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Canning Paschim
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| Country | India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | South 24 Parganas |
| Constituency No | 138 |
| Type | Reserved for SC |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Jaynagar (SC) |
| Electorate (year) | 177,379 (2011) |
Canning Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: ক্যানিং পশ্চিম বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.
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As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 138 Canning Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) is composed of the following: Canning I community development block and Narayanpur gram panchayat of Canning II community development block.[1]
Canning Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 19 Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Canning Paschim [2][3][4] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Trinamool Congress | Shyamal Mondal | 81,736 | 53.35 | +3.06# | |
| CPI(M) | Joydeb Purkait | 62,122 | 40.55 | -1.14# | |
| BJP | Manojit Mondal | 6,108 | 3.99 | ||
| BSP | Ajit Kumar Mazumdar | 3,236 | |||
| Turnout | 153,202 | 86.37 | |||
| Trinamool Congress gain from CPI(M) | Swing | 4.20# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote percentage, for the Canning West seat in 2006.
| Party | Seats won | Seat change |
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| Trinamool Congress | 26 | 19 |
| SUC | 1 | 1 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 3 | 18 |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1 | 2 |
In the 2006 state assembly elections, Dwijapada Mondol of CPI(M) won the Canning West (SC) seat defeating his nearest rival, Gobinda Chandra Naskar of Trinamool Congress. In 2001, Gobinda Chandra Naskar representing Congress defeated Bimal Mistry of CPI(M). Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Bimal Mistry of CPI(M) defeated Bhaskar Sinha of Congres in 1996 and 1991. Gobinda Chandra Naskar of Congress defeated Chittaranjan Mirdha of CPI(M) in 1987. Chittaranjan Mirdha of CPI(M) defeated Gobinda Chandra Naskar of Congress in 1982 and 1977.[5]
Gobinda Chandra Naskar of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Narayan Naskar of Congress won in 1969. A.C.Halder of Bangla Congress won in 1967. Khagendra Nath Naskar of Congress won in 1962. In 1957 Canning was a dual seat. It was won by Khagendra Nath Naskar and Abdus Shukur, both of Congress.[6]
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