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{{Infobox settlement



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

|pushpin_map = India West Bengal
|map_caption = Location in West Bengal
|coordinates = {{coord|22|40|0|N|88|22|0|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 = [[North 24 Parganas district|North 24 Parganas]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No.]]
|subdivision_name3 = 112
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Open
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency)|Dum Dum]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 160,967 (2011)
|government_footnotes =
|leader_title = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]
|leader_name = [[Madan Mitra]]
|leader_party =
|leader_title1 = Party
|leader_name1 = [[All India Trinamool Congress]]

|area_code =
|website =
|footnotes =
}}
'''Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] [[constituency]] in [[North 24 Parganas 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. 112 Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 16 and 21 to 35 of [[Kamarhati]] municipality.<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=15 October 2010|work = West Bengal | publisher= Election Commission of India}}</ref>

Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 16 [[Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable"ìÍĦĤĠčw
|-
! Election<br/> Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||Kamarhati||Radhika Ranjan Banerjee||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Radhika Ranjan Banerjee||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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|publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Radhika Ranjan Banerjee||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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1972||||Pradip Kumar Palit||[[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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1991||||Santi Ghatak||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1996||||Santi Ghatak||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||Manas Mukherjee||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Manas Mukherjee||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||||[[Madan Mitra]]||[[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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]||||Manas Mukherjee||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]||||[[Madan Mitra]]||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|}

==Election results==

===2021===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2021]]: Kamarhati}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Madan Mitra]]
|votes = 73,491
|percentage = 51.17
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Anindya Raju Banerjee
|votes = 38,235
|percentage = 26.64
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Sayandeep Mitra
|votes = 28,138
|percentage = 19.62
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes =
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
In the 2016 election, Manas Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival [[Madan Mitra]] of Trinamool Congress.
{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2016]]: Kamarhati constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=112|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Kamarhati| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 24 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Manas Mukherjee
|votes = 62,194
|percentage = 45.09
|change = +6.18
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Madan Mitra]]
|votes = 57,996
|percentage = 42.04
|change = -15.92
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Krishanu Mitra
|votes = 10,797
|percentage = +7.83
|change = 6.50
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 2,623
|percentage = 1.90
|change = +1.90
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Manas Mukherjee
|votes = 1,009
|percentage = 0.73
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Subhojit Dutta
|votes = 923
|percentage = 0.67
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Rekha Devi
|votes = 848
|percentage = 0.61
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
|candidate = Archana Ghatak
|votes = 399
|percentage = 0.29
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Party of Democratic Socialism (India)
|candidate = Santanu Chatterjee
|votes = 352
|percentage = 0.26
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,37,943
|percentage = 74.85
|change = -4.59
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|loser = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===
In the 2011 election, Madan Mitra of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Manas Mukherjee of CPI(M).
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Kamarhati constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=112|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Kamarhati| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 24 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Madan Mitra]]
|votes = 74,112
|percentage = 57.96
|change = +17.25#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Manas Mukherjee
|votes = 49,758
|percentage = 38.91
|change = -17.49
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Shikha Sarkar
|votes = 1,699
|percentage = 1.33
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Sushanta Dey
|votes = 1,079
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
|candidate = Nabendu Dasgupta
|votes = 739
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Party of Democratic Socialism (India)
|candidate = Tarak Bhadra
|votes = 479
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 127,866
|percentage = 79.44
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing = 34.74#
}}
{{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]] and 2001 state assembly elections Manas Mukherjee of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]], won from the Kamarhati assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Subhrangshu Bhattacharya of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] in 2006<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> and Chittaranjan Bag of Trinamool Congress in 2001.<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Santi Ghatak of CPI(M) had won it in 1996<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and in 1991<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> defeating his nearest rivals Sambhunath Dutta of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996 and Salil Biswas of Congress in 1991. Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee of CPI(M) had won this seat in 1987, 1982, and in 1977defeating Ajoy Ghosal of Congress in 1987,<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Purnendu Bimal Dutta of Congress in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Jayanta Chandra Sen of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp136.htm |title = 136 - Kamarhati Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 15 October 2010}}</ref>

===1967-1972===
Pradip Kumar Palit of Congress won in 1972.<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> Radhika Ranjan Banerjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> 1969<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> and in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Prior to that the Kamarhati seat did not exist.

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{North 24 Parganas topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of North 24 Parganas district]]

Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency) - Revision history

JoannaCostantino: basic fixed intro per sources and corrected details for clarity

->Frietjes: per TfD outcome