Belgachia East (Vidhan Sabha constituency)


Belgachia East was an assembly constituency in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.
As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission, Belgachia East ceases to exist from 2011.
It was part of Dum Dum.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Results

1977-2009 Belgachia East

In the by-election held in 2009 as a result of the death of the sitting MLA Subhas Chakraborty, Sujit Bose of Trinamool Congress won the 139 Belgachia East seat defeating Ramala Chakrabarty of CPI. Subhas Chakrabarty of CPI won the Belgachia East seat seven times in a row from 1977 to 2006. In 2006 and 2001, he defeated Sujit Bose of Trinamool Congress. In 1996 he defeated Arunava Ghosh of Congress. In 1991 and 1987, he defeated Kumares Basu of Congress. In 1982 he defeated Shyamal Bhattacharjee of Congress. In 1977, he defeated Samir Chatterjee of Janata Party.

1951-1972 Belgachia

During the period there was only one seat for Belgachia. Ganapati Sur of Congress defeated Lakshmi Charan Sen of CPI in 1972. Lakshmi Charan Sen of CPI defeated Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1971, Suchit Kumar Sur of Congress in 1969 and Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1967.Ganesh Ghosh of CPI won the seat defeating Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1962, Nandalal Banerjee of Congress in 1957 and in independent India’s first election in 1951 defeating Sudhir Kumar De of Congress.