Tehatta Assembly constituency is an

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constituency in

Nadia district Nadia () is a district in the state of West Bengal, India. It borders Bangladesh to the east, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south, Purba Bardhaman to the west, and Murshidabad to the north. Nadia district is highly influentia ...

in the

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. The Tehatta seat was there from 1951 to 1972 and was revived in 2011 as per orders of the Delimitation Commission.

Overview

As per orders of the

Delimitation Commission The Delimitation commission or Boundary commission of India is a commission established by the Government of India under the provisions of the Delimitation Commission Act. The main task of the commission is redrawing the boundaries of the vari ...

, No. 78 Tehatta Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Betai I, Betai II, Chhitka, Kanainagar, Natna, Patharghata I, Raghunathpur, Shyamnagar and Tehatta

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s of

Tehatta I Tehatta I is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Tehatta subdivision of Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Tehatta is located at . at Tehatta Tehatta I CD Block is bounded by Naoda, ...

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and Dighal, Kandi, Nandanpur, Narayanpur I and Narayanpur II gram panchayats of

Karimpur II Karimpur II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Tehatta subdivision of Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Karimpur II CD Block is bounded by Karimpur I CD Block, in the north, Daul ...

CD Block. Tehatta Assembly constituency is part of No. 12

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Members of Legislative Assembly

The Tehatta assembly seat was not there between 1977 and 2006.

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and

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existed in the area.

Election results

2021

2016

In the 2016 election, Gouri Sankar Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival, Ranjit Kumar Mondal of Communist Party of India (Marxist).

2011

In the 2011 election, Ranjit Kumar Mondal of Communist Party of India (Marxist) defeated his nearest rival Tapas Kumar Saha, an Independent candidate. Tapash Kumar Saha, contesting as an

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, was a rebel

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candidate.''The Rebel Candidates in the Fray on April 23'', The Telegraph (print edition) 23 April 2011

1977-2006

The Tehatta assembly seat was not there between 1977 and 2006.

and

existed in the area.

1951–1972

Kartik Chandra Biswas of

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won in 1972. Madhabendu Mohanta of

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won in 1971. Surat Ali Khan of Congress won in 1969. Shankardas Bandopadhyay of Congress won in 1967,

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and

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. In independent India's first election in 1951, Raghunandan Biswas of Congress won the Tehatta seat.

References

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