Santipur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 86 Santipur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Shantipur municipality, and Babla, Baganchra, Belgoria I, Belgoria II Gayeshpur and Haripur gram panchayats of the Shantipur community development block.
Santipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 13 Ranaghat (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC). It was earlier part of Nabadwip (Lok Sabha constituency).
Members of the Legislative Assembly Year Member Party 1951 Sashi Bhusan Khan 1957 Haridas Dey 1962Kanai Pal 1967 1969 M. Mokshed Ali 1971 Bimalananda Mukherjee 1972 Asamanja De 1977Bimalananda Mukherjee 1982 1987 1991Ajoy Dey 1996 2001 2006 2011 2014^ 2016 Arindam Bhattacharya 2021 Jagannath Sarkar 2021^ Braja Kishore Goswami 2026 Swapan Kumar Das
^ = by-election
Election results
2026
2021 by-poll
2021
2016 In the 2016 elections, the 6-times MLA Ajoy Dey was defeated by the West Bengal State Youth Congress, President, Arindam Bhattacharya, who secured 103,566 (52.25%) votes, with a winning margin of 19,488 votes.
2014 by-poll A by-election was held on 12 April 2014 following the resignation of the sitting MLA, Ajoy Dey who switched over to Trinamool Congress from Congress.
2011
2006
2001
1996
1991
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1972
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1957
1951
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