Panihati Assembly constituency is an
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constituency in
North 24 Parganas district in the
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of
West Bengal
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.
Overview
As per orders of the
Delimitation Commission, No. 111 Panihati Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos.1 to 14, 16, 17 and 22 to 34 of
Panihati municipality.
Panihati Assembly constituency is part of No. 16
Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency)
Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Dum Dum in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 16 Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency are in North 24 Parganas dist ...
.
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Members of Legislative Assembly
Election results
2021
2011
In the 2011 election, Nirmal Ghosh of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Ahibhusan Chakraborty of CPI(M).
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
1977–2006
In the 2006 state assembly elections,[ Gopal Krishna Bhattacharya 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 the Panihati assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival Nirmal Ghosh 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. Nirmal Ghosh representing Trinamool Congress in 2001[ defeated Kamal Sengupta Basu of CPI(M), and representing ]Congress
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in 1996[ defeated Tania Chakraborty of CPI(M). Tania Chakraborty of CPI(M) defeated Nirmal Ghosh of Congress in 1991.][ Gopal Krishna Bhattacharya of CPI(M) defeated Tapan Chattopadhyay of Congress in 1987][ and 1982,][ and Sanmatha Nath Ghosh of ]Janata Party
The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...
in 1977.
1967–1972
Tapan Chatterjee of Congress won in 1972.[ Gopal Krishna Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,][ 1969][ and 1967.][ Prior to that the Panihati seat was not there.
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References
{{West Bengal elections
Assembly constituencies of West Bengal
Politics of North 24 Parganas district