Pandua Assembly constituency is an
assembly constituency in
Hooghly district in the
India
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West Bengal
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Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 192 Pandua Assembly constituency is composed of the following:
Pandua community development block
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Pandua Assembly constituency is part of No. 28
Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency)
Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Hugli-Chuchura in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 28 Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency are in Hooghly district. ...
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[ It 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 ...
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Members of Legislative Assembly
Election results
2021
2016
2011
1977–2006
In the 2006[ 2001][ and 1996][ state assembly elections Sk Majed Ali of CPI (M) won the Pandua assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Alam Kazi Rowshan of ]Trinamool Congress
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, Sailen Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress and Madhusudan Banerjee of Congress
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, in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Deb Narayan Chakraborty of CPI (M) won the seat in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977 defeating his nearest rivals, Hrishikesh Ghosh of Congress in 1991[ and 1987,][ Haren Singha Roy of Congress in 1982][ and Sailendra Chattopadhya of Congress in 1977.]
1962–1972
Sailendra Chattopadhyay of Congress won in 1972.[ Debnarayan Chakraborty of CPI(M) won in 1971][ and 1969.][ R.Kundu of Congress won in 1967.][ Radha Nath Das of Congress won in ]1962
Events January
* January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
* January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism.
* January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...
.[ Prior to that the Pandua seat did not exist.
]
References
{{West Bengal elections
Assembly constituencies of West Bengal
Politics of Hooghly district