Bardhaman Uttar Assembly constituency

For other uses, see Bardhaman (disambiguation).

Bardhaman Uttar is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Bardhaman Uttar
Constituency No. 266 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Bardhaman Uttar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Bardhaman–Durgapur
Established	1951
Total electors	210,773
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Nisith Kumar Malik
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per order of the Delimitation Commission, No. 266 Bardhaman Uttar Assembly constituency (SC) covers Burdwan II community development block and Belkash, Bandul I, Rayan I, Rayan II, Saraitikar, Baghar I and Baghar II gram panchayats of Burdwan I community development block.

Bardhaman Uttar assembly segments is part of No. 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
Bardhaman
1951	Benoy Choudhury		Communist Party of India
1957
1962	Radharani Mahtab		Indian National Congress
Bardhaman Uttar
1967	Syed Shahedullah		Communist Party of India
1969	Debabrata Datta
1971
1972	Kashinath Ta		Indian National Congress
1977	Dwarakanath Ta		Communist Party of India
1982	Ram Narayan Goswami
1987	Benoy Choudhuri
1991
1996	Nisith Adhikary
2001
2006	Pradip Tah
2011	Aparna Saha
2016	Nisith Kumar Malik		All India Trinamool Congress
2021

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Bardhaman Uttar^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nisith Kumar Malik	111,211	45.97	+17.81
	BJP	Radha Kanta Roy	93,943	38.83	+640.87
	CPI(M)	Chandi Charan Let	31,028	12.83	−66.0
	BSP	Ramkrishna Malik	3,347	1.38
	NOTA	None of the above	2,396	0.99
Turnout			241,925
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bardhaman Uttar^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nisith Kumar Malik	102,886	47.43
	CPI(M)	Aparna Saha	91,381	42.12
	BJP	Prasanta Saha	15,275	7.04
	CPI(ML)L	Tarun Kanti Majhi	2,275	1.05
	BSP	Mahadev Malik	1,715	0.79
	NOTA	None of the above	3,401	1.57
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Bardhaman Uttar^[5][6][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Aparna Saha	98,182	50.87	−12.76
	AITC	Nishit Malick	83,949	43.50	+23.29#
	BJP	Sunil Sen	5,607	2.91
	JD(U)	Dipu Chowdhury	2,228	1.15
	BSP	Joygopal Das	1,699	0.88
	CPI(ML)L	Tarun Kanti Majhi	1,342	0.7
Turnout			193,007	91.57
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-32.97#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote percentage, in 2006 for the Bardhaman Uttar constituency.

1967-2006

Pradip Tah of CPI (M) won the Bardhaman Uttar seat defeating his nearest rival Deb Narayan Guha of Trinamool Congress in the 2006 assembly elections. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001 and 1996, Nisith Adhikary of CPI (M) defeated Lakshmi Narayan Nayek and Raimoni Das (both of Congress) in the respective years. In 1991 and 1987, Benoy Krishna Chowdhury of CPI (M) defeated Sadhan Ghosh and Santosh Saha Sikdar (both of Congress) in the respective years. In 1982, Goswami Ramnarayan of CPI (M) defeated Lakshmi Narayan Rej of ICS. In 1977, Dwarka Nath Tah of CPI (M) won the seat defeating Sudhir Chandra Dawn of Congress.^[8] Kashinath Ta of Congress won the seat in 1972. Debabrata Dutta of CPI (M) won the seat in 1971 and 1969. Syed Shahedullah of CPI (M) won the seat in 1967.^[9]

1951-1962

Radharani Mahtab of Congress won the Bardhaman seat in 1962. Benoy Choudhuri representing CPI won the seat in 1957 and 1951.^[9]