Cossipur Assembly constituency was a Legislative Assembly constituency of

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in the

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Overview

As a consequence of the orders of the

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, Cossipur Assembly constituency ceases to exist from 2011. It was part of

Calcutta North West (Lok Sabha constituency) Calcutta North West Lok Sabha constituency was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on the north-western part of Calcutta in West Bengal. As a consequence of the order of the Delimitation Commission in ...

Members of Legislative Assembly

Results

1977-2009

In the

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and 2001 state assembly elections Tarak Bandopadhyay representing

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won the 140 Cossipur assembly seat defeating Salil Chatterjee 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 ...

, and Bijoy Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) respectively. In 1996, Tarak Bandopadhyay representing

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defeated Anup Das of CPI(M). Dipak Chanda of CPI(M) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress in 1991 and 1987. In 1982, Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress defeated

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of CPI(M). In 1977, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of CPI(M) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress.

1951-1972

The Cossipore seat was won by Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress defeating his nearest rival Paresh Nath Banerjee of CPI(M) in 1972 and Krishna Gopal Basu of CPI(M) in 1971. Vishnu Gopal Basu of CPI(M) defeated Sushil Kumar Paul of Congress in 1969. S.K.Roy of Congress defeated P.Dasguta of CPI(M) in 1967. Sunil Kumar Dasgupta of Congress won in

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defeating Mohit Kumar Moitra of CPI(M). Deben Sen of PSP won in

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defeating Biswanath Roy of Congress. Biswanath Roy of Congress won in independent India’s first general election in 1951 defeating Jyotirmoy Sharma of CPI.

References

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