Canning Paschim Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of

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district in the

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. It is reserved for

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Overview

As per order of the

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in respect of the

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in the

, Canning Paschim Assembly constituency is composed of the following: *

Canning I Canning I is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Canning subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian State of West Bengal. Geography Canning I CD block is located at . It has an average elevation ...

community development block * Narayanpur gram panchayat of

Canning II Canning II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Canning subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian State of West Bengal. Geography Canning II CD block is located at . It has an average elevatio ...

community development block Canning Paschim Assembly constituency is a part of No. 19

Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency) Jaynagar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 Parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Jaynagar in West Bengal. All the seven legislative assembly segments of No. 19 Jaynagar Lok Sabha constituency are in South 24 ...

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Results

2021

2011

Legislative Assembly Elections 1977-2006

In 2006, Dwijapada Mondal of

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won the Canning Paschim Assembly constituency defeating his nearest rival, Gobinda Chandra Naskar of AITC. In 2001, Gobinda Chandra Naskar of AITC defeated Bimal Mistry of

. Bimal Mistry of

defeated Bhaskar Sinha of

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in 1996 and 1991. Gobinda Chandra Naskar of

defeated Chittaranjan Mirdha of

in 1987. Chittaranjan Mirdha of

defeated Gobinda Chandra Naskar of

in 1982 and 1977.

Legislative Assembly Elections 1957-1972

Gobinda Chandra Naskar of

won the Canning Assembly constituency in 1972 and 1971. Narayan Naskar of

won in 1969. A.C.Halder of

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won in 1967. Khagendra Nath Naskar of

won in 1962. In 1957, Canning Assembly constituency had joint seats. Khagendra Nath Naskar and Abdus Shukur, both of

, won. The seat did not exist prior to that.

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