Country India District Kolkata Year abolished 2011 | State West Bengal Year established 1951 Lok Sabha constituency Dum Dum | |
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Belgachia East (Vidhan Sabha constituency) was an assembly constituency in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission, Belgachia East (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from 2011.
It was part of Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).
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(M).Subhas Chakrabarty of CPI(M) won the Belgachia East seat seven times in a row from 1977 to 2006. In 2006and 2001, he defeated Sujit Bose of Trinamool Congress. In 1996he defeated Arunava Ghosh of Congress. In 1991 and 1987,he defeated Kumares Basu of Congress. In 1982he 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(M) in 1972.Lakshmi Charan Sen of CPI(M) defeated Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1971,Suchit Kumar Sur of Congress in 1969and 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 1957and in independent India’s first election in 1951 defeating Sudhir Kumar De of Congress.