Bengal polls 2016: Top 10 contests of phase 4 on April 25
Kolkata, April 23: Out of 49 seats going to polls in phase 4 of the Assembly election in West Bengal on Monday (April 25), 10 will be particularly interesting to watch as they involve high-profile and celebrity candidates.
Assembly Polls 2016 Coverage; List of 49 constituencies going to polls on April 25
Here is a look at those 10 seats and their results in 2011:
Khardaha
(North
24
Parganas
district):
Trinamool
Congress's
(TMC)
Amit
Mitra
vs
Left's
Asim
Dasgupta.
The
BJP
has
fielded
Mahadeb
Basak
from
this
seat.
2011 results: Amit Mitra defeated Asim Dasgupta by 26,154 votes [his vote share was 56.49 per cent]
Dum
Dum
North
(N
24-Pgs):
TMC's
Chandrima
Bhattacharya
versus
Left's
Tanmay
Bhattacharya.
The
BJP
has
fielded
Tapan
Das.
2011 results: Chandrima Bhattacharya defeated CPI(M)'s Rekha Goswami by 19,026 votes [her vote-share was 53.43 per cent]
Kamarhati
(N
24-Pgs):
TMC's
Madan
Mitra
versus
Left's
Manas
Mukherjee.
The
BJP
has
fielded
Krishanu
Mitra.
2011 results: Madan Mitra defeated Manas Mukherjee by 24,354 votes [his vote-share was 59.76 per cent]
Dum
Dum
(N
24-Pgs):
TMC's
Bratya
Basu
versus
Left's
Palash
Das.
The
BJP
has
fielded
Uma
Das
Singha
2011 results: Bratya Basu defeated CPI(M)'s Gautam Deb by 31,497 votes [his vote share was 57.50 per cent]
Bidhannagar
(N
24
Pgs):
TMC's
Sujit
Basu
versus
Congress's
Arunava
Ghosh.
The
BJP
has
fielded
Susanta
Ranjan
Pal.
2011 results: Sujit Basu defeated CPI(M)'s Palash Das by 35,925 votes [his vote-share was 59.53 per cent]
Rajarhat-Gopalpur
(N
24
Pgs):
TMC's
Purnendu
Basu
versus
Left's
Nepaldeb
Bhattacharya.
The
BJP
has
fielded
Dilip
Mitra.
2011 results: Purnendu Basu defeated CPI(M)'s Rabindranath Mandal by 35,725 votes [his vote-share was 59.76 per cent]
Barasat (N 24 Pgs):
TMC's Chiranjeet Chakraborty versus Left's Sanjib Chattapadhyay. The BJP has fielded Dilip Mitra.
2011 results: Chiranjeet Chakraborty defeated Sanjib Chattapadhyay by 40,211 votes [his vote-share was 58.28 per cent]
Basirhat
South
(N
24
Pgs):
BJP's
Samik
Bhattacharjee
versus
TMC's
Dipendu
Biswas.
The
Congress
has
fielded
Amit
Majumdar.
2011 results: Left's Narayan Mukherjee defeated TMC's Narayan Goswami by 12,400 votes [his vote-share was 35.94 per cent]. However, in the bypoll held in September 2014 after Mukherjee's death, the BJP bagged this seat after Samik Bhattacharjee narrowly defeated Dipendu Biswas. The BJP's votes increased from 7,282 in 2011 to over 71,000 in 2014.
Bally
(Howrah):
TMC's
Vaishali
Dalmiya
versus
Left's
Anjan
Bera.
The
BJP
has
fielded
Kaushik
Chakraborty.
2011 results: TMC's Sultan Singh defeated CPI(M)'s Kanika Ganguly by 6,600 votes [his vote-share was 50.42 per cent]
Howrah
North
(Howrah):
TMC's
Laxmi
Ratan
Shukla
versus
BJP's
Roopa
Ganguly
versus
Congress's
Santosh
Kumar
Pathak.
2011 results: TMC's Ashoke Ghosh defeated CPI(M)'s Nimai Samanta by 19,608 votes [49.25 per cent]
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