Cossipur Assembly constituency

For constituency with same name in Purulia district, see Kashipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency.

Cossipur Assembly constituency was a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Cossipur
Former constituency No. 140 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Kolkata
Lok Sabha constituency	Calcutta North West
Established	1951
Abolished	2011
Reservation	None

Overview

As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission, Cossipur Assembly constituency ceases to exist from 2011.^[1]

It was part of Calcutta North West (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Cossipur	Biswanath Roy	Indian National Congress[3]
1957		Deben Sen	Praja Socialist Party[4]
1962		Sunil Kumar Dasgupta	Indian National Congress[5]
1967		S.K.Roy	Indian National Congress[6]
1969		Vishnu Gopal Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1971		Prafulla Kanti Ghosh	Indian National Congress[8]
1972		Prafulla Kanti Ghosh	Indian National Congress[9]
1977		Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1982		Prafulla Kanti Ghosh	Indian National Congress[11]
1987		Dipak Chanda	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1991		Dipak Chanda	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
1996		Tarak Bandyopadhyay	Indian National Congress[14]
2001		Tarak Bandyopadhyay	All India Trinamool Congress[15]
2006		Tarak Bandyopadhyay	All India Trinamool Congress[16]

Results

1977-2009

In the 2006^[16] and 2001^[15] state assembly elections Tarak Bandopadhyay representing Trinamool Congress won the 140 Cossipur assembly seat defeating Salil Chatterjee of CPI (M), and Bijoy Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) respectively. In 1996,^[14] Tarak Bandopadhyay representing Congress defeated Anup Das of CPI(M). Dipak Chanda of CPI(M) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress in 1991^[13] and 1987.^[12] In 1982,^[11] Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress defeated Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of CPI(M). In 1977, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of CPI(M) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress.^[10][17]

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^[9] and Krishna Gopal Basu of CPI(M) in 1971.^[8] Vishnu Gopal Basu of CPI(M) defeated Sushil Kumar Paul of Congress in 1969.^[7] S.K.Roy of Congress defeated P.Dasguta of CPI(M) in 1967.^[6] Sunil Kumar Dasgupta of Congress won in 1962^[5] defeating Mohit Kumar Moitra of CPI(M). Deben Sen of PSP won in 1957^[4] defeating Biswanath Roy of Congress. Biswanath Roy of Congress won in independent India’s first general election in 1951 defeating Jyotirmoy Sharma of CPI.^[3]