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Revision as of 17:52, 4 November 2024

Dinhata
Constituency No. 7 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Map
Interactive Map Outlining Dinhata Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictCooch Behar
LS constituencyCooch Behar
Established1951
Total electors299,251
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyAll India Trinamool Congress
Elected year2021

Dinhata Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 7 Dinhata Assembly constituency covers Dinhata municipality, Dinhata II community development block, and Bhetaguri I, Dinhata Gram I, Dinhata Gram II and Putimari I gram panchayats of Dinhata I community development block.[1]

Dinhata Assembly constituency is part of No. 1 Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Name Party
1951 Satish Chandra Roy Singha Indian National Congress
1957 Bhawani Prasanna Talukdar
1962 Kamal Guha All India Forward Bloc
1967
1969 Animesh Mukharjee Indian National Congress
1971 Jogesh Chandra Sarkar
1972
1977 Kamal Guha All India Forward Bloc
1982
1987
1991
1996 Forward Bloc (Socialist)
2001 All India Forward Bloc
2006 Ashok Mandal Trinamool Congress
2011 Udayan Guha All India Forward Bloc
2016 Trinamool Congress
2021 Nisith Pramanik Bharatiya Janata Party
2021^ Udayan Guha Trinamool Congress

^: by-elections

Election results

2021 Bye election

Bye-election, 2021: Dinhata
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Udayan Guha 1,89,575 84.15 +36.57
BJP Ashok Mandal 25,486 11.31 −36.29
AIFB Abdur Rouf 6,290 2.79 +0.30
None of the Above None of the Above 3,935 1.75 +1.12
Majority 1,64,089 72.84 +72.82
Turnout 2,25,447 75.42
AITC gain from BJP Swing

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Dinhata[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Nisith Pramanik 116,035 47.60
AITC Udayan Guha 1,15,978 47.58
AIFB Abdur Rouf 6,069 2.49
None of the Above None of the Above 1,537 0.63
Majority 57 0.02 −9.72
Turnout 2,44,004 81.54
BJP gain from AITC Swing

2016

Udayan Guha, the Forward Bloc MLA from Dinhata, Joined Trinamool Congress on 1 October 2015.[4][5] In the 2016 election, Udayan Guha of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Akshay Thakur of All India Forward Bloc.

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Dinhata[2][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Udayan Guha 1,00,732 54.52 +54.52
AIFB Akshay Thakur 78,939 44.22 −8.69
BJP Sachindra Kumar Adhikari 25,598
BSP Debendra Nath Roy 5,842
Independent Dr. Md Fazle Haque 4,010
None of the Above None of the Above 2,619
Majority 21,793 9.74
Turnout 2,23,783 81.88
AITC gain from AIFB Swing +7.45

2011

Udayan Guha, the Forward Bloc MLA from Dinhata, joined Trinamool Congress on 1 October 2015.[4][5]

. In the 2011 election, Udayan Guha of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Dr. Md Fazle Haque Independent.

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Dinhata[2][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AIFB Udayan Guha 93,050 50.52 +7.45
IND Dr. Md. Fazle Haque 63,024 34.22
NCP Amiya Kumar Sarkar 13,093 7.11
BSP Niranjan Barman 4,135 2.25
BJP Sudhansu Kumar Roy 3,964 2.15
Majority 30,026 16.30
Turnout 1,84,186 82.96
AIFB gain from AITC Swing +7.45

The outgoing Trinamool Congress MLA, Ashok Mondal, was publicly expelled by Mamata Banerjee for campaigning for Dr. Md. Fazle Haque, dissident Congress leader and MLA from Sitai.[8] Dr. Md. Fazle Haque, contesting as an Independent Candidate, was a rebel congress leader.

  1. Nationalist Congress Party did not contest this seat in 2006.

2006

In the 2006 election, Ashok Mondal of AITC defeated his nearest rival Udayan Guha of AIFB

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Dinhata constituency[2][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Ashok Mondal 66,774 42.52 +7.45
AIFB Udayan Guha 63,144 39.92
Independent Hitendra Kumar Nag 6,362 7.11
IPFB Makbul Hussain Sarkar 5,843 2.25
BSP Debendra Nath Roy 2,812 2.15
Independent Anarul Sekh 1,666
Turnout 146,601 83.08
AITC gain from AIFB Swing +7.45

2001

In the 2001 election, Kamal Guha of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Dipak Sengupta of AITC

West Bengal assembly elections, 2001: Dinhata constituency[2][10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AIFB Kamal Kanti Guha 72,887 53.05% +7.45
Trinamool Congress Dipak Sengupta 53,167 38.70%
BJP Madan Mohan Goswami 4,768 3.47%
BSP Debasish Barman 2,271 1.65%
NCP Jiban Krishna Saha 1,729 1.26%
Independent Dinesh Chandra Karji 1,424 1.04%
Independent Kabita Das 1,152 0.84%
Turnout 137,398 78.07%
AIFB hold Swing +7.45

1972-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections,[11] Ashok Mandal of Trinamool Congress won the Dinhata seat defeating his nearest rival Udayan Guha of Forward Bloc. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kamal Guha won the seat in a row from 1977 to 2001 (and also earlier – see below). He represented Forward Bloc in all years except 1996, when he represented the break away Forward Bloc (Socialist), which subsequently was reunited with the parent body. He defeated Dipak Sengupta representing Trinamool Congress in 2001[12] and representing Forward Bloc in 1996,[13] Alok Nandi of Congress in 1991[14] and 1987,[15] Ramkrishna Pal of Congress in 1982[16] and Alok Nandy of Congress in 1977.[17][18]

1951-1972

Jogesh Chandra Sarkar of Congress won the Dinhata seat in 1972[19] and 1971.[20] Animesh Mukharjee of Congress won it in 1969.[21] Kamal Guha of Forward Bloc won it 1967[22] and 1962.[23] In 1957[24] Dinhata was double seat reserved for SC. Bhawani Prasanna Talukdar and Umesh Chandra Mandal (both of Congress) won. In independent India's first election in 1951,[25] Satish Chandra Roy Singha and Umesh Chandra Mandal (both of Congress) won from Dinhata.

References

  1. ^ a b "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  3. ^ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2021". Dinhata. Empowering India. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Udayan joins Trinamul". Bengal. The Telegraph 2 October 2015. Archived from the original on 12 November 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  5. ^ a b "Forward Bloc MLA joins Trinamool Congress". Other states. The Hindu 2 October 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  6. ^ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Dinhata. Empowering India. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
  7. ^ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Dinhata. Empowering India. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
  8. ^ "Trinamool North MLA axed". The Telegraph, 14 April 2011. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
  9. ^ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Dinhata. Empowering India. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
  10. ^ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Dinhata. Empowering India. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
  11. ^ "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  12. ^ "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  13. ^ "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  14. ^ "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  15. ^ "General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  16. ^ "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  17. ^ "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  18. ^ "7 - Dinhata Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
  19. ^ "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  20. ^ "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  21. ^ "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  22. ^ "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  23. ^ "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  24. ^ "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  25. ^ "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.