Bagdah (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

This article is about the assembly constituency in West Bengal, India. For 1 its namesake village, see Bagdah, North 24 Parganas. For 2 its namesake community development block, see Bagdah (community development block). For 3 location of its namesake police station, see Helencha.

Bagdah
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Bagdah Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Bagdah Bagdah (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 23°13′0″N88°53′0″E / 23.21667°N 88.88333°E / 23.21667; 88.88333 Coordinates: 23°13′0″N88°53′0″E / 23.21667°N 88.88333°E / 23.21667; 88.88333
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 (BJP)

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

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 94 Bagdah (Vidhan Sabha 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 (Vidhan Sabha 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.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Bagdah (SC) constituency ^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Biswajit Das	108,111	49.41	+45.03
	AITC	Paritosh Kumar Saha	98,319	44.94	+1.26
	INC	Prabir Kirtonia (Bapi)	8,250	3.77	-45.87
	BSP	Santosh Biswas	2,240	1.02	+0.27
	Independent	Pradip Kumar Biswas	851	0.39
	NOTA	None of the above	1,020	0.47
Turnout			218,791	79.06	+0.57
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2016

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

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Bagdah (SC) constituency ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dulal Bar	102,026	49.64
	AITC	Upendranath Biswas	89,790	43.68
	BSP	Bikash Biswas	1,532	0.75
	BJP	Biva Majumder	8,987	4.38
	NOTA	None of the above	1,324	0.64
	Independent	Harish Chandra Mondal	792	0.39
	Guru Chand Mukti Morcha	Hirak Golder	581	0.28
	RPI(A)	Gautam Malo	498	0.24
Turnout			205,546	79.63
	INC gain from AITC		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Bagdah (SC) constituency [19] Party Candidate Votes % ±% AITC Upendranath Biswas 91,821 52.91 +1.57# AIFB Mrinalkanti Sikdar 70,865 40.84 -9.93 BSP Chandan Mallick 4,414 2.54 BJP Arabinda Biswas 4,306 2.48 Independent Pranita Mandal 1,212 Nirjatita Samaj Biplabi Party Dhirendra Nath Mandal 913 AITC hold Swing Turnout 173,531 85.57 11.40#

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

Party Seats Won Seats Change All India Trinamool Congress 27 1 Communist Party of India (Marxist)+ 3 3 Indian National Congress+ 3 2 Bharatiya Janata Party 0 0 Forward Bloc 0 0 Revolutionary Socialist Party 0 0 Communist Party of India 0 0 WB assembly election 2016 winners list[ citation needed ]

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.

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