Apurba Chowdhury (Achal) of All India Trinamool Congress has defeated Rana Protap Goswami of Bharatiya Janata Party from Mangalkot Assembly constituency with a huge margin.

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Mangalkot Assembly constituency in the Purba Bardhaman district, in the South West Bengal region of West Bengal.

The Mangalkot constituency went to polls on April 22, 2021.

The assembly seat is reserved for the General category.

In the 2016 Assembly elections, Mangalkot was won by Chowdhury Siddiqullah of TMC.

Before that, in the 2011 elections, the seat was held by Sahajahan Choudhury of CPIM.

In the 2016 assembly polls, Chowdhury Siddiqullah garnered 89812 votes, securing over 45.87 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 11874 votes.

In percentage terms, the victory margin was 6.06 percent.

The constituency polled 195830 votes in the 2016 West Bengal assembly polls with a voter turnout of 85.77 percent.

The Mangalkot constituency has a literacy level of 77.15 percent.

A total of 6 candidates stood in the 2016 elections.

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First Published:May 2, 2021 11:32 AM IST