Bagnan is an assembly constituency in

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in the

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 180 Bagnan Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

Bagnan II Bagnan II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Uluberia subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Chandrabhag, a constituent panchayat of Bagnan II block, is locate ...

community development block In India, a community development block (CD block) or simply Block is a sub-division of District, administratively earmarked for planning and development. In tribal areas, similar sub-divisions are called tribal development blocks (TD blocks). T ...

, and Bagnan I, Bagnan II, Bangalpur, Haturia I, Haturia II and Khalore gram panchayats of

Bagnan I Bagnan I is a community development block (CD Block) that forms an administrative division in Uluberia subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Kalyanpur, a constituent panchayat of Bagnan I block, i ...

community development block. The constituency is part of Uluberia Lok Sabha constituency.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2011

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Akkel Ali Khan of

CPI(M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats, and one of the six national parties of India. ...

won the Bagnan assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival Arup Roy of

Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the Federated state, state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a Lis ...

. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Nirupama Chatterjee of CPI(M) defeated Sabuj Dutta of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Sabuj Dutta of

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defeated Nirupama Chatterjee of CPI(M) in 1996. Nirupama Chatterjee of CPI(M) defeated Sanat Kumar Misra of Congress in 1991, and Susanta Bhattacharjee of Congress in 1987, 1982 and 1977.

1951-1972

Susanta Bhattacharjee of Congress won in 1972. Nirupama Chatterjee of CPI(M) won in 1971 and 1969. Ranjit Kumar Ghosh Choudhury of Congress won in 1967 and

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. Amal Kumar Ganguli of CPI won in

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. In independent India's first election in 1951, Sambhu Charan Mukhopadhyay of Congress won the Bagnan seat.

References

{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Howrah district 1951 establishments in West Bengal Constituencies established in 1951