Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
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| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | South 24 Parganas |
| Constituency No | 134 |
| Type | Open |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Mathurapur (SC) |
| Electoral system | First past the post |
Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. While Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is a new constituency, Mathurapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from 2011.
Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 134 Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Mathurapur II community development block and Abad Bhagawanpur, Debipur, Krishnachandrapur, Lalpur, Shankarpur and Nalua gram panchayats of Mathurapur I community development block.[1]
Raidighi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 20 Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).[1]
Members of Legislative Assembly
| Election Year |
Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Raidighi | Debasree Roy | All India Trinamool Congress[2] |
Note: For MLAs from the area in previous years see Mathurapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency).
Election results
2011
In the 2011 election, Debasree Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Kanti Ganguly of CPI(M).
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background-color: Template:All India Trinamool congress/meta/color; width: 5px;" | | [[All India Trinamool congress|Template:All India Trinamool congress/meta/shortname]] | Debasree Roy | 93,236 | 50.11 | +4.15# |
| CPI(M) | Kanti Bhusan Gangopadhyay | 87,683 | 47.12 | -2.33 | |
| BJP | Dwijendranath Halder | 3,369 | 1.81 | ||
| Independent | Debasree Kayal | 1,295 | |||
| BSP | Dulal Chand Ghorami | 1,245 | |||
| Independent | Ajay Das | 542 | |||
| Turnout | 186,075 | 89.86 | |||
| Trinamool Congress win (new seat) | |||||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote percentage, for the now-defunct Mathurapur constituency in 2006.
| Party | Seats won | Seat change |
|---|---|---|
| Trinamool Congress | 26 |  19 |
| Indian National Congress | 0 |  2 |
| SUCI(C) | 1 | 1 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 3 | 15 |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1 | 2 |
Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 8 (See template talk page for details)
