West Bengal Assembly election 2021, Tollygunge profile: TMC MLA Aroop Biswas won seat two times in a row

Tollygunge is an Assembly/Vidhan Sabha constituency in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. It falls under the Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency. In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly election, the constituency had a total of 1,94,165 registered voters. Voter turnout in previous election The voter turnout in Tollygunge in the previous Assembly election was 75.34 percent. Past election results and winners In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly election, Aroop Biswas of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) won the Tollygunge seat by securing 90,603 votes as against 80,707 votes garnered by Madhuja Sen, who contested the Assembly polls on Communist Party of India (Marxist) ticket. In 2011 as well, Aroop was declared the winner against CPM’s Partha Pratim Biswas. The TMC candidate had won the constituency with a margin of 27,680 votes or 5.13 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.