[1] .# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

In the 2006 state assembly elections Sibaprosad Bandopadhyay of CPI(M) won the 182 Chandernagore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Ram Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress.

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned.

Sandhya Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Kamal Mukherjee of Congress in 1991 and 1987.

[3] Byomkesh Majumdar of Congress won in 1957[2] and in independent India's first election in 1951.