Daspur Assembly constituency is an

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constituency in the

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 Delimitation Commission, No. 230 Daspur Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

Daspur II Daspur II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Ghatal subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography In Daspur II CD block, the area is a flat deltaic country inters ...

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 techni ...

, and Basudevpur, Daspur I, Daspur II, Nandanpur I, Nandanpur II and Panchberia

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s of

Daspur I Daspur I is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Ghatal subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography In Daspur I CD block, the area is a flat deltaic country intersecte ...

community development block. Daspur Assembly constituency is part of No. 32

Ghatal (Lok Sabha constituency) Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency is based on Ghatal in West Bengal. While six assembly segments of No. 32 Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency are in Paschim Medinipur district, one ...

. It was earlier part of

Panskura (Lok Sabha constituency) Panskura Lok Sabha constituency was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on Panskura in West Bengal. Assembly segments Prior to delimitation in 2006 Panskura Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the ...

Election results

2021

2016

By-election 2012

In 2012, a by-election was necessitated by the death of sitting Trinamool Congress MLA Ajit Bhunia. Mamata Bhunia of AITC defeated her nearest rival Samar Mukherjee of CPI(M) by 18,928 votes.

2011

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Sunil Adhikari 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 na ...

won the Daspur assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival, Ajit Bhunia 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 ...

. Ajit Bhunia of Trinamool Congress defeated Chaittaranajan Mukhopadhyay of CPI(M). in 2001. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Chittaranjan Mukhopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Jagannanth Goswami of

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in 1996. Prabhas Phadikar of CPI(M) defeated Asit Bandopadhyay of Congress in 1991, Paresh Mondal of Congress in 1987, Sudhir Bera of Congress in 1982, and Bankim Chandra Sasmal of

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in 1977.

1951-1972

Sudhir Chandra Bera of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Mrigendra Bhattacharya of CPI(M) won in 1969. B.C.Sasmal of Congress won in 1967. Mrigendra Bhattacharya of

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won in

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. Bhabani Ranjan Panja of Congress won in

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. In independent India's first election in 1951 the Daspur seat was won by Mrigendra Bhattacharya of CPI.

References

{{West Bengal elections Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Paschim Medinipur district