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Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency)

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Existence
  
1957-present

Current MP
  
Partha Pratim Roy

Member of parliament
  
Parthapratim Roy

Male electors
  
848,649

Total electors
  
1,613,417

Reservation
  
Reserved for SC

Elected Year
  
2016

State
  
West Bengal

Female electors
  
764,768

Assembly Constituencies
  
Mathabhanga (SC) Coochbehar Uttar Coochbehar Dakshin Sitalkuchi (SC) Sitai (SC) Dinhata Natabari

Party
  
All India Trinamool Congress

Assembly segments
  
Natabari, Sitai, Cooch Behar North, Cooch Behar South, Dinhata, Sitalkuchu, Mathabhanga

Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Cooch Behar in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 1 Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Cooch Behar district. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.

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Assembly segments

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 1 Coochbehar, reserved for Scheduled castes (SC), is composed of the following segments from 2009:

  • Mathabhanga (SC) (assembly constituency no. 2)
  • Coochbehar Uttar (assembly constituency no. 3)
  • Coochbehar Dakshin (assembly constituency no. 4)
  • Sitalkuchi (SC) (assembly constituency no. 5)
  • Sitai (SC) (assembly constituency no. 6)
  • Dinhata (assembly constituency no. 7)
  • Natabari (assembly constituency no. 8)

    • The area under the Mathabhanga subdivision of the Cooch Behar district will constitute the assembly constituencies of Mathabhanga and Sitalkuchi, whereas the area under the Dinhata subdivision will form the constituencies of Dinahata and Sitai. The area under Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision will form Cooch Behar Uttar, Cooch Behar Dakshin and Natabari constituencies, though Natabari will contain gram panchayats from Tufanganj subdivision also.

    Members of Parliament

  • 1957: Upendranath Barman and Santosh Banerjee, Indian National Congress
  • 1962: Debendra Nath Karjee, All India Forward Bloc
  • 1963 (by-election): P. C. Barman, Indian National Congress
  • 1967: Benoy Krishna Das Choudhury, All India Forward Bloc
  • 1971: Benoy Krishna Das Choudhury, Indian National Congress
  • 1977: Amarendranath Roy Pradhan, All India Forward Bloc
  • 1980: Amarendranath Roy Pradhan, All India Forward Bloc
  • 1984: Amarendranath Roy Pradhan, All India Forward Bloc
  • 1989: Amarendranath Roy Pradhan, All India Forward Bloc
  • 1991: Amarendranath Roy Pradhan, All India Forward Bloc
  • 1996: Amarendranath Roy Pradhan, All India Forward Bloc
  • 1998: Amarendranath Roy Pradhan, All India Forward Bloc
  • 1999: Amarendranath Roy Pradhan, All India Forward Bloc
  • 2004: Hiten Barman, All India Forward Bloc
  • 2009: Nripendra Nath Roy, All India Forward Bloc
  • 2014: Renuka Sinha, All India Trinamool Congress
  • 2016 (by-election): Partha Pratim Roy, All India Trinamool Congress

    • 2014 result

    Source: General Election to the Lok Sabha 2014 - State wise seats won & valid votes polled by political parties
    General Elections 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha - Party wise seats won and votes polled

    General elections 1957-2004

    In 1951, Upendra Nath Barman, Birendra Nath Katham and Amiya Kanta Basu, all of Congress, won the North Bengal seat. The winners and runners-up from Cooch Behar for subsequent elections are shown below. In a (by-election) in 1958Nalini Ranjan Ghosh of Indian National Congress won.

    References

    Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) Wikipedia
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