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'''Kaliganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Nadia 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. 80 Kaliganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)  is composed of the following: Bara Chandghar. [[Debagram]], Faridpur, Gobra, Hatgachha, Juranpur, Kaliganj, Matiari, Mira I, Mira II, Panighata, Plassey I and Plassey II [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Kaliganj (Community development block)|Kaliganj]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]].<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/20100918130255/http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |archive-date=2010-09-18 }}</ref>
 
Kaliganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 12 [[Krishnanagar (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]]||Kaliganj||S.M.Fazlur Rahman||[[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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||Nakashipara||Mahananda Haldar||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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||||S.M.Fazlur Rahman||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||||S.M.Fazlur Rahman||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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||Kaliganj||S.M.Fazlur Rahman||Indian National Congress <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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||S.M.Fazlur Rahman||Indian National Congress<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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Mir Fakir Mohammed||Independent<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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1972||||Shib Sankar Bandopdhyay||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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||Debsaran Ghosh||[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]<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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||Debsaran Ghosh||Revolutionary Socialist Party<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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||Abdus Salam Munshi||Indian National Congress<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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
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|1991||||Abdus Salam Munshi||Indian National Congress<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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1996||||Abdus Salam Munshi||Indian National Congress<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 = 2 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||Dhananjoy Modak||Revolutionary Socialist Party<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 = 20 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Dhananjoy Modak||Revolutionary Socialist Party<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 = 20 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||||Naseeruddin Ahamed||[[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 = 20 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|2016
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|HASANUZZAMAN SK
 
|Indian National Congress[17]
|}
 
==Election results==
 
===2021===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2021]]: Kaliganj constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2021>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2021.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2021, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 2 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=80|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 |work = Kaliganj| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2021}}</ref>}}


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===2011===
In the 2011 election, Naseeruddin Ahamed of All India Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Sankar Sarkar of Revolutionary Socialist Party.
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Kaliganj constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=80|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Kaliganj| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}
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  |party      = All India Trinamool Congress
  |candidate  = Naseeruddin Ahamed
  |votes      = 74,091
  |percentage = 47.33
  |change    = -2.28#
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  |party      = Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
  |candidate  = Sankar Sarkar
  |votes      = 56,913
  |percentage = 36.35
  |change    = -6.91
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  |party      = Bharatiya Janata Party
  |candidate  = Mahadeb Ghosh
  |votes      = 13,319
  |percentage = 8.51
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  |party      = Independent
  |candidate  = Sharifuddin Munshi
  |votes      = 6,863
  |percentage = 4.38
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  |party      = [[Muslim League Kerala State Committee|MLKSC]]
  |candidate  = Sk. Akher Ali
  |votes      = 1,327
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  |party      = Bahujan Samaj Party
  |candidate  = Sunil Chandra Mandal
  |votes      = 1,259
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  |party      = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
  |candidate  = Altaf Hossain Sk.
  |votes      = 1,159
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  |party      = Independent
  |candidate  = Iman Mandal
  |votes      = 1,073
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  |party      = Janata Dal (United)
  |candidate  = Nekchaddin Sekh
  |votes      = 547
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  |votes      = 156,551
  |percentage = 84.07
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  |winner = All India Trinamool Congress
  |loser  = Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
  |swing  = +4.63#
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Sharifuddin Munshi, contesting as an independent candidate, was a rebel Congress candidate.<ref>''The Rebel Candidates in the Fray'', The Telegraph (print edition) 23 April 2011</ref>
<small>.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.</small>
===1977-2006===
In [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]]<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> and 2001<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> state assembly elections, Dhananjoy Modak of [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] won the Kaliganj assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Nasiruddin Ahmed Nasiruddin Ahmed and Abdus Salam Munshi, both of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]], respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Abdus Salam Munshi of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] defeated Dhananjoy Modak of RSP in 1996,<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and Deb Saran Ghosh of RSP in 1991<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> and 1987.<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Debsaran Ghosh of RSP defeated Shibsankar Bandopadhyay of Congress in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and S.M.Fazlur Rahman of [[Janata Party]] in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp72.htm |title =72 - Kaliganj Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 5 October 2010}}</ref>
===1951–1972===
Shib Sankar Bandopdhyay of Congress won in 1972.<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> Mir Fakir Mohammed, Independent, won in 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> S.M.Fazlur Rahman of Congress won in 1969<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> and 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> The Kaliganj seat was not there in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]]<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> and [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]].<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> In 1962,[[Nakashipara (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]] was an open seat, S.M.Fazlur Rahman of Congress won it. In 1957, Nakashipara was a joint seat with one reserved for SC. S.M.Fazlur Rahman and Mahananda Halder, both of Congress won. In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1951]], S.M.Fazlur Rahman of Congress won the Kaliganj open seat.<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Nadia topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}
{{West Bengal elections}}
[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Nadia district]]

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