Katulpur Assembly constituency is an
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constituency in
Bankura district
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in the
India
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state
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of
West Bengal
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. It is reserved for
scheduled castes
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from 2011. Prior to that it was an open seat.
Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 256 Katulpur Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Deshra-koyalpara, Gopinathpur, Kotulpur, Lego, Mirzapur and Sihar
gram panchayat
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s of
Kotulpur
Kotulpur is a village in the Kotulpur CD block in the Bishnupur subdivision of the Bankura district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Etymology
Kotlu Khan of Gar Mandaran, then capital of the local kingdom, was killed in a war, in the Mughal ...
community development block
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; Gelia, Jagannathpur, Kuchiakol, Maynapur,
Salda, Uttarbarh, Hetia, Routkhanda and Shyamnagar gram panchayats of
Joypur community development block.
Katulpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 37
Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency)
Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency, formerly known as Vishnupur Lok Sabha constituency, is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Bishnupur
in West Bengal. While six of the assembly seats of No. 37 Bishn ...
.
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Members of Legislative Assembly
Election results
2014 bye election
The bypoll to the Kotulpur seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Congress Soumitra Khan Switched To Trinamool Congress & Elected as MP of Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency.
Percentage swing with respect to General Election 2011.
2011
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
1977-2006
In the 2006 state assembly elections, Kalpana Koley of CPI(M)
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won the Katulpur assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Aloka Sen Majumdar 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 ...
. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Manashi Ghose of CPI(M) defeated Sunil Das of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Gouripada Dutta of CPI(M) defeated Nikhil Bose of Congress
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in 1996, Akshay Kumar Koley of Congress in 1991, and Bablu Kolay of Congress in 1987. Gunadhar Choudhury of CPI(M) defeated Aksay Kumar Koley of Congress in 1982 and 1977.
1957-1972
Akshay Kumar Kolay of Congress won in 1972. Jatadhari Mukhopadhyay of CPI(M) won in 1971, Niranjan Bhadra of Bangla Congress
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won in 1969. S.Sarkar of Bangla Congress won in 1967. Jagannath Kolay of Congress won in 1962 and 1957
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. Prior to that the Katulpur seat was not there.
References
{{West Bengal elections
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Politics of Bankura district