Pingla Assembly constituency 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. 227 Pingla Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Dhaneswarpur, Gobordhanpur, Jamna, Karkai, Kshirai, Kusumda and Pindurui

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Pingla Pingla is a village in the Pingla CD block in the Kharagpur subdivision of the Paschim Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Pingla is located at . Area overview Kharagpur subdivision, shown partly in th ...

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and

Kharagpur II Kharagpur II 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. Kharagpur police station serves this block. Headquarters of this blo ...

community development block. Pingla Assembly constituency is part of No. 32

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. It was earlier part of

Panskura (Lok Sabha constituency) Panskura Lok Sabha constituency was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on Panskura in West Bengal. Assembly segments Prior to delimitation in 2006 Panskura Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the ...

Election results

2021

2016

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

2011

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Ramapada Samanta of DSP(PC) won the Pingla assembly seat defeating Hrishikesh Dinda of

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. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Rampada Samanta, Independent, defeated Raj Kumar Das of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Ramapada Samanta contesting on the

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symbol defeated Swapan Dome of

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in 1996. Haripada Jana representing DSP(PC) defeated Saktipada Mahapatra of Congress in 1991, contesting as an independent defeated Sukumar Das of Congress in 1987 and 1982, and representing

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defeated Bijoy Das of Congress in 1977.

1967-1972

Bijoy Das of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Gouranga Samanta of

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won in 1969 and 1967.

References

{{West Bengal elections Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Paschim Medinipur district