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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