Belgachia East Assembly constituency was aLegislative Assembly constituency ofKolkata district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.

As a consequence of the orders of theDelimitation Commission, Belgachia East Assembly constituency ceased to exist from 2011.^[1]

It was part ofDum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2]

• ^ by-election

In the by-election held in 2009 as a result of the death of the sitting MLASubhas Chakraborty,Sujit Bose ofTrinamool Congress won the 139 Belgachia East seat defeating Ramala Chakrabarty ofCPI(M).^[3][4] Subhas Chakrabarty of CPI(M) won the Belgachia East seat seven times in a row from 1977 to 2006. In2006^[5] and 2001,^[6] he defeated Sujit Bose of Trinamool Congress. In 1996^[7] he defeatedArunava Ghosh ofCongress. In 1991^[8] and 1987,^[9] he defeated Kumares Basu of Congress. In 1982^[10] he defeated Shyamal Bhattacharjee of Congress. In 1977, he defeated Samir Chatterjee ofJanata Party.^[11][12]

During the period there was only one seat for Belgachia. Ganapati Sur of Congress defeated Lakshmi Charan Sen of CPI(M) in 1972.^[13] Lakshmi Charan Sen of CPI(M) defeated Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1971,^[14] Suchit Kumar Sur of Congress in 1969^[15] and Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1967.^[16]Ganesh Ghosh ofCPI won the seat defeating Ganapati Sur of Congress in1962,^[17] Nandalal Banerjee of Congress in1957^[18] and inindependent India's first election in 1951 defeating Sudhir Kumar De of Congress.^[19]

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