Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency (earlier known as Kharagpur Town seat) 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 Delimitation Commission, No. 224 Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

Kharagpur Kharagpur () is a planned urban agglomeration and a major industrial city in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of the Kharagpur subdivision. It is the largest, most populated, multicultural and cosmopol ...

municipality and

Kharagpur Railway Settlement Kharagpur Railway Settlement is a census town in the Kharagpur I CD block in the Kharagpur subdivision of the Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Kharagpur Railway Settlement is located at . Ar ...

Kharagpur I Kharagpur 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. It is located 14 km from Midnapore, the district headquarters. ...

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. Kharagpur Sadar 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 ...

Members of Vidhan Sabha

* 1957 : Narayan Choubey of CPI * 1967 : Narayan Choubey (CPI) * 1969 :

Gyan Singh Sohanpal Gyan Singh Sohanpal (11 January 1925 – 8 August 2017), was an Indian politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He is affectionately known as Chacha Ji ("Uncle" in English) in h ...

of Congress * 1972 :

(Congress) * 1977 : Sudhir Das Sharma, defeated Gyan Singh Sohanpal (Congress) * 1982 :

(Congress) * 2001 :

(Congress) * 2006 :

(Congress) * 2011 :

(Congress) * 2016 : Dilip Ghosh (BJP), defeated Gyan Singh Sohanpal (Congress) ** Dilip Ghosh was elected to Lok Sabha in 2019 and vacated this Vidhan Sabha seat. * ^2019^ :

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(AITC), in a bye-poll * 2021 : Hiran (BJP)

Election results

2021

2019 Bypoll

A bye- poll was necessitated due to the election of the incumbent MLA, Dilip Ghosh, to the Lok Sabha.

2016 Vidhan Sabha

2011

.# CPI(M) did not contest this seat in 2006.

1977-2006

Gyan Singh Sohanpal of

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won the Kharagpur Town assembly seat for six times in a row from 1982 to 2006 (for earlier victories see below), defeating Prem Chandra Jha of

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in 2006, Lalji Pandey of

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in 2001, Kalidas Nayek of CPI(M) in 1996 and 1991, and Jatindra Mitra of CPI(M) in 1987 and 1982. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sudhir Das Sharma of

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defeated Jatindra Mitra of CPI(M) in 1977.

1951-1972

Gyan Singh Sohanpal of Congress won in 1972, 1971 and 1969. Narayan Choubey of

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won in 1967, 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Kharagpur had a single seat, which was won by Muhammad Momtaz Moulana of Congress.

References

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