Haripal Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in

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in the

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 196 Haripal Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

Haripal Haripal is a village in Haripal CD Block in Chandannagore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Haripal is located at . Police station Haripal police station has jurisdiction over Haripal CD ...

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 Balarambati, Basubati and Kamarkundu Gopalnagar, Daluigachha gram panchayats of

Singur Singur is a census town in Singur CD block in Chandannagore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Singur is located at . It has an average elevation of 14 metres (45 ft), and i ...

community development block. Haripal Assembly constituency is part of No. 29

Arambagh (Lok Sabha constituency) Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 constituencies of the Lok Sabha, lower house of parliament in India. The constituency centres on the city of Arambagh in West Bengal. While six assembly segments of Arambagh Lok Sabha constitue ...

(SC). It was earlier part of

Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency) Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Hugli-Chuchura in West Bengal. All seven assembly segments of No. 28 Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency are in Hooghly district. O ...

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2021

2016

2011

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections Bharati Mukherjee 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 Haripal seat defeating Safiul Islam Sarkar 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. Kaliprasad Biswas of CPI(M) defeated Samiran Mitra representing Trinamool Congress in 2001 and

Congress A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of ...

in 1996, and Tushar Sinha Roy of Congress in 1991. Balai Banerjee of CPI(M) defeated Tushar Sinha Roy of Congress in 1987 and Chandrasekhar Banik representing ICS in 1982 and Congress in 1977.

1967-1972

Chittaranjan Basu of WPI won in 1972 and 1971. Amalesh Chandra Mazumdar of SSP won in 1969 and 1967. Prior to that the Haripal seat did not exist.

References

{{West Bengal elections Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Hooghly district Constituencies established in 1967 1967 establishments in West Bengal