Kashipur is an assembly

Vidhan Sabha

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 constituency in Purulia district

Purulia District

Purulia district is one of the nineteen districts of West Bengal state in eastern India. The town of Purulia is the administrative headquarters of the district.-History:...

 in the India

India

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n state

States and territories of India

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 of West Bengal

West Bengal

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. It is an open seat from 2011 but as earlier reserved for scheduled tribes.

Extent

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 244 Kashipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Kashipur community development block

Community Development Block in India

The Community development block is a rural area earmarked for administration and development in India. The area is administered by a Block Development Officer...

; Hura, Jabarrah, Kalabani, Keshargarh, Ladhurka, Lakhanpur and Rakhera Bishpuri gram panchayat

Gram panchayat

Gram panchayats are local self-governments at the village or small town level in India. As of 2002 there were about 265,000 gram panchayats in India. The gram panchayat is the foundation of the Panchayat System. A gram panchayat can be set up in villages with minimum population of 300...

s of Hura community development block.

Kashipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 35 Purulia (Lok Sabha constituency)

Purulia (Lok Sabha constituency)

Purulia Lok Sabha constituency is one of the present 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal state in eastern India. India has total 543 Lok Sabha constituencies.-Assembly segments:...

.It was earlier part of Bankura (Lok Sabha constituency)

Bankura (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

West Bengal state assembly election, 2006

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, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections, Rabindranath Hembram of CPI(M)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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 won the Kashipur seat defeating Anath Bandhu Patar of Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

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, Buddheswar Saren of Trinamool Congress, and Subhas Chandra Patar of Congress

Indian National Congress

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 respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Surendranath Majhi of CPI(M) defeated Nandalal Saren of Congress

Indian National Congress

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 in 1991, Anil Baran Murmu of Congress in 1987, Subhas Chandra Patar of Congress in 1982 and Rampada Majhi 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.

1951–1972

Madan Mohan Mahato of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Prabir Kumar Mallick of CPI

Communist Party of India

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 won in 1969. N.S.Deo of Congress won in 1967. Budhan Majhi of Congress won in 1962

West Bengal state assembly election, 1962

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. Ledu Majhi, Independent, and Budhan Majhi, Congress, won the Kashipur joint seat in 1957

West Bengal state assembly election, 1957

The West Bengal state assembly election of 1957, part of a series of state assembly elections in 1957.-Alliances:On the political left two alliances had emered; the United Left Election Committee and the United Left Front...

. In independent India’s first election in 1951

West Bengal state assembly election, 1952

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, there was a joint seat entitled Kashipur cum Raghunathpur. Budhan Majhi of Congress and Ananda Prasad Chakrabarty, Independent, won in 1951.