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| Country | India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Bardhaman |
| Constituency No. | 265 |
| Type | Open |
| Lok Sabha constituency | 38. Bardhaman Purba |
| Electorate (year) | 203,280 (2011) |
Memari (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: মেমারী 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. 265 Memari assembly constituency covers Memari municipality, Memari I community development block, and Kuchut, Satgachhia II gram panchayats of Memari II community development block. Barapalason-I, Barapalason-II, Bohar-I, Bohar-II, Bijur-I, Bijur-II and Satgachhia-I gram panchayats of Memari II community development block are part of Manteswar (Vidhan Sabha constituency).[1]
Memari assembly segment was earlier part of Burdwan (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: Memari [2][3][4] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Trinamool Congress | Abul Hasan Mondal | 89,083 | 48.24 | +12.89# | |
| CPI(M) | Debasis Ghosh | 85,905 | 46.52 | -14.11 | |
| BJP | Biswajit Poddar | 3,138 | 1.70 | ||
| JMM | Ananda Mohan Biswas | 2,036 | |||
| Jharkhand Disom Party | Sukumar Saren | 1,936 | |||
| People’s Democratic Conference of India | Radharani Murmu | 1,578 | |||
| BSP | Mukul Biswas | 989 | |||
| Turnout | 184,665 | 90.84 | |||
| Trinamool Congress gain from CPI(M) | Swing | +27.00# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
| 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 |
Sandhya Bhattacharya of CPI(M) won the Memari assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Sk. Mohammad Ismile of Trinamool Congress in the 2006 assembly elections. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001 and 1996, Tapas Chattopadhyay of CPI(M) defeated Syed Mustaq Murshed of Trinamool Congress and Naba Kumar Chatterjee of Congress in the respective years. In 1991, 1987 and 1982, Maharani Konar of CPI(M) defeated Abdul Ohidmolla, Naba Kumar Chatterjee and Sabyasachi Samanta, all of Congress, in the respective years. In 1977, Benoy Konar of CPI(M) defeated Surya Narayan Pal of Janata Party.[5]
Naba Kumar Chatterjee of Congress won in 1972. Benoy Krishna Konar of CPI(M) won in 1971 and 1969. P.Bishayee won in 1967. In 1962, Suchand Soren of CPI won the Memari seat reserved for scheduled tribes.[6]Prior to that the seat did not exist.
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