Cooch Behar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Cooch Behar Uttar
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Cooch Behar Uttar Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Cooch Behar Uttar Cooch Behar Uttar (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 26°19′27″N89°27′07″E / 26.32417°N 89.45194°E / 26.32417; 89.45194 Coordinates: 26°19′27″N89°27′07″E / 26.32417°N 89.45194°E / 26.32417; 89.45194
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Cooch Behar
Constituency No	3
Type	Reserved for SC
Lok Sabha constituency	1 Cooch Behar (SC)
Electorate (year)	218,743 (2011) [1] 258,722 (2016) [2] 282,988 (2021) [3]
Government
• Incumbent	Sukumar Roy (Bharatiya Janata Party)

Cooch Behar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 3 Cooch Behar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) covers Cooch Behar II community development block. ^[4]

Cooch Behar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 1 Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC). ^[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Cooch Behar	Maziruddin Ahmed	Indian National Congress [5]
		Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar	Indian National Congress [5]
1957		Maziruddin Ahmed	Indian National Congress [6]
		Satish Chandra Roy Singha	Indian National Congress [6]
1962	Cooch Behar North	Sunil Dasgupta	Forward Bloc [7]
	Cooch Behar South	Sunil Basunia	Forward Bloc [7]
1967	Cooch Behar North	M.R.Tar	Indian National Congress [8]
	Cooch Behar South	Santosh Kumar Roy	Indian National Congress [8]
	Cooch Behar West	Prasenjit Barman	Indian National Congress [8]
1969	Cooch Behar North	Bimal Kanti Basu	Forward Bloc [9]
	Cooch Behar South	Santosh Kumar Roy	Indian National Congress [9]
	Cooch Behar West	Prasenjit Barman	Indian National Congress [9]
1971	Cooch Behar North	Sunil Kar	Indian National Congress [10]
	Cooch Behar South	Santosh Kumar Roy	Indian National Congress [10]
	Cooch Behar West	Rajani Das	Indian National Congress [10]
1972	Cooch Behar North	Sunil Kar	Indian National Congress [11]
	Cooch Behar South	Santosh Kumar Roy	Indian National Congress [11]
	Cooch Behar West	Rajani Das	Indian National Congress [11]
1977	Cooch Behar North	Aparajita Goppi	Forward Bloc [12]
	Cooch Behar West	Bimal Kanti Basu	Forward Bloc [12]
1982	Cooch Behar North	Aparajita Goppi	Forward Bloc [13]
	Cooch Behar West	Bimal Kanti Basu	Forward Bloc [13]
1987	Cooch Behar North	Aparajita Goppi	Forward Bloc [14]
	Cooch Behar West	Bimal Kanti Basu	Forward Bloc [14]
1991	Cooch Behar North	Bimal Kanti Basu	Forward Bloc [15]
	Cooch Behar West	Soumindra Chandra Das	Forward Bloc [15]
1996	Cooch Behar North	Mihir Goswami	Indian National Congress [16]
	Cooch Behar West	Soumindra Chandra Das	Forward Bloc [16]
2001	Cooch Behar North	Dipak Chandra Sarkar	Forward Bloc [17]
	Cooch Behar West	Akshay Thakur	Forward Bloc [17]
2006	Cooch Behar North	Dipak Chandra Sarkar	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [18]
	Cooch Behar West	Akshay Thakur	Forward Bloc [18]
2011	Cooch Behar Uttar	Nagendra Nath Roy	Forward Bloc [19]
2016	Cooch Behar Uttar	Nagendra Nath Roy	Forward Bloc [19]
2021	Cooch Behar Uttar	Sukumar Roy	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Cooch Behar Uttar (SC) constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sukumar Roy	120,483	49.40
	AITC	Binoy Krishna Barman	105,868	43.40
	AIFB	Nagendra Nath Roy	11,475	4.70
	NOTA	None of the above	1,570	0.64
	SUCI(C)	Anil Chandra Roy	1,386	0.57
	Independent	Naresh Chandra Roy	1,379	0.57
	Kamtapur People's Party (United)	Samaresh Ray	1,127	0.46
	AMB	Gopal Roy	628	0.26
Turnout			243,916
	BJP gain from AIFB		Swing

2016

In the 2016 elections, Nagendranath Roy of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Parimal Burman of Trinamool Congress.

2016 West Bengal state assembly election: Cooch Behar Uttar ^{[19] [20]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Nagendra Nath Roy	97,629	43.63	-1.48
	AITC	Parimal Barman	85,336	38.14	-5.80
	BJP	Sukumar Roy	30,025	13.42	+6.71
	NOTA	None of the above	2,649	1.18	+1.18
Turnout			2,23,771	86.49	+0.44
	AIFB hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Nagendranath Roy of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Prasenjit Burman of Trinamool Congress.

2011 West Bengal state assembly election: Cooch Behar Uttar ^{[19] [21]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Nagendra Nath Roy	84,825	45.11	-5.96
	AITC	Prasenjit Barman	82,628	43.94	+10.06
	BJP	Malati Rava (Ray)	12,608	6.71
	Independent	Nirmal Kumar Roy	4,745	2.52
	RPI	Ratan Barman	1,883
	Independent	Kulen Das	1,343
Turnout			188,032	86.05
	AIFB hold		Swing	-16.02

1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar North constituency

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006 ^[18] and 2001 ^[17] state assembly elections Dipak Chandra Sarkar of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Trinamool Congress. Mihir Goswami representing Congress had defeated Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc in 1996. ^[16] Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1991. ^[15] Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1987, ^[14] Sunil Kar of Congress in 1982 ^[13] and Bimal Chandra Dhar of Congress in 1977. ^{[12] [22]}

1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar West constituency

In the 2006 ^[18] and 2001 ^[17] state assembly elections, Akshay Thakur of Forward Bloc won the Cooch Behar West seat defeating Abdul Jalil Ahmed and Soumendra Chandra Das (both of Trinamool Congress) respectively. Soumindra Chandra Das of Forward Bloc defeated Abdul Jalil Ahmed representing Congress in 1996 ^[16] and Ramkrishna Pal of Congress in 1991. ^[15] Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Shyamal Choudhury of Congress in 1987 ^[14] and 1982, ^[13] and Maqsudar Rahman of Congress in 1977. ^{[12] [23]}

1962-1972: Cooch Behar North, South and West constituencies

Sunil Kar of Congress won the Cooch Behar North in 1972 ^[11] and 1971. ^[10] Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc won it in 1969. ^[9] M.R.Tar of Congress won it in 1967. ^[8] Sunil Dasgupta of Forward Bloc won it in 1962. ^[7] Santosh Kumar Roy of Congress won the Cooch Behar South seat in 1972, ^[11] 1971, ^[10] 1969 ^[9] and 1967. ^[8] Sunil Basunia of Forward Bloc won the seat in 1962. ^[7] Rajani Das of Congress won the Cooch Behar West seat in 1972 ^[11] and 1971. ^[10] Prasenjit Barman of Congress won it in 1969 ^[9] and 1967. ^[8] The seat was not there prior to 1967.

1951 & 1957: Cooch Behar constituency

Cooch Behar was a joint seat in 1957. ^[6] It was won by Maziruddin Ahmed and Satish Chandra Roy Singha (both of Congress). In independent India's first election in 1951, ^[5] Maziruddin Ahmed and Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar (both of Congress) won the Cooch Behar joint seat.

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