Bagdah is an assembly constituency in

North 24 Parganas district North 24 Parganas (abv. 24 PGS (N)) or sometimes North Twenty Four Parganas is a district in southern West Bengal, of eastern India. North 24 Parganas extends in the tropical zone from latitude 22° 11′ 6″ north to 23° 15′ 2″ north and ...

in the

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. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the

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, No. 94 Bagdah Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Bagdah community development block and Gangrapota, Sundarpur and

Tengra Tengra (also known as Tangra) is a village and a gram panchayat in Bangaon CD Block in Bangaon subdivision of North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Villages in Tengra gram panchayat are: Arshingri, Dhoramari, ...

gram panchayats of Bangaon community development block. Bagdah Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 14

Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency) Bangaon is one of the 543 Lok Sabha, parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency is in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal and is centered on Bangaon. 5 of the 7 assembly segments of No.14 Bangaon Lok Sabha constituency are i ...

(SC). It was earlier part of

Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency) Barasat Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 Lok Sabha, parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Barasat in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 17 Barasat Lok Sabha constituency are in North 24 Par ...

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2024 by-election

2021

In the 2021 election, Biswajit Das of

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(BJP) defeated his nearest rival Paritosh Kumar Saha of

All India Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a breakaway faction f ...

(AITC). He later switched parties to AITC.

2016

In the 2016 election, Dulal Bar of

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(INC) defeated his nearest rival Upendra Nath Biswas of AITC.

2011

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections Dulal Chandra Bar of

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won the Bagdah (SC) seat defeating his nearest rival Kamalakshmi Biswas of

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. .# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

2001

1977-2006

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc defeated Dulal Chandra Bar of Trinamool Congress in 2001, Kalidas Adhikari of

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in 1996, and Ram Chandra Bose of Congress in 1991. Apurba Lal Majumdar of Congress defeated Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc in 1987. Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc defeated Apurba Lal Majumdar of Congress in 1982 and Independent in 1977.

1962-1972

Apurba Lal Majumdar of Forward Bloc won in 1972, 1971, 1969 and 1967. Manindra Bhusan Biswas of Congress won in

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. Prior to that the Bagdah seat did not exist.

References

{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of North 24 Parganas district Constituencies established in 1962 1962 establishments in West Bengal