Medinipur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in

Paschim Medinipur district Paschim Medinipur (English: ''West Medinipur'', alternative spelling ''Midnapore'') district 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 a ...

in the

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Overview

As per orders of the

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, No. 236 Medinipur Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

Midnapore Medinipur or Midnapore is a city known for its history in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the West Medinipur district. It is situated on the banks of the Kangsabati River (variously known as ''Kasai'' and ''Cossye''). ...

municipality, Chandra, Dherua, Monidaha and Tantigeria gram panchayats of Midnapore Sadar

community development block In India, a community development block (CD block) or simply Block is a sub-division of District, administratively earmarked for planning and development. In tribal areas, similar sub-divisions are called tribal development blocks (TD blocks). T ...

and Bankibandh, Garhmal, Karnagarh, Kashijora and Shatpati gram panchayats of

Salboni Salboni (also written as Shalbani, Salbani) is a village in the Salboni CD block, in the Medinipur Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Salboni is the location of one of the Reserve Bank of I ...

community development block. Medinipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 34

Medinipur (Lok Sabha constituency) Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency (formerly, Midnapore Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 Lok Sabha, parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Midnapore in West Bengal. Six of the seven assembly segments of No. 3 ...

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2024 by-election

2021

2016

2011

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Santosh Rana of CPI won the 223 Midnapore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Rama Prasad Tewary of

Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the Federated state, state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a Lis ...

. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Purnendu Sengupta of CPI defeated Gouri Ghosh of Trinamool Congress in 2001, and Dinen Roy of

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in 1996. Kamakhya Ghosh of CPI defeated Raj Kumar Mishra of Congress in 1991, Samir Roy of Congress in 1987, and Samir Roy of ICS in 1982. Bankim Behari Pal of

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defeated Kamakhya Ghosh of CPI in 1977.

1957-1972

Biswanath Mukherjee of CPI won in 1972 and 1971. Kamakhya Charan Ghosh of CPI won in 1969 and 1967.

Syed Shamsul Bari Syed Shamsul Bari is an Indian lawyer and politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. He was the second MLA of Medinipur Assembly constituency in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Early life and family Bari was born into a Bengali ...

of Congress won in

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. Anjali Khan of Congress won in

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References

{{West Bengal elections Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Paschim Medinipur district Constituencies established in 1957 1957 establishments in West Bengal