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{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Basirhat Uttar
| type = SLA
| map_image = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=y|frame-width=300|frame-height=300|frame-align=center|type=shape|from=Vidhan Sabha constituencies/West Bengal/Basirhat Uttar.map}}
| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Basirhat Uttar Assembly Constituency
| map_alt =
| mla = [[Rafikul Islam Mondal]]
| party = {{Party index link|Trinamool Congress}}
| alliance =
| latest_election_year = [[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| district = [[North 24 Parganas district|North 24 Parganas]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency|Basirhat]]
| constituency_no = 125
| established = 1951
| electors = 2,38,426
| reservation = None
| abolished =
}}

'''Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[North 24 Parganas district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], 125 Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: [[Basirhat II]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]], and Amlani, Bhebia, Makhal Gachha, Murarisha [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Hasnabad (community development block)|Hasnabad]] community development block.<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/WestBengal/FINAL%20ORDER%20NOTIFICATION_English.pdf | title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006 | access-date= 15 October 2010 |work = West Bengal| publisher= Election Commission of India}}</ref>

Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency is part of 18. [[Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency]].<ref name=delimitation/>

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"ìÍĦĤĠčw
|-
! Election!!Member!!colspan=2|Party Affiliation
|-
| colspan="4" align=center|'''Basirhat'''
|-
|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]||rowspan=2|Profulla Nath Banerjee||{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=3}}<ref name="vidhansabha1952">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]<ref name="vidhansabha1957">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||Bijesh Chandra Sen<ref name="vidhansabha1962">{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||rowspan=2|A.B. Bandopadhyay||{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India|rowspan=2}}<ref name="vidhansabha1967">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]<ref name="vidhansabha1969">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]||rowspan=2|Lalit Kumar Ghosh||{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}<ref name="vidhansabha1971">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]<ref name="vidhansabha1972">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |title =General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1977]]||rowspan=7|Narayan Mukherjee||{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|rowspan=7|dab=yes}}<ref name="vidhansabha1977">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1982]]<ref name="vidhansabha1982">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1987]]<ref name="vidhansabha1987">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1987/StatisticalReportWestBengal87.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1991]]<ref name="vidhansabha1991">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-West%20Bengal91.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996]]<ref name="vidhansabha1996">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-WB96.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]<ref name="vidhansabha2001">{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]<ref name="vidhansabha2006">{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_WB_2006.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 8 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="4" align=center|'''Basirhat Uttar'''
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||Mostafa Bin Qaseem||{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|dab=yes}}<ref name="vidhansabha2011">{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 24 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 elections in India#West Bengal|2011^]]||[[ATM Abdullah]]||{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress}}<ref name="vidhansabha2012by">{{cite web| url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/mamata-wins-byelection-by-convincing-margin/article2495599.ece|title = Mamata wins by-election by convincing margin| work= Kolkata|publisher= The Hindu, 21 September 2011| access-date = 24 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]||rowspan=2|[[Rafikul Islam Mondal]]||{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|dab=yes}}
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]||{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress}}
|}

*^ denotes by-election

==Election results==
===2026===
{{Election box begin|title=[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Basirhat Uttar}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Md. Tauseef Rehman|party=Trinamool Congress|votes={{formatnum:}}|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Narayan Chandra Mondal|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|votes={{formatnum:}}|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Musa Karimullah|party=Indian Secular Front|votes={{formatnum:}}|percentage=|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Musa Haque Mondal|party=Indian National Congress|votes={{formatnum:}}|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=[[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]|party=None of the above (India)|votes={{formatnum:}}|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box majority||votes={{formatnum:}}|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes={{formatnum:}}|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner =
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2021===
{{Election box begin |title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Basirhat Uttar}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Rafikul Islam Mondal]]
|votes = 1,37,216
|percentage = 57.55
|change = {{increase}}12.01
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian Secular Front
|candidate = Mohammad Baijid Amin
|votes = 47,865
|percentage = 20.08
|change = ''New''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Narayan Chandra Mondal
|votes = 47,505
|percentage = 19.92
|change = {{increase}}13.81
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Taslima Khatun
|votes = 2,014
|percentage = 0.84
|change = ''New''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above (India)
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 1,952
|percentage = 0.82
|change = {{decrease}}0.42
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent
|candidate = Mohammad Kased Ali Sardar
|votes = 1,874
|percentage = 0.79
|change = ''New''
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 89,351
|percentage = 37.47
|change = {{increase}}37.24
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 2,38,426
|percentage = 88.95
|change = {{decrease}}0.67
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Basirhat Uttar constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=125| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120513170226/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=125| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 13 May 2012|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Basirhat Uttar| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 24 April 2011}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = [[Rafikul Islam Mondal]]
|votes = 97,828
|percentage = 45.74
|change = {{increase}}8.85
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[ATM Abdullah]]
|votes = 97,336
|percentage = 45,51
|change = {{decrease}}11.44
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Tarafan Ali Gazi
|votes = 13,072
|percentage = 6.11
|change = {{increase}}1.62
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Abul Kasem Dhali
|votes = 3,006
|percentage = 1.41
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above (India)
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 2,636
|percentage = 1.24
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 492
|percentage = 0.23
|change = {{decrease}}19.83
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 2,13,885
|percentage = 89.62
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|loser = Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
The percentage changes of the 2016 election is calculated based upon the 2011 Bypoll.

===2011 by-election===
A by-election in 2011 was necessitated by the death of Mostafa bin Kassem, the CPI(M) MLA from Basirhat Uttar, who was found dead outside Kyd street MLA's Hostel on 29 May 2011.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110602/jsp/bengal/index.jsp | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110610222225/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110602/jsp/bengal/index.jsp | url-status = dead | archive-date = 10 June 2011 |title = MLA son cries foul |work = The Telegraph|access-date = 12 August 2011| location= Calcutta, India | date= 2 June 2011}}</ref>

{{Election box begin | title=West Bengal state assembly bye election, 2011: Basirhat Uttar constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2012by/>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[ATM Abdullah]]
|votes = 87,899
|percentage = 56.95
|change = {{increase}}14.12
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Subid Ali Gazi
|votes = 56,948
|percentage = 36.89
|change = {{decrease}}8.30
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Subodh Kumar Chakraborty
|votes = 6,938
|percentage = 4.49
|change = {{decrease}}1.08
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Ajit Pramanick
|votes = 2,964
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 154,339
|percentage = 80.35
|change = {{decrease}}6.49
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
The percentage changes of the bypoll is calculated from the 2011 assembly election.

===2011===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Basirhat Uttar constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=125| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120513170226/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=125| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 13 May 2012|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Basirhat Uttar| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 24 April 2011}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Mostafa Bin Qaseem
|votes = 75,576
|percentage = 45.19
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Sardar Amzad Ali
|votes = 71,632
|percentage = 42.83
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Somen Mandal
|votes = 9,316
|percentage = 5.57
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = People’s Democratic Conference of India
|candidate = Rafikul Mandal
|votes = 7,327
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Prosanta Biswas
|votes = 1,829
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = All india Minorities Front
|candidate = Anwar Hossain Mollah
|votes = 1,569
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 167,248
|percentage = 86.84
|change =
}}
{{Election box new seat win
|winner = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
}}
{{Election box end}}
As per 2011 census the total population of basirhat uttar is 338937,Hindu 115986,Muslim 222264,Other 687.Hindu 34.22%,Muslim 65.58%,Other 0.20%.

===1977-2006 Basirhat===
During the period Narayan Mukherjee of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won seven elections in a row from 95 Basirhat assembly constituency, defeating his nearest rivals Asit Majumdar of [[Indian National Congress|INC]] in [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]],<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> Souren Sen of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] in 2001,<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> Asit Majumdar of Congress in 1996,<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> Dilip Mazumdar of Congress in 1991<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> and 1987,<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> and Debi Prasad Nanda of Congress in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp95.htm |title =95 - Basirhat Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 15 October 2010}}</ref>

===1951-1972 Basirhat===
Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Lalit Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1972<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> and 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> A.B.Bandopadhyay of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] won in 1969<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> and 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Bijesh Chandra Sen of Congress won in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]].<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> Profulla Nath Banerjee of Congress won in [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]]<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> and in [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1951]].<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>

==References==
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[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
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[[Category:Basirhat]]
[[Category:Constituencies established in 1951]]
[[Category:1951 establishments in West Bengal]]

Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency - Revision history

AbbieLongoria3 at 08:29, 30 March 2026