| Balurghat | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 39 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Balurghat Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Dakshin Dinajpur |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Balurghat |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 180,390 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | BJP |
| Alliance | NDA |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Balurghat Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inDakshin Dinajpur district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of theDelimitation Commission, No. 39 Balurghat Assembly constituency coversBalurghat municipality, Amritakhand, Vatpara and Chingishpurgram panchayats ofBalurghatcommunity development block andHilli community development block.[1]
Balurghat Assembly constituency is part of No. 6Balurghat Lok Sabha constituency.[1]
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Saroj Ranjan Chattopadhyay | Indian National Congress[2] | |
| Lakhsman Chandra Handa[2] | |||
| 1957 | Mardi Hakai[3] | ||
| Dhiren Banerjee | Revolutionary Socialist Party[3][4] | ||
| 1962 | Sushil Ranjan Chattopadhyay | Indian National Congress[5] | |
| 1967 | Mukul Basu | Independent[6] | |
| 1969 | Revolutionary Socialist Party[7] | ||
| 1971 | Bireshwar Roy | Indian National Congress[8] | |
| 1972[9] | |||
| 1977 | Biswanath Chowdhury | Revolutionary Socialist Party[10] | |
| 1982[11] | |||
| 1987[12] | |||
| 1991[13] | |||
| 1996[14] | |||
| 2001[15] | |||
| 2006[16] | |||
| 2011 | Sankar Chakraborty | Trinamool Congress[17] | |
| 2016 | Biswanath Chowdhury | Revolutionary Socialist Party[16] | |
| 2021 | Ashok Kumar Lahiri | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
In the 2021 election, Ashok Kumar Lahiri of BJP defeated his nearest rival Sekhar Dasgupta of Trinamool Congress.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Ashok Kumar Lahiri | 72,129 | 47.42 |  36.64 | |
| AITC | Sekhar Dasgupta | 58,693 | 38.59 |  2.2 | |
| RSP | Sucheta Biswas | 16,153 | 10.62 | 32.2 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,830 | 1.20 | 1.17 | |
| BSP | Jogesh Chandra Murmu | 1,141 | 0.75 | 0.43 | |
| AMB | Narottam Saha | 810 | 0.53 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Birendra Nath Mahanta | 604 | 0.40 | 0.65 | |
| BMP | Dulal Barman | 379 | 0.25 | ||
| KPPU | Anup Barman | 353 | 0.23 | ||
| Majority | 13,436 | 8.83 | 7.8 | ||
| Turnout | 1,52,092 | ||||
| BJPgain fromRSP | Swing | ||||
In the 2016 election,Biswanath Chowdhury of RSP defeated his nearest rival Shankar Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSP | Biswanath Chowdhury | 60,590 | 42.82 | +3.26 | |
| AITC | Sankar Chakraborty | 59,140 | 41.79 | −12.48 | |
| BJP | Gautam Chakraborty | 15,258 | 10.78 | +7.26 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,357 | 2.37 | +2.37 | |
| BSP | Samar Kumar Mahato | 1,668 | 1.18 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Biren Mahanta | 1,490 | 1.05 | ||
| Turnout | 141,503 | 88.10 | −1.04 | ||
| RSPgain fromAITC | Swing | # | |||
In the 2011 election, Shankar Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Bishwanath Chowdhury of RSP.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sankar Chakraborty | 67,495 | 54.27 | ||
| RSP | Biswanath Chowdhury | 49,204 | 39.56 | −7.21 | |
| BJP | Ranjan Kumar Mondal | 4,378 | 3.52 | ||
| Independent | Keshab Roy | 1,862 | |||
| BSP | Nripen Hansda | 1,427 | |||
| Turnout | 124,366 | 89.14 | |||
| AITCgain fromRSP | Swing | # | |||
.# Trinamool Congress did not contest the seat in 2006.
Biswanath Chowdhury ofRSP has made it seven in a row winning the Balurghat assembly seat in all years from 1977 to2006.[16] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. He defeated Deboshree Choudhury ofBJP in 2006,Sankar Chakraborty ofTrinamool Congress in 2001,[15] Biplab Khan ofCongress in 1996[14] and 1991,[13] Madhab Chandra Roy of Congress in 1987,[12] Asish Roy ofICS in 1982[11] and Jyotiswar Sarkar of Congress in 1977.[10][20]
Bireswar Roy of Congress won in 1972[9] and 1971.[8] Mukul Basu of RSP/Independent won in 1969[7] and 1967.[6] Sushil Ranjan Chattopadhya of Congress won in1962.[5] In1957 and1951, Balurghat was joint seat. In 1957[3] Mardi Hakai of Congress and Dhirendra Nath Banerjee, Independent, won. In independent India's first election, Saroj Ranjan Chattopadhyay and Lakshman Chandra Handa, both of Congress, won.[2]
