The legislative assembly constituency of Raiganj is located in the Uttar Dinajpur district of the state. INC's Mohit Sengupta currently represents Raiganj in the West Bengal state legislative assembly. Sengupta won this seat in the 2011 assembly elections with 62,864 votes, defeating Kiranmay Nanda of the Samajwadi Party (SP) by a margin of 5,409 votes. In 2014, the Election Commission of India enlisted a total of 1,65,806 people of the Raiganj assembly constituency as eligible voters; 85,854 men and 79,941 women make the electorate of Raiganj.

As per the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India - 2008, the Raiganj legislative assembly segment comprises the areas of Raiganj Municipal Corporation; and Kamalabati-I, Kamalabati-II, Bahin, Gouri and Maraikura gram panchayats of the Raiganj community block. The constituency was declared open for the candidates of general category after the Delimitation Commission of India recommended so in 2008. The constituency was reserved for the candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) before 2008.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Raiganj Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Vote
2011	35	Raiganj	GEN	Mohit Sengupta	M	INC	62864	Kiranmay Nanda	M	SP	57455
2006	31	Raiganj	(SC)	Chitta Ranjan Ray	M	INC	77789	Dilip Kumar Das	M	NCP	62029
2001	31	Raiganj	(SC)	Chittaranjan Roy	M	INC	66555	Harinarayan Roy	M	CPM	56870
1996	31	Raiganj	(SC)	Dilip Kumar Das	M	INC	56203	Khagendra Nath Sinha	M	CPM	53913
1991	31	Raiganj	(SC)	Khagendra Nath Sinha	M	CPM	44399	Dilip Das	M	INC	39337
1987	31	Raiganj	(SC)	Khagendra Nath Sinha	M	CPM	51409	Barman Dipendra	M	INC	39502
1982	31	Raiganj	(SC)	Dipendra Barman	M	INC	45227	Khagendra Nath Sinha	M	CPM	43469
1977	31	Raiganj	(SC)	Khagendra Nath Sinha	M	CPM	19264	Mehendranath Barman	M	JNP	13432
1972	28	Raiganj	GEN	Dutta Ramendranath	M	INC	28727	Manash Roy	M	CPM	13610
1971	28	Raiganj	GEN	Ramendra Nath Dutta	M	INC	23924	Manash Roy	M	CPM	21917
1969	28	Raiganj	GEN	Manash Roy	M	CPM	19118	Mohit Ranjan Sikdar	M	INC	19074
1967	28	Raiganj	GEN	N.N.Kundu	M	PSP	16318	R.N.Dutt	M	INC	12173
1962	25	Raiganj	GEN	Ramendra Nath Dutta	M	INC	12833	Manash Roy	M	CPI	8055
1957	18	Raiganj	(SC)	Syama Prasad Barman (Sc)	M	INC	20966	Nishitha Nath Kundu (Sc)	M	PSP	19263
1957	18	Raiganj	(SC)	Hazi Badiruddin Ahmmad	M	INC	19890	Pijush Kanti Das	M	CPI	12830
1951	15	Raiganj	GEN	Shyama Prasad Barman	M	INC	26120	Sukumar Guha	M	FBL(RG)	12194
1951	15	Raiganj	GEN	Gulam Hamidur Rahman	M	INC	25085	Anadi Kumar Ray	M	FBL(RG)	10963

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Last Updated on May 13, 2016