Bagdah Assembly constituency

This article is about the assembly constituency in West Bengal, India. For its namesake village, see Bagdah, North 24 Parganas. For its namesake community development block, see Bagdah (community development block).

Bagdah
Constituency No. 94 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Bangaon
Established	1962
Total electors	277,464
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Madhuparna Thakur
Party	All India Trinamool Congress

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

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 94 Bagdah Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Bagdah community development block and Gangrapota, Sundarpur and Tengra gram panchayats of Bangaon community development block.

Bagdah Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 14 Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC). It was earlier part of Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1962	Manindra Bhusan Biswas		Indian National Congress
1967	Apurba Lal Majumdar		All India Forward Bloc
1969
1971
1972
1977	Kamalakshi Biswas
1982
1987	Apurba Lal Majumdar		Indian National Congress
1991	Kamalakshi Biswas		All India Forward Bloc
1996
2001
2006	Dulal Bar		All India Trinamool Congress
2011	Upendranath Biswas
2016	Dulal Bar		Indian National Congress
2021	Biswajit Das		All India Trinamool Congress
2024^	Madhuparna Thakur

• ^ by-election

Election results

2024 by-election

2024 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-election: Bagdah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Madhuparna Thakur	107,706	55.04	Increase10.1
	BJP	Binay Kumar Biswas	74,251	37.95	Decrease11.46
	AIFB	Gouradipta Biswas	8,189	4.89	New
	INC	Ashoke Kumar Haldar	1,297	0.66	Decrease3.11
	NOTA	None of the above	667	0.34	Decrease0.13
Majority			33,455	17.09
Turnout			231,240
	AITC gain from BJP		Swing

2021

In the 2021 election, Biswajit Das of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defeated his nearest rival Paritosh Kumar Saha of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). He later switched parties to AITC.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Bagdah (SC) constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Biswajit Das	108,111	49.41	+45.03
	AITC	Paritosh Kumar Saha	98,319	44.94	+1.26
	INC	Prabir Kirtonia (Bapi)	8,250	3.77	−45.87
	BSP	Santosh Biswas	2,240	1.02	+0.27
	Independent	Pradip Kumar Biswas	851	0.39
	NOTA	None of the above	1,020	0.47
Turnout			218,791	79.06	+0.57
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Dulal Bar of Indian National Congress (INC) defeated his nearest rival Upendra Nath Biswas of AITC.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Bagdah (SC) constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dulal Bar	102,026	49.64
	AITC	Upendranath Biswas	89,790	43.68
	BSP	Bikash Biswas	1,532	0.75
	BJP	Biva Majumder	8,987	4.38
	NOTA	None of the above	1,324	0.64
	Independent	Harish Chandra Mondal	792	0.39
	Guru Chand Mukti Morcha	Hirak Golder	581	0.28
	RPI(A)	Gautam Malo	498	0.24
Turnout			205,546	79.63
	INC gain from AITC		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Bagdah (SC) constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Upendranath Biswas	91,821	52.91	+1.57#
	AIFB	Mrinalkanti Sikdar	70,865	40.84	−9.93
	BSP	Chandan Mallick	4,414	2.54
	BJP	Arabinda Biswas	4,306	2.48
	Independent	Pranita Mandal	1,212
	Nirjatita Samaj Biplabi Party	Dhirendra Nath Mandal	913
	AITC hold		Swing
Turnout			173,531	85.57	11.40#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections Dulal Chandra Bar of Trinamool Congress won the Bagdah (SC) seat defeating his nearest rival Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Bagdah (SC)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dulal Chandra Bar	79896
	AIFB	Kamalakshi Biswas	74991
	BSP	Chandan Mallick	3121
	INC	Kartick Bain	2531
Turnout			160539
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing	{{{swing}}}

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

2001

West Bengal assembly elections, 2001

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Kamalakshi Biswas	61936
	AITC	Dulal Chandra Bar	61699
	BJP	Arabinda Biswas	8288
	BSP	Chandan Mallick	1715
Turnout			135666
	AIFB hold		Swing	{{{swing}}}

1977-2006

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, and Ram Chandra Bose of Congress in 1991. Apurba Lal Majumdar of Congress defeated Kamalakshi 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 did not exist.