Ranaghat Uttar Paschim Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 87 Ranaghat Uttar Paschim Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ranaghat municipality, Taherpur notified area, Birnagar municipality, and Ramnagar I, Barasat, Kalinarayanpur-Paharpur and Khisma gram panchayats of Ranaghat I community development block, and Arbandi I and Arbandi II gram panchayats of Santipur community development block, and Fulia Township.
Ranaghat Uttar Paschim Assembly constituency is part of No. 13 Ranaghat (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC). Ranaghat East and West were earlier part of Nabadwip (Lok Sabha constituency).
Members of the Legislative Assembly Ranaghat YearNameParty1951Bijoy Krishna SarkarKeshab Chandra Mitra1957Benoy Kumar Chatterjee1962Gour Chandra Kundu
Ranaghat East YearNameParty1967Nitai Pada Sarkar19691971Naresh Chandra Biswas1972Nitaipada Sarkar1977Satish Chandra Biswas19821987Binay Krishna Biswas199119962001Asim Bala2006Debendra Nath Biswas
Ranaghat West YearNameParty1967Benoy Kumar Chatterjee1969Gour Chandra Kundu19711972Naresh Chandra Chaki1977Gour Chandra Kundu198219871991Subhaas Basu1996Shankar Singha20012006Aloke Kumar Das
Ranaghat Uttar Paschim YearNameParty2011Parthasarathi Chatterjee2016Shankar Singha2021Parthasarathi Chatterjee2026
Election results 2026
2021
2016 In the 2016 election, Sankar Singha of Congress defeated his nearest rival Parthasarathi Chatterjee of AITC.
# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as CPI(M)'s vote percentage, in 2006 for the Ranaghat East seat.
2011 In the 2011 election, Partha Sarathi Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Meena Bhattacharya of CPI(M).
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as CPI(M)'s vote percentage, in 2006 for the Ranaghat East seat.
1962 In 1962 and 1957, there was a single seat for Ranaghat. Gour Chandra Kundu of CPI won in 1962. Benoy Kumar Chatterjee of Congress won in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Ranaghat was a joint seat. Bijoy Krishna Sarkar and Keshab Chandra Mitra, both of Congress, won the Ranaghat seat.
1972 Ranaghat East Nitaipada Sarkar of CPI won in 1972. Naresh Chandra Biswas of CPI(M) won in 1971. Nitai Pada Sarkar of CPI won in 1969 and 1967.
Ranaghat West Naresh Chandra Chaki of Congress won in 1972. Gour Chandra Kundu of CPI(M) 1971 and 1969. Benoy Kumar Chatterjee of Congress won in 1967.
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