About Dinhata Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency
Dinhata, located in the Cooch Behar district of West Bengal, is a legislative assembly constituency of the state. It is a part of the Cooch Behar (SC) Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency of West Bengal. The Dinhata constituency is represented in the state legislative assembly of West Bengal by AIFB's Udayan Guha. He won the seat with 93,050 votes in the 2011 assembly elections and defeated independent candidate Dr. Md. Fazle Haque by a margin of 30,026 votes.
The Dinhata assembly constituency is home to 2,50,721 eligible voters, out of whom 1,31,459 are men and 1,19,262 are women. The Dinhata assembly segment comprises Putimari-I, Bhetaguri-I, Dinhata Gram-II and Dinhata Gram-I gram panchayats of Dinhata-I community development block; Dinhata (M); and Dinhata-II community development block as recommended by the Delimitation Commission of India in 2008.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Dinhata Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Dinhata assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Vote |
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| 2011 | 7 | Dinhata | GEN | Udayan Guha | M | AIFB | 93050 | Dr. Md. Fazle Haque | M | IND | 63024 |
| 2006 | 7 | Dinhata | GEN | Ashok Mandal | M | AITC | 66774 | Udayan Guha | M | AIFB | 63144 |
| 2001 | 7 | Dinhata | GEN | Kamal Guha | M | FBL | 72887 | Dipak Sengupta | M | AITC | 53167 |
| 1996 | 7 | Dinhata | GEN | Kamal Guha | M | FB(S) | 70531 | Dipak Sen Gupta | M | FBL | 37520 |
| 1991 | 7 | Dinhata | GEN | Kamal Kanti Guha | M | FBL | 64530 | Aldke Nandy | M | INC | 45929 |
| 1987 | 7 | Dinhata | GEN | Kamal Guha | M | FBL | 57339 | Alok Kumar Nandy | M | INC | 46425 |
| 1982 | 7 | Dinhata | GEN | Kamal Guha | M | FBL | 53460 | Ram Krishna Pal | M | INC | 38627 |
| 1977 | 7 | Dinhata | GEN | Kamal Kanti Guha | M | FBL | 33660 | Alok Kumar Nandi | M | INC | 12443 |
| 1972 | 5 | Dinhata | GEN | Jogesh Chandra Sarkar | M | INC | 30404 | Kamal Guha | M | FBL | 20712 |
| 1971 | 5 | Dinhata | GEN | Jogesh Chandra Sarkar | M | INC | 24249 | Kamal Kanti Guha | M | FBL | 21823 |
| 1969 | 5 | Dinhata | GEN | Animesh Mukharjee | M | INC | 29764 | Kamal Kanti Guha | M | FBL | 24516 |
| 1967 | 5 | Dinhata | GEN | K.K.Guha | M | FBL | 29371 | U.C.Mandal | M | INC | 23206 |
| 1962 | 4 | Dinhata | GEN | Kamal Kanti Guha | M | FB | 26807 | Umesh Chandra Mandal | M | INC | 16385 |
| 1957 | 13 | Dinhata | (SC) | Umesh Chandra Mandal (Sc) | M | INC | 41495 | Kamal Kanti Guha | M | FBM | 24226 |
| 1957 | 13 | Dinhata | (SC) | Bhawani Prasanna Talukdar | M | INC | 32707 | Bejoy Kumar Roy (Sc) | M | FBM | 21624 |
| 1951 | 13 | Dinhata | GEN | Satish Chandra Roy Singha | M | INC | 24388 | Harish Chandra Roy Sarkar | M | IND | 9489 |
| 1951 | 13 | Dinhata | GEN | Umesh Chandra Mandal | M | INC | 23786 | Probodh Chandra Pal | M | FBL(MG) | 6236 |
Last Updated on June 01, 2020