Basanti is a
Legislative Assembly constituency of
South 24 Parganas
South 24 Parganas (Pron: pɔrɡɔnɔs; abbr. 24 PGS (S)), or sometimes South Twenty Four Parganas and Dakshin 24 Parganas, is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Alipore previously, with its Zilla Parishad now in Ba ...
district in the
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of
West Bengal
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. It is reserved for
Scheduled Castes.
Overview
As per order of the
Delimitation Commission
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in respect of the
Delimitation of constituencies
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, Basanti Assembly constituency is composed of the following:
* Amjhara, Basanti, Bharatgarh, Charabidya, Foolmalancha, Jharkhali, Jyotishpur, Kanthalberia, Nafarganj, Ramchandrakhali and Uttar Mokamberia gram panchayats of
Basanti community development block
* Atharobanki gram panchayat of
Canning II
Canning II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Canning subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Geography
Canning II CD block is located at . It has an average elevat ...
community development block
Basanti Assembly constituency is a part of No. 19
Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency)
Jaynagar is one of the 543 Parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Jaynagar Majilpur in West Bengal. All the seven legislative assembly segments of No. 19 Jaynagar Lok Sabha constituency are in South 24 Parganas dis ...
.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Election Results
2021
Legislative Assembly Election 2016
Legislative Assembly Election 2011
Legislative Assembly Elections 1977-2006
Subhas Naskar of
RSP won the Basanti Assembly constituency from 1982 to 2006, defeating Amal Kanti Roy of
BJP in 2006,
[ Jayanta Sarkar of AITC in 2001][ and 1996,][ Bipin Behari Sardar of INC in 1991][ and 1987,][ and Jnanendranath Majumdar of INC in 1982.][ Kalipada Barman of RSP defeated Chittaranjan Naskar of INC in 1977.]
Legislative Assembly Elections 1962-1972
Panchanan Sinha of INC won in 1972[ and 1971.][ Ashok Chaudhuri of RSP won in 1969.][ Shakila Khatun of INC won in 1967][ and 1962.][ The seat did not exist prior to that.
]
References
Notes
Citations
{{West Bengal elections
Assembly constituencies of West Bengal
Politics of South 24 Parganas district
Constituencies established in 1962
1962 establishments in West Bengal