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Bardhaman Uttar Assembly constituency (earlier called Burdwan North) is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes from 2011. Nisith Kumar Malik from All India Trinamool Congress won from this constituency in 2016 assembly elections.

Bardhaman Uttar
Assembly constituency
Bardhaman Uttar Location in West Bengal
Coordinates: 23°15′N 87°51′E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Constituency No.	266
Type	Reserved for SC
Lok Sabha constituency	39. Bardhaman-Durgapur
Electorate (year)	210,773 (2011)

Overview

Bardhaman had two state assembly seats – Burdwan North and Burdwan South, both of which were earlier part of Burdwan (Lok Sabha constituency).

As per order of the Delimitation Committee, the Bardhaman assembly constituencies were renamed Bardhaman Dakshin and Bardhaman Uttar. No. 260 Bardhaman Dakshin Assembly constituency covers Bardhaman municipality. No. 266 Bardhaman Uttar Assembly constituency (SC) covers Burdwan II community development block and Belkash, Bandul I, Rayan I, Rayan II, Saraitikar, Baghar I and Baghar II gram panchayats of Burdwan I community development block. Both Bardhaman Dakshin and Bardhaman Uttar assembly segments are part of No. 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

The West Bengal political scenario has changed dramatically over the years. In the early years after independence it was a scene of fluctuating fortunes between the Congress and the Left wing parties, till the latter captured power in the late seventies. The United News of India in a candid analysis says, “The green surge swept Bengal to demolish the red bastion in 2011 Assembly elections… Moreover, as the Left still remained cornered in state politics, their neutralised voters are increasingly migrating to the BJP for a viable alternative.”[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Burdwan	Benoy Choudhury	Communist Party of India[3]
1957		Benoy Choudhury	Communist Party of India[4]
1962		Radharani Mahtab	Indian National Congress[5]
1967	Burdwan North	S. Sahedullah	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1969		Debabrata Datta	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1971		Debabrata Dutta	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1972		Kashinath Ta	Indian National Congress [9]
1977		Dwarakanath Ta	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1982		Ram Narayan Goswami	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1987		Benoy Choudhuri	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1991		Benoy Choudhuri	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
1996		Nisith Adhikary	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
2001		Nisith Adhikary	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15]
2006		Pradip Tah	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [16][17]
2011	Burdwan Uttar	Aparna Saha	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[18]
2016		Nisith Kumar Malik	All India Trinamool Congress[19][20]
2021		Nisith Kumar Malik	All India Trinamool Congress [21]

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Bardhaman Uttar[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nisith Kumar Malik	111,211	45.97	+17.81
	BJP	Radha Kanta Roy	93,943	38.83	+640.87
	CPI(M)	Chandi Charan Let	31,028	12.83	-66.0
	BSP	Ramkrishna Malik	3,347	1.38
	NOTA	None of the above	2,396	0.99
Turnout			241,925
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bardhaman Uttar [19][20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nisith Kumar Malik	102,886	47.43
	CPI(M)	Aparna Saha	91,381	42.12
	BJP	Prasanta Saha	15,275	7.04
	CPI(ML)L	Tarun Kanti Majhi	2,275	1.05
	BSP	Mahadev Malik	1,715	0.79
	NOTA	None of the above	3,401	1.57
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Bardhaman Uttar [22][23][24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Aparna Saha	98,182	50.87	-12.76
	AITC	Nishit Malick	83,949	43.50	+23.29#
	BJP	Sunil Sen	5,607	2.91
	JD(U)	Dipu Chowdhury	2,228	1.15
	BSP	Joygopal Das	1,699	0.88
	CPI(ML)L	Tarun Kanti Majhi	1,342	0.7
Turnout			193,007	91.57
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-32.97#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote percentage, in 2006 for the Burdwan North constituency.

Burdwan North constituency 1967-2006

Pradip Tah of CPI (M) won the Burdwan North seat defeating his nearest rival Deb Narayan Guha of Trinamool Congress in the 2006 assembly elections. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001 and 1996, Nisith Adhikary of CPI (M) defeated Lakshmi Narayan Nayek and Raimoni Das (both of Congress) in the respective years. In 1991 and 1987, Benoy Krishna Chowdhury of CPI (M) defeated Sadhan Ghosh and Santosh Saha Sikdar (both of Congress) in the respective years. In 1982, Goswami Ramnarayan of CPI (M) defeated Lakshmi Narayan Rej of ICS. In 1977, Dwarka Nath Tah of CPI (M) won the seat defeating Sudhir Chandra Dawn of Congress.[25]

Kashinath Ta of Congress won the seat in 1972. Debabrata Dutta of CPI (M) won the seat in 1971 and 1969. Sahedullah of CPI (M) won the seat in 1967. Prior to that there was a single Bardhaman seat.[26]

Burdwan constituency 1951-1962

Radharani Mahtab of Congress won the Burdwan seat in 1962. Benoy Choudhuri representing CPI won the seat in 1957 and 1951.[26]

References

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