West Bengal Assembly election 2021, Behala Purba profile: TMC's Sovan Chatterjee currently represents constituency

Behala Purba is an Assembly/Vidhan Sabha constituency in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. It falls under the Kolkata Dakshin Parliamentary constituency. In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly election, the constituency had a total of 2,05,294 registered voters. Voter turnout in previous election The voter turnout in Behala Purba in the previous Assembly election was 73.83 percent. Past election results and winners In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly election, Sovan Chatterjee of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) won the Behala Purba seat by defeating Independent candidate Professor Ambikesh Mahapatra with 96,621 votes. Mahapatra took the second spot by securing 72,327 votes. In 2011 as well, Chatterjee was declared the winner against CPM’s Kumkum Chakraborti. He won the constituency with a margin of 48,173 votes or 24.88 percent. Elections for the West Bengal Assembly will be held in eight phases, up from seven last time, beginning with polling for 30 seats on 27 March. The second phase of West Bengal’s assembly elections has been scheduled for 1 April and will cover 30 constituencies, followed by the third phase on 6 April for 31 seats, the fourth on 10 April for 44 constituencies, the fifth on 17 April for 45 seats, sixth for 43 seats on 22 April, seventh phase on 26 April for 36 seats and last and eighth phase on 29 April for 35 seats. The results of the election will be declared on 2 May.