Purbasthali Dakshin Assembly constituency is an
assembly
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constituency in
Purba Bardhaman district
Purba Bardhaman district is in West Bengal. Its headquarters is in Bardhaman. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after the division of the previous Bardhaman district. Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born in village Subaldaha in the district ...
in the
India
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n
state of
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...
.
Overview
As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission,
Purbasthali
Purbasthali is a village with a police station and a rail station in Purbasthali II CD block in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district. It is located 120 km north from Kolkata. Also known as Chupi Char, it lies on the banks of a ...
and
Nadanghat
Nadanghat is a village, with a police station, in the Purbasthali I CD block in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in West Bengal, India.
History
The Syeds were famed zemindars of the area during Muslim rule and they continued durin ...
constituencies ceased to exist and in its place
Purbasthali
Purbasthali is a village with a police station and a rail station in Purbasthali II CD block in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district. It is located 120 km north from Kolkata. Also known as Chupi Char, it lies on the banks of a ...
now has two assembly constituencies. No. 268 Purbasthali Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha) constituency covers Nandai, Kankuria, Begpur, Atghoria Simlan, Dhatrigram and Sultanpur
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
Kalna I community development block and Nasratpur, Samudragarh, Bogpur, Sreerampur and
Nadanghat
Nadanghat is a village, with a police station, in the Purbasthali I CD block in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in West Bengal, India.
History
The Syeds were famed zemindars of the area during Muslim rule and they continued durin ...
gram panchayats of
Purbasthali
Purbasthali is a village with a police station and a rail station in Purbasthali II CD block in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district. It is located 120 km north from Kolkata. Also known as Chupi Char, it lies on the banks of a ...
I community development block. No. 269
Purbasthali Uttar Assembly constituency
Purbasthali Uttar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, Purbasthali and Nadanghat constituencies ceased to exist ...
covers Purbasthali II community development block, Jahannagar and Dogachia gram panchayats of Purbasthali I CD Block, and Bamunpara, Mamudpur II and Putsuri gram panchayats of
Manteswar
Monteswar is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
History Administrative set up
When subdivisions were first formed by the British ...
CD Block.
Purbasthali assembly segment was earlier part of
Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency)
Katwa Lok Sabha constituency was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on Katwa in West Bengal, which was abolished following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008.
Overview
As pe ...
. As per orders of Delimitation Commission both Purbasthali Dakshin and Purbasthali Uttar are part of No. 38
Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency).
[
The West Bengal political scenario has changed dramatically over the years. In the early years after independence it was a scene of fluctuating fortunes between the Congress and the Left wing parties, till the latter captured power in the late seventies. The ]United News of India
United News of India (UNI) is a multilingual news agency in India. It was founded On 19 December 1959 as an English news agency. Its commercial operations were started from 21 March 1961. With its ''Univarta'', a Hindi news service, UNI became on ...
in a candid analysis says, “The green surge swept Bengal to demolish the red bastion in 2011 Assembly elections… Moreover, as the Left still remained cornered in state politics, their neutralised voters are increasingly migrating to the BJP for a viable alternative.”
Members of Legislative Assembly
Election results
2021
2016
.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress+Congress vote percentages in 2011, in Purbasthali Dakshin
Purbasthali Dakshin Assembly constituency is an Vidhan Sabha, assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal.
Overview
As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Com ...
constituency.
2011
.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress and CPI(M) vote percentages in 2006, in Nadanghat
Nadanghat is a village, with a police station, in the Purbasthali I CD block in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in West Bengal, India.
History
The Syeds were famed zemindars of the area during Muslim rule and they continued durin ...
constituency.
References
{{West Bengal elections
Assembly constituencies of West Bengal
Politics of Purba Bardhaman district