Basanti Assembly Election Results

Basanti Assembly Constituency

Basanti is constituency No. 128 of West Bengal legislative assembly. It is situated in South 24 Parganas district and comes under Jaynagar Lok Sabha constituency. Both Basanti and its corresponding Lok Sabha constituency Jaynagar are reserved for scheduled castes (SC).

According to data with the Election Commission of India, Basanti has 1,82,806 registered voters. It comprises 95,074 male and 87,732 female registered voters.

In the 2011 Assembly elections, the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) won this seat by a narrow margin of 6,235 votes. The winning RSP candidate, Subhas Naskar, got 72,871 votes. The runner-up was Arnab Ray of Congress who got 66,636 votes. The voter turnout was 81.26 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Basanti Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Vote
2011	128	Basanti	(SC)	Subhas Naskar	M	RSP	72871	Arnab Ray	M	INC	66636
2006	101	Basanti	(SC)	Subhas Naskar	M	RSP	88857	Amal Kanti Ray	M	BJP	36256
2001	101	Basanti	(SC)	Subhas Naskar	M	RSP	81177	Jayanta Naskar	M	AITC	50829
1996	101	Basanti	(SC)	Subhas Naskar	M	RSP	69834	Jayanta Naskar	M	INC	60372
1991	101	Basanti	(SC)	Subhas Naskar	M	RSP	53470	Bipin Behari Sardar	M	INC	30285
1987	101	Basanti	(SC)	Subhas Naskar	M	RSP	50674	Jnanendra Nath Majumdar	M	INC	38735
1982	101	Basanti	(SC)	Subhas Naskar	M	RSP	48615	Bipinbehari Sardar	M	INC	31840
1977	101	Basanti	(SC)	Kalipada Barman	M	RSP	24695	Chittaranjan Naskar	M	INC	11765
1972	94	Basanti	GEN	Panchanan Sinha	M	INC	26873	Ashoke Chaudhuri	M	RSP	23650
1971	94	Basanti	GEN	Panchanan Sinha	M	INC	17643	Daud Khan	M	CPM	14253
1969	94	Basanti	GEN	Ashoke Chaudhuri	M	RSP	21675	Jasimuddin Ahmed	M	INC	19790
1967	94	Basanti	GEN	S.Khatun	F	INC	21325	S.Sarkar	M	IND	19879
1962	90	Basanti	GEN	Shakila Khatun	F	INC	20131	Phani Bhushan Mondal	M	IND	6153