Katulpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.
Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 256 Katulpur Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Deshra-koyalpara, Gopinathpur, Kotulpur, Lego, Mirzapur and Sihar gram panchayats of Kotulpur community development block; Gelia, Jagannathpur, Kuchiakol, Maynapur, Salda, Uttarbarh, Hetia, Routkhanda and Shyamnagar gram panchayats of Joypur community development block.
Katulpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 37 Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency.
Members of the Legislative Assembly YearNameParty1957Jagannath Kolay19621967S. Sarkar1969Niranjan Bhadra1971Jatadhari Mukhopadhyay1972Akshay Kumar Kolay1977Gunadhar Choudhury19821987Gouripada Dutta199119962001Manashi Ghose2006Kalpana Koley2011Saumitra Khan2014^Shyamal Santra20162021Harakali Protiher2026Lakshmi Kanta Majumdar
^ by-election
Election results 2026
2021
2016
2014 bypoll The bypoll was necessitated after sitting MLA of Congress Saumitra Khan switched to the Trinamool Congress & was elected as MP of Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency.
2011
2006 In the 2006 state assembly elections, Kalpana Koley of CPI(M) won the Katulpur assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Aloka Sen Majumdar of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Manashi Ghose of CPI(M) defeated Sunil Das of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Gouripada Dutta of CPI(M) defeated Nikhil Bose of Congress in 1996, Akshay Kumar Koley of Congress in 1991, and Bablu Kolay of Congress in 1987. Gunadhar Choudhury of CPI(M) defeated Aksay Kumar Koley of Congress in 1982 and 1977.
1972 Akshay Kumar Kolay of Congress won in 1972. Jatadhari Mukhopadhyay of CPI(M) won in 1971, Niranjan Bhadra of Bangla Congress won in 1969. S.Sarkar of Bangla Congress won in 1967. Jagannath Kolay of Congress won in 1962 and 1957. Prior to that the Katulpur seat was not there.
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