Kumarganj 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 Dakshin Dinajpur district 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...

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Extent

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission

Delimitation Commission of India

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, No. 38 Kumarganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Kumarganj 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 Ashokegram, Basuria, Chaloon and Uday 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 Gangarampur

Gangarampur (Community development block)

Gangarampur is an administrative division in Gangarampur subdivision of Dakshin Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Gangarampur police station serves this block...

 community development block.

Kumarganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 6 Balurghat (Lok Sabha constituency)

Balurghat (Lok Sabha constituency)

Balurghat is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Balurghat in West Bengal...

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2011

In the 2011 elections , Mahamuda Begam of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Mafuja Khatun of CPI(M).
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006

West Bengal state assembly election, 2006

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 and 2001 state assembly elections, Mahfuza Khatun of CPI(M)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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 won the Kumarganj assembly seat defeating her nearest rivals Ahmad Ali Sardar and Nani Gopal Roy, both of Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

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 respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Dwijendra Nath Roy of CPI(M) defeated Parinita Singha Roy of Congress in 1996 and Prabodh Kumar Singha Roy of Congress in 1991. Dwijendra Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Afrabuddin Sarkar of Congress in 1987. Dwijendra Nath Roy of CPI(M) defeated Sekhar Kumar Dasgupta of Congress in 1982. Jamini Kishore Mojumdar of CPI(M) defeated Khalil Sayed of Congress in 1977.

1967–1972

Probodh Kumar Singha Roy of Congress won 1972 and 1971. Abinash Basu of Bangla Congress

Bangla Congress

The Bangla Congress was a regional political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was formed through a split in the Indian National Congress in the 1960s and later co-governed with the Communist Party of India in two United Front governments, the first lasting from March 15, 1967 to...

won in 1969. M.Bose of Congress won in 1967.