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|name = Dhaniakhali 
|official_name =
|other_name =
|native_name = 
|settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha constituency 
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|pushpin_map = India West Bengal#India
|map_caption = Location in West Bengal
|coordinates = {{coord|22|58|00|N|88|07|00|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 = [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No.]]
|subdivision_name3 = 197
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|SC]]
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency)|28. Hooghly]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 222,502 (2011)

|area_code =
|website =
|footnotes =
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'''Dhaniakhali (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' (archaic spelling: Dhonekhali) is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Hooghly district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Bengal]]. The seat is reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|scheduled castes]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 197 Dhaniakhali (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) is composed of the following: Belmuri, Bhastara, Dashghara I, Dashghara II, Dhaniakhali I, Dhaniakhali II, Gurap, Gurbari I, Gurbari II, Khajurdaha Milki, Mandra, Somaspur I and Somaspur II [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Dhaniakhali (community development block)|Dhaniakhali]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]], and Babnan, Dadpur, Makalpur and Satithan gram panchayats of [[Polba-Dadpur (community development block)|Polba-Dadpur]] community development block.<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/WestBengal/FINAL%20ORDER%20NOTIFICATION_English.pdf | title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006 | access-date= 26 July 2015 |work = West Bengal | publisher= Election Commission of India}}</ref>

Dhanekhali (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) is part of No. 28 [[Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
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! Election<br/> Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
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|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]||Dhaniakhali||Dhirendra Narayan Mukherjee||[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha1952>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||||Radha Nath Das||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1957>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|||||D.N.Mukherjee||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||||Birendra Chaudhury||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1962>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||||Kripa Sindhu Saha||[[All India Forward Bloc]]<ref name=vidhansabha1967>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Kripa Sindhu Saha||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1969>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Kashi Nath Roy||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<ref name=vidhansabha1971>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No ?|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1972||||Kashi Nath Patra||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1972>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |title =General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||Kripa Sindhu Saha||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1977>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||Kripa Sindhu Saha||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1982>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||Kripa Sindhu Saha||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1987>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1987/StatisticalReportWestBengal87.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1991||||Kripa Sindhu Saha||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1991>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-West%20Bengal91.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No | publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1996||||Kripa Sindhu Saha||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1996>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-WB96.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||Kripa Sindhu Saha||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha2001>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Ajit Patra||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha2006>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_WB_2006.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislativer Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||Dhanekhali||Ashima Patra||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha2011>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|}

==Election results==

===2021===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2021]]: Dhanekhali (SC) constituency}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Asima Patra
|votes = 124,776
|percentage = 53.36
|change = -4.18
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Tusar Kumar Majumdar
|votes = 94,617
|percentage = 40.46
|change = +32.96
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Anirban Saha
|votes = 9,033
|percentage = 3.86
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
|candidate = Sajal Kumar De
|votes = 3,230
|percentage = 1.20
|change = +0.39
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 2,182
|percentage = 0.93
|change = -0.77
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 233,838
|percentage = 88.96
|change = +1.82
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 30,159
|percentage = 12.90
|change = -14.03
}}
{{Election box Registered electors
|reg. electors = 262,855
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2016]]: Dhanekhali (SC) constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3469-west-bangal-general-legislative-election-2016/ |work = Dhanekhali| publisher = Empowering India |access-date = 12 April 2021|title = West Bengal General Legislative Election 2016}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Asima Patra
|votes = 125,298
|percentage = 57.54
|change = +6.36
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Pradip Majumdar
|votes = 66,654
|percentage = 30.61
|change = -12.28
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Sasthi Duley
|votes = 16,338
|percentage = 7.5
|change = +5.29
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 3,709
|percentage = 1.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Ashis Halder
|votes = 2,558
|percentage = 1.17
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
|candidate = Sajal Kumar De
|votes = 1,754
|percentage = 0.81
|change = -1.37
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Jharkhand Disom Party
|candidate = Pallab Bag
|votes = 1,439
|percentage = 0.66
|change = -0.89
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 217,750
|percentage = 87.14
|change = -1.14
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 58,644
|percentage = 26.93
|change =
}}
{{Election box Registered electors
|reg. electors = 2,49,887
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing = 18.64#
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Dhanekhali (SC) constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=197|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Dhanekhali| publisher = Empowering India |access-date = 1 May 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Asima Patra
|votes = 100,529
|percentage = 51.18
|change = +14.53#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Srabani Sarkar
|votes = 84,252
|percentage = 42.89
|change = -20.46
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Kripa Sindhu Roy
|votes = 4,334
|percentage = 2.21
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
|candidate = Tarun Bauldas
|votes = 4,276
|percentage = 2.18
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Jharkhand Disom Party
|candidate = Amit Mandal
|votes = 3,042
|percentage = 1.55
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 196,433
|percentage = 88.28
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = All India Forward Bloc
|swing = 34.99#
}}
{{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 state assembly elections]],<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> Ajit Patra of [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]] won the Dhaniakhali assembly seat defeating Jitendra Nath Sarkar of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kripa Sindu Saha of Forward Bloc defeated Asima Patra representing Trinamool Congress in 2001<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> and [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and 1991,<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> and Kashinath Patra of Congress in 1987,<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> 1982 <ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp191.htm |title =191 - Dhaniakhali (SC) Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 1 December 2010}}</ref>

===1951-1972===
Kashi Nath Patra of Congress won in 1972.<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> Kashi Nath Roy of CPI(M) won in 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Kripa Sindhu Saha of Forward Bloc won in 1969<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> and 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Birendra Chaudhury of Congress won in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]].<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> In [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]]<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> Dhaniakhali was a double seat. It was won by Radha Nath Das and D.N.Mukherjee, both of Congress. In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1951]]<ref name=vidhansabha1952/> the Dhaniakhali seat was won by Dhirendra Narayan Mukherjee of Congress.

==References==
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[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Hooghly district]]

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