Cossipur Assembly constituency was a Legislative Assembly constituency of

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in the

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Overview

As a consequence of the orders of the

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, Cossipur Assembly constituency ceases to exist from 2011. It was part of Calcutta North West (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Results

1977-2009

In the

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and 2001 state assembly elections Tarak Bandopadhyay representing

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won the 140 Cossipur assembly seat defeating Salil Chatterjee of

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, and Bijoy Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) respectively. In 1996, Tarak Bandopadhyay representing

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defeated Anup Das of CPI(M). Dipak Chanda of CPI(M) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress in 1991 and 1987. In 1982, Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress defeated

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of CPI(M). In 1977, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of CPI(M) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress.

1951-1972

The Cossipore seat was won by Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress defeating his nearest rival Paresh Nath Banerjee of CPI(M) in 1972 and Krishna Gopal Basu of CPI(M) in 1971. Vishnu Gopal Basu of CPI(M) defeated Sushil Kumar Paul of Congress in 1969. S.K.Roy of Congress defeated P.Dasguta of CPI(M) in 1967. Sunil Kumar Dasgupta of Congress won in

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defeating Mohit Kumar Moitra of CPI(M). Deben Sen of PSP won in

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defeating Biswanath Roy of Congress. Biswanath Roy of Congress won in independent India’s first general election in 1951 defeating Jyotirmoy Sharma of CPI.

References

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