Country India District South 24 Parganas Type Open | State West Bengal Constituency No 134 Lok Sabha constituency Mathurapur (SC) | |
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Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. While Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is a new constituency, Mathurapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from 2011.
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Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 134 Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Mathurapur II community development block and Abad Bhagawanpur, Debipur, Krishnachandrapur, Lalpur, Shankarpur and Nalua gram panchayats of Mathurapur I community development block.
Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 20 Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).
Members of Legislative Assembly
Note: For MLAs from the area in previous years see Mathurapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency).
2011
In the 2011 election, Debashree Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Kanti Ganguly of CPI(M).
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote percentage, for the now-defunct Mathurapur constituency in 2006.
Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 8 (See template talk page for details)