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Magrahat Purba is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.OverviewAs per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 141 Magrahat Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) is composed of the following: Magrahat II community development block.Magrahat Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 19 Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency).Earlier it was part of Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency).Election results2011Namita Saha of Trinamool Congress defeated her nearest rival Chandan Saha of CPI..# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI vote percentage, for the Magrahat East constituency in 2006.1977-2006 Magrahat EastIn the 2006and 2001state assembly elections, Bansari Mohan Kanji of CPI(M) won the 121 Magrahat East (SC) seat defeating his nearest rival Namita Saha of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Nirmal Sinha of CPI(M) defeated Namita Saha representing Congress in 1996and 1991. Radhika Ranjan Pramanik of CPI(M) defeated Manoranjan Haldar of Congress in 1987, Nirmal Kanti Mondal of Congress in 1982 and Manoranjan Haldar of Congress in 1977.