Panchla Assembly constituency is an

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constituency in

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in the

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 175 Panchla Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following:

Panchla Panchla is a census town in Panchla CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Panchla is located at . It has an average elevation of 7 metres (22 feet). Demographics As pe ...

community development block In India, a Community development block (CD block) or simply Block is a sub-division of Tehsil, administratively earmarked for planning and development. The area is administered by a Block Development Officer (BDO), supported by several technic ...

and Gobindapur, Islampur, Laskarpur, Polegustia

gram panchayat Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...

s of

Jagatballavpur Jagatballavpur is a census town in Jagatballavpur CD Block in Howrah Sadar subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Jagatballavpur is located at . Demographics As per 2011 Census of India Jagatballavpur ha ...

community development block. Panchla Assembly constituency is part of No. 25

Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency) Howrah Lok Sabha constituency ( bn, হাওড়া লোকসভা কেন্দ্র) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Howrah in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 2 ...

. Panchla was earlier part of

Sreerampur (Lok Sabha constituency) Serampore (previously known as Serampore-26 and changed to Srerampur-27 in the 2009 election) is one of the 543 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Serampore in West Bengal. Five assembly segments of the ...

Members of Legislative Assembly

2016

AITC Candidate-Gulshan Mallik Votes-101126 Percentage-52.98 AIFB Candidate-Doli Roy Votes-69199 Percentage-36.25 BJP Candidate-Bhabani Prashad Roy Votes-16060 Percentage-8.42 Independent Candidate-Shyamal Mondal Votes-1018 Percentage-0.52 IUC Ahmed Hossain Middya Votes-891 Percentage-0.47

2011

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Doli Roy of

Forward Bloc The All India Forward Bloc ( AIFB) is a left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party ...

won the Panchla assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Abul Kassem Molla 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. Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Sk. Nazrul Islam of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Gulshan Mullick of

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defeated Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc in 1996. Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Prafulla Santra of Congress in 1991, and Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress in 1987. Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress defeated Santosh Kumar Das of Forward Bloc in 1982. Santosh Kumar Das of Forward Bloc defeated Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress in 1977.

1962-1972

Sk Anwar Ali of Congress won in 1972. Asoke Kumar Ghosh of

CPI(M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the na ...

won in 1971. Kanai Lal Bhattacharya of Forward Bloc won in 1969. A.P.Mukhopadhyay of Congress won in 1967. Apurba Lal Majumdar of Forward Bloc won in 1962. The Panchla seat did not exist prior to that.

References

{{West Bengal elections Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Howrah district 1962 establishments in West Bengal Constituencies established in 1962