Country India District South 24 Parganas Type Open | State West Bengal Constituency No 151 Lok Sabha constituency Jadavpur | |
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Sonarpur Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 151 Sonarpur Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 7 and 25 to 33 of Rajpur Sonarpur municipality, and Banhooghly I, Banhooghly II, Kamrabad, Kheyadaha I and Kheyadaha II gram panchayats of Sonarpur community development block.
Sonarpur Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 22 Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency). Sonarpur was earlier part of Calcutta South (Lok Sabha constituency).
2011
In 2011, Firdousi Begum of Trinamool Congress defeated Shyamal Naskar of CPIM.
Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 8 (See template talk page for details)
Earlier Sonarpur had a single seat.
1977-2006 Sonarpur
In the 2006elections to the state assembly Shyamal Naskar of CPI(M) won the Sonarpur assembly seat reserved for scheduled castes defeating his nearest rival Nirmal Chandra Mandal of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001,Nirmal Chandra Mandal of Trinamool Congress defeated Abha Mandal of CPI(M). Bhadreswar Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Nirmal Mandal of Congress in 1996and 1991,and Sovaranjan Sardar of Congress in 1987. Gangadhar Naskar of CPI(M) defeated Ramkanta Mandal of ICS in 1982and Gourhari Sardar of Congress in 1977.
1962-1972 Sonarpur
Kansari Halder of CPI won in 1972.Gangadhar Naskar of CPI(M) won in 1971,1969,and 1967.Khagendra Kumar Roy Choudhury of CPI won in 1962