| Bardhaman Uttar | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 266 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Bardhaman Uttar Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Purba Bardhaman |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Bardhaman–Durgapur |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 210,773 |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Bardhaman Uttar is anassembly constituency inPurba Bardhaman district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal. It is reserved forscheduled castes.
As per order of the Delimitation Commission, No. 266 Bardhaman Uttar Assembly constituency (SC) coversBurdwan II community development block and Belkash, Bandul I, Rayan I, Rayan II, Saraitikar, Baghar I and Baghar II gram panchayats ofBurdwan I community development block.
Bardhaman Uttar assembly segments is part of No. 39Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bardhaman | |||
| 1951 | Benoy Choudhury | Communist Party of India | |
| 1957 | |||
| 1962 | Radharani Mahtab | Indian National Congress | |
| Bardhaman Uttar | |||
| 1967 | Syed Shahedullah | Communist Party of India | |
| 1969 | Debabrata Datta | ||
| 1971 | |||
| 1972 | Kashinath Ta | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Dwarakanath Ta | Communist Party of India | |
| 1982 | Ram Narayan Goswami | ||
| 1987 | Benoy Choudhuri | ||
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | Nisith Adhikary | ||
| 2001 | |||
| 2006 | Pradip Tah | ||
| 2011 | Aparna Saha | ||
| 2016 | Nisith Kumar Malik | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| 2021 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Nisith Kumar Malik | 111,211 | 45.97 | +17.81 | |
| BJP | Radha Kanta Roy | 93,943 | 38.83 | +640.87 | |
| CPI(M) | Chandi Charan Let | 31,028 | 12.83 | −66.0 | |
| BSP | Ramkrishna Malik | 3,347 | 1.38 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,396 | 0.99 | ||
| Turnout | 241,925 | ||||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Nisith Kumar Malik | 102,886 | 47.43 | ||
| CPI(M) | Aparna Saha | 91,381 | 42.12 | ||
| BJP | Prasanta Saha | 15,275 | 7.04 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Tarun Kanti Majhi | 2,275 | 1.05 | ||
| BSP | Mahadev Malik | 1,715 | 0.79 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,401 | 1.57 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Registered electors | |||||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Aparna Saha | 98,182 | 50.87 | −12.76 | |
| AITC | Nishit Malick | 83,949 | 43.50 | +23.29# | |
| BJP | Sunil Sen | 5,607 | 2.91 | ||
| JD(U) | Dipu Chowdhury | 2,228 | 1.15 | ||
| BSP | Joygopal Das | 1,699 | 0.88 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Tarun Kanti Majhi | 1,342 | 0.7 | ||
| Turnout | 193,007 | 91.57 | |||
| CPI(M)hold | Swing | -32.97# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote percentage, in 2006 for the Bardhaman Uttar constituency.
Pradip Tah ofCPI (M) won the Bardhaman Uttar seat defeating his nearest rival Deb Narayan Guha ofTrinamool Congress in the2006 assembly elections. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001 and 1996, Nisith Adhikary of CPI (M) defeated Lakshmi Narayan Nayek and Raimoni Das (both ofCongress) in the respective years. In 1991 and 1987,Benoy Krishna Chowdhury of CPI (M) defeated Sadhan Ghosh and Santosh Saha Sikdar (both of Congress) in the respective years. In 1982, Goswami Ramnarayan of CPI (M) defeated Lakshmi Narayan Rej of ICS. In 1977, Dwarka Nath Tah of CPI (M) won the seat defeating Sudhir Chandra Dawn of Congress.[8] Kashinath Ta of Congress won the seat in 1972. Debabrata Dutta of CPI (M) won the seat in 1971 and 1969.Syed Shahedullah of CPI (M) won the seat in 1967.[9]
Radharani Mahtab of Congress won the Bardhaman seat in1962. Benoy Choudhuri representingCPI won the seat in1957 and1951.[9]
