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| 2 | Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency) - Members of Legislative Assembly |  |  |  |
| 3 | Election Year | Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation |
| 4 | 1967 | Kamarhati | Radhika Ranjan Banerjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 5 | 1969 | - | Radhika Ranjan Banerjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 6 | 1971 | - | Radhika Ranjan Banerjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 7 | 1972 | - | Pradip Kumar Palit | Indian National Congress |
| 8 | 1977 | - | Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 9 | 1982 | - | Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 10 | 1987 | - | Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 11 | 1991 | - | Santi Ghatak | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 12 | 1996 | - | Santi Ghatak | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 13 | 2001 | - | Manas Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 14 | 2006 | - | Manas Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 15 | 2011 | - | Madan Mitra | All India Trinamool Congress |
| 16 | 2016 | - | Manas Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |

Question: What was the history of the Kamarhati seat up to 1972?
Answer: Pradip Kumar Palit of Congress won in 1972. Radhika Ranjan Banerjee of CPI(M) won in 1971, 1969 and in 1967; Prior to that the Kamarhati seat did not exist.