Bagdah (Vidhan Sabha constituency)


Bagdah is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 94 Bagdah is composed of the following: Bagdah community development block, and Gangrapota, Sundarpur and Tengra gram panchayats of Bangaon community development block.
Bagdah is part of No. 14 Bangaon . It was earlier part of Barasat.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2016

In the 2016 election, Dulal Bar, ex-MLA of AITMC, of INC defeated his nearest rival Upendra Nath Biswas of AITMC.
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections Dulal Chandra Bar of Trinamool Congress won the Bagdah seat defeating his nearest rival Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc defeated Dulal Chandra Bar of Trinamool Congress in 2001, Kalidas Adhikari of Congress in 1996, Ram Chandra Bose of Congress in 1991. Apurba Lal Majumdar of Congress defeated Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc in 1987. Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc defeated Apurba Lal Majumdar of Congress in 1982 and Independent in 1977.

1962-1972

Apurba Lal Majumdar of Forward Bloc won in 1972, 1971, 1969 and 1967. Manindra Bhusan Biswas of Congress won in 1962. Prior to that the Bagdah seat was not there.