Balagarh is an assembly constituency in

Hooghly district Hooghly district () is one of the districts of the Indian state of West Bengal. It can alternatively be spelt ''Hoogli'' or ''Hugli''. The district is named after the Hooghly River. The headquarters of the district are at Hooghly-Chinsurah (' ...

in the Indian state of

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. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 191 Balagarh Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following:

Balagarh Balagarh is a village in Balagarh CD Block in Chinsurah subdivision of Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Balagarh is located at . The Balagarh CD Block is mostly part of the Hooghly Flats, one of the th ...

community development block In India, a community development block (CD block) or simply Block is a sub-division of District, administratively earmarked for planning and development. In tribal areas, similar sub-divisions are called tribal development blocks (TD blocks). T ...

and Chandrahati I, Chandrahati II, Digsui and Mogra I gram panchayats of

Chinsurah Mogra Chinsurah Mogra is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Chinsurah subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Overview The Chinsurah Mogra CD Block is part of the Hooghly Flats, one of the ...

community development block. Balagarh Assembly constituency is part of No. 28

Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency) Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Hugli-Chuchura in West Bengal. All seven assembly segments of No. 28 Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency are in Hooghly district. O ...

. It was earlier part of

Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency) Katwa Lok Sabha constituency was one of the 543 Lok Sabha, parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on Katwa in West Bengal, which was abolished following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008. Ove ...

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2021

2016

2011

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2007 by-election.

1977–2007

The Balagarh seat fell vacant because of the death of the sitting MLA, Dibakanta Routh. In 2007 by-elections, Bhuban Pramanick of

CPI(M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats, and one of the six national parties of India. ...

polled 60,101 votes to win the seat. Ashim Majhi of

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

secured 51,691 votes, Bangshi Raut of the BJP secured 8,833 votes, Biswanath Malik of

Congress A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of ...

secured 5,864 votes and Gautam Mandal of the CPI(ML) secured 4,530 votes. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Dibakanta Routh of CPI (M) won the Balagarh (SC) assembly seat in

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, 2001 and 1996, defeating his nearest rivals, Asim Patra of Trinamool Congress, Lakshmi Parui of Trinamool Congress and Biswanath Malik of Congress, in the respective years. Abinash Pramanik of CPI (M) won the seat in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977 defeating his nearest rivals Biswanath Malik, Gopal Krishna Dhar, Nilmoni Mandal and Gauranga Halder, all of Congress, in the respective years.

1951–1972

Biren Sarkar of Congress won in 1972. Abinash Pramanik of CPI(M) won in 1971 and 1969. H.K.Das of Congress won in 1967. Brindaban Chattopdhyay of Congress won in

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. Bejoy Krishna Modak of CPI won in

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. In independent India's first election in 1951 the Balagarh seat was won by Brindaban Chattopdhyay of Congress.

References

{{West Bengal elections Assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Hooghly district Constituencies established in 1951 1951 establishments in West Bengal