Cossipur

Cossipur was an assembly constituency in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission, Cossipur ceases to exist from 2011. It was part of Calcutta North West .Results1977-2009In the 2006and 2001state assembly elections Tarak Bandopadhyay representing Trinamool Congress won the 140 Cossipur assembly seat defeating Salil Chatterjee of CPI (M), and Bijoy Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) respectively. In 1996,Tarak Bandopadhyay representing Congress defeated Anup Das of CPI(M). Dipak Chanda of CPI(M) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress in 1991and 1987.In 1982,Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress defeated Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of CPI(M). In 1977, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of CPI(M) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress.1951-1972The Cossipore seat was won by Prafulla Kanti Ghosh of Congress defeating his nearest rival Paresh Nath Banerjee of CPI in 1972and Krishna Gopal Basu of CPI in 1971.Vishnu Gopal Basu of CPI defeated Sushil Kumar Paul of Congress in 1969. S.K.Roy of Congress defeated P.Dasguta of CPI in 1967.Sunil Kumar Dasgupta of Congress won in 1962defeating Mohit Kumar Moitra of CPI. Deben Sen of PSP won in 1957defeating Biswanath Roy of Congress. Biswanath Roy of Congress won in independent India’s first general election in 1951 defeating Jyotirmoy Sharma of CPI.