Country India District Kolkata Year abolished 2011 | State West Bengal Year established 1951 | |
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Lok Sabha constituency Calcutta North West
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Cossipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) was an assembly constituency in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission, Cossipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from 2011.
It was part of Calcutta North West (Lok Sabha constituency).
1977-2009
In the 2006and 2001state assembly elections Tarak Bandopadhyay representing Trinamool Congress won the 140 Cossipur assembly seat defeating Salil Chatterjee of CPI (M), and Bijoy Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) respectively. In 1996,Tarak Bandopadhyay representing Congress defeated Anup Das of CPI(M). Dipak Chanda of CPI(M) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress in 1991and 1987.In 1982,Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress defeated Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of CPI(M). In 1977, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of CPI(M) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress.
1951-1972
The Cossipore seat was won by Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress defeating his nearest rival Paresh Nath Banerjee of CPI(M) in 1972and Krishna Gopal Basu of CPI(M) in 1971.Vishnu Gopal Basu of CPI(M) defeated Sushil Kumar Paul of Congress in 1969. S.K.Roy of Congress defeated P.Dasguta of CPI(M) in 1967.Sunil Kumar Dasgupta of Congress won in 1962defeating Mohit Kumar Moitra of CPI(M). Deben Sen of PSP won in 1957defeating Biswanath Roy of Congress. Biswanath Roy of Congress won in independent India’s first general election in 1951 defeating Jyotirmoy Sharma of CPI.