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Chhatna
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| Country | India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Bankura |
| Constituency No. | 248 |
| Type | Open |
| Lok Sabha constituency | 36. Bankura |
| Electorate (year) | 194,663 (2011) |
Chhatna (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: ছাতনা বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 248 Chhatna (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Chhatna community development block; Veduasol, Brahmandiha, Hatgram, Indpur and Raghunathpur gram panchayats of Indpur community development block.[1]
Chhatna (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 36 Bankura (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Chhatna [2][3][4] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Trinamool Congress | Subhasis Batabyal | 70,340 | 45.58 | +5.21# | |
| RSP | Anath Bandhu Mondal | 62,576 | 40.55 | -11.49 | |
| Independent | Madan Layek | 6,156 | |||
| BJP | Rabindranath Mandal | 4,221 | |||
| JMM | Kanai Banerjee | 2,597 | |||
| Jharkhand Disom Party | Dhaneswar Hansda | 2,224 | |||
| CPI(ML)(L) | Avijit Hansda | 2,016 | |||
| Independent | Bharati Mudi | 1,709 | |||
| BSP | Jagadananda Roy | 1,579 | |||
| JVM(P) | Soumendra Mukherjee | 89 | |||
| Turnout | 154,316 | 79.27 | |||
| Trinamool Congress gain from RSP | Swing | 16.70# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
| Party | Seats won | Seat change |
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| Trinamool Congress | 8 | 8 |
| Indian National Congress | 1 | 1 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 3 | 7 |
| Forward Bloc | 0 | 1 |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 0 | 1 |
In the 2006 state assembly elections, Anath Bandhu Mondal of RSP won the Chhatna assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Mahasweta Mondal of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Subhas Goswami of RSP won the seat six times in a row defeating Swapan Mondal of Trinamool Congress/ Congress in 2001 and 1996, Santi Singha of Congress in 1991, Tapan Banerjee of Congress in 1987, Arun Patra of Congress in 1982 and Kamalakanta Hembram of Congress in 1977.[5]
Kamalakanta Hembram of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Sudarson Singh of SSP won in 1969. J.Koley of Congress won in 1967. Kamalakanta Hembram of Congress won in 1962. Chhatna had a dual seat in 1957. Dhirendranath Chattopadhyay and Kamalakanta Hembram, both of Congress won in 1957. Probodh Chandra Dutta of Hindu Mahasabha won in independent India’s first election in 1952. [6]
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