Panihati (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

In the 2011 election, Nirmal Ghosh of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Ahibhusan Chakraborty of CPI(M).

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Uttar 24 Parganas district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	28	23
Congress	1	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	3	16
Forward Bloc	0	3
Revolutionary Socialist Party	0	1
Communist Party of India	1	1

Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 2 (See template talk page for details)

In the 2006 state assembly elections,[12] Gopal Krishna Bhattacharya of CPI(M) won the Panihati assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival Nirmal Ghosh of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Nirmal Ghosh representing Trinamool Congress in 2001[11] defeated Kamal Sengupta Basu of CPI(M), and representing Congress in 1996[10] defeated Tania Chakraborty of CPI(M). Tania Chakraborty of CPI(M) defeated Nirmal Ghosh of Congress in 1991.[9] Gopal Krishna Bhattacharya of CPI(M) defeated Tapan Chattopadhyay of Congress in 1987[8] and 1982,[7] and Sanmatha Nath Ghosh of Janata Party in 1977.[6][15]

Tapan Chatterjee of Congress won in 1972.[5] Gopal Krishna Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) won in 1971,[4] 1969[3] and 1967.[2] Prior to that the Panihati seat was not there.