Chakdaha Assembly constituency is an

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constituency in

Nadia district Nadia () is a district in the state of West Bengal, India. It borders Bangladesh to the east, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south, Purba Bardhaman to the west, and Murshidabad to the north. Nadia district is highly influenti ...

in the

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 91 Chakdaha Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

Chakdaha Chakdaha is a town and a municipality in the Kalyani subdivision of the Nadia district, located in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Chakdaha is a prominent urban local body in the district of Nadia, one of the southern dis ...

municipality, and Chanduria I, Dubra, Ghetugachhi, Rautari, Silinda I, Silinda II, Tatla Iand Tatla II

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s of

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. Chakdaha Assembly constituency is part of No. 13

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(SC). It was earlier part of

Nabadwip (Lok Sabha constituency) Nabadwip Lok Sabha constituency was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies of India. This constituency was in the state of West Bengal. This constituency was reserved for Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, Scheduled castes over certain p ...

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Results

2021

2016

In the 2016 election, Ratna Kar Ghosh of the All India Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Biswanath Gupta of CPI(M).

2011

In the 2011 election, Naresh Chandra Chaki of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Biswanath Gupta of CPI(M).

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections Malay Kumar Samanta of

CPI (M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the nat ...

won the Chakdaha assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Naresh Chandra Chaki of

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. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, 1996 and 1991, Satyasadhan Chakraborty of CPI (M) defeated his nearest rivals Gouri Sankar Dutta, Sukumar Sarkar and Sukumar Roy (all of

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) in the respective years. In 1987 and 1982, Subhas Basu of CPI (M) defeated Sanatanu Bhowmick and Narendra Nath Sarkar (both of Congress) in the respective years. In 1977, Binoy Kumar Biswas, Independent, defeated Saradindu Biswas of Congress.

1957-1972

Hari Das Mitra of Congress won in 1972. Subhash Chandra Basu of CPI(M) won in 1971. Subal Chandra Mandal of

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won in 1969. H.Mitra of Bangla Congress won in 1967. Santi Das of Congress won in

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. Suresh Chandra Banerjee of PSP won in

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. The Chakdaha seat was not there in 1951.

References

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