Belgachia East Assembly constituency

Belgachia East Assembly constituency was a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission, Belgachia East Assembly constituency ceases to exist from 2011.^[1]

It was part of Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2]

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).^[18][17] Subhas Chakrabarty of CPI(M) won the Belgachia East seat seven times in a row from 1977 to 2006. In 2006^[16] and 2001,^[15] he defeated Sujit Bose of Trinamool Congress. In 1996^[14] he defeated Arunava Ghosh of Congress. In 1991^[13] and 1987,^[12] he defeated Kumares Basu of Congress. In 1982^[11] he defeated Shyamal Bhattacharjee of Congress. In 1977, he defeated Samir Chatterjee of Janata Party.^[10][19]

During the period there was only one seat for Belgachia. Ganapati Sur of Congress defeated Lakshmi Charan Sen of CPI(M) in 1972.^[9] Lakshmi Charan Sen of CPI(M) defeated Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1971,^[8] Suchit Kumar Sur of Congress in 1969^[7] and Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1967.^[6] Ganesh Ghosh of CPI won the seat defeating Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1962,^[5] Nandalal Banerjee of Congress in 1957^[4] and in independent India's first election in 1951 defeating Sudhir Kumar De of Congress.^[3]

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