Goalpokhar Assembly constituency

Goalpokhar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Uttar Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Goalpokhar
Constituency No. 30 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Goalpokhar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Uttar Dinajpur
Lok Sabha constituency	Raiganj
Established	1957
Total electors	224,633
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Md. Ghulam Rabbani
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 30 Goalpokhar Assembly constituency covers Goalpokhar I community development block.^[1]

Goalpokhar Assembly constituency is part of No. 5 Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	MLA	Party
Goalpokhar constituency
1957	Muzaffar Hussain		Indian National Congress
1962	Mohammad Hayat Ali		Praja Socialist Party
1967	Mohammad Salimuddin
1969
1971	Sheikh Sharafat Hossain		Indian National Congress
1972
1977	Md. Ramjan Ali		All India Forward Bloc
1982
1987
1991
1996	Hafiz Alam Sairani
2001
2006	Deepa Dasmunsi		Indian National Congress
2009	Ali Imran Ramz		All India Forward Bloc
2011	Md. Ghulam Rabbani		Indian National Congress
2016			Trinamool Congress
2021

bolded year = bye

Election results

2021 Election

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Goalpokhar constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Md. Ghulam Rabbani	105,649	65.40	+21.49
	BJP	Md. Ghulam Sarwar	32,125	19.89	+8.40
	INC	Masood Md. Naseem Ahsen	19,391	12.00	−26.67
	NOTA	None of the above	2,016	1.25	+0.20
	BSP	Sunil Biswas	865	0.54	−0.68
	Independent	Shambhu Lal Roy	694	0.43
	Independent	Raghu Nath Singha	405	0.25	−0.21
	SUCI(C)	Nabin Chandra Singha	380	0.24	−1.00
Turnout			161,535	74.90	+0.59
	AITC hold		Swing

2016 Election

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Goalpokhar constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Md. Ghulam Rabbani	64,869	43.91
	INC	Afjal Hosen	57,121	38.67	−10.38
	BJP	Debashis Sarkar	16,966	11.49	+5.92
	SP	Julia Yeasmin	2,887	1.95
	SUCI(C)	Dulal Rajbanshi	1,827	1.24	−0.57
	BSP	Mansingha Hansda	1,805	1.22	−2.45
	NOTA	None of the above	1,557	1.05
	Independent	Raghu Nath Singha	685	0.46
Turnout			147,717	74.31	+0.85
	AITC gain from INC		Swing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Md. Ghulam Rabbani of Congress defeated his nearest rival Saifur Rahman of AIFB.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Goalpokhar constituency^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Md. Ghulam Rabbani	61,313	49.05	−2.02#
	AIFB	Saifur Rahman	47,900	38.32	−4.89#
	BJP	Shaukat Ali	6,956	5.57
	BSP	Kamaruzzama	4,592	3.67
	SUCI(C)	Dulal Rajbanshi	2,264	1.81
	Independent	Niva Sarkar (Das)	1,970
Turnout			124,995	73.46
	INC gain from AIFB		Swing	2.87#

.# Swing calculated on Congress and Forward Bloc vote percentages in 2006 and 2011, as adequate data not available for intervening bye-election.

2009 bye election

The bypoll to the Goalpokhar seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Congress Deepa Dasmunsi resigned. For Elected As MP of Raiganj. As of Results, Ali Imran Ramz of Forward Bloc Defeated Md. Ghulam Rabbani of Congress By almost a Margin of 15,000 Votes.

West Bengal state assembly bye election, 2009: Goalpokhar constituency^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Ali Imran Ramz	72,017	76.74	+12.98
	INC	Md. Ghulam Rabbani	57,299	23.26	−7.47
Turnout			94710	44.88
	AIFB gain from INC		Swing

1977-2009

In the by election in 2009 caused by the election of the sitting MLA, Deepa Dasmunshi of Congress to the Lok Sabha from Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency), the Goalpokhar assembly seat was won by Ali Imran Ramz of Forward Bloc.^[5][6] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Deepa Dasmunshi of Congress defeated Hafiz Alam Sairani of Forward Bloc in the 2006 state assembly elections.^[7] Hafiz Alam Sairani of Forward Bloc defeated Deepa Dasmunshi of Congress in 2001,^[8] and Md Mustafa of Congress in 1996.^[9] Md Ramjan Ali of Forward Bloc defeated Nizamuddin Ahamed of Congress in 1991^[10] and 1987,^[11] Puranmal Chand Maheswari of BJP/ Independent, in 1982^[12] and 1977.^[13][14]

1957–1972

Sheikh Sharafat Hussain of Congress won in 1972^[15] and 1971.^[16] Mohamad Salimuddin of PSP won 1969^[17] and 1967.^[18] Mohammad Hayat Ali of PSP won in 1962.^[19] Muzzafar Hussain of Congress won in 1957.^[20] Prior to that Goalpokhar constituency was not there.