Sonarpur Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
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| Coordinates: 22°25′00″N 88°25′00″E / 22.41667°N 88.41667°ECoordinates: 22°25′00″N 88°25′00″E / 22.41667°N 88.41667°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | West Bengal |
| District | South 24 Parganas |
| Constituency No | 151 |
| Type | Open |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Jadavpur |
| Electorate (year) | 196,980 (2011) |
Sonarpur Uttar (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. 151 Sonarpur Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 7 and 25 to 33 of Rajpur Sonarpur municipality, and Banhooghly I, Banhooghly II, Kamrabad, Kheyadaha I and Kheyadaha II gram panchayats of Sonarpur community development block.
Sonarpur Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 22 Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency). Sonarpur was earlier part of Calcutta South (Lok Sabha constituency).
In 2011, Firdousi Begum of Trinamool Congress defeated Shyamal Naskar of CPIM.
Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 8 (See for details)
Earlier Sonarpur had a single seat.
In the 2006elections to the state assembly Shyamal Naskar of CPI(M) won the Sonarpur assembly seat reserved for scheduled castes defeating his nearest rival Nirmal Chandra Mandal of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001,Nirmal Chandra Mandal of Trinamool Congress defeated Abha Mandal of CPI(M). Bhadreswar Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Nirmal Mandal of Congress in 1996and 1991,and Sovaranjan Sardar of Congress in 1987. Gangadhar Naskar of CPI(M) defeated Ramkanta Mandal of ICS in 1982and Gourhari Sardar of Congress in 1977.
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