Shyampukur Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly seat in Kolkata district, West Bengal. Established in 1951, it is one of the 294 assembly constituencies in the state and falls under No. 24 Kolkata Uttar Lok Sabha constituency. The seat is a general category, fully urban constituency situated in Kolkata Corporation district in Kolkata North and is one of the seven assembly segments of the Kolkata Uttar parliamentary seat. Shyampukur Assembly Constituency (No. 166) has around 1,76,604 electors, with 81 polling stations and 221 polling booths. As per the 2011 Census estimates, the constituency has 100per cent urban population, with Scheduled Castes comprising around 2.45per cent and Scheduled Tribes around 0.05per cent of the population. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, voter turnout stood at 67.1per cent, while it was 68.3per cent in the 2016 Assembly election. In the 2021 Vidhan Sabha elections, Dr. Shashi Panja of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) won with 55,785 votes, defeating Sandipan Biswas of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a margin of 22,520 votes. In 2016, Shashi Panja secured 53,507 votes, defeating Piyali Pal of the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) by 13,155 votes. She was first elected from Shyampukur in 2011 and has been re-elected in 2016 and 2021. Dr. Shashi Panja is a senior Trinamool Congress leader and a close cabinet colleague of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. A medical doctor by training, she currently serves as Cabinet Minister for Industries, Commerce & Enterprises and the Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare in the Government of West Bengal. She began her political career as a councillor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 2010 and later joined the state cabinet, initially as Minister of State with independent charge of Women and Child Welfare before being elevated to cabinet rank. The constituency has recently drawn attention due to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls conducted by the Election Commission. Shashi Panja herself received a hearing notice after her name was reportedly missing from the BLO app, despite being on earlier electoral rolls.