| Bagdah | |
| Type: | SLA |
| State: | West Bengal |
| District: | North 24 Parganas |
| Loksabha Cons: | Bangaon |
| Constituency No: | 94 |
| Established: | 1962 |
| Reservation: | SC |
| Mla: | Madhuparna Thakur |
| Party: | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Electors: | 277,464 |
Bagdah is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.
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.[1]
Bagdah Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 14 Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).[1] It was earlier part of Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manindra Bhusan Biswas[3] | |||
| Apurba Lal Majumdar[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] | |||
| 1969 | |||
| 1971 | |||
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | Kamalakshmi Biswas[9] [10] | ||
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | Apurba Lal Majumdar | Indian National Congress[11] | |
| 1991 | Kamalakshmi Biswas[12] | All India Forward Block | |
| 1996[13] | |||
| 2001[14] | |||
| Upendranath Biswas[15] | |||
| All India Trinamool Congress[16] [17] | |||
| 2024 | Madhuparna Thakur | ||
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.
In the 2016 election, Dulal Bar of Indian National Congress (INC) defeated his nearest rival Upendra Nath Biswas of AITC.
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
In the 2006 state assembly elections[8] Dulal Chandra Bar of Trinamool Congress won the Bagdah (SC) seat defeating his nearest rival Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc.
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 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,[14] Kalidas Adhikari of Congress in 1996,[13] and Ram Chandra Bose of Congress in 1991.[12] Apurba Lal Majumdar of Congress defeated Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc in 1987.[11] Kamalakshmi Biswas of Forward Bloc defeated Apurba Lal Majumdar of Congress in 1982[10] and Independent in 1977.[9] [18]
Apurba Lal Majumdar of Forward Bloc won in 1972,[7] 1971,[6] 1969[5] and 1967.[4] Manindra Bhusan Biswas of Congress won in 1962.[3] Prior to that the Bagdah seat did not exist.