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{{Short description|Former West Bengal Legislative Assembly constituency}}
{{for|constituency with same name in Purulia district|Kashipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}}
{{Infobox Indian state legislative assembly constituency
| name = Cossipur
| parl_name = [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
| image =
| image_size = 300
| caption =
| alt =
| mla =
| party =
| alliance =
| year =
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| district = [[Kolkata district|Kolkata]]
| constituency = [[Calcutta North West (Lok Sabha constituency)|Calcutta North West]]
| constituency_no = 140
| established = 1952
| electors =
| reservation = None
| abolished = 2011
}}

'''Cossipur Assembly constituency''' was a [[Vidhan Sabha|Legislative Assembly]] constituency of [[Kolkata district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As a consequence of the orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], Cossipur Assembly constituency ceases to exist from 2011.<ref>{{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 November 2010 |work = West Bengal |publisher = Election Commission of India}}</ref>

It was part of [[Calcutta North West (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/LS_2004/Vol_III_LS_2004.pdf | title = Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha | access-date = 15 November 2010| work = Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies | publisher = Election Commission of India }}</ref>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable"ìÍĦĤĠčw
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! Election<br/> Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
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|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]||Cossipur||Biswanath Roy||[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha1952>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. 163 |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||||Deben Sen||[[Praja Socialist Party]]<ref name=vidhansabha1957>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No 129|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||||Sunil Kumar Dasgupta||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1962>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No 122|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||||S.K.Roy||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, AC No 135|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Vishnu Gopal Basu||[[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, AC No 128|publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Prafulla Kanti Ghosh||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, AC No 128|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1972||||Prafulla Kanti Ghosh||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, AC No 128|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||[[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]||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 = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||Prafulla Kanti Ghosh||Indian National Congress<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 = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||Dipak Chanda||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 = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1991||||Dipak Chanda||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 = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1996||||Tarak Bandyopadhyay||Indian National Congress<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 = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||Tarak Bandyopadhyay||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<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 = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||[[Tarak Bandyopadhyay]]||All India Trinamool Congress<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 = 22 November 2014}}</ref>
|}

==Results==
===1977-2009===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]]<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> and 2001<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> state assembly elections Tarak Bandopadhyay representing [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] won the 140 Cossipur assembly seat defeating Salil Chatterjee of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI (M)]], and Bijoy Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) respectively. In 1996,<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> Tarak Bandopadhyay representing [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] defeated Anup Das of CPI(M). Dipak Chanda of CPI(M) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress in 1991<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> and 1987.<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> In 1982,<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress defeated [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharya]] of CPI(M). In 1977, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of CPI(M) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp140.htm |title =140 - Cossipur Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 15 November 2010}}</ref>

===1951-1972===
The Cossipore seat was won by Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress defeating his nearest rival Paresh Nath Banerjee of CPI(M) in 1972<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> and Krishna Gopal Basu of CPI(M) in 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Vishnu Gopal Basu of CPI(M) defeated Sushil Kumar Paul of Congress in 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> S.K.Roy of Congress defeated P.Dasguta of CPI(M) in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Sunil Kumar Dasgupta of Congress won in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]]<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> defeating Mohit Kumar Moitra of CPI(M). Deben Sen of [[Praja Socialist Party|PSP]] won in [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]]<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> defeating Biswanath Roy of Congress. Biswanath Roy of Congress won in [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India’s first general election in 1951]] defeating Jyotirmoy Sharma of CPI.<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>

==References==
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{{Kolkata constituencies}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

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[[Category:Former assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Kolkata district]]

Cossipur Assembly constituency - Revision history

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