Panchla Assembly constituency

Panchla Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 175 Panchla Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Panchla community development block and Gobindapur, Islampur, Laskarpur, Polegustia gram panchayats of Jagatballavpur community development block.

Panchla Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency). Panchla was earlier part of Sreerampur (Lok Sabha constituency).

2016
AITC Candidate-Gulshan Mallik Votes-101126 Percentage-52.98 AIFB Candidate-Doli Roy Votes-69199 Percentage-36.25 BJP Candidate-Bhabani Prashad Roy Votes-16060 Percentage-8.42 Independent Candidate-Shyamal Mondal Votes-1018 Percentage-0.52 IUC Ahmed Hossain Middya Votes-891 Percentage-0.47

2011
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006
In the 2006 state assembly elections, Doli Roy of Forward Bloc won the Panchla assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Abul Kassem Molla of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Sk. Nazrul Islam of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Gulshan Mullick of Congress defeated Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc in 1996. Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Prafulla Santra of Congress in 1991, and Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress in 1987. Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress defeated Santosh Kumar Das of Forward Bloc in 1982. Santosh Kumar Das of Forward Bloc defeated Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress in 1977.

1962-1972
Sk Anwar Ali of Congress won in 1972. Asoke Kumar Ghosh of CPI(M) won in 1971. Kanai Lal Bhattacharya of Forward Bloc won in 1969. A.P.Mukhopadhyay of Congress won in 1967. Apurba Lal Majumdar of Forward Bloc won in 1962. The Panchla seat did not exist prior to that.