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Balurghat
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| Country | India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Dakshin Dinajpur |
| Constituency No | 39 |
| Type | Open |
| Lok Sabha constituency | 6. Balurghat |
| Electorate (year) | 139,511 (2011) |
Balurghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Bengali: বালুরঘাট বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in Dakshin Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 39 Balurghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Balurghat municipality, Amritakhand, Vatpara and Chingishpur gram panchayats of Balurghat community development block and Hilli community development block.[1]
Balurghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 6 Balurghat (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
In the 2011 election , Shankar Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Bishwanath Chowdhury of RSP.
| West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Balurghat [2][3][4] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Trinamool Congress | Shankar Chakraborty | 67,495 | 54.27 | # | |
| RSP | Biswanath Choudhury | 49,204 | 39.56 | -7.21 | |
| BJP | Ranjan Kumar Mondal | 4,378 | 3.52 | ||
| Independent | Keshab Roy | 1,862 | |||
| BSP | Nripen Hansda | 1,427 | |||
| Turnout | 124,366 | 89.14 | |||
| Trinamool Congress gain from RSP | Swing | # | |||
.# Trinamool Congress did not contest the seat in 2006.
| Party | Seats won | Seat change |
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| Trinamool Congress | 5 | 5 |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1 | 2 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 0 | 2 |
Biswanath Choudhury of RSP has made it seven in a row winning the Balurghat assembly seat in all years from 1977 to 2006. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. He defeated Debasree Choudhury of BJP in 2006, Sankar Chakrabarti of Trinamool Congress in 2001, Biplab Khan of Congress in 1996 and 1991, Madhab Chandra Roy of Congress in 1987, Asish Roy of ICS in 1982 and Jyotiswar Sarkar of Congress in 1977.[5]
Bireswar Roy of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Mukul Basu of RSP/Independent won in 1969 and 1967. Sushil Ranjan Chattopadhya of Congress won in West Bengal state assembly election, 1962|1962]]. In 1957 and 1951, Balurghat was joint seat. In 1957 Mardi Hakai of Congress and Dhirendra Nath Banerjee, Independent, won. In independent India’s first election, Saroj Ranjan Chattopadhyay and Lakshman Chandra Handa, both of Congress, won.[6]
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