Panchla 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. 175 Panchla Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following:

Panchla Panchla is a census town in Panchla (community development block), Panchla CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision in Howrah district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. Geography Panchla is located at . It has an ...

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 Gobindapur, Islampur, Laskarpur, Polegustia gram panchayats of

Jagatballavpur Jagatballavpur is a census town in Jagatballavpur (community development block), Jagatballavpur CD Block in Howrah Sadar subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. Geography Jagatballavpu ...

community development block. Panchla Assembly constituency is part of No. 25

Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency) Howrah Lok Sabha constituency () is one of the 543 Lok Sabha, parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centeres on Howrah in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 25 Howrah Lok Sabha constituency are in Howrah dist ...

. Panchla was earlier part of

Sreerampur (Lok Sabha constituency) Serampore (previously known as Serampore-26 and changed to Serampore-27 in the 2009 election) is one of the 543 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Serampore in West Bengal. Five assembly segments of t ...

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2011

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Doli Roy of

Forward Bloc The All India Forward Bloc ( AIFB) is a left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose, and was strongest in West Bengal. The party re-established ...

won the Panchla assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Abul Kassem Molla 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. Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Sk. Nazrul Islam of Trinamool Congress in 2001.

Gulsan Mullick Gulsan Mullick (born 1958) is an Indian politician from West Bengal. He is a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Panchla Assembly constituency in Howrah district. He won the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election represe ...

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 ...

defeated Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc in 1996. Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Prafulla Santra of Congress in 1991, and Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress in 1987. Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress defeated Santosh Kumar Das of Forward Bloc in 1982. Santosh Kumar Das of Forward Bloc defeated Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress in 1977.

1962-1972

Sk Anwar Ali of Congress won in 1972. Asoke Kumar Ghosh 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 in 1971. Kanai Lal Bhattacharya of Forward Bloc won in 1969. A.P.Mukhopadhyay of Congress won in 1967. Apurba Lal Majumdar of Forward Bloc won in

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

. The Panchla seat did not exist prior to that.

References

{{West Bengal elections Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Howrah district 1962 establishments in West Bengal Constituencies established in 1962