Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)




Vidhan Sabha constituency in West Bengal, India


































Raidighi
Vidhan Sabha constituency



Raidighi is located in West Bengal

Raidighi

Raidighi



Location in West Bengal

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Raidighi is located in India

Raidighi

Raidighi



Raidighi (India)

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Coordinates: 22°00′04″N 88°26′07″E / 22.0012°N 88.4354°E / 22.0012; 88.4354Coordinates: 22°00′04″N 88°26′07″E / 22.0012°N 88.4354°E / 22.0012; 88.4354
Country
 India
State West Bengal
District South 24 Parganas
Constituency No 134
Type Open

Lok Sabha constituency
Mathurapur (SC)
Electoral system First past the post

Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. While Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is a new constituency, Mathurapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from 2011.




Contents






  • 1 Overview


  • 2 Members of Legislative Assembly


  • 3 Election results


    • 3.1 2011




  • 4 References





Overview


As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 134 Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Mathurapur II community development block and Abad Bhagawanpur, Debipur, Krishnachandrapur, Lalpur, Shankarpur and Nalua gram panchayats of Mathurapur I community development block.[1]


Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 20 Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).[1]



Members of Legislative Assembly















Election
Year
Constituency Name of M.L.A. Party Affiliation
2011 Raidighi Debashree Roy
All India Trinamool Congress[2]

Note: For MLAs from the area in previous years see Mathurapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency).



Election results



2011


In the 2011 election, Debashree Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Kanti Ganguly of CPI(M).








































































West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Raidighi constituency[2][3]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±


Trinamool Congress

Debashree Roy
93,236
50.11
+4.15#


CPI(M)

Kanti Bhusan Gangopadhyay
87,683
47.12
-2.33


BJP
Dwijendranath Halder
3,369
1.81


Independent
Debasree Kayal
1,295




BSP
Dulal Chand Ghorami
1,245



Independent
Ajay Das
542



Turnout
186,075
89.86



Trinamool Congress win (new seat)

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote percentage, for the now-defunct Mathurapur constituency in 2006.





































e • d West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Dakshin 24 Parganas district summary

Party
Seats won
Seat change

Trinamool Congress
26

Increase19

Indian National Congress
0

Decrease2

SUCI(C)
1

Decrease1

Communist Party of India (Marxist)
3

Decrease15

Revolutionary Socialist Party
1

Decrease2

Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 8 (See template talk page for details)





References





  1. ^ ab "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 October 2010..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ ab "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.


  3. ^ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Raidighi. Empowering India. Retrieved 30 April 2011.











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