Bagdah Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.

Bagdah
Assembly constituency
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Coordinates: 23°13′0″N 88°53′0″E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Constituency No	94
Type	Reserved for SC
Lok Sabha constituency	14. Bangaon (SC)
Electorate (year)	203,625 (2011)[1] 258,139 (2016)[2] 277,464 (2021)[3][4]
Government
• MLA	Biswajit Das (AITC)

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 94 Bagdah Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Bagdah community development block, and Gangrapota, Sundarpur and Tengra gram panchayats of Bangaon community development block.[5]

Bagdah Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 14 Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).[5] It was earlier part of Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency).[6]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Bagdah Constituency

Election Year	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation	Party Sign	Ref.
1962	Manindra Bhusan Biswas	Indian National Congress		[7]
1967	Apurba Lal Majumdar	All India Forward Bloc		[8]
1969				[9]
1971				[10]
1972				[11]
1977	Kamalakshmi Biswas			[12]
1982				[13]
1987	Apurba Lal Majumdar	Indian National Congress		[14]
1991	Kamalakshmi Biswas	All India Forward Bloc		[15]
1996				[16]
2001				[17]
2006	Dulal Bar	All India Trinamool Congress		[18]
2011	Upendranath Biswas			[19]
2016	Dulal Bar	Indian National Congress
2021	Biswajit Das	Bharatiya Janata Party		[20]

Election results

2021

In the 2021 election, Biswajit Das of BJP defeated his nearest rival Paritosh Kumar Saha of AITC.

2016

In the 2016 election, Dulal Bar of INC (Congress) defeated his nearest rival Upendra Nath Biswas of AITMC.

2011

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections[18] Dulal Chandra Bar of Trinamool Congress won the Bagdah (SC) seat defeating his nearest rival Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc defeated Dulal Chandra Bar of Trinamool Congress in 2001,[17] Kalidas Adhikari of Congress in 1996,[16] Ram Chandra Bose of Congress in 1991.[15] Apurba Lal Majumdar of Congress defeated Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc in 1987.[14] Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc defeated Apurba Lal Majumdar of Congress in 1982[13] and Independent in 1977.[12][22]

1962-1972

Apurba Lal Majumdar of Forward Bloc won in 1972,[11] 1971,[10] 1969[9] and 1967.[8] Manindra Bhusan Biswas of Congress won in 1962.[7] Prior to that the Bagdah seat was not there.

References