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Bangaon Uttar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Up to 2011 there was one assembly seat for Bangaon. From 2011 there are two seats – Bangaon Uttar Assembly constituency and Bangaon Dakshin Assembly constituency. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes. The Bangaon seat was an open seat up to 2011.

Bangaon Uttar
Assembly constituency
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Coordinates: 23°04′0″N 88°49′0″E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Constituency No	95
Type	Reserved for SC
Lok Sabha constituency	14. Bangaon (SC)
Electorate (year)	189,468 (2011)[1] 229,679 (2016)[2] 240,932 (2019)[3] 251,387 (2021)[4]

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 95 Bangaon Uttar Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Bangaon municipality, and Akaipur, Chhaigheria, Dharma Pukuria, Ganganandapur, Ghatbore, Gopalnagar I and Gopalnagar II gram panchayats of Bangaon community development block.[5]

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

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Bongaon	Jiban Ratan Dhar	Indian National Congress[7]
1957		Ajit Kumar Ganguly	Communist Party of India[8]
		Manindra Bhusan Biswas	Indian National Congress[8]
1962		Jiban Ratan Dhar	Indian National Congress [9]
1967		K.Bhowmick	Indian National Congress[10]
1969		Ajit Kumar Ganguly	Communist Party of India[11]
1971		Ajit Kumar Ganguly	Communist Party of India[12]
1972		Ajit Kumar Ganguly	Communist Party of India[13]
1977		Ranajit Mitra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
1982		Bhupendranath Seth	Indian National Congress[15]
1987		Ranajit Mitra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[16]
1991		Bhupendranath Seth	Indian National Congress[17]
1996		Pankaj Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[18]
2001		Pankaj Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[19]
2006		Bhupendranath Seth	All India Trinamool Congress[20]
2006 Bye election		Saugata Roy	All India Trinamool Congress.[21]
2009 Bye election		Gopal Seth	All India Trinamool Congress.[22][23]
2011	Bangaon Uttar	Biswajit Das	All India Trinamool Congress[24]
2016	Bangaon Uttar	Biswajit Das	All India Trinamool Congress (till 2019) Bharatiya Janata Party (2019–present)
2021	Bangaon Uttar	Ashok Kirtania	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

In the 2021 election, Ashok Kirtania of BJP defeated his nearest rival, Shyamal Roy of AITC.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Bangaon Uttar (SC) constituency[25]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ashok Kirtania	97,761	47.65	+36.42
	AITC	Shyamal Roy	87,273	42.54	-8.05
	CPI(M)	Pijush Kanti Saha	14,051	6.85
	NOTA	None of the above	1,833	0.89	-0.26
	Independent	Dinesh Das	1,480	0.72
	BSP	Suniti Mallick	1082	0.53	-2.03
	Independent	Subhasis Biswas	580	0.28
	Independent	Arabinda Biswas	321	0.16
	SUCI(C)	Shyamsundar Halder	228	0.11	-0.33
	BMP	Subrata Biswas	141	0.07
Turnout			205,175
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Biswajit Das of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Sushanta Baowali of All India Forward Bloc.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Bangaon Uttar (SC) constituency[26]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Biswajit Das	95,822	50.59
	AIFB	Sushanta Baowali	62,630	33.07
	BJP	K D Biswas	21,262	11.23
	BSP	Suniti Mallick	4,840	2.56
	NOTA	None of the above	2,182	1.15
	RPI(A)	Juran Chandra Pandey	1290	0.68
	SUCI(C)	Shyamsundar Halder	831	0.44
Turnout			189,396	82.46
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Biswajit Das of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Dr. Biswajit Biswas of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Bangaon Uttar (SC) constituency[24][27]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Biswajit Das	89,265	54.55
	CPI(M)	Dr. Biswajit Biswas	65,645	40.12
	BJP	Hari Chand Biswas	5,149	3.15
	BSP	Ganesh Chandra Biswas	1,828
	The Religion of Man Revolving Political Party of India	Pinaki Ranjan Bharati	995
	Nirjatita Samaj Biplabi Party	Gobinda Mandal	75
Turnout			163,641	86.84
	AITC win (new seat)

1977-2009 Bongaon assembly seat

In the 2009 bye-election caused by the election of sitting MLA, Saugata Roy to the Lok Sabha from Dum Dum, Gopal Seth of All India Trinamool Congress won the Bangaon seat.[22][23]

In the 2006 bye-election caused by the death of the sitting MLA, Bhupen Seth, Saugato Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated Pankaj Ghosh of CPI(M).[21]

In the 2006 state assembly elections,[20] Bhupendranath Seth of Trinamool Congress won the Bongaon assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Pankaj Ghosh of CPI(M). Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Pankaj Ghosh of CPI(M) defeated Bhupendranath Seth, Independent and Congress respectively) in 2001[19] and 1996.[18] Bhupendranath Seth of Congress defeated Ranajit Mitra of CPI(M) in 1991.[17] Ranajit Mitra of CPI(M) defeated Bhupendranath Seth of Congress in 1987.[16] Bhupendranath Seth of Congress defeated Ranajit Mitra of CPI(M) in 1982.[15] Ranajit Mitra of CPI(M) defeated Bhupendranath Seth of Congress in 1977.[14][28]

1951-1972 Bongaon assembly seat

Ajit Kumar Ganguly of CPI won in 1972,[13] 1971[12] and 1969.[11] K.Bhowmick of Congress won in 1967.[10] Jiban Ratan Dhar of Congress won in 1962.[9] In 1957, Bongaon was a joint seat. Ajit Kumar Ganguly of CPI and Manindra Bhusan Biswas of Congress won in 1957.[8] Jiban Ratan Dhar of Congress won in 1951.[7]

References

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