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{{Short description|Former Legislative Assembly constituency in West Bengal, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Kabitirtha
| type= SLA
| map_image =
| map_caption =
| map_alt =
| mla =
| party =
| alliance =
| latest_election_year =
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| district = [[South 24 Parganas]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jadavpur]]
| constituency_no = 147
| established = 1967
| electors =
| reservation = None
| abolished = 2011
}}

'''Kabitirtha Assembly constituency''' was a [[Vidhan Sabha|Legislative Assembly]] constituency of [[South 24 Parganas 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]], Kabitirtha 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 October 2010|work = West Bengal|publisher = Election Commission of India|archive-date = 18 September 2010|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100918130255/http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf|url-status = live}}</ref>

It was part of [[Jadavpur (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 = 1 November 2010 | work = Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies | publisher = Election Commission of India | archive-date = 6 October 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101006140327/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_2004/Vol_III_LS_2004.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
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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]]||Watgaunge||Kali Mukherjee||[[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 | publisher = Election Commission | access-date = 19 October 2014 | archive-date = 14 January 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120114095211/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||Ekbalpore||Narendranath Sen||Indian National Congress<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 | publisher = Election Commission | access-date = 19 October 2014 | archive-date = 6 October 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101006032945/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||||Narendranath Sen||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 | publisher =Election Commission | access-date =19 October 2014 | archive-date =6 October 2010 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20101006192934/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf | url-status =live }}</ref>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||Kabitirtha||B.B.Paul||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 | publisher = Election Commission | access-date = 19 October 2014 | archive-date = 6 October 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101006080357/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
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|1969||||[[Kalimuddin Shams]]||[[All India Forward Bloc]]<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 = 19 October 2014| archive-date = 12 January 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120112051819/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf| url-status = live}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Ram Peary Ram||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 | publisher = Election Commission | access-date = 19 October 2014 | archive-date = 12 January 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120112052412/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
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|1972||||Ram Peary Ram||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 = 19 October 2014 | archive-date = 7 October 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101007094829/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
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|1977||||Kalimuddin Shams||All India Forward Bloc<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 = 19 October 2014 | archive-date = 7 October 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101007062834/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
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|1982||||Kalimuddin Shams||All India Forward Bloc<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 = 19 October 2014 | archive-date = 6 October 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101006142613/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
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|1987||||Ram Pyare Ram||Indian National Congress<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 = 19 October 2014 | archive-date = 5 March 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305020807/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/SE_1987/StatisticalReportWestBengal87.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
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|1991||||Kalimuddin Shams||All India Forward Bloc<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 = 19 October 2014| archive-date = 6 October 2010| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101006200136/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-West%20Bengal91.pdf| url-status = live}}</ref>
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|1996||||Ram Peary Ram||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1996>{{cite web | url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-UP96.pdf | title = General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work = Constituency-wise Data | publisher = Election Commission | access-date = 19 October 2014 | archive-date = 13 July 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180713084900/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-UP96.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
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|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||Ram Peary Ram||Indian National 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 =19 October 2014 | archive-date =7 October 2010 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20101007212034/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf | url-status =live }}</ref>
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|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Ram Peary Ram||Indian National 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 =19 October 2014 | archive-date =6 October 2010 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20101006232430/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_WB_2006.pdf | url-status =live }}</ref>
|}

==Election results==
===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]],<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> 2001<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> and 1996<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> state assembly elections, Ram Pyare Ram of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] won the 147 Kabitirtha assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Moinuddin Shams of [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]] in all the three years. [[Kalimuddin Shams]] of Forward Bloc defeated Ram Pyare Ram of Congress in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Ram Pyare Ram of Congress defeated Kalimuddin Shams of Forward Bloc in 1987.<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Kalimuddin Shams of Forward Bloc defeated [[Saugata Roy]] of [[Indian National Congress (Socialist)|ICS]] in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Ram Pyare Ram of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp147.htm |title = 147 - Kabitirtha Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 25 October 2010}}</ref>

===1967-1972===
Ram Peary Ram of Congress won in 1972<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> and 1971,<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Kalimuddin Shams of Forward Bloc won in 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> B.B.Paul of Congress won in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/>

===1951-1962 Ekbalpore-Watgunge===
In [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]]<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> and [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]],<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> there was a seat at Ekbalpore. Narendra Nath Sen of Congress won in both the years. In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India’s first election in 1951]] Kali Mukherjee of Congress won the Watgunge seat.<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>

==References==
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{{South 24 Parganas topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

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[[Category:Former assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of South 24 Parganas district]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1967]]
[[Category:1967 establishments in West Bengal]]
[[Category:Constituencies disestablished in 2011]]
[[Category:2011 disestablishments in India]]

Kabitirtha Assembly constituency - Revision history

Antoniojaw at 23:46, 15 April 2026