Country India District Dakshin Dinajpur Type Reserved for SC | State West Bengal Constituency No 37 Lok Sabha constituency 6. Balurghat | |
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Kushmandi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Dakshin Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.
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Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 37 Kushmandi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) covers Kushmandi community development block and Belbari II, Jahangirpur and Sukdebpur gram panchayats of Gangarampur community development block.
Kushmandi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 6 Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency).
2011
In the 2011 election, Narmada Chandra Roy of RSP defeated Partha Sarathi Sarkar of Congress.
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
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1977-2006
In the 2006, 2001, 1996, 1991 and 1987 state assembly elections Narmada Chandra Roy of RSP won the 33 Kushmandi (SC) assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals, Rajib Lochan Sarkar of Congress, Jitendra Nath Sarkar of Trinamool Congress, Krishna Chandra Sarkar of Congress, Jitendra Nath Sarkar of Congress and Dhirendra Nath Sarkar of Congress respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Dhirendra Nath Sarkar of Congress defeated Narmada Chandra Roy of RSP in 1982 and Jogendra Nath Roy of RSP in 1977.
1962–1972
Jatindra Mohan Roy of Congress won in 1972, 1971, 1969 and 1967. Khalil Sayed of CPI won in 1962. The seat did not exist prior to that.