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{{Short description|Legislative Assembly constituency in West Bengal, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Beleghata
| 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/Beleghata.map}}
| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Beleghata Assembly Constituency
| map_alt =
| mla = [[Paresh Paul]]
| party = [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
| alliance =
| latest_election_year = [[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| district = [[Kolkata district|Kolkata]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kolkata Uttar]]
| constituency_no = 164
| established = 1977
| electors = 250,880
| reservation = None
| abolished =
}}

'''Beleghata Assembly constituency''' is a [[Vidhan Sabha|Legislative Assembly]] constituency of [[Kolkata district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As per order of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]] in respect of the [[Delimitation of constituencies]] in [[West Bengal]], Beleghata Assembly constituency is composed of the following:
* Ward Nos. [[Ward No. 28, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|28]], [[Ward No. 29, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|29]], [[Ward No. 30, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|30]], [[Ward No. 33, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|33]], [[Ward No. 34, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|34]], [[Ward No. 35, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|35]], [[Ward No. 36, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|36]] and [[Ward No. 57, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|57]] of [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation]].<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=22 February 2015|work = West Bengal| publisher=Election Commission}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! Borough
! Ward No.
! [[2021 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election|Councillor]]
! colspan="2" |2021 Winner
|-
|IV
|[[Ward No. 28, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|28]]
|Ayan Chakraborty
|{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=8}}
|-
|rowspan=5|III
|[[Ward No. 29, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|29]]
|Iqbal Ahmed
|-
|[[Ward No. 30, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|30]]
|Papiya Ghosh
|-
|[[Ward No. 33, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|33]]
|Chinu Biswas
|-
|[[Ward No. 34, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|34]]
|Alokananda Das
|-
|[[Ward No. 35, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|35]]
|Ashutosh Das
|-
|V
|[[Ward No. 36, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|36]]
|Sachin Kumar Singh
|-
|VII
|[[Ward No. 57, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|57]]
|Jiban Saha
|}

Beleghata Assembly constituency is part of No. 24 [[Kolkata Uttar Lok Sabha constituency]].<ref name=delimitation/><ref>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/LS_2004/Vol_III_LS_2004.pdf | title = Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha | access-date = 2010-11-01 | work = Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies | publisher = Election Commission of India | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101006140327/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_2004/Vol_III_LS_2004.pdf| archive-date= 6 October 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!colspan="2"|Election!!Member!!Party affiliation
|-
|rowspan="7"style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}"|
|[[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|rowspan="2"|[[Krishnapada Ghosh]]
|rowspan="7"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<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, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref><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, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref><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, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref><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, AC No | publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref><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, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref><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, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref><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, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref><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, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|-
|[[1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|rowspan="5"|Manabendra Mukherjee
|-
|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|-
|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|-
|rowspan="3"style="background-color: {{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}"|
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|rowspan="3"|[[Paresh Paul]]
|rowspan="3"|[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|}

==Election results==

===2026===
{{Election box begin|title=[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Beleghata}}[[Kunal Ghosh]] arrested on November 23, 2013, by Bidhannagar Police, later taken into custody by the [[Central Bureau of Investigation]] (CBI) for his role as CEO of Saradha Media.

Former MLA [[Paresh Paul]] has been named by the [[Central Bureau of Investigation]] (CBI) in a supplementary chargesheet related to the 2021 post-poll murder of BJP worker Abhijit Sarkar.{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=[[Kunal Ghosh ]]|party=Trinamool Congress|votes={{formatnum:}}|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Partha Chaudhury|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|votes={{formatnum:}}|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=[[ Paramita Roy]]|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|votes={{formatnum:}}|percentage=|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Shahina Javed|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]]: [[Beleghata]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Paresh Paul]]
|votes = 1,03,182
|percentage = 65.10
|change = +12.28
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Kashinath Biswas
|votes = 36,042
|percentage = 22.74
|change = +15.57
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Rajib Biswas
|votes = 14,045
|percentage = 8.86
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = None of the above (India)
|candidate = [[None of the Above]]
|votes = 1,564
|percentage = 0.99
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate |
|party = [[Independent politician|IND]]
|candidate = Surendar Tewari
|votes = 1,168
|percentage = 0.74
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 67,140
|percentage = 42.78
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 1,58,506
|percentage = 63.18
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===

{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Beleghata]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Paresh Paul]]
|votes = 84,843
|percentage = 52.82
|change = -4.63
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Rajib Biswas
|votes = 58,664
|percentage = 36.53
|change = -1.39
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Partha Chaudhury
|votes = 11,516
|percentage = 7.17
|change = +5.51
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = None of the Above
|candidate = None of the Above
|votes = 3,153
|percentage = 1.96
|change = ''New''
}}
{{Election box candidate |
|party = [[Independent politician|IND]]
|candidate = Arun Kumar Das
|votes = 990
|percentage = 0.62
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 26,179
|percentage = 16.29
|change = -3.24
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 1,60,613
|percentage = 66.38
|change = -4.16
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing = -4.63
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===

{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Beleghata]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Paresh Paul]]
|votes = 93,185
|percentage = 57.45
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Anadi Kumar Sahu
|votes = 61,497
|percentage = 37.92
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Arun Shaw
|votes = 2,690
|percentage = 1.66
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate |
|party = [[Independent politician|IND]]
|candidate = Surendar Tewari
|votes = 1,727
|percentage = 1.06
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 31,688
|percentage = 19.53
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 1,62,195
|percentage = 70.54
|change =
}}
{{Election box win|
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
}}
{{Election box end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Kolkata constituencies}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Kolkata district]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1977]]
[[Category:1977 establishments in West Bengal]]

Beleghata Assembly constituency - Revision history

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