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Chakdaha
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| Coordinates: | |
| Country | India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Nadia |
| Constituency No | 91 |
| Type | Open |
| Lok Sabha constituency | 13. Ranaghat (SC) |
| Electorate (year) | 191,700 |
Chakdaha (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: চাকদহ বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 91 Chakdaha (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Chakdaha municipality, and Chanduria I, Dubra, Ghetugachhi, Rautari, Silinda I, Silinda II, Tatla Iand Tatla II gram panchayats of Chakdaha community development block.[1]
Chakdaha (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 13 Ranaghat (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).[1]It was earlier part of Nabadwip (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]
| West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Chakdaha [3][4][5] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Trinamool Congress | Naresh Chandra Chaki | 88,771 | 51.20 | +12.06 | |
| CPI(M) | Biswanath Gupta | 74,672 | 43.06 | -12.11 | |
| BJP | Biswajit Ghosh | 6,674 | 3.85 | ||
| BSP | Asutosh Sarker | 3,278 | |||
| Turnout | 173,395 | 90.45 | |||
| Trinamool Congress gain from CPI(M) | Swing | +24.17 | |||
| Party | Seats won | Seat change |
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| Trinamool Congress | 13 | 11 |
| Indian National Congress | 1 | 0 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 3 | 8 |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 0 | 1 |
In the 2006 state assembly elections Malay Kumar Samanta of CPI (M) won the Chakdaha assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Naresh Chandra Chaki of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, 1996 and 1991, Satyasadhan Chakraborty of CPI (M) defeated his nearest rivals Gouri Sankar Dutta, Sukumar Sarkar and Sukumar Roy (all of Congress) in the respective years. In 1987 and 1982, Subhas Basu of CPI (M) defeated Sanatanu Bhowmick and Narendra Nath Sarkar (both of Congress) in the respective years. In 1977, Binoy Kumar Biswas, Independent, defeated Saradindu Biswas of Congress.[6]
Hari Das Mitra of Congress won in 1972. Subhash Chandra Basu of CPI(M) won in 1971. Subal Chandra Mandal of Bangla Congress won in 1969. H.Mitra of Bangla Congress won in 1967. Santi Das of Congress won in 1962. Suresh Chandra Banerjee of PSP won in 1957. The Chakdaha seat was not there in 1951.[7]
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