Dinhata Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in

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in the

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Overview

As per orders of the

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, No. 7 Dinhata Assembly constituency covers

Dinhata Dinhata is a city and a municipality in Cooch Behar district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of the Dinhata subdivision. Apart from the city area, Dinhata consists of 3 blocks. Geography Location Dinhata is located ...

municipality,

Dinhata II Dinhata II is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Dinhata subdivision of the Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Sahebganj, one of the constituent panchayats of the ...

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, and Bhetaguri I, Dinhata Gram I, Dinhata Gram II and Putimari I gram panchayats of

Dinhata I Dinhata I is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Dinhata subdivision of the Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Petla, one of the constituent panchayats of the block ...

community development block. Dinhata Assembly constituency is part of No. 1

Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Cooch Behar in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 1 Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency are in Cooch Behar di ...

(SC).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

^: by-elections

Election results

2021 Bye election

2021

2016

Udayan Guha, the Forward Bloc MLA from Dinhata, Joined Trinamool Congress on 1 October 2015. In the 2016 election, Udayan Guha of

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defeated his nearest rival Akshay Thakur of

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2011

Udayan Guha, the Forward Bloc MLA from Dinhata, joined Trinamool Congress on 1 October 2015. . In the 2011 election, Udayan Guha of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Dr. Md Fazle Haque Independent. 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. Dr. Md. Fazle Haque, contesting as an Independent Candidate, was a rebel congress leader. # 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

2001

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

1972-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Ashok Mandal of

won the Dinhata seat defeating his nearest rival Udayan Guha of

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. 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) Forward Bloc (Socialist), a break-away group from the All India Forward Bloc. The party was primarily based in northern West Bengal. FB(S) was formed in 1992 as a result of a split lead by Kamal Guha against the transfer of the Tin Bigha Corridor ...

, which subsequently was reunited with the parent body. He defeated Dipak Sengupta representing Trinamool Congress in 2001 and representing Forward Bloc in 1996, Alok Nandi of Congress in 1991 and 1987, Ramkrishna Pal of Congress in 1982 and Alok Nandy of Congress in 1977.

1951-1972

Jogesh Chandra Sarkar of Congress won the Dinhata seat in 1972 and 1971. Animesh Mukharjee of Congress won it in 1969. Kamal Guha of Forward Bloc won it 1967 and

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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, Satish Chandra Roy Singha and Umesh Chandra Mandal (both of Congress) won from Dinhata.

References

{{West Bengal elections Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Cooch Behar district Constituencies established in 1951 1951 establishments in West Bengal