About Panihati Assembly Constituency
Panihati is constituency No. 111 of West Bengal legislative assembly. It is situated in North 24 Parganas district and comes under Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.
According to data with the Election Commission of India, Panihati has a total of 1,86,741 voters. It comprises 97,020 male and 89,721 female registered voters.
In the 2011 Assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress won this seat by a formidable margin of 31,432 votes. Nirmal Ghosh, the winning TMC candidate, got 88,334 votes. The runner-up was Ahibhusan (Dulal) Chakraborty of CPI(M) who got 56,902 votes. The voter turnout was 81.17%.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Panihati Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Panihati 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 | 111 | Panihati | GEN | Nirmal Ghosh | M | AITC | 88334 | Ahibhusan (Dulal)Chakraborty | M | CPM | 56902 |
| 2006 | 135 | Panihati | GEN | Gopal Krishna Bhattacharyya | M | CPI(M) | 75466 | Nirmal Ghosh | M | AITC | 71620 |
| 2001 | 135 | Panihati | GEN | Nirmal Ghosh | M | AITC | 77726 | Kamal Sengupta Basu | F | CPM | 63838 |
| 1996 | 135 | Panihati | GEN | Nirmal Ghosh | M | INC | 72572 | Tania Chakrabarty (Basu) | F | CPM | 71703 |
| 1991 | 135 | Panihati | GEN | Tania Chakrabarty | F | CPM | 54938 | Nirmal Ghosh | M | INC | 47990 |
| 1987 | 135 | Panihati | GEN | Gopalkrishna Bhattacharya | M | CPM | 51863 | Tapan Chattopadhyay | M | INC | 50465 |
| 1982 | 135 | Panihati | GEN | Gopal Krishna Bhattacharyya | M | CPM | 50765 | Tapan Chattopadhyay | M | INC | 36781 |
| 1977 | 135 | Panihati | GEN | Gopal Krishna Bhattacharyya | M | CPM | 31496 | Sanmatha Nath Ghosh | M | JNP | 13654 |
| 1972 | 124 | Panihati | GEN | Tapan Chatterjee | M | INC | 74765 | G. K. Bhattacharjee | M | CPM | 27540 |
| 1971 | 124 | Panihati | GEN | Gopal Krishna Bhattacher Jee | M | CPM | 58545 | Nandadulal Srimani | M | CPI | 24279 |
| 1969 | 124 | Panihati | GEN | G.K. Bhattacharyya | M | CPM | 53346 | Syam Sundar Banerjee | M | INC | 22029 |
| 1967 | 124 | Panihati | GEN | G.K. Bhattacharyya | M | CPM | 34671 | S.C. Datta | M | INC | 23851 |
Last Updated on June 08, 2020