2016–21 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

Assembly Constituency	Winner			Runner up
	Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party
Manteswar	Saikat Panja[1]		AITC	Md. Osman Gani Sarkar		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		AITC	Sourindra Mohan Jana		BJP
Sabang	Geeta Rani Bhunia		AITC	Rita Mandal (Jana)		BBC

2018

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

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

• 2016–21 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly by-elections

References

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. Scroll Staff. "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. 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. 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.