2021–2025 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-elections

The By-elections for the 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly were a series of by-elections held to fill vacant seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly between 2021 and 2025. Vacancies arose due to the deaths, resignations, or disqualifications of sitting members of the legislative assembly (MLAs). The by-elections were conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) won the majority of the contested seats during this period.

2021

Date Constituency Previous MLA Reason Elected MLA
30 September 2021 159 Bhabanipur Sovandeb Chattopadhyay Trinamool Congress Resigned on 21 May 2021[1] Mamata Banerjee Trinamool Congress
30 October 2021 7 Dinhata Nisith Pramanik Bharatiya Janata Party Resigned on 12 May 2021[2] Udayan Guha
86 Santipur Jagannath Sarkar Braja Kishore Goswami
109 Khardaha Kajal Sinha Trinamool Congress Died on 25 April 2021[3] Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
127 Gosaba Jayanta Naskar Died on 19 June 2021[4] Subrata Mondal

2022

Date Constituency Previous MLA Reason Elected MLA
12 April 2022 161 Ballygunge Subrata Mukherjee Trinamool Congress Died on 4 November 2021[5] Babul Supriyo Trinamool Congress

2023

Date Constituency Previous MLA Reason Elected MLA
27 February 2023 60 Sagardighi Subrata Saha Trinamool Congress Died on 29 December 2022[6] Bayron Biswas[7] Indian National Congress
5 September 2023 15 Dhupguri Bishnu Pada Roy Bharatiya Janata Party Died on 25 July 2023[8] Nirmal Chandra Roy Trinamool Congress

2024

Date Constituency Previous MLA Reason Elected MLA
7 May 2024 62 Bhagabangola Idris Ali Trinamool Congress Died on 16 February 2024[9] Reyat Hossain Sarkar Trinamool Congress
1 June 2024 113 Baranagar Tapas Roy Resigned on 4 March 2024[10] Sayantika Banerjee
10 July 2024 35 Raiganj Krishna Kalyani Bharatiya Janata Party Resigned on 27 March 2024[11] Krishna Kalyani
90 Ranaghat Dakshin Mukut Mani Adhikari Resigned on 19 April 2024[12] Mukut Mani Adhikari
94 Bagdah Biswajit Das Madhuparna Thakur
167 Maniktala Sadhan Pande Trinamool Congress Died on 20 February 2022[13][a] Supti Pandey
13 November 2024 6 Sitai Jagadish Basunia Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024 Sangita Roy
14 Madarihat Manoj Tigga Bharatiya Janata Party Jay Prakash Toppo
104 Naihati Partha Bhowmick Trinamool Congress Sanat Dey
121 Haroa Haji Nurul Islam Sheikh Rabiul Islam
236 Medinipur June Malia Sujoy Hazra
251 Taldangra Arup Chakraborty Falguni Singhababu

2025

Date Constituency Previous MLA Reason Elected MLA
19 June 2025 80 Kaliganj Nasiruddin Ahamed Trinamool Congress Died on 1 February 2025[16] Alifa Ahmed Trinamool Congress

References

  1. ↑ The seat fell vacant due to the death of sitting MLA Sadhan Pande on 20 February 2022. However, by-polls to the seat couldn't be held even after 6 months of Pande's death (according to Indian law) because BJP candidate Kalyan Chaubey filed an election petition in the Calcutta High Court alleging irregularities in polling & demanded a recount of votes. The Representation of the People Act, 1951 forbids holding any polls to the seat until any election petition concerning that seat hasn't been resolved at the court.[14] On 29 April 2024, Choubey withdrew his election petition from the court, making way for by-poll to the seat.[15]
  1. ↑ "Bhabanipur MLA Sovandeb Resigns Amid Indications That Mamata Will Return To Her Old Seat". News18. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  2. ↑ "2 West Bengal BJP MPs resign as MLAs". Economic Times. 12 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Covid-19 positive TMC candidate Kajal Sinha dies at Kolkata hospital". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "3-Time Trinamool Congress MLA Jayanta Naskar Dies". NDTV. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  5. ↑ Singh, Shiv Sahay (4 November 2021). "Bengal Minister Subrata Mukherjee dies at 75". The Hindu. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  6. ↑ "Minister of State Subrata Saha dies at 69". The Indian Express. 30 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  7. ↑ "Sagardighi Bypoll Election Result 2023: Congress Leads From West Bengal Assembly Seat In Setback For Mamata Banerjee's TMC". Zee News. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  8. ↑ "BJP MLA from Dhupguri Bishnu Pada Ray dies, PM Modi, Mamata condole his death". The Indian Express. 26 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  9. ↑ "TMC MLA Idris Ali dies from illness". Deccan Herald. Archived from the original on 16 February 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  10. ↑ "Trinamool MLA Tapas Roy quits party, resigns from assembly". The Hindu. 4 March 2024. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 11 March 2024. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  11. ↑ "Krishna Kalyani resigns as Raiganj MLA following Lok Sabha nomination by TMC". Telegraph India. 28 March 2024. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  12. ↑ "Bengal: Another turncoat MLA resigns, Biswajit Das to contest from Bangaon on TMC ticket". Jagran (in Hindi). 19 April 2024. Archived from the original on 19 April 2024. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  13. ↑ "West Bengal Cabinet Minister Sadhan Pande passes away at 71". The Indian Express. 20 February 2022. Archived from the original on 8 November 2023. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  14. ↑ "HC rejects PIL demanding by-poll in Maniktala Assembly constituency". MillenniumPost. 18 April 2023. Archived from the original on 24 January 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  15. ↑ "Kalyan Chaubey withdraws poll petition". The Times of India. 30 April 2024. ISSN 0971-8257. Archived from the original on 13 July 2024. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  16. ↑ "Veteran TMC MLA Nasiruddin Ahmed dies of cardiac arrest in West Bengal". The Times of India. 2 February 2025. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
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