2016–2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-elections

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

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Assembly Constituency Winner Runner up
Candidate Party Candidate Party
Manteswar Saikat Panja[1] AITC Md. Osman Gani Sarkar CPIM

2017

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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 AITC Sourindra Mohan Jana BJP
Sabang Geeta Rani Bhunia AITC Rita Mandal (Jana) BBC

2018

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By-election was held for Noapara[4] and Maheshtala.[5]

Assembly Constituency Winner Runner up
Candidate Party Candidate Party
Noapara Sunil Singh AITC Sandip Banerjee BJP
Maheshtala Dulal Chandra Das AITC Sujit Kumar Ghosh BJP

2019

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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 All India Trinamool Congress Dr. Saumyaroop Mandal Bharatiya Janata Party
Darjeeling Neeraj Zimba Bharatiya Janata Party Binay Tamang Gorkha Janmukti Morcha
Habibpur Joyel Murmu Amal Kisku All India Trinamool Congress
Naoda Sahina Mumtaz Begum All India Trinamool Congress Sunil Kumar Mondal Indian National Congress
Kandi Shafiul Alam Khan Indian National Congress Goutam Roy All India Trinamool Congress
Krishnaganj Ashis Kumar Biswas Bharatiya Janata Party Pramatha Ranjan Bose
Bhatpara Pawan Kumar Singh Madan Mitra
Uluberia Purba Idris Ali All India Trinamool Congress Pratyush Mandal Bharatiya Janata Party
Karimpur Bimalendu Sinha Roy Jayprakash Majumdar

Kaliaganj

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "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. ^ Scroll Staff (24 December 2017). "Bye-elections: TMC bags West Bengal's Sabang seat, BJP wins in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  4. ^ "WB by-poll: TMC wins Noapara seat". ANI News. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  5. ^ Taneja, Nidhi (2018-05-30). "Maheshtala Assembly Bypoll Results: TMC registers huge win, beats nearest rival BJP by over 60,000 votes". www.indiatvnews.com. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  6. ^ "Saffron Surge in West Bengal Bypolls as Well, 4 out of 8 for BJP". TheQuint. 2019-05-23. Archived from the original on 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  7. ^ Press Trust of India (May 24, 2020). Written at Kolkata. "BJP wins Darjeeling assembly bypolls, Congress bags Kandi". India Today. New Delhi. Archived from the original on 2020-11-29. 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.