Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in

Paschim Medinipur district Paschim Medinipur (English: ''West Medinipur'', alternative spelling ''Midnapore'') district is one of the districts of the state of West Bengal, India. It was formed on 1 January 2002 after the partition of Midnapore into Paschim Medinipur a ...

in the Indian

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Overview

As per orders of the

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, No. 224 Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency is composed of the following:

Kharagpur Kharagpur () is a semi- planned urban agglomeration and a major industrial city in the Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of the Kharagpur subdivision and the largest city of the district. It is located 1 ...

municipality and

Kharagpur Railway Settlement Kharagpur Railway Settlement is a census town in the Kharagpur I CD block in the Kharagpur subdivision of the Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Kharagpur Railway Settlement is located at . Are ...

Kharagpur I Kharagpur I is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Kharagpur subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located 14 km from Midnapore, the district headquarters. ...

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 ...

. Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency is part of No. 34

Medinipur (Lok Sabha constituency) Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency (formerly, Midnapore Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 Lok Sabha, parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Midnapore in West Bengal. Six of the seven assembly segments of No. 3 ...

Members of the Legislative Assembly

* 1957: Narayan Choubey ( CPI) * 1967: Narayan Choubey (CPI) * 1969: Gyan Singh Sohanpal ( INC) * 1972: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC) * 1977: Sudhir Das Sharma (

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) * 1982: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC) * 2001: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC) * 2006: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC) * 2011: Gyan Singh Sohanpal (INC) * 2016: Dilip Ghosh ( BJP) ** Dilip Ghosh was elected to Lok Sabha in 2019 and vacated this Vidhan Sabha seat. * ^2019^ by-poll: Pradip Sarkar ( TMC) * 2021:

Hiran Chatterjee Hiran Chatterjee (born Hiranmoy Chattopadhyay, 19 December 1985) is an Indian actor and politician who has served as the Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly for Kharagpur Sadar since 2021. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ...

(BJP)

Election results

2021

2019 Bypoll

A bye- poll was necessitated due to the election of the incumbent MLA, Dilip Ghosh, to the Lok Sabha.

2016 Vidhan Sabha

2011

.# CPI(M) did not contest this seat in 2006.

1977-2006

Gyan Singh Sohanpal of

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won the Kharagpur Town assembly seat for six times in a row from 1982 to 2006 (for earlier victories see below), defeating Prem Chandra Jha of

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in 2006, Lalji Pandey of

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in 2001, Kalidas Nayek of CPI(M) in 1996 and 1991, and Jatindra Mitra of CPI(M) in 1987 and 1982. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sudhir Das Sharma of

defeated Jatindra Mitra of CPI(M) in 1977.

1951-1972

Gyan Singh Sohanpal of Congress won in 1972, 1971 and 1969. Narayan Choubey of CPI won in 1967, 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Kharagpur had a single seat, which was won by Moulana Muhammad Momtaz of Congress.

References

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