Balagarh Assembly constituency
Balagarh Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.
Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 191 Balagarh Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Balagarh community development block and Chandrahati I, Chandrahati II, Digsui and Mogra I gram panchayats of Chinsurah Mogra community development block.Balagarh Assembly constituency is part of No. 28 Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency. It was earlier part of Katwa Lok Sabha constituency.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
- denotes ^ by-election
Election results
2026
2021
2016
2011
1977–2007
The Balagarh seat fell vacant because of the death of the sitting MLA, Dibakanta Routh. In 2007 by-elections, Bhuban Pramanick of CPI polled 60,101 votes to win the seat. Ashim Majhi of Trinamool Congress secured 51,691 votes, Bangshi Raut of the BJP secured 8,833 votes, Biswanath Malik of Indian National Congress secured 5,864 votes and Gautam Mandal of the CPI secured 4,530 votes.Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Dibakanta Routh of CPI won the Balagarh assembly seat in 2006, 2001 and 1996, defeating his nearest rivals, Asim Patra of Trinamool Congress, Lakshmi Parui of Trinamool Congress and Biswanath Malik of Congress, in the respective years. Abinash Pramanik of CPI won the seat in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977 defeating his nearest rivals Biswanath Malik, Gopal Krishna Dhar, Nilmoni Mandal and Gauranga Halder, all of Congress, in the respective years.