Saptagram 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 Hooghly district

Hooghly District

Hooghly district is one of the districts of the state of West Bengal in India. It can alternatively be spelt Hoogli or Hugli. The district is named after the Hooghly River.The headquarters of the district are at Chinsura...

 in the India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n state

States and territories of India

India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.-List of states and territories:...

 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...

. As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Committee Bansberia (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Bansberia (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Bansberia was an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was part of Hooghly ....

 ceases to exist from 2011 and a new constituency comes in to being at Saptagram.

Extent

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 193 Saptagram (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Bansberia

Bansberia

Bansberia is a town and a municipality in Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is under Mogra/ Chinsurah police stations in Chinsurah subdivision. It is at the western end of the Kalyani Bridge, and a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority...

 municipality, Aknna, Amnan, Goswami Malipara, Harit and Mahanad 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 Polba-Dadpur 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 Mogra II and Saptagram gram panchayats of Chinsurah-Mogra

Chinsurah-Mogra (community development block)

Chinsurah-Mogra is an administrative division in Chinsurah subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Chinsurah and Mogra police stations serve this block. Headquarters of this block is at Mogra...

 community development block.

Saptagram (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency)

Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency)

Hooghly is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Hugli-Chuchura in West Bengal.-Election results:Results of elections held prior to 2009 are summarised below:...

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2011

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006 in the now defunct Bansberia

Bansberia (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Bansberia was an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was part of Hooghly ....

 constituency.

See also

Saptagram

Saptagram

Saptagram was a major port, the chief city and sometimes capital of southern Bengal, in ancient and medieval times, the location presently being in the Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is about 4 km from Bandel, a major rail junction. By the early twentieth century, the...

 – once a major port, the chief city and sometimes capital of southern Bengal

Bengal

Bengal is a historical and geographical region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. Today, it is mainly divided between the sovereign land of People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, although some regions of the previous...

, in ancient and medieval times