | M | CPM | 29454 | Haranath Chakrabarty | M | INC | 21027 |
| 1967 | 165 | Amta | GEN | N . Bhandari | M | CPM | 30603 | T . Pramanik | M | INC | 20448 |
| 1962 | 150 | Amta | GEN | Tarapada Pramanik | M | INC | 23062 | Samar Mukherjee | M | CPI | 17975 |
Last Updated on May 27, 2020