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{{Infobox settlement



|name = Dantan
|official_name =
|other_name =
|native_name = 
|settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha constituency 
|total_type = 
|motto =

|pushpin_map = India West Bengal#India
|map_caption = Location in West Bengal
|coordinates = {{coord|21|57|N|87|16|E|region:IN-{{IndAbbr|[[West Bengal]]}}|display=inline,title}}

|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{IND}}
|subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Paschim Medinipur district|Paschim Medinipur]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No.]]
|subdivision_name3 = 219
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Open
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Medinipur (Lok Sabha constituency)|34. Medinipur]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 160,317 (2011)

|area_code =
|website =
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'''Dantan (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Paschim Medinipur district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], No. 219 Dantan (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: [[Dantan II (community development block)|Dantan II]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]], [[Mohanpur (community development block)|Mohanpur]] community development block, and Chak Islampur [[gram panchayat]] of [[Dantan I (community development block)|Dantan I]] community development block.<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web|url=http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |title=Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006 |access-date=2010-10-15 |publisher=Government of West Bengal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918130255/http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |archive-date=2010-09-18 }}</ref>

Dantan (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 34 [[Medinipur (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>

==Election results==

===2021===
In the 2021 elections, Bikram Chandra Pradhan of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Shaktipada Nayak of BJP.

{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2021]]: Dantan}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Bikram Chandra Pradhan
|votes = 95,209
|percentage = 48.13
|change = -5.33
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Shaktipada Nayak
|votes = 94,586
|percentage = 47.82
|change = +40.35
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India
|candidate = Sisir Kumar Patra
|votes = 5,652
|percentage = 2.86
|change = -34.24
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 1,250
|percentage = 0.63
|change = -0.34
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Subhas Das
|votes = 1,101
|percentage = 0.56
|change = -0.44
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 197,798
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
In the 2016 elections, Bikram Chandra Pradhan of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Sisir Kumar Patra of CPI.

{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2016]]: Dantan}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Bikram Chandra Pradhan
|votes = 95,641
|percentage = 53.46
|change = +7.01
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India
|candidate = Sisir Kumar Patra
|votes = 66,381
|percentage = 37.10
|change = -12.25
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Shaktipada Nayak
|votes = 13,347
|percentage = 7.47
|change = +5.03
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Balaram Das
|votes = 1,797
|percentage = 1.00
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 1,741
|percentage = 0.97
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 178,917
|percentage = 84.54
|change = -4.78
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
===2011===
In the 2011 elections, Arun Mahapatra of CPI defeated his nearest rival Saibal Giri of Trinamool Congress.

{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Dantan <ref>{{cite web| url = http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS25219.htm|title = Dantan |work = Assembly Elections May 2011 Results| publisher = Election Commission of India |access-date = 2011-05-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=219|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Dantan| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 2011-05-06 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_5th_phase.pdf |title=West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work=Dantan |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=2011-05-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912030706/http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_5th_phase.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-12 }}</ref> }}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India
|candidate = Arun Mahapatra
|votes = 79,118
|percentage = 49.35
|change = -11.09
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Shaibal Giri
|votes = 74,468
|percentage = 46.45
|change = +7.10#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Shailendra Jana
|votes = 3,909
|percentage = 2.44
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Mukul Kumar Mishra
|votes = 1,653
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Party of Democratic Socialism (India)
|candidate = Soumen Samanta
|votes = 1,169
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 160,317
|percentage = 89.32
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Communist Party of India
|swing = -18.19#
}}
{{Election box end}}

<small>.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.</small>
===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]], 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections, Nanda Gopal Bhattacharya of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] won the Danatan assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Bikram Chandra Pradhan of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] in 2006 and 2001, and Sunil Baran Giri of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Ranjit Patra of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] defeated Panchanan Mahanti of Congress in 1991. Kanai Bhowmick of CPI defeated Dilip Kumar Das of Congress in 1987 and [[Pradyot Kumar Mahanti]] of [[Janata Party]] in 1982. Pradyot Kumar Mahanti of Janata Party defeated Rabindra Nath Dwibedi of CPI in 1977.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp228.htm |title = 228 - Dantan Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 2010-12-20 }}</ref>

===1951-1972===
Pradyut Kumar Mahanti of [[Indian National Congress (Organisation)|Congress (Organisation)]] won in 1972. Pulin Behari Tripathi of Congress won in 1971. Debendra Nath Das of [[Bangla Congress]] won in 1969 and 1967. Charu Chandra Mahanti of Congress won in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]] and [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]]. In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1951]] Jnanendra Kumar Choudhury of [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]] won the Dantan seat.<ref name=archive>{{cite web | url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/electionstatistics.asp | title = Statistical Reports of Elections | access-date = 2010-12-20 | work = General Election Results and Statistics | publisher = Election Commission of India | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101005110118/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp | archive-date = 2010-10-05 }}</ref>

===Mohanpur===
Mohanpur was a Vidhan Sabha constituency in 1951. The seat was won by Basanta Kumar Panigrahi of [[Bharatiya Jana Sangha]].<ref name=archive/>

==References==
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{{Paschim Medinipur topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Paschim Medinipur district]]

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