Malda Lok Sabha constituency was one of the 543

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constituencies in

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. The constituency centred on Malda in

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, which was abolished following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008.

Assembly segments

Malda Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments: * Habibpur (ST) (assembly constituency no. 39) *

Araidanga Araidanga is a populated place, not identified as a separate place in 2011 census, in the Ratua II CD block in the Chanchal subdivision of Malda district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Araid ...

(assembly constituency no. 44) * Malda (SC) (assembly constituency no. 45) * Englishbazar (assembly constituency no. 46) *

Manikchak Manikchak is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Malda Sadar subdivision of Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History Gauda and Pandua Gauda was once the "capital of the ancient bhukti or poli ...

(assembly constituency no. 47) * Suzapur (assembly constituency no. 48) *

Kaliachak Kaliachak is a town in the Kaliachak I CD block in the Malda Sadar subdivision of Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Kaliachak consists 4 Census Town Silampur,Karari Chandpur, Baliadanga and Alipur Kaliachak is one of the big ...

(assembly constituency no. 49) As per order of the

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in respect of the

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in the West Bengal, Malda parliamentary constituency will cease to exist and current constituent assembly segments will be part of either of the two new ones:

Maldaha Uttar Lok Sabha constituency Maldaha Uttar Lok Sabha constituency (spelling as spelled by Election Commission of India) is one of the 543 Lok Sabha, parliamentary constituencies in India. All the seven assembly segments of No. 7 Maldaha Uttar Lok Sabha constituency are in ...

Maldaha Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency Maldaha Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency (spelling as spelled by Election Commission of India) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in Malda district, West Bengal, India. While five of the assembly segments of No. 8 Maldaha Dakshin Lok ...

Members of Parliament

For MPs from the area in subsequent years see

and

Election results

By-election 2006

A by-election was held in this constituency on 13 September 2006 which was necessitated by the death of sitting MP A B A Ghani Khan Choudhury. In the by-election, Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury of Congress defeated his nearest rival

Sailen Sarkar Sailen Sarkar (18 July 1940 —31 December 2013) was a Communist Party of India (Marxist) politician, a minister in the state government, five-time legislator and a CPI(M) secretariat member. Early days Born at Barisal, now in Bangladesh, on 1 ...

of CPI(M) by 84,391 votes.

General election 2004

General elections 1951-2004

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

References

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