Gosaba is an assembly

Vidhan Sabha

The Vidhan Sabha or the Legislative Assembly is the lower house or the sole house of the provincial legislature in the different states of India. The same name is also used for the lower house of the legislatures for two of the union territories, Delhi and Pondicherry...

 constituency in South 24 Parganas district

South 24 Parganas district

South 24 Parganas district is an important district of West Bengal State with its district headquarters in Alipore. It has the urban fringe of Calcutta on one side and the remote riverine villages in the Sundarbans....

 in the India

India

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n state

States and territories of India

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 of West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Extent

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission

Delimitation Commission of India

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, No. 127 Gosaba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) is composed of the following: Gosaba

Gosaba (community development block)

Gosaba is an administrative division in Canning subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Gosaba police station serves this block...

  community development block

Community Development Block in India

The Community development block is a rural area earmarked for administration and development in India. The area is administered by a Block Development Officer...

, and Maszidbati and Chunakhali gram panchayat

Gram panchayat

Gram panchayats are local self-governments at the village or small town level in India. As of 2002 there were about 265,000 gram panchayats in India. The gram panchayat is the foundation of the Panchayat System. A gram panchayat can be set up in villages with minimum population of 300...

s of Basanti

Basanti (community development block)

Basanti is an administrative division in Canning subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Basanti police station serves this block...

 community development block.

Gosaba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 19 Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).

2011

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

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections

West Bengal state assembly election, 2006

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, Chittaranjan Mandal of RSP

Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)

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 won the Gosaba (SC) seat defeating his nearest rival Jayanta Naskar of Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

The All India Trinamool Congress is a state political party in West Bengal. Founded in 1 January 1998, the party is led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Trinamool Congress is currently the second largest member of the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition...

. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Ganesh Mondal of RSP won the seat from 1977 to 2001, defeating Sujit Pramanick of Trinamool Congress/ Congress

Indian National Congress

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 in 2001 and 1996, Jitendranath Gayen of Congress in 1991, Pramila Biswas of Congress in 1987, Sandhyakar Mondal of Congress in 1982 and Paresh Baidya of Congress in 1977.

1967-1972

Paresh Chandra Baidya of Congress won in 1972. Ganesh Chandra Mondal of RSP won in 1971 and 1969. G.N.Mondal of Bharatiya Jana Sangh

Bharatiya Jana Sangh

The Bharatiya Jana Sangh existed from 1951 to 1980, whereupon it was succeeded by the Bharatiya Janata Party, one of India's largest political parties...

won in 1967. Prior to that the Gosaba constituency was not there.