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{{Use Indian English|date=January 2021}}
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{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Kamarhati
| type = SLA
| map_image = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=y|frame-width=300|frame-height=300|frame-align=center|type=shape|from=Vidhan Sabha constituencies/West Bengal/Kamarhati.map}}
| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Kamarhati Assembly Constituency
| map_alt =
| mla = [[Madan Mitra]]
| party = [[Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
| alliance =
| latest_election_year = [[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| district = [[North 24 Parganas district|North 24 Parganas]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency)|Dum Dum]]
| constituency_no = 112
| established = 1967
| electors = 1,62,648(SIR-2026)
| reservation = None
| abolished =
}}

'''Kamarhati Assembly constituency''' is a [[Vidhan Sabha|Legislative Assembly]] constituency of [[North 24 Parganas district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], No. 112 Kamarhati Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 16 and 21 to 35 of [[Kamarhati Municipality]].<ref name=delimitation>{{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}}</ref>

Kamarhati Assembly constituency is part of No. 16 [[Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Name
! colspan=2|Party
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|rowspan="3"|Radhika Ranjan Banerjee
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|rowspan=3|dab=yes}}
|-
|[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|-
|[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]
|-
|[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|Pradip Kumar Palit
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|rowspan="3"|Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|rowspan=7|dab=yes}}
|-
|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|-
|[[1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|-
|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|rowspan="2"|Santi Ghatak
|-
|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|rowspan="2"|[[Manash Mukherjee]]
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|[[Madan Mitra]]
|{{Full party name with color|All India Trinamool Congress}}
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|[[Manash Mukherjee]]
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|dab=yes}}
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|[[Madan Mitra]]
|{{Full party name with color|All India Trinamool Congress}}
|}

==Election results==

===2026===
{{Election box begin|title=[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Kamarhati}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Madan Mitra]]
|party = Trinamool Congress
|votes = 64,817{{formatnum:}}
|percentage = 43.71
|change = {{decrease}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Arup Choudhury
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes = 59,171{{formatnum:}}
|percentage = 39.91
|change = {{increase}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Manash Mukherjee]]
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|votes = 20,203{{formatnum:}}
|percentage = 13.63
|change = {{decrease}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Kallol Mukherjee
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = 1,345{{formatnum:}}
|percentage = 0.91
|change = ''New''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|party = None of the above (India)
|votes = 1,145{{formatnum:}}
|percentage = 0.77
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = {{formatnum:}}
|percentage =
|change =
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{{Election box turnout|
|votes = {{formatnum:}}
|percentage =
|change =
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{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2021===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Kamarhati}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Madan Mitra]]
|votes = 73,491
|percentage = 51.17
|change = {{increase}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bhartiya Janata Party
|candidate = Anindya Raju Banerjee
|votes = 38,235
|percentage = 26.64
|change = {{increase}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Sayandeep Mitra
|votes = 28,138
|percentage = 19.62
|change = {{decrease}}
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes =
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
In the 2016 election, Manas Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival [[Madan Mitra]] of Trinamool Congress.
{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2016]]: Kamarhati constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=112| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120507064752/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=112| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 7 May 2012|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Kamarhati| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 24 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=[[Manash Mukherjee]]|votes=62,194|percentage=45.09|change=+6.18}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=[[Madan Mitra]]|votes=57,996|percentage=42.04|change=-15.92}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Krishanu Mitra|votes=10,797|percentage=+7.83|change=6.50}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=None of the above|votes=2,623|percentage=1.90|change=+1.90}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Manas Mukherjee
|votes = 1,009
|percentage = 0.73
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Subhojit Dutta
|votes = 923
|percentage = 0.67
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Rekha Devi|votes=848|percentage=0.61|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation|candidate=Archana Ghatak|votes=399|percentage=0.29|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Party of Democratic Socialism (India)|candidate=Santanu Chatterjee|votes=352|percentage=0.26|change=}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=1,37,943|percentage=74.85|change=-4.59}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|loser = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===
In the 2011 election, Madan Mitra of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Manas Mukherjee of CPI(M).
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Kamarhati constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=112| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120507064752/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=112| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 7 May 2012|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Kamarhati| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 24 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=[[Madan Mitra]]|votes=74,112|percentage=57.96|change=+17.25#}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=[[Manash Mukherjee]]|votes=49,758|percentage=38.91|change=-17.49}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Shikha Sarkar|votes=1,699|percentage=1.33|change=}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Sushanta Dey
|votes = 1,079
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation|candidate=Nabendu Dasgupta|votes=739|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Party of Democratic Socialism (India)|candidate=Tarak Bhadra|votes=479|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=127,866|percentage=79.44|change=}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing = 34.74#
}}
{{Election box end}}
===2006===

{{Election box begin | title=[[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2006]]}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=[[Manash Mukherjee]]|votes=71,322|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=Subhrangshu Bhattacharya|votes=40,634|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Sambhu Nath Dutta|votes=10,845|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent|candidate=Shambhu Dutta|votes=1981|percentage=|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Ram Bachchan|votes=1679|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=126461|percentage=|change=}}{{Election box hold|colour=Red|winner=CPIM}}

{{Election box end}}

===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]] and 2001 state assembly elections [[Manash Mukherjee]] of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]], won from the Kamarhati assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Subhrangshu Bhattacharya of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] in 2006<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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref> and Chittaranjan Bag of Trinamool Congress in 2001.<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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref> Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Santi Ghatak of CPI(M) had won it in 1996<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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref> and in 1991<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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref> defeating his nearest rivals Sambhunath Dutta of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996 and Salil Biswas of Congress in 1991. Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee of CPI(M) had won this seat in 1987, 1982, and in 1977defeating Ajoy Ghosal of Congress in 1987,<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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref> Purnendu Bimal Dutta of Congress in 1982<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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref> and Jayanta Chandra Sen of Congress in 1977.<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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp136.htm |title = 136 - Kamarhati Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 15 October 2010}}</ref>

===1967-1972===
Pradip Kumar Palit of Congress won in 1972.<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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref> Radhika Ranjan Banerjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,<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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref> 1969<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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref> and in 1967.<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 = 13 August 2014}}</ref> Prior to that the Kamarhati seat did not exist.

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

{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of North 24 Parganas district]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1967]]
[[Category:1967 establishments in West Bengal]]

Kamarhati Assembly constituency - Revision history

Aspireitacademy at 04:29, 8 May 2026