Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
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Jadavpur is an assembly
Vidhan Sabha
The Vidhan Sabha or the Legislative Assembly is the lower house or the sole house of the provincial legislature in the different states of India. The same name is also used for the lower house of the legislatures for two of the union territories, Delhi and Pondicherry...

 constituency in South 24 Parganas district
South 24 Parganas district
South 24 Parganas district is an important district of West Bengal State with its district headquarters in Alipore. It has the urban fringe of Calcutta on one side and the remote riverine villages in the Sundarbans....

 in the India
India
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n state
States and territories of India
India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.-List of states and territories:...

 of West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

. Jadavpur
Jadavpur
Jadavpur is a southern neighbourhood of Kolkata, India. It is bounded by Dhakuria to the north, Tollygunge to the west, Santoshpur to the east and Garia to the south...

 is a neighborhood in Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

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Extent

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission
Delimitation Commission of India
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, No. 150 Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 96, 99, 101 to 106, 109 and 110 of Kolkata municipal corporation.

Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 22 Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)
Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)
Jadavpur is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Jadavpur in West Bengal.-Assembly segments:...

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2011

In the 2011 elections , Manish Gupta of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Buddhadeb Bhattcharya of CPI(M).
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001, 1996, 1991, 1991 and 1987 state assembly elections Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of CPI(M)
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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 won the Jadavpur assembly seat, defeating Dipak Kumar Ghosh of Trinamool Congress
All India Trinamool Congress
The All India Trinamool Congress is a state political party in West Bengal. Founded in 1 January 1998, the party is led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Trinamool Congress is currently the second largest member of the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition...

 in 2006, Madhabi Mukherjee
Madhabi Mukherjee
Madhabi Mukherjee née Chakraborty is a reputed Bengali actress who has acted in some of the most critically acclaimed films in Bengali cinema.Her major role was the title role of Charu in Satyajit Ray's masterpiece Charulata...

 of Trinamool Congress in 2001, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar is a political leader of West Bengal. She is president of West Bengal Mahila Congress. She is a member of 15th Lok Sabha....

 of Congress
Indian National Congress
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 in 1996, Jyoti Prasanna Das Thakur of Congress in 1991, and Probhat Chatterjee of Congress in 1987. Sankar Gupta of CPI(M) defeated Sachin Mukherjee of Congress in 1982. Dinesh Majumdar of CPI(M) defeated Santimoy Chatterjee of Janata Party
Janata Party
The Janata Party was an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the state of emergency imposed by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Indian National Congress...

in 1977.

1967-1972

Dinesh Majumdar of CPI(M) won in 1972 and 1971. Bikesh Chandra Guha of CPI(M) won in 1969 and 1967. The Jadavpur seat did not exist prior to that.
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