Canning Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
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 Canning Purba
 Canning Purba
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| Coordinates: 22°19′00″N 88°40′00″E / 22.31667°N 88.66667°ECoordinates: 22°19′00″N 88°40′00″E / 22.31667°N 88.66667°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | West Bengal |
| District | South 24 Parganas |
| Constituency No | 139 |
| Type | Open |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Jaynagar (SC) |
| Electorate (year) | 172,949 (2011) |
Canning Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 139 Canning Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Deuli I, Deuli II, Kalikatala, Matherdighi, Sarengabad, Tambuldaha I and Tambuldaha II gram panchayats of Canning II community development block and Bodra, Chandaneswar I, Chandaneswar II, Durgapur, Shanksahar and Tarda gram panchayats of Bhangar I community development block.
Canning Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 19 Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency).
In 2011, Abdur Razzak Molla of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Ibrahim Molla of Congress.
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote percentage, for the Canning East constituency in 2006.
Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 8 (See for details)
Abdur Razzak Molla of CPI(M) won the Canning East seat from 1977 to 2006 defeating Amirul Islam of Trinamool Congress in 2006, Mujibar Rahman Kayal of Congress in 2001, Akram Laskar of Congress in 1996, Abdus Sattar Mollah of Congress in 1991, Amar Nath Bandopadhyay of Congress in 1987, Ahammad Nuruzzaman of Congress in 1982 and Osman Gani of Congress in 1977.
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