Nadanghat was an assembly

Vidhan Sabha

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 constituency in Bardhaman district

Bardhaman District

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 in the India

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 of West Bengal

West Bengal

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Swapan Debnath of Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

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  won the Nadanghat assembly seat in 2006 defeating his nearest rival Ratan Das of CPI (M)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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. In 2001, Ratan Das of CPI (M) defeated Swapan Debnath of Trinamool Congress. In 1996 and 1991, Biren Ghosh of CPI (M) defeated Swapan Debnath of Congress and Paresh Chandra Goswami in respective years. In 1987, 1982 and 1977 Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah

Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah

Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah was a communist peasant front leader, who had worked in West Bengal and East Pakistan.-Formative years:Mansur Habibullah was educated in Bardhaman Town School and the prestigious Scottish Church College in Kolkata. He did his post graduation in history from the...

 of CPI (M) defeated Swapan Debnath, Paresh Chandra Goswami and Biswanath Basu, all of Congress, in the respective years.

In 1972, Paresh Chandra Goswami of Congress won the seat. In 1971 and 1969, Syed Mansur Habibullah of CPI (M) won the seat. P.C.Goswami of INC won the seat in 1967. Prior to that the Nadanghat seat was not there.

Nadanghat assembly constituency was part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency)

Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency)

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As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, Nadanghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceased to exist from 2011.