Dantan Assembly constituency is an

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constituency in

Paschim Medinipur district Paschim Medinipur district or West Midnapore district (also known as Midnapore West) is one of the districts of the state of West Bengal, India. It was formed on 1 January 2002 after the Partition of Midnapore into Paschim Medinipur and Purba M ...

in the

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Overview

As per orders of the

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, No. 219 Dantan Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

Dantan II Dantan II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Kharagpur subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History Archaeological excavations at Moghalmari have revealed the exi ...

community development block In India, a Community development block (CD block) or simply Block is a sub-division of Tehsil, administratively earmarked for planning and development. The area is administered by a Block Development Officer (BDO), supported by several technic ...

, Mohanpur community development block, and Chak Islampur

gram panchayat Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...

Dantan I Dantan I is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Kharagpur subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History According to some, the name is derived from '' Dandabhukti'', w ...

community development block. Dantan Assembly constituency is part of No. 34

Medinipur (Lok Sabha constituency) Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency (formerly, Midnapore Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Midnapore in West Bengal. Six of the seven assembly segments of No. 34 Medinipur L ...

Election results

2021

In the 2021 elections, Bikram Chandra Pradhan of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Shaktipada Nayak of BJP.

2016

In the 2016 elections, Bikram Chandra Pradhan of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Sisir Kumar Patra of CPI.

2011

In the 2011 elections, Arun Mahapatra of CPI defeated his nearest rival Saibal Giri of Trinamool Congress. .# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the

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, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections, Nanda Gopal Bhattacharya of

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won the Danatan assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Bikram Chandra Pradhan of

Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (English: All India Grassroots Congress; AITC), colloquially the Trinamool Congress ( TMC) is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. The party is led by Mamata Banerjee, the cur ...

in 2006 and 2001, and Sunil Baran Giri of

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in 1996. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Ranjit Patra 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 nati ...

defeated Panchanan Mahanti of Congress in 1991. Kanai Bhowmick of CPI defeated Dilip Kumar Das of Congress in 1987 and

Pradyot Kumar Mahanti Prodyot Kumar Mahanti (born c.1940) is an Indian former politician. Mahanti was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from the Dantan constituency in the 1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, then a 32-year old lawyer and Cong ...

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

in 1982. Pradyot Kumar Mahanti of Janata Party defeated Rabindra Nath Dwibedi of CPI in 1977.

1951-1972

Pradyut Kumar Mahanti of Congress (Organisation) won in 1972. Pulin Behari Tripathi of Congress won in 1971. Debendra Nath Das of

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won in 1969 and 1967. Charu Chandra Mahanti of Congress won in

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and

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. In independent India's first election in 1951 Jnanendra Kumar Choudhury of

Bharatiya Jana Sangh The Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh, full name: Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh; ) (ISO 15919: '' Akhila Bhāratīya Jana Saṅgha '' ) was an Indian right wing political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the pol ...

won the Dantan seat.

Mohanpur

Mohanpur was a Assembly constituency in 1951. The seat was won by Basanta Kumar Panigrahi of

Bharatiya Jana Sangha The Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh, full name: Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh; ) ( ISO 15919: '' Akhila Bhāratīya Jana Saṅgha '' ) was an Indian right wing political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the po ...

References

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