Maheshtala By-Election Result Live

Winning Party	Candidate Name
TMC(Won)	DULAL CHANDRA DAS

List of candidates for Maheshtala Constituency By-Election 2018

SL NO.	CANDIDATE NAME	PARTY NAME
1	DULAL CHANDRA DAS	All India Trinamool Congress
2	PRAVAT CHOWDHURY	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
3	SUJIT KUMAR GHOSH	Bharatiya Janata Party

About Maheshtala Assembly Constituency

Maheshtala is a constituency of West Bengal legislative assembly. It is constituency No. 155 situated in South 24 Parganas district. It is a part of Lok Sabha constituency No. 21, which is Diamond Harbour. Maheshtala is an unreserved constituency. According to the Election Commission of India, there are 2,14,985 registered voters in this constituency. Out of this, 1,11,531 are male and 1,03,454 are female voters. Eight candidates, including six male and two female, contested from this seat in the 2011 assembly elections. Kasturi Das of Trinamool Congress won this seat. The runner-up was Sk.Md. Israil of CPI(M). Das won by a margin of 24,283 votes. This was an important win because Maheshtala had been a CPI(M) stronghold for a long period of time. The voter turnout was 81.73%.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Maheshtala Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Vote
2011	155	Maheshtala	GEN	Kasturi Das	F	AITC	92211	Sk.Md.Israil	M	CPM	67928
2006	115	Maheshtala	GEN	Mursalin Molla	M	CPI(M)	65691	Dulal Das	M	INC	37835
2001	115	Maheshtala	GEN	Mursalin Molla	M	CPM	72425	Biman Banerjee	M	AITC	60209
1996	115	Maheshtala	GEN	Mursalin Molla	M	CPM	72274	Gouranga Mukherjee	M	INC	58463
1991	115	Maheshtala	GEN	Abdul Basar	M	CPM	52636	Malay Chowdhury	M	INC	32817
1987	115	Maheshtala	GEN	Abul Basar	M	CPM	51213	Habibur Rahman	M	INC	39428
1982	115	Maheshtala	GEN	Mir Abdus Sayeed	M	CPM	40523	Dilip Ghose	M	IND	23647
1979	By Polls	Maheshtala	GEN	M.A.Sayeed	M	CPM	45259	S.Naskar	M	INC(I)	11760
1977	115	Maheshtala	GEN	Sudhir Bhandari	M	CPM	27256	Mali Safiuddin	M	JNP	10124
1972	105	Maheshtala	GEN	Bhupen Bijali	M	INC	33412	Sudhir Bhandari	M	CPM	25581
1971	105	Maheshtala	GEN	Sudhir Chandra Bhandari	M	CPM	24152	Bhupen Bijai	M	INC	22785
1969	105	Maheshtala	GEN	Sudhir Chandra Bhandari	M	CPM	28367	Bhupendra Nath Bijali	M	INC	18214
1967	105	Maheshtala	GEN	S.C.Bhandari	M	CPM	30805	S.A.Malaque	M	INC	21227
1962	107	Maheshtala	GEN	Ahammad Ali Mufti	M	INC	24498	Sudhir Chandra Bhandari	M	CPI	15420
1957	156	Maheshtala	GEN	Sudhir Chandra Bhandari	M	CPI	14091	Narul Haque Mali	M	INC	11896