196 Haripal Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Haripal community development block and Balarambati, Basubati and Kamarkundu Gopalnagar, Daluigachha gram panchayats of Singur community development block.
[1] It was earlier part of Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency).
In the 2006 state assembly elections[12] Bharati Mukherjee of CPI(M) won the Haripal seat defeating Safiul Islam Sarkar of Trinamool Congress.
Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned.
[9] Balai Banerjee of CPI(M) defeated Tushar Sinha Roy of Congress in 1987[8] and Chandrasekhar Banik representing ICS in 1982[7] and Congress in 1977.