Raiganj Assembly constituency

Raiganj Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Uttar Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Raiganj
Constituency No. 35 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Raiganj Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Uttar Dinajpur
LS constituency	Raiganj
Established	1951
Total electors	198,780
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Krishna Kalyani
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2024

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 35 Raiganj Assembly constituency covers Raiganj municipality, and Bahin, Maraikup, Gouri, Kamalabati I and Kamalabati II gram panchayats of Raiganj community development block.^[1]

Raiganj Assembly constituency is part of No. 5 Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	MLA	Party
Raiganj constituency
1951	Shyama Prasad Barman		Indian National Congress
	Ghulam Hamidur Rahman
1957	Haji Badruddin Ahmed
	Shyama Prasad Barman
1962	Ramendranath Dutta
1967	NN Kundu		Praja Socialist Party
1969	Manash Roy		Communist Party of India
1971	Ramendranath Dutta		Indian National Congress
1972
1977	Khagendra Nath Sinha		Communist Party of India
1982	Dipendra Barman		Indian National Congress
1987	Khagendra Nath Sinha		Communist Party of India
1991
1996	Dilip Kumar Das		Indian National Congress
2001	Chittaranjan Roy
2006
2011	Mohit Sengupta
2016
2021	Krishna Kalyani		Bharatiya Janata Party
2024^			Trinamool Congress

• ^ denotes by-election

Election results

2024 by-election

2024 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-election: Raiganj

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Krishna Kalyani	86,479	57.97	21.39
	BJP	Manas Kumar Ghosh	36,402	24.4	25.04
	INC	Mohit Sengupta	23,116	15.5	4.84
	NOTA	None of the above	1,710	1.15	0.38
Majority			50,077	33.57	20.71
Turnout			1,49,183	71.99
	AITC gain from BJP		Swing

2024 General elections

2024 Indian General Election: Rajganj Assembly constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±% (2019)	±% (2021)
	BJP	Kartick Paul	93,402	58.42	2.72	8.98
	AITC	Krishna Kalyani	46,663	29.19	1.49	7.39
	INC	Ali Imran Ramz	14,477	9.06	2.56	1.43
	NOTA	None of the Above	327	0.2	0.2	1.06
	Others		4,982	3.12	6.98	0.64
Majority			46,739
Turnout			1,59,851
BJP hold			Swing

2021

In the 2021 election, Krishna Kalyani of BJP defeated his nearest rival Kanaia Lal Agarwal of AITC.

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Raiganj

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Krishna Kalyani	79,775	49.44	+40.75
	AITC	Kanaia Lal Agarwal	59,027	36.58	+11.95
	INC	Mohit Sengupta	17,198	10.66	−48.32
	NOTA	None of the above	2,468	1.53	+0.20
	Independent	Raju Paul	1,361	0.84
Majority
Turnout			1,61,347
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Mohit Sengupta of INC defeated his nearest rival Purnendu Dey of AITC.

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Raiganj

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Mohit Sengupta	87,983	58.98	+9.29
	AITC	Purnendu Dey (Bablu)	36,736	24.63
	BJP	Pradip Sarkar	12,961	8.69	+6.28
	SP	Arun Chandra Dey	6,154	4.13	−41.29
	NOTA	None of the above	1,985	1.33
Majority
Turnout			1,49,168	83.39	−1.34
	INC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Mohit Sengupta of Congress defeated his nearest rival Kiranmoy Nanda of Samajwadi Party.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Raiganj constituency^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Mohit Sengupta	62,864	49.69	+2.99
	SP	Kiranmoy Nanda	57,455	45.42
	BJP	Sachindra Nath Das	3,053	2.41
	Independent	Manjit Mandal	1,064
	SUCI	Sanatan Dutta	750
	BSP	Swapan Kumar Das	734
	IPFB	Anindya Ganguly	586
Turnout			126,506	84.73
	INC hold		Swing

2006

In the 2006 election, Chittaranjan Roy of Indian National Congress defeated his nearest rival Dilip Kumar Das of Nationalist Congress Party.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Raiganj constituency^[2][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Chittaranjan Roy	77,789	49.69	+2.99
	NCP	Dilip Kumar Das	62,029	45.42
	BJP	Nimai Kabiraj	10,660	2.41
	Independent	Subhas Barman	3813
	Independent	Naresh Chandra Barman	2909
	CPI(ML)L	Ajit Kumar Das	2772
	Independent	Bhajagobinda Barman	1158
	Independent	Binoy Kumar Mallick	1713
	BSP	Nagendra Nath Sarkar	1404
	SP	Haradeb Kumar Barman	1094
Turnout			126,506	84.73
	INC hold		Swing

.# Swing calculated on CPIM+NCP vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977–2006

In the 2006^[5] and 2001 state assembly elections^[6] Chittaranjan Roy of Congress won the 35 Raiganj Assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Dilip Kumar Das of NCP and Harinarayan Roy of CPI(M) respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Dilip Kumar Das of Congress defeated Khagendra Nath Sinha of CPI(M) in 1996.^[7] Khagendra Nath Sinha of CPI(M) defeated Dilip Das of Congress in 1991^[8] and Dipendra Barman of Congress in 1987.^[9] Dipendra Barman of Congress defeated Khagendra Nath Sinha of CPI(M) in 1982.^[10] Khagendra Nath Sinha of CPI(M) defeated Mahendranath Barman of Janata Party in 1977.^[11][12]

1951–1972

Ramendranath Dutta of Congress won in 1972^[13] and 1971.^[14] Manash Roy of CPI(M) won in 1969.^[15] N.N.Kundu of PSP won in 1967.^[16] Ramendranath Dutta of Congress won in 1962.^[17] In 1957 and 1951 Raiganj was a joint seat. Hazi Badirudddin Ahmad and Syama Prasad Barman, both of Congress, won in 1957.^[18] Syama Prasad Barman and Gulam Hamidur Rahman, both of Congress, won in 1951.^[19]

References

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