Medinipur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 236 Medinipur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Midnapore municipality, Chandra, Dherua, Monidaha and Tantigeria gram panchayats of Midnapore Sadar community development block and Bankibandh, Garhmal, Karnagarh, Kashijora and Shatpati gram panchayats of Salboni community development block.
Medinipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 34 Medinipur (Lok Sabha constituency).
Members of the Legislative Assembly Year Member Party 1957 Anjali Khan 1962 Syed Shamsul Bari 1967Kamakhya Charan Ghosh 1969 1971Biswanath Mukherjee 1972 1977 Bankim Behari Pal 1982Kamakhya Charan Ghosh 1987 1991 1996Purnendu Sengupta 2001 2006 Santosh Rana 2011Mrigendra Nath Maiti 2016 2021 June Malia 2024^ Sujoy Hazra 2026 Sankar Guchhait
^ by-election
Election results 2026
2024 bypoll
2021
2016
2011
2006 In the 2006 state assembly elections, Santosh Rana of CPI won the 223 Midnapore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Rama Prasad Tewary of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Purnendu Sengupta of CPI defeated Gouri Ghosh of Trinamool Congress in 2001, and Dinen Roy of Congress in 1996. Kamakhya Ghosh of CPI defeated Raj Kumar Mishra of Congress in 1991, Samir Roy of Congress in 1987, and Samir Roy of ICS in 1982. Bankim Behari Pal of Janata Party defeated Kamakhya Ghosh of CPI in 1977.
1972 Biswanath Mukherjee of CPI won in 1972 and 1971. Kamakhya Charan Ghosh of CPI won in 1969 and 1967. Syed Shamsul Bari of Congress won in 1962. Anjali Khan of Congress won in 1957.
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