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|name                = Kamarhati <!-- at least one of the first two fields must be filled in -->
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|map_caption          = Location in West Bengal
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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    = [[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]]
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'''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==
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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]]||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
{{Redirect category shell|
  |party      = All India Trinamool Congress
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  |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]]

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