About Balurghat Assembly Constituency
Balurghat is a Lok Sabha (parliamentary) as well as a legislative assembly constituency in the state of West Bengal. It is located
in the Dakshin Dinajpur district of the state. There are a total of 1,57,881 people in the Balurghat assembly segment holding the right to vote, out of whom 80,542 are men and 77,329 are women. Chakraborty Shankar of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) currently represents Balurghat in the state legislative assembly of West Bengal. He won 67,495 votes in the 2011 assembly elections and defeated RSP's Biswanath Choudhury by a margin of 18,291 votes.
The Balurghat assembly constituency comprises Municipal Corporation of Balurghat; Chingishpur, Vatpara and Amritakhand gram panchayats of Balurghat community development block; and Hilli community development block as recommended by the Delimitation Commission of India in 2008.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Balurghat Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Balurghat assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Vote |
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| 2011 | 39 | Balurghat | GEN | Chakraborty Shankar | M | AITC | 67495 | Biswanath Choudhury | M | RSP | 49204 |
| 2006 | 38 | Balurghat | GEN | Biswanath Choudhury | M | RSP | 57150 | Choudhuri Debasree | F | BJP | 48895 |
| 2001 | 38 | Balurghat | GEN | Choudhury Biswanath | M | RSP | 53945 | Shankar Chakravorti | M | AITC | 51222 |
| 1996 | 38 | Balurghat | GEN | Choudhury Biswanath | M | RSP | 55183 | Khan Biplab | M | INC | 46562 |
| 1991 | 38 | Balurghat | GEN | Biswanath Chowdhury | M | RSP | 46597 | Khan Biplab | M | INC | 38884 |
| 1987 | 38 | Balurghat | GEN | Biswanath Choudhury | M | RSP | 48066 | Madhab Chandra Roy | M | INC | 37664 |
| 1982 | 38 | Balurghat | GEN | Biswanath Choudhury | M | RSP | 41197 | Ashish Roy | M | ICS | 32324 |
| 1977 | 38 | Balurghat | GEN | Biswanath Choudhauri | M | RSP | 29292 | Jyotiswar Sarkar | M | INC | 13203 |
| 1972 | 34 | Balurghat | GEN | Bireswar Roy | M | INC | 28894 | Basu Mukul | M | RSP | 23526 |
| 1971 | 34 | Balurghat | GEN | Bireswar Roy | M | INC | 25109 | Jatin Chakraborty | M | RSP | 22941 |
| 1969 | 34 | Balurghat | GEN | Mukal Basu | M | RSP | 27389 | Ranajit Basu | M | INC | 17478 |
| 1967 | 34 | Balurghat | GEN | M.Basu | M | IND | 23583 | G.L.Ghose | M | INC | 19322 |
| 1962 | 29 | Balurghat | GEN | Susil Ranjan Chattopadhyay | M | INC | 17277 | Dhirendra Nath Banerjee | M | RSP | 15262 |
| 1957 | 16 | Balurghat | (ST) | Dhirendra Nath Banerjee | M | IND | 24387 | Saroj Ranjan Chatterjee | M | INC | 21314 |
| 1957 | 16 | Balurghat | (ST) | Mardi Hakai (St) | M | INC | 22296 | Nathaniel Murmu (St) | M | IND | 20434 |
| 1951 | 18 | Balurghat | GEN | Saroj Ranjan Chattopadhyaya | M | INC | 26075 | Dhirendra Nath Bandopadhyay | M | RSP | 10842 |
| 1951 | 18 | Balurghat | GEN | Lakshman Chandra Hasda | M | INC | 23386 | Cornelius Murmu | M | RSP | 9697 |
Last Updated on May 27, 2020