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{{Infobox settlement



| name = Cooch Behar Uttar 
| official_name =
| other_name =
| native_name = 
| settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha constituency 
| total_type = 
| motto =

| pushpin_map = India West Bengal#India
| map_caption = Location in West Bengal
| coordinates = {{coord|26|19|27|N|89|27|07|E|region:IN-{{IndAbbr|[[West Bengal]]}}|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{IND}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Cooch Behar district|Cooch Behar]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No]]
| subdivision_name3 = 3
| subdivision_type4 = Type
| subdivision_name4 = Reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|SC]]
| subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
| subdivision_name5 = [[Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency)|1 Cooch Behar (SC)]]
| subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
| subdivision_name6 = 218,518 (2011)

| area_code =
| website =
| footnotes =
| leader_party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| leader_title = Incumbent
| leader_name = [[Sukumar Roy (politician)|Sukumar Roy]]
}}

'''Cooch Behar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Cooch Behar district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]]. The seat is reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|scheduled castes]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], No. 3 Cooch Behar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) covers [[Cooch Behar II (Community development block)|Cooch Behar II]] [[Community Development Block in India|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 | access-date = 20 June 2014 | work = West Bengal| publisher = Election Commission}}</ref>

Cooch Behar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 1 [[Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency)]] (SC).<ref name =delimitation/>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
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! Election<br/> Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
|-
|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]||Cooch Behar||Maziruddin Ahmed||[[Indian National Congress]]<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||||Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||||Maziruddin Ahmed||Indian National Congress<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||||Satish Chandra Roy Singha||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||Cooch Behar North||Sunil Dasgupta||[[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]]<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar South||Sunil Basunia||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1962/>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||Cooch Behar North||M.R.Tar||Indian National Congress<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar South||Santosh Kumar Roy||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1967/>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Prasenjit Barman||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1967/>
|-
|1969||Cooch Behar North||Bimal Kanti Basu||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar South||Santosh Kumar Roy||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1969/>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Prasenjit Barman||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1969/>
|-
|1971||Cooch Behar North||Sunil Kar||Indian National Congress<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar South||Santosh Kumar Roy||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1971/>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Rajani Das||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1971/>
|-
|1972||Cooch Behar North||Sunil Kar||Indian National Congress<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar South||Santosh Kumar Roy||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1972/>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Rajani Das||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1972/>
|-
|1977||Cooch Behar North||[[Aparajita Goppi]]||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Bimal Kanti Basu||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1977/>
|-
|1982||Cooch Behar North||Aparajita Goppi||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Bimal Kanti Basu||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1982/>
|-
|1987||Cooch Behar North||Aparajita Goppi||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Bimal Kanti Basu||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1987/>
|-
|1991||Cooch Behar North||Bimal Kanti Basu||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Soumindra Chandra Das||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1991/>
|-
|1996||Cooch Behar North||Mihir Goswami||Indian National Congress<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Soumindra Chandra Das||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1996/>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||Cooch Behar North||Dipak Chandra Sarkar||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Akshay Thakur||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha2001/>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||Cooch Behar North||Dipak Chandra Sarkar||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Akshay Thakur||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha2006/>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||Cooch Behar Uttar||Nagendra Nath Roy||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]||Cooch Behar Uttar||Nagendra Nath Roy||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]||Cooch Behar Uttar||Sukumar Roy||[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|}

==Election results==
===2021===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Cooch Behar Uttar (SC) constituency}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Sukumar Roy
|votes = 120,483
|percentage = 49.40
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Binoy Krishna Barman
|votes = 105,868
|percentage = 43.40
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Nagendra Nath Roy
|votes = 11,475
|percentage = 4.70
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 1,570
|percentage = 0.64
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Anil Chandra Roy
|votes = 1,386
|percentage = 0.57
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Naresh Chandra Roy
|votes = 1,379
|percentage = 0.57
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Kamtapur People's Party (United)
|candidate = Samaresh Ray
|votes = 1,127
|percentage = 0.46
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Amra Bangalee
|candidate = Gopal Roy
|votes = 628
|percentage = 0.26
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 243,916
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = All India Forward Bloc
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

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

{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal state assembly election]]: Cooch Behar Uttar <ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=3|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Cooch Behar Uttar| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Nagendra Nath Roy
|votes = 97,629
|percentage = 43.63
|change = -1.48
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Parimal Barman
|votes = 85,336
|percentage = 38.14
|change = -5.80
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Sukumar Roy
|votes = 30,025
|percentage = 13.42
|change = +6.71
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 2,649
|percentage = 1.18
|change = +1.18
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 2,23,771
|percentage = 86.49
|change = +0.44
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Forward Bloc
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

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

{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election]]: Cooch Behar Uttar <ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=3|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Cooch Behar Uttar| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Nagendra Nath Roy
|votes = 84,825
|percentage = 45.11
|change = -5.96
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Prasenjit Barman
|votes = 82,628
|percentage = 43.94
|change = +10.06
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Malati Rava (Ray)
|votes = 12,608
|percentage = 6.71
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Nirmal Kumar Roy
|votes = 4,745
|percentage = 2.52
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Republican Party of India|RPI]]
|candidate = Ratan Barman
|votes = 1,883
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Kulen Das
|votes = 1,343
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 188,032
|percentage = 86.05
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Forward Bloc
|swing = -16.02
}}
{{Election box end}}

===1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar North constituency===
Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]]<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> and 2001<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> state assembly elections Dipak Chandra Sarkar of [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]] defeated Mihir Goswami of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]. Mihir Goswami representing [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] had defeated [[Aparajita Goppi]] of Forward Bloc in 1996.<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1987,<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Sunil Kar of Congress in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Bimal Chandra Dhar of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp04.htm | title =4 - Cooch Behar North Assembly Constituency | work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India| access-date = 29 August 2009}}</ref>

===1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar West constituency===
In the 2006<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> and 2001<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> state assembly elections, Akshay Thakur of [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]] won the Cooch Behar West seat defeating Abdul Jalil Ahmed and Soumendra Chandra Das (both of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]) respectively. Soumindra Chandra Das of Forward Bloc defeated Abdul Jalil Ahmed representing [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and Ramkrishna Pal of Congress in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Shyamal Choudhury of Congress in 1987<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> and 1982,<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Maqsudar Rahman of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/archive/May2006/pollupd/ac/states/s25/..%5C..%5C..%5C..%5C..%5CElectionAnalysis%5CAE%5CS25%5CPartycomp05.htm | title =5 - Cooch Behar West Assembly Constituency | work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977| publisher = Election Commission of India| access-date = 29 August 2009}}</ref>

===1962-1972: Cooch Behar North, South and West constituencies===
Sunil Kar of Congress won the Cooch Behar North in 1972<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> and 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc won it in 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> M.R.Tar of Congress won it in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Sunil Dasgupta of Forward Bloc won it in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]].<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> Santosh Kumar Roy of Congress won the Cooch Behar South seat in 1972,<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> 1971,<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> 1969<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> and 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Sunil Basunia of Forward Bloc won the seat in 1962.<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> Rajani Das of Congress won the Cooch Behar West seat in 1972<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> and 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Prasenjit Barman of Congress won it in 1969<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> and 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> The seat was not there prior to 1967.

===1951 & 1957: Cooch Behar constituency===
Cooch Behar was a joint seat in [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]].<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> It was won by Maziruddin Ahmed and Satish Chandra Roy Singha (both of Congress). In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1951]],<ref name=vidhansabha1952/> Maziruddin Ahmed and Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar (both of Congress) won the Cooch Behar joint seat.

==References==
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{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Cooch Behar district]]

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