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| Lok Sabha constituency | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Balurghat Lok Sabha Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| Assembly constituencies | Itahar Kushmandi Kumarganj Balurghat Tapan Gangarampur Harirampur |
| Established | 1962 |
| Total electors | 15,61,966(2024)[1] |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Parliament | |
| 18th Lok Sabha | |
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| Incumbent | |
| Party |  Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Elected year | 2024 |
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:[2]
| # | Name | District | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | Itahar | Uttar Dinajpur | Mosaraf Hossain | TMC | |
| 37 | Kushmandi (SC) | Dakshin Dinajpur | Rekha Roy | TMC | |
| 38 | Kumarganj | Toraf Hossain Mandal | TMC | ||
| 39 | Balurghat | Ashok Lahiri | BJP | ||
| 40 | Tapan (ST) | Budhrai Tudu | BJP | ||
| 41 | Gangarampur (SC) | Satyendra Nath Ray | BJP | ||
| 42 | Harirampur | Biplab Mitra | TMC | ||
Members of Parliament
| Year | Name[3] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Susil Ranjan Chattopadhyay[a] | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Selku Mardi | ||
| Chapala Kanta Bhattacharjee | |||
| 1962 | Sarkar Murmu | Communist Party of India | |
| 1967 | J.N.Pramanick | Indian National Congress | |
| 1971 | Rasendranath Barman | ||
| 1977 | Palash Barman | Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | |
| 1980 | |||
| 1984 | |||
| 1989 | |||
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | Ranen Barman | ||
| 1998 | |||
| 1999 | |||
| 2004 | |||
| 2009 | Prasanta Kumar Majumdar | ||
| 2014 | Arpita Ghosh | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2019 | Dr. Sukanta Majumdar | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2024 | |||
Election results
General election 2024
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sukanta Majumdar | 574,996 | 46.47 | ||
| AITC | Biplab Mitra | 5,64,610 | 45.63 | ||
| RSP | Joydeb Siddhanta | 54,217 | 4.38 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Majority | 10,386 | ||||
| Turnout | 12,35,347[b] | 79.09 |  4.60
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| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
General election 2019
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sukanta Majumdar | 539,317 | 45.02 | +25.04 | |
| AITC | Arpita Ghosh | 506,024 | 42.24 | +3.71 | |
| RSP | Ranen Barman | 72,990 | 6.09 | −22.38 | |
| INC | Abdus Sadeq Sarkar | 36,783 | 3.07 | −4.52 | |
| JMM | Naran Tudu | 6,387 | 0.53 | ||
| Independent | Muslima Khatun | 4,950 | 0.41 | ||
| Independent | Bibhuti Tudu | 4,719 | 0.39 | ||
| SHS | Ranjit Kumar Mohanta | 3,300 | 0.28 | ||
| BMP | Ranendra Nath Mali | 2,007 | 0.17 | ||
| Kamtapur People's Party (United) | Nubash Chandra Barman | 1,763 | 0.15 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Biren Mahanta | 1,526 | 0.13 | ||
| CPI(ML) Red Star | Manas Chakraborty | 1,349 | 0.11 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 13,414 | 1.12 | +0.02 | |
| Majority | 33,293 | 2.78 | −7.28 | ||
| Turnout | 1,198,237 | 83.69 | |||
| Registered electors | 1,431,704 | ||||
| BJP gain from AITC | Swing | +10.67 | |||