Raiganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Raiganj
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Raiganj Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Raiganj Raiganj (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 25°37′N88°07′E / 25.617°N 88.117°E / 25.617; 88.117 Coordinates: 25°37′N88°07′E / 25.617°N 88.117°E / 25.617; 88.117
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Uttar Dinajpur
Constituency No	35
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	5. Raiganj
Electorate (year)	149,614 (2011) [1] 178,888 (2016) [2] 198,780 (2021) [3]

Raiganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Uttar Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 35 Raiganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Raiganj municipality, and Bahin, Maraikup, Gouri, Kamalabati I and Kamalabati II gram panchayats of Raiganj community development block. ^[4]

Raiganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 5 Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Raiganj	Syama Prasad Barman	Indian National Congress [5]
		Gulam Hamidur Rahman	Indian National Congress [5]
1957		Haji Badruddin Ahmad	Indian National Congress [6]
		Syama Prasad Barman	Indian National Congress [6]
1962		Ramendranath Dutta	Indian National Congress [7]
1967		N.N.Kundu	Praja Socialist Party [8]
1969		Manash Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
1971		Ramendranath Dutta	Indian National Congress [10]
1972		Ramendranath Dutta	Indian National Congress [11]
1977		Khagendra Nath Sinha	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1982		Dipendra Barman	Indian National Congress [13]
1987		Khagendra Nath Sinha	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
1991		Khagendra Nath Sinha	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15]
1996		Dilip Kumar Das	Indian National Congress [16]
2001		Chittaranjan Roy	Indian National Congress [17]
2006		Chittaranjan Roy	Indian National Congress [18]
2011		Mohit Sengupta	Indian National Congress [19]
2016		Mohit Sengupta	Indian National Congress
2021		Krishna Kalyani	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

In the 2021 election, Krishna Kalyani of BJP defeated his nearest rival Kanaia Lal Agarwal of AITC.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Raiganj constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Krishna Kalyani	79,775	49.44	+40.75
	AITC	Kanaia Lal Agarwal	59,027	36.58	+11.95
	INC	Mohit Sengupta	17,198	10.66	-48.32
	NOTA	None of the above	2,468	1.53	+0.20
	Independent	Raju Paul	1,361	0.84
	Independent	Minakshi Roy	465	0.29
	Independent	Dipendu Sarkar	211	0.13
	AMB	Goutam Biswas	208	0.13
	Independent	Manju Das (Mondal)	196	0.12
	SUCI(C)	Sanatan Majumdar	133	0.08	-0.25
	BMP	Bahamoni Hansda	133	0.08
	Independent	Jyoti Barman	99	0.06
	JD(U)	Bhabatosh Lahiri	73	0.05
Turnout			161,347
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Mohit Sengupta of INC defeated his nearest rival Purnendu Dey of AITC.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Raiganj constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Mohit Sengupta	87,983	58.98	+9.29
	AITC	Purnendu Dey (Bablu)	36,736	24.63
	BJP	Pradip Sarkar	12,961	8.69	+6.28
	SP	Arun Chandra Dey	6,154	4.13	-41.29
	NOTA	None of the above	1,985	1.33
	Kamtapur People's Party (United)	Hari Charan Das	1,180	0.79
	BSP	Swapan Kumar Das	990	0.66
	Independent	Benoy Kumar Das	692	0.46
	SUCI(C)	Sanatan Dutta	487	0.33
Turnout			149,168	83.39	-1.34
	INC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Mohit Sengupta of Congress defeated his nearest rival Kiranmoy Nanda of Samajwadi Party.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Raiganj constituency ^{[19] [20]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Mohit Sengupta	62,864	49.69	+2.99
	SP	Kiranmoy Nanda	57,455	45.42
	BJP	Sachindra Nath Das	3,053	2.41
	Independent	Manjit Mandal	1,064
	SUCI	Sanatan Dutta	750
	BSP	Swapan Kumar Das	734
	IPFB	Anindya Ganguly	586
Turnout			126,506	84.73
	INC hold		Swing

2006

In the 2006 election, Chittaranjan Roy of Indian National Congress defeated his nearest rival Dilip Kumar Das of Nationalist Congress Party.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Raiganj constituency ^{[19] [21]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Chittaranjan Roy	77,789	49.69	+2.99
	NCP	Dilip Kumar Das	62,029	45.42
	BJP	Nimai Kabiraj	10,660	2.41
	Independent	Subhas Barman	3813
	Independent	Naresh Chandra Barman	2909
	CPI(ML)L	Ajit Kumar Das	2772
	Independent	Bhajagobinda Barman	1158
	Independent	Binoy Kumar Mallick	1713
	BSP	Nagendra Nath Sarkar	1404
	SP	Haradeb Kumar Barman	1094
Turnout			126,506	84.73
	INC hold		Swing

.# Swing calculated on CPIM+NCP vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977–2006

In the 2006 ^[18] and 2001 state assembly elections ^[17] Chittaranjan Roy of Congress won the 35 Raiganj Assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Dilip Kumar Das of NCP and Harinarayan Roy of CPI(M) respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Dilip Kumar Das of Congress defeated Khagendra Nath Sinha of CPI(M) in 1996. ^[16] Khagendra Nath Sinha of CPI(M) defeated Dilip Das of Congress in 1991 ^[15] and Dipendra Barman of Congress in 1987. ^[14] Dipendra Barman of Congress defeated Khagendra Nath Sinha of CPI(M) in 1982. ^[13] Khagendra Nath Sinha of CPI(M) defeated Mahendranath Barman of Janata Party in 1977. ^{[12] [22]}

1951–1972

Ramendranath Dutta of Congress won in 1972 ^[11] and 1971. ^[10] Manash Roy of CPI(M) won in 1969. ^[9] N.N.Kundu of PSP won in 1967. ^[8] Ramendranath Dutta of Congress won in 1962. ^[7] In 1957 and 1951 Raiganj was a joint seat. Hazi Badirudddin Ahmad and Syama Prasad Barman, both of Congress, won in 1957. ^[6] Syama Prasad Barman and Gulam Hamidur Rahman, both of Congress, won in 1951. ^[5]

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