Galsi Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.
Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 274 Galsi (SC) assembly constituency covers Galsi I community development block, Galsi and Kurkuba gram panchayats of Galsi II CD Block and Kanksa, Trilokchandrapur, Bankati and Bidbehar gram panchayats of Kanksa CD Block.
As per orders of Delimitation Commission it is part of No. 39 Bardhaman–Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency. Galsi assembly segment was earlier part of Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency.
Members of the Legislative Assembly Year NameParty Ref1951Jadabendra Nath PanjaMahitosh Saha1957Phakir Chandra RoyPramatha Nath Dhibar1962Kanai Lal Das1967Phakir Chandra Roy19691971Anil Roy1972Ashwini Roy1977Debranjan Sen198219871991Dilip Mazumdar1996Idrish Mondal2001Mehbub Mondal 20062011Sunil Kumar Mondal2014^Gaur Chandra Mondal2016Alok Kumar Majhi2021Nepal Ghorui2026Raju Patra
^ denotes by-election
Election results 2026
2021
2016
2014 by-election
2011
1977-2006 In 2006 and 2001 assembly elections, Mehbub Mondal of Forward Bloc won the Galsi assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Anil Kumar Saha of BJP and Ajijul Haque Mondal of Congress respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 1996 and 1991, Idrish Mondal of Forward Block defeated Syed Imdad Ali and Champak (both of Congress) respectively. In 1987, 1982 and 1977, Deb Ranjan Sen of Forward Block defeated Ajit Bandopadhyay, Himanshu Baran Roy and Nirmalendu Koner (all of Congress) respectively.
1952-1972 Aswini Roy of CPI won the seat in 1972. Anil Roy of CPI(M) won it in 1971. Phakir Chandra Roy (Independent) won it in 1969 and 1967. Kanai Lal Das of Congress won it in 1962. In 1957 and 1952, Galsi was a constituency with two seats. In 1957, Phakir Chandra Roy (Independent) and Pramathanath Dhibar of Forward Bloc won the seats. In independent India's first election in 1951, Mahitosh Saha and Jadabendra Nath Panja, both of Congress, won the seats.
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