Bagdah Assembly constituency

This article is about the assembly constituency in West Bengal, India. For its namesake village, see Bagdah, North 24 Parganas. For its namesake community development block, see Bagdah (community development block).

Bagdah is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Bagdah
Constituency No. 94 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Bagdah Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Bangaon
Established	1962
Total electors	277,464
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Madhuparna Thakur
Party	All India Trinamool Congress

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 94 Bagdah Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Bagdah community development block and Gangrapota, Sundarpur and Tengra gram panchayats of Bangaon community development block.^[1]

Bagdah Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 14 Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1] It was earlier part of Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party
1962	Manindra Bhusan Biswas[3]	Indian National Congress
1967	Apurba Lal Majumdar[4][5][6][7][8]	All India Forward Bloc
1969
1971
1972
1977	Kamalakshmi Biswas[9][10]
1982
1987	Apurba Lal Majumdar	Indian National Congress[11]
1991	Kamalakshmi Biswas[12]	All India Forward Block
1996[13]
2001[14]
2006	Dulal Bar	All India Trinamool Congress
2011	Upendranath Biswas[15]
2016	Dulal Bar	Indian National Congress
2021	Biswajit Das	All India Trinamool Congress[16][17]
2024	Madhuparna Thakur	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2024 by-election

2024 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-election: Bagdah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Madhuparna Thakur	107,706	55.04	10.1
	BJP	Binay Kumar Biswas	74,251	37.95	11.46
	AIFB	Gouradipta Biswas	8,189	4.89	New
	INC	Ashoke Kumar Haldar	1,297	0.66	3.11
	NOTA	None of the above	667	0.34	0.13
Majority			33,455	17.09
Turnout			231,240
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing

2021

In the 2021 election, Biswajit Das of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defeated his nearest rival Paritosh Kumar Saha of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). He later switched parties to AITC.^[17]

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Bagdah (SC) constituency^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Biswajit Das	108,111	49.41	+45.03
	AITC	Paritosh Kumar Saha	98,319	44.94	+1.26
	INC	Prabir Kirtonia (Bapi)	8,250	3.77	−45.87
	BSP	Santosh Biswas	2,240	1.02	+0.27
	Independent	Pradip Kumar Biswas	851	0.39
	NOTA	None of the above	1,020	0.47
Turnout			218,791	79.06	+0.57
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Dulal Bar of Indian National Congress (INC) defeated his nearest rival Upendra Nath Biswas of AITC.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Bagdah (SC) constituency^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dulal Bar	102,026	49.64
	AITC	Upendranath Biswas	89,790	43.68
	BSP	Bikash Biswas	1,532	0.75
	BJP	Biva Majumder	8,987	4.38
	NOTA	None of the above	1,324	0.64
	Independent	Harish Chandra Mondal	792	0.39
	Guru Chand Mukti Morcha	Hirak Golder	581	0.28
	RPI(A)	Gautam Malo	498	0.24
Turnout			205,546	79.63
	INC gain from AITC		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Bagdah (SC) constituency[15] Party Candidate Votes % ±% AITC Upendranath Biswas 91,821 52.91 +1.57# AIFB Mrinalkanti Sikdar 70,865 40.84 −9.93 BSP Chandan Mallick 4,414 2.54 BJP Arabinda Biswas 4,306 2.48 Independent Pranita Mandal 1,212 Nirjatita Samaj Biplabi Party Dhirendra Nath Mandal 913 AITC hold Swing Turnout 173,531 85.57 11.40#

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

2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections^[8] Dulal Chandra Bar of Trinamool Congress won the Bagdah (SC) seat defeating his nearest rival Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Bagdah (SC) Party Candidate Votes % ±% AITC Dulal Chandra Bar 79896 AIFB Kamalakshi Biswas 74991 BSP Chandan Mallick 3121 INC Kartick Bain 2531 Turnout 160539 AITC gain from AIFB Swing {{{swing}}}

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

2001

West Bengal assembly elections, 2001 Party Candidate Votes % ±% AIFB Kamalakshi Biswas 61936 AITC Dulal Chandra Bar 61699 BJP Arabinda Biswas 8288 BSP Chandan Mallick 1715 Turnout 135666 AIFB hold Swing {{{swing}}}

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,^[14] Kalidas Adhikari of Congress in 1996,^[13] and Ram Chandra Bose of Congress in 1991.^[12] Apurba Lal Majumdar of Congress defeated Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc in 1987.^[11] Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc defeated Apurba Lal Majumdar of Congress in 1982^[10] and Independent in 1977.^[9][19]

1962-1972

Apurba Lal Majumdar of Forward Bloc won in 1972,^[7] 1971,^[6] 1969^[5] and 1967.^[4] Manindra Bhusan Biswas of Congress won in 1962.^[3] Prior to that the Bagdah seat did not exist.