Kandi Assembly constituency

Kandi Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 68 Kandi Assembly constituency covers Kandi municipality, Kandi community development block (CDB), and Satui Chaurigachha gram panchayat of Berhampore CDB.¹

Kandi Assembly constituency is part of No. 10 Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency.¹

• ^ denotes by-election

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kandi²

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Gargi Das Ghosh	73,355	36.78	6.04
	AITC	Apurba Sarkar	63,020	31.6	19.56
	INC	Shamim Rana	31,160	15.62	0.84
	AIMIM	Mesbahul Islam Khan	22,976	11.52
	NOTA	None of the above	2,932	1.47	0.21
Majority			10,335	5.18	15.24
Turnout			199,460	85.19	7.16
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kandi³

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Apurba Sarkar	95,399	51.16	15.6
	BJP	Goutam Roy	57,319	30.74	19.4
	INC	Shafiul Islam Khan	27,555	14.78	33.6
	Independent	Syed Azizur Hossain	1,769	0.95
	NOTA	None of the above	3,131	1.68
Majority			38,080	20.42
Turnout			186,481	78.03
	AITC gain from INC		Swing

2019 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-election: Kandi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Shafiul Alam Khan	79,698	48.38	2.84
	AITC	Goutam Roy	58,578	35.56	2.64
	BJP	Sanat Mondal	18,693	11.34	5.5
	CPI	Debojyoti Roy	5,291	3.21
	NOTA	None of the above	1,799	1.09	0.45
Majority			21,120	12.82	0.2
Turnout			1,64,710	73.04	3.6
	INC hold		Swing

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kandi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Apurba Sarkar	81,723	51.22	5.12
	AITC	Santanu Sen	60,943	38.2	New
	BJP	Binay Bhushan Das	9,317	5.84	2.82
	NOTA	None of the above	2,464	1.54
Majority			20,780	13.02
Turnout			1,59,553	76.64	4.27
	INC hold		Swing

In the 2011 election, Apurba Sarkar of Congress defeated his nearest rival Ainal Haque of CPI.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Kandi constituency⁴

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Apurba Sarkar	66,513	46.10	13.59
	CPI	Ainal Haque	58,703	40.68	7.64
	Independent	Sahitya Pradip Sinha	9,836	6.82
	BJP	Dhananjoy Mandal	4,351	3.02
	BSP	Amit Kumar Das	1,429
	CPI(ML)L	Manirul Islam	1,254
	Independent	Sasti Konai	850
	JD(U)	Nazimul Islam	736
	MLKSC	Majibur Rahaman Sheikh	615
Turnout			1,44,287	80.91
	INC hold		Swing	21.51

Sahitya Pradip Sinha, contesting as an independent, was reportedly backed by Trinamool Congress.⁵

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Rebel Congress (Independent) vote percentages taken together in 2006. Calculated only on the vote percentages secured by Apurba Sarakar in 2006 and 2011 the swing is +3.59%.

In the 2006 state assembly elections⁶ Apurba Sarkar, Independent, won the 68 Kandi assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Abdul Hamid of CPI. Apurba Sarkar, contesting as an independent, was a rebel congress candidate put up by Adhir Choudhury as a protest against the official Congress candidate Atish Sinha.⁷ He was subsequently taken back into the Congress.⁸ Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Atish Chandra Sinha of Congress defeated Chandan Sen of CPI in 2001,⁹ Syed Wahid Reza of CPI in 1996¹⁰ and 1991.¹¹ Syed Wahid Reza of CPI defeated Bankim Trivedi of Congress in 1987.¹² Atish Chandra Sinha of Congress defeated Syed Abdur Razzaque of CPI in 1982¹³ and Jagadish Sinha of Janata Party in 1977.¹⁴¹⁵

Atish Chandra Sinha won in 1972¹⁶ and 1971.¹⁷ Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha, Independent, won in 1969.¹⁸ G. Trivedi of Congress won in 1967.¹⁹ Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha of Congress won in 1962.²⁰ Kandi was a joint seat in 1957.²¹ Sudhir Mondal and Bimal Chandra Sinha, both of Congress, won the seat jointly. In independent India's first election in 1951 Goalbadan Trivedi of Congress won from the Kandi seat.²²