Balurghat Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Balurghat in West Bengal. While six of the assembly segments of No. 6 Balurghat Lok Sabha constituency are in Dakshin Dinajpur district, one assembly segment is in Uttar Dinajpur district. The seat was earlier reserved for scheduled castes but from 2009 it is an open seat.
Assembly segments
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 6 Balurghat is composed of the following assembly segments from 2009:
# Name District MemberParty2024 Lead36ItaharUttar DinajpurMosaraf Hussen37Kushmandi (SC)Dakshin DinajpurTapas Chandra Roy38KumarganjToraf Hossain Mandal39BalurghatBidyut Roy40Tapan (ST)Budhrai Tudu41Gangarampur (SC)Satyendra Nath Ray42HarirampurBiplab Mitra
Members of Parliament YearNameParty1952Susil Ranjan Chattopadhyay 1957Selku MardiChapala Kanta Bhattacharjee1962Sarkar Murmu1967Jatindra Nath Pramanick 1971Rasendranath Barman1977Palash Barman 19801984198919911996Ranen Barman1998199920042009Prasanta Kumar Majumdar2014Arpita Ghosh2019 Sukanta Majumdar2024
Election results
General election 2024
2019
2014
2009
2004
1999
1998
1996
1991
1989
1984
1980
1977
1971
1967
1962
1957
1952
Note: In 1951 and 1957 the contest was in the West Dinajpur constituency. From 1962, it was Balurghat constituency.
Notes
References
See also Balurghat List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha