| Kultali | |
|---|---|
| — Vidhan Sabha constituency — | |
|
Kultali
|
|
| Coordinates: | |
| Country | India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | South 24 Parganas |
| Constituency No | 129 |
| Type | Reserved for SC |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Jaynagar (SC) |
| Electorate (year) | 187,930 (2011) |
Kultali (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: কুল্তলি বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.
Contents |
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 129 Kultali (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) is composed of the following: Kultali community development block and Baishata, Chuprijhara, Manirhat, Nalgora gram panchayats of Jaynagar II community development block.[1]
Kultali (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 19 Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).[1]
| West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Kultali [2][3][4] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| CPI(M) | Ramsankar Halder | 81,297 | 48.60 | +1.31 | |
| SUCI | Joy Krishna Halder | 76,484 | 45.73 | -2.13 | |
| Congress | Sujit Patwari | 3,277 | |||
| Independent | Sanjoy Mondal | 2,177 | |||
| BJP | Nilkanta Mondal | 2,159 | |||
| BSP | Khusilal Halder | 948 | |||
| Independent | Shaktinath Haldar | 922 | |||
| Turnout | 167,264 | 89 | |||
| CPI(M) gain from SUCI | Swing | 3.44 | |||
| Party | Seats won | Seat change |
|---|---|---|
| Trinamool Congress | 26 | 19 |
| SUC | 1 | 1 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 3 | 18 |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1 | 2 |
In the 2006 assembly elections, Joykrishna Halder of SUC won the Kultali (SC) seat defeating his nearest rival Ramsanker Halder of CPI(M). Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Probodh Purkait of SUC won the seat from 1977 to 2001, defeating Ramsanker Halder of CPI(M) in 2001 and 1996, Ramani Ranjan Das of CPI(M) in 1991, Arabinda Naskar of Congress in 1987 and 1982, and Anandi Tanti of Janata Party in 1977.[5]
Arabinda Naskar of Congress won in 1972. Prabodh Purkait of SUC won in 1971, 1969 and 1967 (in 1967, he was shown as Independent in Election Commission records).[6]Prior to that the Kultali constituency was not there.
|
|||||||||||