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|name = Ukhra 
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|settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha constituency 
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|subdivision_type = Country
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|subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Paschim Bardhaman district|Paschim Bardhaman]]
|subdivision_type3 = Year established
|subdivision_name3 = 1969
|subdivision_type4 = Year abolished
|subdivision_name4 = 2011
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency)|Asansol]]
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'''Ukhra (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' was an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in what is now [[Paschim Bardhaman district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]]. It covered the [[Ukhra]] area.

==Overview==
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, Ukhra (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceased to exist and No. 275 Pandaveswar assembly constituency was created from 2011. It covers [[Pandabeswar (community development block)|Pandabeswar]] and [[Faridpur-Durgapur (community development block)|Faridpur-Durgapur]] community development blocks.<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web | url = http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf | title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 | access-date = 2010-08-21 | publisher = Government of West Bengal | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110813092204/http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf | archive-date = 2011-08-13 }}</ref>
Pandaveswar assembly segment is part of No. 40 [[Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency)]].

For Members of Legislative Assembly in the Ukhra (Lok Sabha constituency), see [[Pandaveswar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]].

==Election results==
===1977-2006===
[[Madan Bauri (MLA)|Madan Bauri]] of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI (M)]] won the Ukhra (SC) assembly seat in [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]] and 2001 defeating his nearest rivals Upender Paswan of [[JD(U)]] and Nirmal Maji of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] respectively. Lakhan Bagdi of CPI (M) won the seat in 1996, 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977, defeating Jethu Ram of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996, Gopal Mondal of Congress in 1991, Haradhan Mondal of Congress in 1987 and 1982, and Gopal Mondal of Congress in 1977.<ref>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp263.htm | title = 263 – Ukhra (SC) Assembly Constituency | work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977| publisher = Election Commission of India| access-date = 2010-08-29 }}</ref>

===1969-1972===
Gopal Mondal of INC won the seat in 1972. Lakhan Bagdi of CPI (M) won the seat in 1971 and 1969. Prior to that the Ukhra constituency was not there.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/electionstatistics.asp| title = Statistical Reports of Assembly Elections| access-date = 2010-08-29| 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>

Ukhra assembly constituency was part of [[Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency)]].

==Impact of delimitation==
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, Ukhra (Vidhan Sabha constituency) has ceased to be an assembly constituency from 2011. [[Andal, Bardhaman|Andal]] community development block is part of [[Raniganj (West Bengal Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Raniganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf | title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 | access-date = 2010-08-21 | 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>

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

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[[Category:Former assembly constituencies in West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Paschim Bardhaman district]]

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