Cooch Behar Uttar Assembly constituency

Cooch Behar Uttar is an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Cooch Behar Uttar
Constituency No. 3 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Map
Interactive Map Outlining Cooch Behar Uttar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictCooch Behar
LS constituencyCooch Behar
Established1951
Total electors282,988
ReservationSC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 3 Cooch Behar Uttar Assembly constituency (SC) covers Cooch Behar II community development block.[1]

Cooch Behar Uttar Assembly constituency is part of No. 1 Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

ElectionMemberParty Affiliation
2011Nagendra Nath RoyAll India Forward Bloc[2][2]
2016
2021Sukumar RoyBharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Cooch Behar Uttar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJPSukumar Roy 120,483 49.40 35.98
AITCBinoy Krishna Barman1,05,86843.40 5.26
AIFBNagendra Nath Roy11,4754.70 38.85
NOTANone of the above1,5700.64 0.54
SUCI(C)Anil Chandra Roy1,3860.57 0.2
IndependentNaresh Chandra Roy1,3790.57
Kamtapur People's Party (United)Samaresh Ray1,1270.46New
AMBGopal Roy6280.26 0.41
Turnout2,43,91686.19 0.3
BJP gain from AIFBSwing

2016

In the 2016 elections, Nagendranath Roy of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Parimal Burman of Trinamool Congress.

2016 West Bengal state assembly election: Cooch Behar Uttar[2][3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AIFBNagendra Nath Roy97,62943.63-1.48
AITCParimal Barman85,33638.14-5.80
BJPSukumar Roy30,02513.42+6.71
NOTANone of the above2,6491.18+1.18
Turnout2,23,77186.49+0.44
AIFB holdSwing

2011

In the 2011 elections, Nagendranath Roy of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Prasenjit Burman of Trinamool Congress.

2011 West Bengal state assembly election: Cooch Behar Uttar[2][4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AIFBNagendra Nath Roy84,82545.11-5.96
AITCPrasenjit Barman82,62843.94+10.06
BJPMalati Rava (Ray)12,6086.71
IndependentNirmal Kumar Roy4,7452.52
RPIRatan Barman1,883
IndependentKulen Das1,343
Turnout188,03286.05
AIFB holdSwing-16.02

1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar North constituency

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006[5] and 2001[6] state assembly elections Dipak Chandra Sarkar of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Trinamool Congress. Mihir Goswami representing Congress had defeated Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc in 1996.[7] Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1991.[8] Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1987,[9] Sunil Kar of Congress in 1982[10] and Bimal Chandra Dhar of Congress in 1977.[11][12]

1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar West constituency

In the 2006[5] and 2001[6] state assembly elections, Akshay Thakur of Forward Bloc won the Cooch Behar West seat defeating Abdul Jalil Ahmed and Soumendra Chandra Das (both of Trinamool Congress) respectively. Soumindra Chandra Das of Forward Bloc defeated Abdul Jalil Ahmed representing Congress in 1996[7] and Ramkrishna Pal of Congress in 1991.[8] Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Shyamal Choudhury of Congress in 1987[9] and 1982,[10] and Maqsudar Rahman of Congress in 1977.[11][13]

1962-1972: Cooch Behar North, South and West constituencies

Sunil Kar of Congress won the Cooch Behar North in 1972[14] and 1971.[15] Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc won it in 1969.[16] M.R.Tar of Congress won it in 1967.[17] Sunil Dasgupta of Forward Bloc won it in 1962.[18] Santosh Kumar Roy of Congress won the Cooch Behar South seat in 1972,[14] 1971,[15] 1969[16] and 1967.[17] Sunil Basunia of Forward Bloc won the seat in 1962.[18] Rajani Das of Congress won the Cooch Behar West seat in 1972[14] and 1971.[15] Prasenjit Barman of Congress won it in 1969[16] and 1967.[17] The seat was not there prior to 1967.

1951 & 1957: Cooch Behar constituency

Cooch Behar was a joint seat in 1957.[19] It was won by Maziruddin Ahmed and Satish Chandra Roy Singha (both of Congress). In independent India's first election in 1951,[20] Maziruddin Ahmed and Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar (both of Congress) won the Cooch Behar joint seat.

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