Cooch Behar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
| Cooch Behar Uttar | |
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| Vidhan Sabha constituency | |
 Cooch Behar Uttar
 Cooch Behar Uttar
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| Coordinates: 26°19′27″N 89°27′07″E / 26.32417°N 89.45194°ECoordinates: 26°19′27″N 89°27′07″E / 26.32417°N 89.45194°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | West Bengal |
| District | Cooch Behar |
| Constituency No | 3 |
| Type | Reserved for SC |
| Lok Sabha constituency | 1 Cooch Behar (SC) |
| Electorate (year) | 218,518 (2011) |
Cooch Behar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 3 Cooch Behar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) covers Cooch Behar II community development block.
Cooch Behar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 1 Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).
In the 2011 elections, Nagendranath Roy of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Prasenjit Burman of Trinamool Congress.
Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections Dipak Chandra Sarkar of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Trinamool Congress. Mihir Goswami representing Congress had defeated Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc in 1996. Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1991. Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1987, Sunil Kar of Congress in 1982 and Bimal Chandra Dhar of Congress in 1977.
In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections, Akshay Thakur of Forward Bloc won the Cooch Behar West seat defeating Abdul Jalil Ahmed and Soumendra Chandra Das (both of Trinamool Congress) respectively. Soumindra Chandra Das of Forward Bloc defeated Abdul Jalil Ahmed representing Congress in 1996 and Ramkrishna Pal of Congress in 1991. Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Shyamal Choudhury of Congress in 1987 and 1982, and Maqsudar Rahman of Congress in 1977.
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