Balagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Balagarh
Vidhan Sabha constituency
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Balagarh
Balagarh (India)
Coordinates: 23°06′34″N88°27′37″E / 23.10944°N 88.46028°E / 23.10944; 88.46028 Coordinates: 23°06′34″N88°27′37″E / 23.10944°N 88.46028°E / 23.10944; 88.46028
CountryIndia
State West Bengal
District Hooghly
Headquarter Jirat
Constituency No. 191
TypeReserved for SC
Lok Sabha constituency 28. Hooghly

Balagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency headquartered in Jirat, Hooghly in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 191 Balagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) is composed of the following: Balagarh community development block and Chandrahati I, Chandrahati II, Digsui and Mogra I gram panchayats of Chinsurah Mogra community development block. [1]

Balagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency). [1] It was earlier part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election
Year
ConstituencyName of M.L.A.Party Affiliation
1951 BalagarhBrindaban Chattopadhyay Indian National Congress [2]
1957 Bejoy Krishna Modak Communist Party of India [3]
1962 Brindaban ChattopadhyayIndian National Congress [4]
1967 H.K.DasIndian National Congress [5]
1969Abinash Pramanick Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1971Abinash PramanickCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1972Biren SarkarIndian National Congress [8]
1977Abinash PramanickCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
1982Abinash PramanickCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1987Abinash PramanickCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1991Abinash PramanickCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1996Dibakanta RouthCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
2001 Dibakanta RouthCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
2006 Dibakanta RouthCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [15]
2007 By electionBhuban PramanickCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [16]
2011 Ashim Kumar Majhi All India Trinamool Congress [17]
2016 Ashim Kumar Majhi All India Trinamool Congress [18]
2021 Manoranjan Byapari All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Balagarh (SC) constituency [17] [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Ashim Maji96,25452.35+8.42#
CPI(M) Bhuban Pramanick74,67140.61−5.26
BJP Banshi Raut6,2233.38
IndependentMonoj Mistri3,232
CPI(ML)L Gautam Mondal2,493
JDP Sanjib Malik994
Turnout 183,86788.52
AITC gain from CPI(M) Swing 8.42#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2007 by-election.

1977–2007

The Balagarh seat fell vacant because of the death of the sitting MLA, Dibakanta Routh. In 2007 by-elections, Bhuban Pramanick of CPI(M) polled 60,101 votes to win the seat. Ashim Majhi of Trinamool Congress secured 51,691 votes, Bangshi Raut of the BJP secured 8,833 votes, Biswanath Malik of Congress secured 5,864 votes and Gautam Mandal of the CPI(ML) secured 4,530 votes. [16]

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Dibakanta Routh of CPI (M) won the Balagarh (SC) assembly seat in 2006, [15] 2001 [14] and 1996, [13] defeating his nearest rivals, Asim Patra of Trinamool Congress, Lakshmi Parui of Trinamool Congress and Biswanath Malik of Congress, in the respective years. Abinash Pramanik of CPI (M) won the seat in 1991, [12] 1987, [11] 1982 [10] and 1977 [9] defeating his nearest rivals Biswanath Malik, Gopal Krishna Dhar, Nilmoni Mandal and Gauranga Halder, all of Congress, in the respective years. [20]

1951–1972

Biren Sarkar of Congress won in 1972. [8] Abinash Pramanik of CPI(M) won in 1971 [7] and 1969. [6] H.K.Das of Congress won in 1967. [5] Brindaban Chattopdhyay of Congress won in 1962. [4] Bejoy Krishna Modak of CPI won in 1957. [3] In independent India's first election in 1951 [2] the Balagarh seat was won by Brindaban Chattopdhyay of Congress.

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