Haripal Assembly constituency is an
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constituency in
Hooghly district
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The headquarters of the district are at Hooghly-Chinsura (''C ...
in the
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n
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of
West Bengal
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.
Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 196 Haripal Assembly constituency is composed of the following:
Haripal
Haripal is a village in Haripal CD Block in Chandannagore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Geography
Location
Haripal is located at .
Police station
Haripal police station has jurisdiction over Haripal C ...
community development block
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and Balarambati, Basubati and
Kamarkundu Gopalnagar, Daluigachha
gram panchayat
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s of
Singur community development block.
Haripal Assembly constituency is part of No. 29
Arambagh (Lok Sabha constituency)
Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Arambagh in West Bengal. While six assembly segments of No. 29 Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency are in Hooghly district one segme ...
(SC).
[ It was earlier part of ]Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency)
Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Hugli-Chuchura in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 28 Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency are in Hooghly district. ...
.
Members of Legislative Assembly
Election results
2016
2011
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
1977-2006
In the 2006 state assembly elections[ Bharati Mukherjee of ]CPI(M)
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won the Haripal seat defeating Safiul Islam Sarkar of Trinamool Congress
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. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kaliprasad Biswas of CPI(M) defeated Samiran Mitra representing Trinamool Congress in 2001[ and ]Congress
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in 1996,[ and Tushar Sinha Roy of Congress in 1991.][ Balai Banerjee of CPI(M) defeated Tushar Sinha Roy of Congress in 1987][ and Chandrasekhar Banik representing ICS in 1982][ and Congress in 1977.]
1967-1972
Chittaranjan Basu of WPI won in 1972[ and 1971.][ Amalesh Chandra Mazumdar of SSP won in 1969 and 1967.][ Prior to that the Haripal seat did not exist.
]
References
{{West Bengal elections
Assembly constituencies of West Bengal
Politics of Hooghly district