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| Country | India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Bardhaman |
| Constituency No. | 270 |
| Type | Open |
| Lok Sabha constituency | 38. Bardhaman Purba (SC) |
| Electorate (year) | 211,459 (2011) |
Katwa (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: কাটোয়া বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 270 Katwa assembly constituency covers Katwa municipality, Dainhat municipality, Katwa II community development block and Khajurdihi, Sudpur, Karajgram and Goai gram panchayats of Katwa I CD Block. Koshigram and Srikhanda gram panchayats of Katwa I CD Block are part of Ketugram (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Saragram, Gidhgram and Alampur gram panchayats of Katwa I CD Block are part of Mangalkot (Vidhan Sabha constituency).[1]
Katwa assembly segment was earlier part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Katwa [2][3][4] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Congress | Rabindranath Chatterjee | 97,951 | 52.53 | +4.12 | |
| CPI(M) | Sudipta Bagchi | 70,426 | 37.77 | -7.23 | |
| BJP | Anil Dutta | 7,036 | 3.77 | ||
| People’s Democratic Conference of India | Mohammad Nasiruddin | 3,512 | |||
| SUCI | Apurba Chakraborty | 2,125 | |||
| Independent | Chandra Chur Sarkar | 1,960 | |||
| BSP | Ranu Goldar | 1,826 | |||
| Independent | Kishore Kumar Ghosh | 1,642 | |||
| Turnout | 186,478 | 88.19 | |||
| Congress hold | Swing | +11.35 | |||
| Party | Seats won | Seat change |
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| Trinamool Congress | 15 | 13 |
| Indian National Congress | 1 | 0 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 8 | 12 |
| Forward bloc | 1 | 0 |
| Marxist Forward Bloc | 0 | 1 |
Rabindranath Chatterjee of Congress won the Katwa assembly seat in 2006, 2001, 1996 defeating his nearest rivals, Sudipta Bagchi, Kanak Kanti Goswami and Anjan Chatterjee, all of CPI(M) in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Anjan Chatterjee of CPI(M) won the seat in 1991 and 1987 defeating Rabindranath Chatterjee of Congress. Haramohan Sinha of CPI(M) won the seat in 1982 and 1977 defeating Subrata Mukherjee of Congress and Nityananda Thakur of Janata Party in the respective years.[5]
Subrata Mukherjee of Congress won the Katwa assembly seat in 1972. Haramohan Sinha of CPI (M) won it in 1971. Nityananda Thakur of Congress won it in 1969. Subodh Chowdhury of CPI (M) won it in 1967. Subodh Chowdhury, representing CPI, won the seat in 1962. Tarapada Cahudhuri of Congress won it in 1957. Subodh Chowdhury, representing CPI, won the seat in 1951.[6]
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