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

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.

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly YearNameParty1951Satish Chandra Roy Singha1957Bhawani Prasanna Talukdar1962Kamal Guha19671969Animesh Mukharjee1971Jogesh Chandra Sarkar19721977Kamal Guha198219871991199620012006Ashok Mandal2011Udayan Guha20162021Nisith Pramanik2021^Udayan Guha2026Ajay Ray

^ by-election.

Election results

2026 In the 2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Ajay Ray of BJP defeated his nearest rival Udayan Guha of TMC by 17,447 votes.

2021 bypoll

2021

2016

2011 Udayan Guha, the Forward Bloc MLA from Dinhata, joined Trinamool Congress on 1 October 2015.

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

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. Dr. Md. Fazle Haque, contesting as an Independent Candidate, was a rebel congress leader.

Nationalist Congress Party did not contest this seat in 2006.

2006

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

1996

1991

1987

1982

1977

1972

1971

1969

1967

1962

1957

1952

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