Saptagram | |
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Vidhan Sabha constituency | |
Location in West Bengal | |
Coordinates: 22°58′00″N 88°23′00″E / 22.96667°N 88.38333°ECoordinates: 22°58′00″N 88°23′00″E / 22.96667°N 88.38333°E | |
Country | India |
State | West Bengal |
District | Hooghly |
Constituency No. | 193 |
Type | Open |
Lok Sabha constituency | 28. Hooghly |
Electorate (year) | 186,561 (2011) |
Saptagram (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: সপ্তগ্রাম বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Committee Bansberia (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from 2011 and a new constituency comes into being at Saptagram.
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 193 Saptagram (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Bansberia municipality, Aknna, Amnan, Goswami Malipara, Harit and Mahanad gram panchayats of Polba Dadpur community development block, and Mogra II and Saptagram gram panchayats of Chinsurah Mogra community development block.
Saptagram (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency).
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006 in the now defunct Bansberia constituency.
Note: New constituencies – 1, constituencies abolished – 2
Saptagram – once a major port, the chief city and sometimes capital of southern Bengal, in ancient and medieval times