Mathabhanga is an assembly constituency in

Cooch Behar district Cooch Behar district (), also known as Koch Bihar district, is one of the List of districts of West Bengal, 23 districts of the state of West Bengal in India. The district is the part of Jalpaiguri division, Jalpaiguri Division. Cooch Behar ci ...

in the

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. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the

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, No. 2 Mathabhanga Assembly constituency (SC) covers

Mathabhanga Mathabhanga is a city along Jaldhaka River and a municipality in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Mathabhanga subdivision. Geography Location Mathabhanga is located at . It has an averag ...

municipality, Mathabhanga II

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, and Hazrahat I, Hazrahat II and Pachagarh gram panchayats of

Mathabhanga I Mathabhanga I is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Mathabhanga subdivision of the Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Jorpatki, a constituent panchayat of this blo ...

community development block. Mathabhanga 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

Election results

2021

2016

2011

In the 2011 election, Binay Krishna Barman of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Ananta Roy of CPI(M). .# Trinamool Congress did not contest the seat in 2006.

1977–2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Ananta Roy of the

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won the Mathabhanga seat defeating Hem Chandra Barman of the

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(BJP). Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Dinesh Chandra Dakua of CPI(M) won the seat six times in a row from 1977 to 2001, and also in 1967. He defeated Binoy Krishna Barman of the

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 ...

in 2001, Jatindranath Barman of the

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in 1996, Prasenjit Barman of Congress in 1991, Jatindranath Barman of Congress in 1987, Hitendra Nath Pramanik of Congress on 1982 and Pratap Singha in 1977.

1951-1972

Birendranath Roy of Congress won in 1972, 1971 and 1969. Dinesh Chandra Dakua of CPI(M) won in 1967. Mahendra Nath Dakua of Congress won in

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. Sarada Prasad Pramanick of Congress won in

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and in independent India's first election in 1951.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mathabhanga Assembly constituency Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Cooch Behar district Constituencies established in 1951 1951 establishments in West Bengal