Dum Dum is constituency No. 114 of West Bengal legislative assembly. It is situated in North 24 Parganas. It is part of Lok Sabha constituency No. 16 which also goes by the same name. It is an open constituency.

According to the Election Commission of India, the assembly constituency of Dum Dum has 1,99,321 registered voters. It has 1,02,239 male and 97,082 female voters.

In the 2011 assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress scored victory from this important seat. Theatre personality Bratya Basu represented TMC from this seat. Basu got 92,635 votes. Gautam Deb, his main contender from CPI(M), got 61,138 votes. The CPI(M) had retained this seat for five consecutive terms from 1977 to 1996. The Trinamool Congress won this seat for the first time in 2001 but the CPI(M) wrested it back in 2006. In the 2011 elections, the TMC won this seat by a convincing margin of 31,497 votes. The voter turnout was 80.84%.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Dum Dum Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Dum Dum assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Vote
2011	114	Dum Dum	GEN	Bratya Basu	M	AITC	92635	Gautam Deb	M	CPM	61138
2006	138	Dum Dum	GEN	Rekha Goswami	F	CPI(M)	99054	Udayan Namboodiry	M	AITC	68816
2001	138	Dum Dum	GEN	Arunava Ghosh	M	AITC	81228	Ajit Chowdhury	M	CPM	81004
1996	138	Dum Dum	GEN	Sankar Sen	M	CPM	92102	Nitai Ghosh	M	INC	62555
1991	138	Dum Dum	GEN	Sankar Kumar Sen	M	CPM	69702	Rmesh Bhattacharjee	M	INC	42530
1987	138	Dum Dum	GEN	Santi Ranjan Ghatak	M	CPM	74212	Harashit Ghosh	M	INC	46436
1982	138	Dum Dum	GEN	Santi Ranjan Ghatak	M	CPM	68178	Lal Bahadur Singh	M	INC	33611
1981	By Polls	Dum Dum	GEN	S.R.Ghatak	M	CPM	50779	L.B.Singh	M	INC(I)	24283
1977	138	Dum Dum	GEN	Tarun Sen Gupta	M	CPM	40426	Lal Bahadur Singh	M	INC	12387
1972	127	Dum Dum	GEN	Lal Bahadur Singh	M	INC	91428	Tarun Kumar Sengupta	M	CPM	15023
1971	127	Dum Dum	GEN	Tarun Kumar Sen Gupta	M	CPM	40736	Bidyut Kumar Basu	M	PSP	31423
1969	127	Dum Dum	GEN	Tarun Kumar Sen Gupta	M	CPM	45159	Birendra Prasad Guha	M	INC	30867
1967	127	Dum Dum	GEN	T.K.S. Gupta	M	CPM	37066	B.P. Guha	M	INC	30682
1962	79	Dum Dum	GEN	Tarun Kumar Sen Gupta	M	CPI	48808	Prashanta Kumar Ghose	M	INC	31357
1957	178	Dum Dum	GEN	Pabitra Mohan Roy	M	PSP	26990	Kanai Lal Das	M	INC	15200
1951	140	Dum Dum	GEN	Kanai Lal Das	M	INC	7344	Lakshmi Kanta Pramanick	M	IND	4830

Last Updated on May 13, 2016