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About Balagarh Assembly Constituency

Balagarh is constituency No. 191 of West Bengal legislative assembly. It is situated in Hooghly district and comes under the Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.

According to data with the Election Commission of India, Balagarh has 2,07,853 registered voters. It comprises 1,08,677 male and 99,176 female registered voters.

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) secured a maiden victory in this constituency in the 2011 Assembly elections. Asim Kumar Majhi, the winning TMC candidate, got 96,254 votes. His nearest contender was Bhuban Pramanick of CPI(M) who got 74,671 votes. The winning margin was 21,583, that is, 11.74% of the total valid votes. The voter turnout was 88.48 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Balagarh Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Balagarh assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Vote
2011	191	Balagarh	(SC)	Asim Kumar Majhi	M	AITC	96254	Bhuban Pramanick	M	CPM	74671
2008	By Polls	Balagarh	(SC)	Bhuban Pramanick	M	CPI(M)	60101	Ashim Majhi	M	AITC	51691
2006	188	Balagarh	(SC)	Dibakanta Routh	M	CPI(M)	69627	Asima Patra	F	AITC	51662
2001	188	Balagarh	(SC)	Dibakanta Routh	M	CPM	59376	Lakshmi Parui	F	AITC	53654
1996	188	Balagarh	(SC)	Dibakanta Routh	M	CPM	66182	Biswanath Malik	M	INC	51231
1991	188	Balagarh	(SC)	Abinash Pramanik	M	CPM	55281	Malik Biswanath	M	INC	38302
1987	188	Balagarh	(SC)	Abinash Pramanik	M	CPM	55068	Gopal Krishna Dhar	M	INC	38275
1982	188	Balagarh	(SC)	Abinash Pramanik	M	CPM	44695	Nilmoni Mandal	M	INC	31610
1977	188	Balagarh	(SC)	Abimnash Pramanik	M	CPM	28371	Gauranga Halder	M	INC	8291
1972	177	Balagarh	(SC)	Biren Sarkar	M	INC	26660	Abinash Pramanik	M	CPM	21880
1971	177	Balagarh	(SC)	Abinash Pramanik	M	CPM	22740	Biren Sarkar	M	INC	18778
1969	177	Balagarh	(SC)	Hbinash Pramanik	M	CPM	29264	Harekrishna Das	M	INC	19174
1967	177	Balagarh	(SC)	H . K . Das	M	INC	20183	A . Pramanik	M	CPM	20140
1962	159	Balagarh	GEN	Brindaban Chattopadhyya	M	INC	24823	Bijoy Krishna Modak	M	CPI	15490
1957	83	Balagarh	GEN	Bejoy Krishna Modak	M	CPI	17257	Brindabon Chattopadhyay	M	INC	16298
1951	108	Balagarh	GEN	Brindaban Chattopadhyay	M	INC	8807	Nirmal Kumar Sen	M	KMPP	5801

Last Updated on May 13, 2016