Country India District North 24 Parganas Type Open | State West Bengal Constituency No. 112 Lok Sabha constituency Dum Dum | |
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Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 112 Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 16 and 21 to 35 of Kamarhati municipality.
Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 16 Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).
2011
In the 2011 election, Madan Mitra of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Manas Mukherjee of CPI(M).
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 2 (See template talk page for details)
1977-2006
In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections Manas Mukherjee of CPI(M), won from the Kamarhati assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Subhrangshu Bhattacharya of Trinamool Congress in 2006 and Chittaranjan Bag of Trinamool Congress in 2001.Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Santi Ghatak of CPI(M) had won it in 1996and in 1991defeating his nearest rivals Sambhunath Dutta of Congress in 1996 and Salil Biswas of Congress in 1991. Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee of CPI(M) had won this seat in 1987, 1982, and in 1977defeating Ajoy Ghosal of Congress in 1987,Purnendu Bimal Dutta of Congress in 1982and Jayanta Chandra Sen of Congress in 1977.
1967-1972
Pradip Kumar Palit of Congress won in 1972.Radhika Ranjan Banerjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,1969and in 1967.Prior to that the Kamarhati seat did not exist.