Khardaha Assembly constituency

Khardaha Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of North [24 Parganas district] in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 109 Khardaha Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Khardaha municipality, Ward Nos.15, 18 to 21 and 35 of Panihati municipality, and Bandipur, Bilkanda I, Bilkanda II and Patulia gram panchayats of Barrackpore II Community [Development Block in India|community development block].
Khardaha Assembly constituency is part of No. 16 Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).

In the 2011 elections, Amit Kumar Mitra of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Asim Dasgupta of CPI.
Trinamool Congress did not contest this seat in 2006

In the 2006 [West Bengal state assembly election|2006], 2001, 1996, 1991 and 1987 state assembly elections, Asim Dasgupta of Communist Party of [India (Marxist)|CPI(M)], won the Khardaha seat defeating his nearest rivals Mahadeb Basak of BJP in 2006, Ranjit Kumar Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress in 2001, Chinmoy Chatterjee of Congress in 1996, Sipta Bishnu of Congress in 1991 and Sudhir Banerjee of Congress in 1987. Kamal Sarkar of CPI had won this seat in 1982 and 1977 defeating Nirmal Ghosh of Congress in 1982 and Harshadhari Bhattacharya of Congress in 1977.

Satkari Mitra of PSP won in 1957 [West Bengal state assembly election|1957]. Gopal Banerjee of CPI won in 1962 West [Bengal state assembly election|1962]. Sadhan Kumar Chakraborty of CPI won in 1967, 1969 and 1971. Sisir Kumar Ghosh of CPI won in 1972.

The Khardaha constituency did not exist in 1952 [West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1952].