2016–2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-elections
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During the timeframe of 2016 and 2021, various by-elections were held for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
The first by election was held in November 2016.[1]
2016
| Assembly Constituency | Winner | Runner up | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | |||
| Manteswar | Saikat Panja[1] | AITC | Md. Osman Gani Sarkar | CPIM | ||
2017
By-elections were held for Kanthi Dakshin and Sabang in 2017.[2][3]
| Assembly Constituency | Winner | Runner up | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | |||
| Kanthi Dakshin | Chandrima Bhattacharya | AITC | Sourindra Mohan Jana | BJP | ||
| Sabang | Geeta Rani Bhunia | AITC | Rita Mandal (Jana) | BBC | ||
2018
By-election was held for Noapara[4] and Maheshtala.[5]
| Assembly Constituency | Winner | Runner up | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | |||
| Noapara | Sunil Singh | AITC | Sandip Banerjee | BJP | ||
| Maheshtala | Dulal Chandra Das | AITC | Sujit Kumar Ghosh | BJP | ||
2019
By-election was held for eight assembly constituencies alongside the 2019 Lok Sabha election. BJP won four out of the eight seats, whereas AITC won three seats and INC won on one seat.[6][7] Later Kaliaganj, Karimpur and Kharagpur Sadar were won by TMC candidates.[8]
| Assembly Constituency | Winner | Runner up | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | |||
| Islampur | Abdul Karim Chowdhary | All India Trinamool Congress | Dr. Saumyaroop Mandal | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| Darjeeling | Neeraj Zimba | Bharatiya Janata Party | Binay Tamang | Gorkha Janmukti Morcha | ||
| Habibpur | Joyel Murmu | Amal Kisku | All India Trinamool Congress | |||
| Naoda | Sahina Mumtaz Begum | All India Trinamool Congress | Sunil Kumar Mondal | Indian National Congress | ||
| Kandi | Shafiul Alam Khan | Indian National Congress | Goutam Roy | All India Trinamool Congress | ||
| Krishnaganj | Ashis Kumar Biswas | Bharatiya Janata Party | Pramatha Ranjan Bose | |||
| Bhatpara | Pawan Kumar Singh | Madan Mitra | ||||
| Uluberia Purba | Idris Ali | All India Trinamool Congress | Pratyush Mandal | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| Karimpur | Bimalendu Sinha Roy | Jayprakash Majumdar | ||||
| Tapan Deb Singha | Kamal Chandra Sarkar | |||||
| Kharagpur | Pradip Sarkar | Prem Chandra Jha | ||||
See also
References
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