Panchla is an assembly

Vidhan Sabha

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 constituency in Howrah district

Howrah District

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 in the India

India

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n state

States and territories of India

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 of West Bengal

West Bengal

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Extent

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 175 Panchla (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) is composed of the following: Panchla

Panchla (community development block)

Panchla is an administrative division in Howrah Sadar subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Panchla police station serves this block. Headquarters of this block is at Bikihakola...

 community development block

Community Development Block in India

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 and Gobindapur, Islampur, Laskarpur, Polegustia 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 Jagatballavpur community development block.

Panchla (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency)

Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency)

Howrah is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Howrah in West Bengal.-Assembly segments:...

.Panchla was earlier part of Sreerampur (Lok Sabha constituency).

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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, Doli Roy of Forward Bloc

All India Forward Bloc

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 won the Panchla assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Abul Kassem Molla of Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

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. 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. Gulshan Mullick of Congress

Indian National Congress

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 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)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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 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

West Bengal state assembly election, 1962

The West Bengal state assembly election of 1962 was a part of a series of state assembly elections in 1962.-Alliances:On the political left two alliances had emered; the United Left Election Committee and the United Left Front...

.The Panchla seat did not exist prior to that.