Balagarh Assembly constituency

Balagarh is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Balagarh
Constituency No. 191 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Balagarh Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Hooghly
Lok Sabha constituency	Hooghly
Established	1951
Total electors	207,702
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Manoranjan Byapari
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 191 Balagarh Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Balagarh community development block and Chandrahati I, Chandrahati II, Digsui and Mogra I gram panchayats of Chinsurah Mogra community development block.^[1]

Balagarh Assembly constituency is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1] It was earlier part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party
1951	Balagarh	Brindaban Chattopadhyay	Indian National Congress[2]
1957		Bejoy Krishna Modak	Communist Party of India[3]
1962		Brindaban Chattopadhyay	Indian National Congress[4]
1967		H.K.Das	Indian National Congress[5]
1969		Abinash Pramanick	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1971		Abinash Pramanick	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1972		Biren Sarkar	Indian National Congress[8]
1977		Abinash Pramanick	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1982		Abinash Pramanick	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1987		Abinash Pramanick	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1991		Abinash Pramanick	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1996		Dibakanta Routh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
2001		Dibakanta Routh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2006		Dibakanta Routh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
2007 By election		Bhuban Pramanick	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[16]
2011		Ashim Kumar Majhi	Trinamool Congress[17]
2016		Ashim Kumar Majhi	Trinamool Congress[18]
2021		Manoranjan Byapari	Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Balagarh

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Manoranjan Byapari	100,364	45.63	1.73
	BJP	Subhash Chandra Halder	94,580	43	32.81
	CPI(M)	Mahamaya Mondal	19,766	8.99	29.62
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,105	1.41	0.49
	SUCI(C)	Sukdeb Biswas	2,142	0.97	New
Majority			5,784	2.63	6.12
Turnout			2,19,957	84.94	0.65
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Balagarh

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ashim Kumar Majhi	96,472	47.36	4.99
	CPI(M)	Panchu Gopal Mondal	78,635	38.61	2
	BJP	Subhash Chandra Halder	20,757	10.19	6.81
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,875	1.9
	CPI(ML)L	Gautam Mondal	1,718	0.84	0.52
Majority			17,837	8.75	2.99
Turnout			2,03,683	85.59	2.87
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Balagarh^[17][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ashim Kumar Majhi	96,254	52.35	8.42
	CPI(M)	Bhuban Pramanick	74,671	40.61	5.26
	BJP	Bangshi Rauth	6,223	3.38
	Independent	Monoj Mistri	3,232
	CPI(ML)L	Gautam Mondal	2,493
	JDP	Sanjib Malik	994
Turnout			1,83,867	88.52
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	8.42

.# 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) polled 60,101 votes to win the seat. Ashim Majhi of Trinamool Congress secured 51,691 votes, Bangshi Raut of the BJP secured 8,833 votes, Biswanath Malik of Congress secured 5,864 votes and Gautam Mandal of the CPI(ML) secured 4,530 votes.^[16]

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 2006,^[15] 2001^[14] and 1996,^[13] 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,^[12] 1987,^[11] 1982^[10] and 1977^[9] defeating his nearest rivals Biswanath Malik, Gopal Krishna Dhar, Nilmoni Mandal and Gauranga Halder, all of Congress, in the respective years.^[20]

1951–1972

Biren Sarkar of Congress won in 1972.^[8] Abinash Pramanik of CPI(M) won in 1971^[7] and 1969.^[6] H.K.Das of Congress won in 1967.^[5] Brindaban Chattopdhyay of Congress won in 1962.^[4] Bejoy Krishna Modak of CPI won in 1957.^[3] In independent India's first election in 1951^[2] the Balagarh seat was won by Brindaban Chattopdhyay of Congress.