2016 2020 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-elections

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During the timeframe of 2016 and 2021, various by-elections were held for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

The first by election was held in November 2016.[1]

2016

Assembly Constituency Winner Runner up
Candidate Party Candidate Party
Monteswar Saikat Panja[1] bgcolor =Template:Party color | AITC Md. Osman Gani Sarkar bgcolor =Template:Party color | CPIM

2017

By-elections were held for Kanthi Dakshin and Sabang in 2017.[2][3]

Assembly Constituency Winner Runner up
Candidate Party Candidate Party
Kanthi Dakshin Chandrima Bhattacharya bgcolor =Template:Party color | AITC Sourindra Mohan Jana bgcolor =Template:Party color | BJP
Sabang Geeta Rani Bhunia bgcolor =Template:Party color | AITC Rita Mandal (Jana) bgcolor =Template:Party color | BBC

2018

By-election was held for Noapara. Both the seats were won by the TMC.[4] and Maheshtala.[5]

Assembly Constituency Winner Runner up
Candidate Party Candidate Party
Noapara Sunil Singh bgcolor =Template:Party color | AITC Sandip Banerjee bgcolor =Template:Party color | BJP
Maheshtala Dulal Chandra Das bgcolor =Template:Party color | AITC Sujit Kumar Ghosh bgcolor =Template:Party color | BJP

2019

By-election was held for eight assembly constituencies alongside the 2019 Lok Sabha election. BJP won four out of the eight seats, whereas AITC won three seats and INC won on one seat.[6][7] Later Kaliaganj, Karimpur and Kharagpur Sadar were won by TMC candidates.[8]

Assembly Constituency Winner Runner up
Candidate Party Candidate Party
Islampur Abdul Karim Chowdhary bgcolor="Template:Party color"| All India Trinamool Congress Dr. Saumyaroop Mandal bgcolor="Template:Party color" | Bharatiya Janata Party
Darjeeling Neeraj Zimba rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | Bharatiya Janata Party Binay Tamang Template:Party color| Gorkha Janmukti Morcha
Habibpur Joyel Murmu Amal Kisku bgcolor="Template:Party color"| All India Trinamool Congress
Naoda Sahina Mumtaz Begum bgcolor="Template:Party color"| All India Trinamool Congress Sunil Kumar Mondal bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Indian National Congress
Kandi Shafiul Alam Khan bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Indian National Congress Goutam Roy rowspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | All India Trinamool Congress
Krishnaganj Ashis Kumar Biswas rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | Bharatiya Janata Party Pramatha Ranjan Bose
Bhatpara Pawan Kumar Singh Madan Mitra
Uluberia Purba Idris Ali rowspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | All India Trinamool Congress Pratyush Mandal rowspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | Bharatiya Janata Party
Karimpur Bimalendu Sinha Roy Jayprakash Majumdar

Kaliaganj

Tapan Deb Singha Kamal Chandra Sarkar
Kharagpur Pradip Sarkar Prem Chandra Jha

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 West Bengal bypolls on November 19, TMC names candidates. The Indian Express(2016-10-18). Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  2. ↑ Bengal By-Election Result 2017: Trinamool's Chandrima Bhattacharya Wins Kanthi, BJP Comes Second. NDTV.com. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  3. ↑ Bye-elections: TMC bags West Bengal's Sabang seat, BJP wins in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Scroll.in(24 December 2017). Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  4. ↑ WB by-poll: TMC wins Noapara seat. ANI News. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  5. ↑ Maheshtala Assembly Bypoll Results: TMC registers huge win, beats nearest rival BJP by over 60,000 votes, Taneja, Nidhi. www.indiatvnews.com(2018-05-30). Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  6. ↑ Saffron Surge in West Bengal Bypolls as Well, 4 out of 8 for BJP. TheQuint(2019-05-23). Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  7. ↑ BJP wins Darjeeling assembly bypolls, Congress bags Kandi, Press Trust of India. India Today(May 24, 2020). Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  8. ↑ West Bengal, Uttarakhand bye-election results 2019 highlights: Clean sweep for TMC, BJP takes Pithoragarh. The Indian Express(2019-11-28). Retrieved 2020-11-21.
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