Galsi Assembly constituency

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

Galsi
Constituency No. 274 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Galsi Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Lok Sabha constituency	Bardhaman–Durgapur
Established	1951
Total electors	204,466
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Nepal Ghorui
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 274 Galsi (SC) assembly constituency covers Galsi I community development block, Galsi and Kurkuba gram panchayats of Galsi II CD Block and Kanksa, Trilokchandrapur, Bankati and Bidbehar gram panchayats of Kanksa CD Block.^[1]

Galsi assembly segment was earlier part of Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Galsi	Jadabendra Nath Panja and Mahitosh Saha		Indian National Congress[2]
1957[3]		Phakir Chandra Roy		Independent
		Pramatha Nath Dhibar		Marxist Forward Bloc
1962		Kanai Lal Das		Indian National Congress[4]
1967		Phakir Chandra Roy		Independent[5]
1969		Phakir Chandra Roy[6]
1971		Anil Roy		Communist Party of India[7]
1972		Aswini Roy		Communist Party of India[8]
1977		Debranjan Sen		Forward Bloc[9]
1982		Debranjan Sen[10]
1987		Debranjan Sen[11]
1991		Dilip Mazumdar		Communist Party of India[12]
1996		Idrish Mondal		Forward Bloc[13]
2001		Mehbub Mondal[14]
2006		Mehbub Mondal[15][16]
2011		Sunil Kumar Mondal[17]
2014 By election		Gour Chandra Mondal		All India Trinamool Congress
2016		Alok Kumar Majhi[18]
2021		Nepal Ghorui[19]

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Galsi^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nepal Ghorui	109,504	49.21	+15.02
	BJP	Bikash Biswas	90,242	40.55	+321.00
	AIFB	Nandalal Pondit	29,063	15.08	−64.80
	BSP	Sandip Sarkar	3,518	1.58
	NOTA	None of the above	2254	1.01
Turnout			222,538
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Galsi^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Alok Kumar Majhi	95,203		−
	AIFB	Nandalal Podit	84,432
	BJP	Sundar Paswan	21,435
	NOTA	None of the above	3, 927
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2014 By election

In the Galsi seat, the by-election was held due to the sitting MLA, Sunil Kumar Mandal of the Forward Bloc, who switched to Trinamool Congress. This Election was held on 30 April 2014.^[20]

West Bengal assembly by-elections, 2014: Galsi (SC) constituency^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Gour Chandra Mondal	77,623
	AIFB	Nandalal Pondit	68,770
	BJP	Sundar Paswan	37,620
	INC	Swapan Malik	34,817
Turnout			197,845
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Galsi^[22][23][24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Sunil Kumar Mandal	92,126	50.59	−17.09
	AITC	Joydeb Saha	81,272	44.63
	BJP	Tapan Bagdi	8,714	4.78
Turnout			182,112	89.02
	AIFB hold		Swing	#

.# Trinamool Congress did not contest this seat in 2006.

1977-2006

In 2006 and 2001 assembly elections, Mehbub Mondal of Forward Bloc won the Galsi assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Anil Kumar Saha of BJP and Ajijul Haque Mondal of Congress respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 1996 and 1991, Idrish Mondal of Forward Block defeated Syed Imdad Ali and Champak (both of Congress) respectively. In 1987, 1982 and 1977, Deb Ranjan Sen of Forward Block defeated Ajit Bandopadhyay, Himanshu Baran Roy and Nirmalendu Koner (all of Congress) respectively.^[25]

1952-1972

Aswini Roy of CPI won the seat in 1972. Anil Roy of CPI(M) won it in 1971. Phakir Chandra Roy (Independent) won it in 1969 and 1967. Kanai Lal Das of Congress won it in 1962. In 1957 and 1952, Galsi was a constituency with two seats. In 1957, Phakir Chandra Roy (Independent) and Pramathanath Dhibar of Forward Bloc won the seats. In independent India's first election in 1951, Mahitosh Saha and Jadabendra Nath Panja, both of Congress, won the seats.^[26]