Balurghat Lok Sabha constituency
Balurghat WB-6 | |
---|---|
2019 |
Uttar Dinajpur district. The seat was earlier reserved for scheduled castes but from 2009 it is an open seat.
Assembly segments
As per order of the
assembly segments from 2009:[2]
# | Name | District | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
36 | Itahar | Uttar Dinajpur
|
Mosaraf Hossain | TMC | |
37 | Kushmandi (SC) | Dakshin Dinajpur
|
Rekha Roy | TMC | |
38 | Kumarganj | Toraf Hossain Mandal | TMC | ||
39 | Balurghat | Ashok Lahiri | BJP | ||
40 | Tapan (ST) | Budhrai Tudu | BJP | ||
41 | Gangarampur (SC) | Satyendra Nath Ray | BJP | ||
42 | Harirampur | Biplab Mitra | TMC |
Members of Parliament
Year | Name[3] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1952 | Susil Ranjan Chattopadhyay[a] | Indian National Congress | |
1957 | Selku Mardi | ||
Chapala Kanta Bhattacharjee | |||
1962 | Sarkar Murmu | Communist Party of India | |
1967 | J.N.Pramanick
|
Indian National Congress | |
1971 | Rasendranath Barman
| ||
1977 | Palash Barman | Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
1980 | |||
1984 | |||
1989 | |||
1991 | |||
1996 | Ranen Barman | ||
1998 | |||
1999 | |||
2004 | |||
2009 | Prasanta Kumar Majumdar | ||
2014 | Arpita Ghosh | Trinamool Congress | |
2019 | Sukanta Majumdar | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Election results
General election 2024
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Sukanta Majumdar | ||||
AITC
|
Biplab Mitra | ||||
RSP | Joydeb Siddhanta | ||||
NOTA | None of the above | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
gain from | Swing |
General election 2019
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Sukanta Majumdar | 539,317 | 45.02 | +25.04 | |
AITC
|
Arpita Ghosh | 5,06,024 | 42.24 | +3.71 | |
RSP | Ranen Barman | 72,990 | 6.09 | -22.38 | |
INC | Abdus Sadeq Sarkar | 36,783 | 3.07 | -4.52 | |
JMM | Naran Tudu | 6,387 | 0.53 | ||
Independent
|
Muslima Khatun | 4,950 | 0.41 | ||
Independent
|
Bibhuti Tudu | 4,719 | 0.39 | ||
SHS | Ranjit Kumar Mohanta | 3,300 | 0.28 | ||
BMP | Ranendra Nath Mali | 2,007 | 0.17 | ||
Kamtapur People's Party (United) | Nubash Chandra Barman | 1,763 | 0.15 | ||
SUCI(C) | Biren Mahanta | 1,526 | 0.13 | ||
CPI(ML) Red Star
|
Manas Chakraborty | 1,349 | 0.11 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 13,414 | 1.12 | +0.02 | |
Majority | 33,293 | 2.78 | -7.28 | ||
Turnout | 11,98,237 | 83.69 | |||
Registered electors | 14,31,704 | ||||
AITC
|
Swing | +10.67 |
General election 2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AITC
|
Arpita Ghosh | 409,641 | 38.53 | -5.26 | |
RSP | Bimalendu Sarkar | 3,02,677 | 28.47 | -15.91 | |
BJP | Bishwapriya Roychowdhury | 2,23,014 | 20.98 | +14.16 | |
INC | Om Prakash Mishra | 80,715 | 7.59 | +7.59 | |
AIUDF | Abdus Sadek Sarkar | 10,547 | |||
Independent
|
Shiben Sarkar | 5,647 | |||
JDP | Som Hemram | 4,774 | |||
BSP | Rajen Hansda | 4,581 | |||
RJSP | Sasti Chandra Sarkar | 3,969 | |||
SUCI(C) | Islam Nural | 2,644 | |||
BMP | Ranendranath Mali | 1,687 | |||
NOTA | None of the above | 11,691 | 1.10 | --- | |
Majority | 1,06,964 | 10.06 | -9.47 | ||
Turnout | 10,63,053 | 84.74 | |||
AITC gain from RSP
|
Swing |
General election 2009
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RSP | Prasanta Kumar Majumdar | 388,444 | 44.38 | ||
AITC
|
Biplab Mitra | 383,339 | 43.79 | ||
BJP | Subhash Chandra Barman | 59,741 | 6.82 | ||
BSP | Gobinda Hansda | 13,977 | 1.60 | ||
AUDF
|
Mridul Ghosh | 10,460 | 1.19 | ||
Independent
|
Samu Soren | 8,182 | 0.93 | ||
JMM | Chamru Oram | 5,722 | 0.65 | ||
Independent
|
Prahallad Barman | 5,495 | 0.63 | ||
Majority | 5,005 | ||||
Turnout | 875,360 | 86.65 | |||
RSP hold | Swing |
General elections 1951-2004
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
Year | Winner | Runner-up | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | |
1951 | Susil Ranjan Chattopadhyay | Indian National Congress | Narendra Mohan Sen | Communist Party of India[6] |
1957 | Selku Mardi | Indian National Congress | ||
Chapala Kanta Bhattacharjee | Indian National Congress | Narendra Mohan Sen | Communist Party of India[7] | |
1962 | Sarkar Murmu | Communist Party of India | Selku Mardi | Indian National Congress[8] |
1967 | J.N.Pramanick | Indian National Congress | D.P.Kanti | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9] |
1971 | Rasendranath Barman | Indian National Congress | Pijush Kanti Das | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10] |
1977 | Palas Barman | Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | Rasendra Nath Burman | Indian National Congress[11] |
1980 | Palas Barman | Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | Ranajit Sarkar | Indian National Congress (I)[12]
|
1984 | Palas Barman | Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | Satyendra Nath Ray | Indian National Congress[13] |
1989 | Palas Barman | Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | Satyendra Nath Ray | Indian National Congress[14] |
1991 | Palas Barman | Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | Rasendra Nath Burman | Indian National Congress[15] |
1996 | Ranen Barman | Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | Satyendra Nath Ray | Indian National Congress[16] |
1998 | Ranen Barman | Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | Nani Gopal Roy | Trinamool Congress[17] |
1999 | Ranen Barman | Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | Subhash Chandra Barman | Bharatiya Janata Party[18] |
2004 | Ranen Barman | Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | Manomohan Roy | Bharatiya Janata Party[19] |
Note: In 1951 and 1957 the contest was in the West Dinajpur constituency. From 1962, it was Balurghat constituency.
Notes
- ^ West Dinajpur (1952-62)
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