Cossipur Assembly constituency

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Cossipur Assembly constituency was a legislative seat in Kolkata district, West Bengal. It was numbered 140, established in 1951, and was part of the Calcutta North West Lok Sabha constituency. The seat ceased to exist in 2011 after the Delimitation Commission redrew the boundaries. There was no reservation for this seat.

Election highlights:
- 2006: Tarak Bandopadhyay (Trinamool Congress) defeated Salil Chatterjee (CPI(M)).
- 2001: Tarak Bandopadhyay (Trinamool Congress) defeated Bijoy Bhattacharjee (CPI(M)).
- 1996: Tarak Bandopadhyay (Congress) defeated Anup Das (CPI(M)).
- 1991: Dipak Chanda (CPI(M)) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh (Congress).
- 1987: Dipak Chanda (CPI(M)) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh (Congress).
- 1982: Prafulla Kanti Ghosh (Congress) defeated Buddhadeb Bhattacharya (CPI(M)).
- 1977: Buddhadeb Bhattacharya (CPI(M)) defeated Prafulla Kanti Ghosh (Congress).
- 1972: Prafulla Kanti Ghosh (Congress) defeated Paresh Nath Banerjee (CPI(M)).
- 1971: Prafulla Kanti Ghosh (Congress) defeated Krishna Gopal Basu (CPI(M)).
- 1969: Vishnu Gopal Basu (CPI(M)) defeated Sushil Kumar Paul (Congress).
- 1967: S.K. Roy (Congress) defeated P. Dasguta (CPI(M)).
- 1962: Sunil Kumar Dasgupta (Congress) defeated Mohit Kumar Moitra (CPI(M)).
- 1957: Deben Sen (PSP) defeated Biswanath Roy (Congress).
- 1951: Biswanath Roy (Congress) defeated Jyotirmoy Sharma (CPI).