West Bengal Assembly election 2021, Maheshtala profile: TMC's Kasturi Das won seat in 2016
Maheshtala is an Assembly/Vidhan Sabha constituency in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. It falls under the Diamond Harbour Parliamentary constituency.
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Maheshtala is an Assembly/Vidhan Sabha constituency in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. It falls under the Diamond Harbour Parliamentary constituency.
In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly election, the constituency had a total of 1,95,964 registered voters.
Voter turnout in previous election
The voter turnout in Behala Paschim in the previous Assembly election was 80.94 percent.
Past election results and winners
In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly election, Kasturi Das of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) won the Maheshtala seat.
In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly election, Partha Chatterjee of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) won the Behala Paschim seat by gaining 1,02,114 votes against 93,218 votes secured by Kaustav Chatterjee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
In 2011 as well, Partha was declared the winner in the Assembly election by defeating CPM candidate Kaustav Chatterjee with a margin of 59,021 votes or 29.06 percent.
The results of the election will be declared on 2 May.
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