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Nadanghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Country
  
India

District
  
Bardhaman

Year abolished
  
2011

State
  
West Bengal

Year established
  
1967

Lok Sabha constituency
  
Katwa

Nadanghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) was an assembly constituency in Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Map of Nadanghat, West Bengal 713405

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, Nadanghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceased to exist from 2011.

Nadanghat assembly constituency was part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency).

Election results

Swapan Debnath of Trinamool Congress won the Nadanghat assembly seat in 2006 defeating his nearest rival Ratan Das of CPI (M). In 2001, Ratan Das of CPI (M) defeated Swapan Debnath of Trinamool Congress. In 1996 and 1991, Biren Ghosh of CPI (M) defeated Swapan Debnath of Congress and Paresh Chandra Goswami in respective years. In 1987, 1982 and 1977 Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah of CPI (M) defeated Swapan Debnath, Paresh Chandra Goswami and Biswanath Basu, all of Congress, in the respective years.

In 1972, Paresh Chandra Goswami of Congress won the seat. In 1971 and 1969, Syed Mansur Habibullah of CPI (M) won the seat. P.C.Goswami of INC won the seat in 1967. Prior to that the Nadanghat seat was not there.

References

Nadanghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Wikipedia