Sonarpur Dakshin is an assembly

Vidhan Sabha

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 constituency in South 24 Parganas district

South 24 Parganas district

South 24 Parganas district is an important district of West Bengal State with its district headquarters in Alipore. It has the urban fringe of Calcutta on one side and the remote riverine villages in the Sundarbans....

 in the India

India

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States and territories of India

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 of West Bengal

West Bengal

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As per orders of the Delimitation Commission

Delimitation Commission of India

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, No. 147 Sonarpur Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos 8 to 24 of Rajpur Sonarpur

Rajpur Sonarpur

Rajpur Sonarpur is a city and a municipality under Sonarpur police station of Baruipur subdivision in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal...

 municipality, and Kalikapur I, Kalikapur II, Langalberia, Poleghat, Pratapnagar and Sonarpur II gram panchayat

Gram panchayat

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s of Sonarpur

Sonarpur (community development block)

Sonarpur is an administrative division in Baruipur subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Sonarpur police station serves this block...

 community development block

Community Development Block in India

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Sonarpur Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 22 Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)

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

. Sonarpur was earlier part of Calcutta South (Lok Sabha constituency)

Calcutta South (Lok Sabha constituency)

Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies in India...

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2011

Earlier Sonarpur had a single seat.

1977-2006 Sonarpur

In the 2006 elections to the state assembly Shyamal Naskar of CPI(M)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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 won the Sonarpur assembly seat reserved for scheduled castes defeating his nearest rival Nirmal Chandra Mandal 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. In 2001, Nirmal Chandra Mandal of Trinamool Congress defeated Abha Mandal of CPI(M). Bhadreswar Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Nirmal Mandal of Congress

Indian National Congress

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 in 1996 and 1991, and Sovaranjan Sardar of Congress in 1986. Gangadhar Naskar of CPI(M) defeated Ramkanta Mandal of ICS in 1982 and Gourhari Sardar of Congress in 1977.

1962-1972 Sonarpur

Kansari Haldar of CPI

Communist Party of India

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 won in 1972. Gangadhar Naskar of CPI(M) won in 1971, 1969, and 1967. Khagendra Kumar Roy Choudhury of CPI 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...