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#REDIRECT [[Kumarganj Assembly constituency]]
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{{About|the Vidhan Sabha constituency in West Bengal, India|1 its namesake community development block|Kumarganj|2 its namesake village|Kumarganj, Dakshin Dinajpur}}
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[[West Bengal]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Dakshin Dinajpur district|Dakshin Dinajpur]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No]]
|subdivision_name3 = 38
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Open
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Balurghat (Lok Sabha constituency)|6. Balurghat]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 148,934 (2011)<ref>{{cite web|date=14 August 2018|title=West Bengal 2011|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3195-west-bengal-2011/|work=Election Commission of India|access-date=5 January 2022}}</ref> <br> 179,509 (2016)<ref>{{cite web|date=16 August 2018|title=West Bengal General Legislative Election 2016|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3469-west-bengal-general-legislative-election-2016/|work=Election Commission of India|access-date=5 January 2022}}</ref> <br> 203,986 (2021)<ref>{{cite web|date=21 June 2021|title=West Bengal General Legislative Election 2021|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/13605-west-bengal-general-legislative-election-2021/|work=Election Commission of India|access-date=5 January 2022}}</ref>
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'''Kumarganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Dakshin Dinajpur 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. 38 Kumarganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers [[Kumarganj (Community development block)|Kumarganj]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]] and Ashokegram, Basuria, Chaloon and Uday [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Gangarampur (Community development block)|Gangarampur]] 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 | access-date = 2 July 2014 | work = West Bengal| publisher = Election Commission of India}}</ref>
 
Kumarganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 6 [[Balurghat (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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|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||Kumarganj||M.Bose||[[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 = 9 July 2014}}</ref>
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|1969||||Abinash Basu||[[Bangla 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 = 9 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Probodh Kumar Singha Roy||Indian National Congress<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 = 9 July 2014}}</ref>
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|1972||||Probodh Kumar Singha Roy||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 = 9 July 2014}}</ref>
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|1977||||Jamini Kishore Mojumdar||[[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 = 9 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||Dwijendra Nath Roy||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 = 9 July 2014}}</ref>
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|1987||||Dwijendra Mondal||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 = 9 July 2014}}</ref>
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|1991||||Dwijendra Nath Roy||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 = 9 July 2014}}</ref>
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|1996||||Dwijendra Nath Roy||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 = 9 July 2014}}</ref>
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|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||[[Mafuja Khatun]]||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 = 9 July 2014}}</ref>
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|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||[[Mafuja Khatun]]||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 = 9 July 2014}}</ref>
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|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||||Mahamuda Begam||[[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 = 9 July 2014}}</ref>
|}
 
==Election results==


===2011===
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In the 2011 elections, Mahamuda Begam of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival [[Mafuja Khatun]] of CPI(M).
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{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Kumarganj constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=38|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Kumarganj | publisher = Empowering India |access-date = 8 April 2011}}</ref>}}
 
{{Election box candidate with party link
  |party      = All India Trinamool Congress
  |candidate  = Mahamuda Begam
  |votes      = 62,212
  |percentage = 46.93
  |change    = +0.98#
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
  |party      = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  |candidate  = [[Mafuja Khatun]]
  |votes      = 57,994
  |percentage = 43.75
  |change    = -4.98
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
  |party      = Bharatiya Janata Party
  |candidate  = Sanjib Chandra Roy
  |votes      = 6,592
  |percentage = 4.97
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate
  |party      = People's Democratic Conference of India
  |candidate  = Abdullah Shaikh
  |votes      = 2,247
  |percentage =
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate
  |party      = Independent
  |candidate  = Khajer Mondal
  |votes      = 2,209
  |percentage =
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
  |party      = Bahujan Samaj Party
  |candidate  = Ranendra Nath Mali
  |votes      = 1,296
  |percentage =
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box turnout
  |votes      = 132,550
  |percentage = 89.1
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
  |winner = All India Trinamool Congress
  |loser  = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  |swing  = 5.96#
}}
{{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]]<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> and 2001<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> state assembly elections, [[Mafuja Khatun]] of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won the Kumarganj assembly seat defeating her nearest rivals Ahmad Ali Sardar and Nani Gopal Roy, both of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Dwijendra Nath Roy of CPI(M) defeated Parinita Singha Roy of Congress in 1996<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and Prabodh Kumar Singha Roy of Congress in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Dwijendra Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Afrabuddin Sarkar of Congress in 1987.<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Dwijendra Nath Roy of CPI(M) defeated Sekhar Kumar Dasgupta of Congress in 1982.<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> Jamini Kishore Mojumdar of CPI(M) defeated Khalil Sayed of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp37.htm | title = 37 - Kumarganj Assembly Constituency | work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India| access-date = 26 September 2010}}</ref>
===1967–1972===
Probodh Kumar Singha Roy of Congress won 1972<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> and 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Abinash Basu of [[Bangla Congress]] won in 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> M.Bose of Congress won in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Dakshin Dinajpur topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}
{{West Bengal elections}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kumarganj (Vidhan Sabha Constituency)}}
[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Dakshin Dinajpur district]]

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