Maldaha Assembly constituency (spelt by Election Commission of India as "Maldaha" and earlier spelt as Malda) is an
assembly constituency in
Maldah district in the
India
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of
West Bengal
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. The seat is reserved for
scheduled castes
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. This constituency assembly is covered the main area of
Old Malda CD block and some of English Bazar CD block.
Overview
As per orders of the
Delimitation Commission, No. 50 Maldaha Assembly constituency (SC) covers
Old Malda Municipality,
Old Malda,
Narhatta gram panchayat of
English Bazar
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community development block, and Aiho, Rishipur and Sreerampur gram panchayats of
Habibpur community development block.
Maldah Assembly constituency is part of No. 7
Maldaha Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency)
Maldaha Uttar Lok Sabha constituency (spelling as spelled by Election Commission of India) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. All the seven assembly segments of No. 7 Maldaha Uttar Lok Sabha constituency are in Malda distr ...
.
[ It was earlier part of ]Malda (Lok Sabha constituency)
Malda Lok Sabha constituency was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on Malda in West Bengal, which was abolished following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008.
Assembly segm ...
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Members of Legislative Assembly
Election results
2021
In the 2021 election, Gopal Chandra Saha of BJP defeated his nearest rival, Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhury of Trinamool Congress.
2016
In the 2016 election, Bhupendra Nath Halder of Congress defeated his nearest rival, Dulal Sarkar of Trinamool Congress.
2011
In the 2011 election, Bhupendra Nath Halder of Congress defeated his nearest rival, Rahul Ranjan Das of CPI(M).
.# Swing based on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
1977–2006
In 2006[ and 2001][ state assembly elections, Subhendu Chowdhury of ]CPI(M)
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won the Maldaha (SC) assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Bhupendra Nath Halder of Congress
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and Phani Bhusan Roy of Trinamool Congress
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respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Phani Bhusan Roy of Congress defeated Subhendu Chowdhury of CPI(M) in 1996.[ Subhendu Chowdhury of CPI(M) defeated Phani Bhusan Roy of Congress in 1991][ and 1987.][ Phani Bhusan Roy of Congress defeated Subhendu Chowdhury of CPI(M) in 1982.][ Subhendu Chowdhury of CPI(M) defeated Phani Bhusan Roy of Congress in 1977.]
1951–1972
Mahammad Gafurur Rahaman of Congress won in 1972,[ 1971][ and 1969.][ S.Mia of Congress won in 1967.][ Dharanidhar Sarkar of ]CPI
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Overview
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won in 1962
Events January
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.[ Malda was a joint seat in 1957 and 1951. Nikunja Behari Gupta and Matla Murmu, both of Congress, won in ]1957
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.[ Nikunja Behari Gupta of Congress and Raipada Das, Independent, won in independent India's first election in 1951.][
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References
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