Sitai is an
assembly constituency in
Cooch Behar district
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in the
India
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n
state
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of
West Bengal
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. It is reserved for
scheduled castes.
Overview
As per orders of the
Delimitation Commission
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, No. 6 Sitai Assembly constituency covers
Sitai
Sitai 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
Sitai is located at .
Topographically Cooch Behar dis ...
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 Bara Atiabari I, Bara Atiabari II, Bara Soulmari, Bhetaguri II, Gitaldaha I, Gitaldaha II, Gosanimari I, Gosanimari II, Matalhat, Okrabari and Petla Putimari II
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.
Sitai 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).
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Members of the Legislative Assembly
Election results
2024 by-election
2021
2011
In the 2011 elections, Keshab Chandra Roy of Congress defeated his nearest rival Dipak Kumar Roy of AIFB.
1972-2006
In the 2006 state assembly elections,Congress
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won the Sitai seat defeating his nearest rival Nripendra Nath 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 ...
. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001,
1967-1972
Dr. Md Fazle Haque of Congress won the seat in 1972,
References
{{West Bengal elections
Assembly constituencies of West Bengal
Politics of Cooch Behar district
Constituencies established in 1967
1967 establishments in West Bengal