Mothabari

Mothabari
Mothabari
	Vidhan Sabha constituency
	Mothabari Location in West Bengal Mothabari Mothabari (India)
	Coordinates: 24°57′49″N 88°05′22″E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Malda
Constituency No	52
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	8. Maldaha Dakshin
Electorate (year)	134,944
Government
• CurrentMLA	Sabina Yasmin (INC)

Mothabari (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Kaliachak (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from 2011. There are two new constituencies in the area – Mothabari (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and Baisnabnagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency).

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 52 Mothabari (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Kaliachak II community development block, and Alinagar and Kaliachak I gram panchayats of Kaliachak I community development block.[1]

Mothabari (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 8 Maldaha Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
2011	Mothabari	Sabina Yasmin	All India Trinamool Congress[2]

Election results

2011&2016

In 2016 Assembly Election Sabina defeated the heavyweight rival Md Najrul Islam (AITC) In the 2011 election, Sabina Yasmin of Congress defeated her nearest rival Naimuddin Sheikh of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Mothabari constituency[2][3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Sabina Yasmin	47,466	44.11
	CPI (M)	Naimuddin Sheikh	41,446	38.52
	Independent	Shehnaz Quadery	8,505	7.90
	BJP	Nandan Kumar Ghosh	6,340	5.89
	Paschim Banga Rajya Muslim League	Md. Faruque Hossain	1,738
	BSP	Firoj Akhtar	1,070
	CPI(ML)L	Rajab Ali	1,034
Turnout			107,599	79.74

The Independent candidate, Shehnaz Quadery, was a rebel candidate from the family of A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury. Although her name was proposed by the local Congress, she was refused a ticket by the Congress high command.[4]

West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Malda district summary
Party	Seats won	Seat change
Indian National Congress	8	4
Trinamool Congress	1	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1	5
Revolutionary Socialist Party	1	1
Forward bloc	1	0

Note: New constituencies – 4, constituencies abolished – 3 (See template talk page for details)

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References

"Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
"General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
"West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Empowering India. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
"Rebel in Malda Cong family refuses to bend". The Telegraph, 5 April 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2011.

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[delimitation-1] "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 12 July 2014.

[vidhansabha2011-2] "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 July 2014.

[3] "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Empowering India. Retrieved 8 April 2011.

[4] "Rebel in Malda Cong family refuses to bend". The Telegraph, 5 April 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2011.