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Haripal
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| Country | India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Hooghly |
| Constituency No. | 196 |
| Type | Open |
| Lok Sabha constituency | 29. Arambagh (SC) |
| Electorate (year) | 213,832 (2011) |
Haripal (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: হরিপাল বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 196 Haripal (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Haripal community development block and Balarambati, Basubati and Kamarkundu Gopalnagar, Daluigachha gram panchayats of Singur community development block.[1]
Haripal (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 29 Arambagh (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).[1]It was earlier part of Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency).
| West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Haripal [2][3][4] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Trinamool Congress | Becharam Manna | 98,146 | 53.70 | +10.21# | |
| CPI(M) | Bharati Mukherjee | 76,073 | 41.62 | -11.37 | |
| BJP | Partha Banerjee | 4,175 | 2.28 | ||
| Jharkhand Disom Party | Lakshmi Kanta Hansda | 2,244 | |||
| People's Democratic Conference of India | Md. Nizamuddin Sekh | 213 | |||
| Turnout | 182,775 | 85.48 | |||
| Trinamool Congress gain from CPI(M) | Swing | 21.58# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
| Party | Seats won | Seat change |
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| Trinamool Congress | 16 | 14 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 1 | 11 |
| Forward bloc | 1 | 2 |
| Marxist Forward Bloc | 0 | 1 |
In the 2006 state assembly elections Bharati Mukherjee of CPI(M) won the Haripal seat defeating Safiul Islam Sarkar of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kaliprasad Biswas of CPI(M) defeated Samiran Mitra representing Trinamool Congress in 2001 and Congress in 1996, and Tushar Sinha Roy of Congress in 1991. Balai Banerjee of CPI(M) defeated Tushar Sinha Roy of Congress in 1987 and Chandrasekhar Banik representing ICS in 1982 and Congress in 1977.[5]
Chittaranjan Basu of WPI won in 1972 and 1971. Amalesh Chandra Mazumdar of SSP won in 1969 and 1967.[6]Prior to that the Haripal seat did not exist.
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