Galsi Assembly constituency

Galsi Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Galsi
Constituency No. 274 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Galsi Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictPurba Bardhaman
LS constituencyBardhaman–Durgapur
Established1952
Total electors204,466
ReservationSC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyAll India Trinamool Congress
Elected year2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 274 Galsi (SC) assembly constituency covers Galsi I community development block, Galsi and Kurkuba gram panchayats of Galsi II CD Block and Kanksa, Trilokchandrapur, Bankati and Bidbehar gram panchayats of Kanksa CD Block.[1]

Galsi assembly segment was earlier part of Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency). As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly
Election
Year		ConstituencyName of M.L.A.Party Affiliation
1951GalsiJadabendra Nath Panja and Mahitosh SahaIndian National Congress[2]
1957Phakir Chandra Roy and Pramatha Nath DhibarIndependent and Marxist Forward Bloc[3]
1962Kanai Lal DasIndian National Congress [4]
1967Phakir Chandra RoyIndependent [5]
1969Phakir Chandra RoyIndependent [6]
1971Anil RoyCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1972Aswini RoyCommunist Party of India[8]
1977Debranjan SenForward Bloc[9]
1982Debranjan SenForward Bloc [10]
1987Debranjan SenForward Block [11]
1991Dilip MazumdarCommunist Party of India (marxist) [12]
1996Idrish MondalForward Bloc [13]
2001Mehboob MandalForward Bloc [14]
2006Mehboob MandalForwardBlock [15][16]
2011Sunil Kumar MondalForward Block[17]
2014 By electionGour Chandra MondalAll India Trinamool Congress
2016Alok Kumar MajhiAll India Trinamool Congress[18]
2021Nepal GhoruiAll India Trinamool Congress[19]

Election results

2021
West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Galsi [19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TMC Nepal Ghorui 109,504 49.21 +15.02
BJP Bikash Biswas 90,242 40.55 +321.00
AIFB Nandalal Pondit 29,063 15.08 -64.80
BSP Sandip Sarkar 3,518 1.58
NOTA None of the above 2254 1.01
Turnout 222,538
TMC hold Swing

2016
West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Galsi [18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TMC Alok Kumar Majhi 95,203 -
AIFB Nandalal Podit 84,432
BJP Sundar Paswan 21,435
NOTA None of the above 3, 927
Turnout
TMC hold Swing

2014 By election

In the Galsi seat, the by-election was held due to the sitting MLA, Sunil Kumar Mandal of the Forward Bloc, who switched to Trinamool Congress. This Election was held on 30 April 2014. [20]

West Bengal assembly by-elections, 2014: Galsi (SC) constituency[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TMC Gour Chandra Mondal 77,623
AIFB Nandalal Pondit 68,770
BJP Sundar Paswan 37,620
INC Swapan Malik 34,817
Turnout 197,845
TMC gain from AIFB Swing

2011
West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Galsi [22][23][24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AIFB Sunil Kumar Mandal 92,126 50.59 -17.09
TMC Joydeb Saha 81,272 44.63 #
BJP Tapan Bagdi 8,714 4.78
Turnout 182,112 89.02
AIFB hold Swing #

.# Trinamool Congress did not contest this seat in 2006.

1977-2006

In 2006 and 2001 assembly elections, Mehbub Mondal of Forward Bloc won the Galsi assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Anil Kumar Saha of BJP and Ajijul Haque Mondal of Congress respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 1996 and 1991, Idrish Mondal of Forward Block defeated Syed Imdad Ali and Champak (both of Congress) respectively. In 1987, 1982 and 1977, Deb Ranjan Sen of Forward Block defeated Ajit Bandopadhyay, Himanshu Baran Roy and Nirmalendu Koner (all of Congress) respectively.[25]

1952-1972

Aswini Roy of CPI won the seat in 1972. Anil Roy of CPI(M) won it in 1971. Phakir Chandra Roy (Independent) won it in 1969 and 1967. Kanai Lal Das of Congress won it in 1962. In 1957 and 1952, Galsi was a constituency with two seats. In 1957, Phakir Chandra Roy (Independent) and Pramathanath Dhibar of Forward Bloc won the seats. In independent India's first election in 1951, Mahitosh Saha and Jadabendra Nath Panja, both of Congress, won the seats.[26]

References
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