Behala Purba (earlier known as Behala East) is an assembly

Vidhan Sabha

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 constituency in South 24 Parganas district

South 24 Parganas district

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 in the India

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n state

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 of West Bengal

West Bengal

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. Behala

Behala

Behala is a neighbourhood in South West Kolkata, in the Indian state of West Bengal. Behala was officially known as South Suburban Municipality until it was merged with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation on January, 1984. Now it is broadly spread across Ward Nos.118 and 132 of the KMC and is...

 is a neighborhood in Kolkata

Kolkata

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Extent

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission

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, No. 153 Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos.115 to 117 and 120 to 124 of Kolkata municipal corporation, and Joka I and Joka II gram panchayat

Gram panchayat

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s of Thakurpukur Mahestola community development block

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Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).Behala East was earlier part of Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)

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2011

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections

West Bengal state assembly election, 2006

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, Kumkum Chakraborti won the Behala East assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Sovan Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

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. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Parash Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) in 2001. Kumkum Chakraborti of CPI(M) defeated Sonali Guha of Congress

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 in 1996, and Sailen Dasgupta of Congress in 1991. Niranjan Mukherjeee of CPI(M) defeated Debashis Bhattacharya of Congress in 1987, Balaram Goswami of Congress in 1982, and Indrajit Mazumdar of Congress in 1977.

1951-1972

Indrajit Majumdar of Congress won the Behala East seat in 1972. Niranjan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won in 1971, 1969 and 1967. Prior to that Behala was a single seat. Rabindra Nath Mukhopadhyay of CPI

Communist Party of India

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 won the Behala seat in 1962

West Bengal state assembly election, 1962

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 and 1957

West Bengal state assembly election, 1957

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. In independent India’s first election in 1951

West Bengal state assembly election, 1952

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, Biren Roy of Forward Bloc (RG)

All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar)

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won the Behala seat.