Balurghat Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Dakshin Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Coordinates: 25°13′N 88°46′E | |
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State | West Bengal |
District | Dakshin Dinajpur |
Constituency No | 39 |
Type | Open |
Lok Sabha constituency | 6. Balurghat |
Electorate (year) | 139,816 (2011)[1] 160,609 (2016)[2] 180,390 (2021)[3] |
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 39 Balurghat Assembly constituency covers Balurghat municipality, Amritakhand, Vatpara and Chingishpur gram panchayats of Balurghat community development block and Hilli community development block.[4]
Balurghat Assembly constituency is part of No. 6 Balurghat (Lok Sabha constituency).[4]
Election Year | Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation |
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1951 | Balurghat | Saroj Ranjan Chattopadhyay | Indian National Congress[5] |
1951 | Lakhsman Chandra Handa | Indian National Congress[5] | |
1957 | Mardi Hakai | Indian National Congress[6] | |
1957 | Dhiren Banerjee | Revolutionary Socialist Party[6][7] | |
1962 | Sushil Ranjan Chattopadhyay | Indian National Congress[8] | |
1967 | Mukul Basu | Independent[9] | |
1969 | Mukul Basu | Revolutionary Socialist Party[10] | |
1971 | Bireshwar Roy | Indian National Congress[11] | |
1972 | Bireshwar Roy | Indian National Congress[12] | |
1977 | Biswanath Chowdhury | Revolutionary Socialist Party[13] | |
1982 | Biswanath Chowdhury | Revolutionary Socialist Party[14] | |
1987 | Biswanath Chowdhury | Revolutionary Socialist Party[15] | |
1991 | Biswanath Chowdhury | Revolutionary Socialist Party[16] | |
1996 | Biswanath Chowdhury | Revolutionary Socialist Party[17] | |
2001 | Biswanath Chowdhury | Revolutionary Socialist Party[18] | |
2006 | Biswanath Chowdhury | Revolutionary Socialist Party[19] | |
2011 | Sankar Chakraborty | All India Trinamool Congress[20] | |
2016 | Biswanath Chowdhury | Revolutionary Socialist Party[19] | |
2021 | Ashok Kumar Lahiri | Bharatiya Janata Party |
In the 2021 election, Ashok Kumar Lahiri of BJP defeated his nearest rival Sekhar Dasgupta of Trinamool Congress.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Ashok Kumar Lahiri | 72,129 | 47.42 | +36.64 | |
AITC | Sekhar Dasgupta | 58,693 | 38.59 | -2.20 | |
RSP | Sucheta Biswas | 16,153 | 10.62 | -32.20 | |
NOTA | None of the above | 1,830 | 1.20 | -1.17 | |
BSP | Jogesh Chandra Murmu | 1,141 | 0.75 | -0.43 | |
AMB | Narottam Saha | 810 | 0.53 | ||
SUCI(C) | Birendra Nath Mahanta | 604 | 0.40 | -0.65 | |
BMP | Dulal Barman | 379 | 0.25 | ||
KPPU | Anup Barman | 353 | 0.23 | ||
Turnout | 152,092 | ||||
BJP gain from RSP | Swing | ||||
In the 2016 election, Biswanath Chowdhury of RSP defeated his nearest rival Shankar Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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RSP | Biswanath Chowdhury | 60,590 | 42.82 | +3.26 | |
AITC | Sankar Chakraborty | 59,140 | 41.79 | -12.48 | |
BJP | Gautam Chakraborty | 15,258 | 10.78 | +7.26 | |
NOTA | None of the above | 3,357 | 2.37 | +2.37 | |
BSP | Samar Kumar Mahato | 1,668 | 1.18 | ||
SUCI(C) | Biren Mahanta | 1,490 | 1.05 | ||
Turnout | 141,503 | 88.10 | -1.04 | ||
RSP gain from AITC | Swing | # | |||
In the 2011 election, Shankar Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Bishwanath Chowdhury of RSP.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Sankar Chakraborty | 67,495 | 54.27 | # | |
RSP | Biswanath Chowdhury | 49,204 | 39.56 | -7.21 | |
BJP | Ranjan Kumar Mondal | 4,378 | 3.52 | ||
Independent | Keshab Roy | 1,862 | |||
BSP | Nripen Hansda | 1,427 | |||
Turnout | 124,366 | 89.14 | |||
AITC gain from RSP | Swing | # | |||
.# Trinamool Congress did not contest the seat in 2006.
Biswanath Chowdhury of RSP has made it seven in a row winning the Balurghat assembly seat in all years from 1977 to 2006.[19] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. He defeated Deboshree Choudhury of BJP in 2006, Sankar Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress in 2001,[18] Biplab Khan of Congress in 1996[17] and 1991,[16] Madhab Chandra Roy of Congress in 1987,[15] Asish Roy of ICS in 1982[14] and Jyotiswar Sarkar of Congress in 1977.[13][23]
Bireswar Roy of Congress won in 1972[12] and 1971.[11] Mukul Basu of RSP/Independent won in 1969[10] and 1967.[9] Sushil Ranjan Chattopadhya of Congress won in 1962.[8] In 1957 and 1951, Balurghat was joint seat. In 1957[6] Mardi Hakai of Congress and Dhirendra Nath Banerjee, Independent, won. In independent India's first election, Saroj Ranjan Chattopadhyay and Lakshman Chandra Handa, both of Congress, won.[5]
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