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{{Infobox settlement



|name = Katulpur 
|official_name =
|other_name =
|native_name = 
|settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha constituency 
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|motto =

|pushpin_map = India West Bengal#India
|map_caption = Location in West Bengal
|coordinates = {{coord|23|00|45|N|87|35|37|E|region:IN-{{IndAbbr|[[West Bengal]]}}|display=inline,title}}

|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{IND}}
|subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Bankura district|Bankura]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No.]]
|subdivision_name3 = 256
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|SC]]
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency)|37. Bishnupur]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 189,915 (2011)

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'''Katulpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Bankura district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]]. It is reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|scheduled castes]] from 2011. Prior to that it was an open seat.

==Overview==
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 256 Katulpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) is composed of the following: Deshra-hkoyalpara, Gopinathpur, Kotulpur, Lego, Mirzapur and Sihar [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Kotulpur (Community development block)|Kotulpur]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]]; Gelia, Jagannathpur, Kuchiakol, Maynapur,
Salda, Uttarbarh, Hetia, Routkhanda and Shyamnagar gram panchayats of [[Joypur, Bankura (Community development block)|Joypur]] community development block.<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web|url=http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |title=Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006 |access-date=2011-04-03 |publisher=Government of West Bengal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918130255/http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |archive-date=18 September 2010 }}</ref>

Katulpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 37 [[Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>
==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| - class="wikitable"
! Year
! Members<ref>{{Cite web|title=Katulpur Election 2021: Assembly Elections News, Katulpur Constituency, Vidhan Sabha Seat|url=https://www.news18.com/assembly-elections-2021/west-bengal/katulpur-election-result-s25a256/|access-date=2021-05-04|website=News18}}</ref>
! Party
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|[[Saumitra Khan]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|[[Shyamal Santra]]
|[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|[[Harakali Protiher]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
|}

==Election results==

===2014 bye election===
The bypoll to the Kotulpur seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Congress Soumitra Khan Switched To Trinamool Congress & Elected as MP of Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency.
{{Election box begin | title=West Bengal state assembly bye election, 2014: Kotulpur constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011by>{{cite web| url = http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/current-affairs/mamata-banerjee-wins-assembly-bypoll_591641.html | title = Mamata Banerjee wins assembly bypoll | access-date = 28 September 2011 | publisher = PTI, 28 September 2011 }}</ref>}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Shyamal Santra]]
|votes = 98,878
|percentage = 52.64
|change = -25.98
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Sital Kaibartya
|votes = 58,521
|percentage = 31.15
|change = -7.47
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Lakshmi Kanta Majumdar
|votes = 23,037
|percentage = 12.26
|change = +26.53
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Akshay Santra
|votes = 7,419
|percentage = 3.95
|change = -7.05
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,90,898
|percentage = 100.4%
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Indian National Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
Percentage swing with respect to General Election 2011.

===2011===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Katulpur <ref>{{cite web| url = http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS25256.htm|title = Katulpur |work = Assembly Elections May 2011 Results| publisher = Election Commission of India |access-date = 2011-05-22 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=256|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Katulpur | publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 2011-05-06 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_5th_phase.pdf |title=West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work=Katulpur |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=2011-05-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912030706/http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_5th_phase.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-12 }}</ref> }}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Soumitra Khan
|votes = 83,355
|percentage = 47.40
|change = +12.13#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Purnima Bagdi
|votes = 81,922
|percentage = 46.59
|change = -18.14
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Tarun Kotal
|votes = 6,180
|percentage = 3.51
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Mohan Santra
|votes = 4,389
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 175,846
|percentage = 92.59
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Indian National Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing = 30.27#
}}
{{Election box end}}
<small>.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.</small>

===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006 state assembly elections]], Kalpana Koley of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won the Katulpur assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Aloka Sen Majumdar of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Manashi Ghose of CPI(M) defeated Sunil Das of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Gouripada Dutta of CPI(M) defeated Nikhil Bose of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996, Akshay Kumar Koley of Congress in 1991, and Bablu Kolay of Congress in 1987. Gunadhar Choudhury of CPI(M) defeated Aksay Kumar Koley of Congress in 1982 and 1977.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp254.htm |title = 254 - Kotulpur Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 2011-04-03 }}</ref>

===1957-1972===
Akshay Kumar Kolay of Congress won in 1972. Jatadhari Mukhopadhyay of CPI(M) won in 1971, Niranjan Bhadra of [[Bangla Congress]] won in 1969. S.Sarkar of Bangla Congress won in 1967. Jagannath Kolay of Congress won in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]] and [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]]. Prior to that the Katulpur seat was not there.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/electionstatistics.asp |title=Statistical Reports of Assembly Elections |access-date=2011-04-03 |work=General Election Results and Statistics |publisher=Election Commission of India |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101005110118/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp |archive-date=2010-10-05 }}</ref>

==References==
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{{Bankura topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Bankura district]]

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