Dinhata Assembly constituency

Dinhata Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Dinhata
Constituency No. 7 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Dinhata Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Cooch Behar
Lok Sabha constituency	Cooch Behar
Established	1951
Total electors	299,251
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Udayan Guha
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 7 Dinhata Assembly constituency covers Dinhata municipality, Dinhata II community development block, and Bhetaguri I, Dinhata Gram I, Dinhata Gram II and Putimari I gram panchayats of Dinhata I community development block.^[1]

Dinhata Assembly constituency is part of No. 1 Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Satish Chandra Roy Singha		Indian National Congress
1957	Bhawani Prasanna Talukdar
1962	Kamal Guha		All India Forward Bloc
1967
1969	Animesh Mukharjee		Indian National Congress
1971	Jogesh Chandra Sarkar
1972
1977	Kamal Guha		All India Forward Bloc
1982
1987
1991
1996			Forward Bloc (Socialist)
2001			All India Forward Bloc
2006	Ashok Mandal		Trinamool Congress
2011	Udayan Guha		All India Forward Bloc
2016			Trinamool Congress
2021	Nisith Pramanik		Bharatiya Janata Party
2021^	Udayan Guha		Trinamool Congress

^: by-elections

Election results

2021 Bye election

Bye-election, 2021: Dinhata

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Udayan Guha	1,89,575	84.15	+36.57
	BJP	Ashok Mandal	25,486	11.31	−36.29
	AIFB	Abdur Rouf	6,290	2.79	+0.30
	NOTA	None of the above	3,935	1.75	+1.12
Majority			1,64,089	72.84	+72.82
Turnout			2,25,447	75.42
	AITC gain from BJP		Swing

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Dinhata^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Nisith Pramanik	116,035	47.60
	AITC	Udayan Guha	1,15,978	47.58
	AIFB	Abdur Rouf	6,069	2.49
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,537	0.63
Majority			57	0.02	−9.72
Turnout			2,44,004	81.54
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2016

Udayan Guha, the Forward Bloc MLA from Dinhata, Joined Trinamool Congress on 1 October 2015.^[4][5] In the 2016 election, Udayan Guha of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Akshay Thakur of All India Forward Bloc.

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Dinhata^[2][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Udayan Guha	1,00,732	54.52	+54.52
	AIFB	Akshay Thakur	78,939	44.22	−8.69
	BJP	Sachindra Kumar Adhikari	25,598
	BSP	Debendra Nath Roy	5,842
	Independent	Dr. Md Fazle Haque	4,010
	None of the Above	None of the Above	2,619
Majority			21,793	9.74
Turnout			2,23,783	81.88
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing	+7.45

2011

Udayan Guha, the Forward Bloc MLA from Dinhata, joined Trinamool Congress on 1 October 2015.^[4][5]

. In the 2011 election, Udayan Guha of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Dr. Md Fazle Haque Independent.

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Dinhata^[2][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Udayan Guha	93,050	50.52	+7.45
	IND	Dr. Md. Fazle Haque	63,024	34.22
	NCP	Amiya Kumar Sarkar	13,093	7.11
	BSP	Niranjan Barman	4,135	2.25
	BJP	Sudhansu Kumar Roy	3,964	2.15
Majority			30,026	16.30
Turnout			1,84,186	82.96
	AIFB gain from AITC		Swing	+7.45

The outgoing Trinamool Congress MLA, Ashok Mondal, was publicly expelled by Mamata Banerjee for campaigning for Dr. Md. Fazle Haque, dissident Congress leader and MLA from Sitai.^[8] Dr. Md. Fazle Haque, contesting as an Independent Candidate, was a rebel congress leader.

1. Nationalist Congress Party did not contest this seat in 2006.

2006

In the 2006 election, Ashok Mondal of AITC defeated his nearest rival Udayan Guha of AIFB

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Dinhata constituency^[2][9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ashok Mondal	66,774	42.52	+7.45
	AIFB	Udayan Guha	63,144	39.92
	Independent	Hitendra Kumar Nag	6,362	7.11
	IPFB	Makbul Hussain Sarkar	5,843	2.25
	BSP	Debendra Nath Roy	2,812	2.15
	Independent	Anarul Sekh	1,666
Turnout			146,601	83.08
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing	+7.45

2001

In the 2001 election, Kamal Guha of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Dipak Sengupta of AITC

West Bengal assembly elections, 2001: Dinhata constituency^[2][10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Kamal Kanti Guha	72,887	53.05%	+7.45
	Trinamool Congress	Dipak Sengupta	53,167	38.70%
	BJP	Madan Mohan Goswami	4,768	3.47%
	BSP	Debasish Barman	2,271	1.65%
	NCP	Jiban Krishna Saha	1,729	1.26%
	Independent	Dinesh Chandra Karji	1,424	1.04%
	Independent	Kabita Das	1,152	0.84%
Turnout			137,398	78.07%
	AIFB hold		Swing	+7.45

1972-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections,^[11] Ashok Mandal of Trinamool Congress won the Dinhata seat defeating his nearest rival Udayan Guha of Forward Bloc. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kamal Guha won the seat in a row from 1977 to 2001 (and also earlier – see below). He represented Forward Bloc in all years except 1996, when he represented the break away Forward Bloc (Socialist), which subsequently was reunited with the parent body. He defeated Dipak Sengupta representing Trinamool Congress in 2001^[12] and representing Forward Bloc in 1996,^[13] Alok Nandi of Congress in 1991^[14] and 1987,^[15] Ramkrishna Pal of Congress in 1982^[16] and Alok Nandy of Congress in 1977.^[17][18]

1951-1972

Jogesh Chandra Sarkar of Congress won the Dinhata seat in 1972^[19] and 1971.^[20] Animesh Mukharjee of Congress won it in 1969.^[21] Kamal Guha of Forward Bloc won it 1967^[22] and 1962.^[23] In 1957^[24] Dinhata was double seat reserved for SC. Bhawani Prasanna Talukdar and Umesh Chandra Mandal (both of Congress) won. In independent India's first election in 1951,^[25] Satish Chandra Roy Singha and Umesh Chandra Mandal (both of Congress) won from Dinhata.