Magrahat Purba (earlier known as Magrahat East) is an assembly

Vidhan Sabha

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 constituency in South 24 Parganas district

South 24 Parganas district

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 in the 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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. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Extent

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission

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, No. 141 Magrahat Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) is composed of the following: Magrahat II community development block

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Magrahat Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 19 Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency).Earlier it was part of Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency)

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2011

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote percentage, for the Magrahat East constituency in 2006.

1977-2006 Magrahat East

In the 2006

West Bengal state assembly election, 2006

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 and 2001 state assembly elections, Bansari Mohan Kanji of CPI(M)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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 won the 121 Magrahat East (SC) seat defeating his nearest rival Namita Saha 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. Nirmal Sinha of CPI(M) defeated Namita Saha representing Congess

Indian National Congress

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 in 1996 and 1991. Radhika Ranjan Pramanik of CPI(M) defeated Manoranjan Haldar of Congress in 1987, Nirmal Kanti Mondal of Congress in 1982 and Manoranjan Haldar of Congress in 1977.

1962-1972 Magrahat East

Manoranjan Halder of Congress won in 1972. Radhika Ranjan Pramanick of CPI(M) won in 1971, 1969 and 1967. Ardhendu Sekhar Naskar of Congress won in 1962

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1951-1957 Magrahat

Magrahat was a joint seat in 1957

West Bengal state assembly election, 1957

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 and 1951

West Bengal state assembly election, 1952

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. In both the elections Abdul Hashem and Ardhendu Sekhar Naskar, both of Congress, won the Magrahat seat.