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About Balurghat Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) 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
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

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Last Updated on May 13, 2016