Belgachia East (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

In the by-election held in 2009 as a result of the death of the sitting MLA Subhas Chakraborty, Sujit Bose of Trinamool Congress won the 139 Belgachia East seat defeating Ramala Chakrabarty of CPI(M).[18][17] Subhas Chakrabarty of CPI(M) won the Belgachia East seat seven times in a row from 1977 to 2006. In 2006[16] and 2001,[15] he defeated Sujit Bose of Trinamool Congress. In 1996[14] he defeated Arunava Ghosh of Congress. In 1991[13] and 1987,[12] he defeated Kumares Basu of Congress. In 1982[11] he defeated Shyamal Bhattacharjee of Congress. In 1977, he defeated Samir Chatterjee of Janata Party.[10][19]

During the period there was only one seat for Belgachia. Ganapati Sur of Congress defeated Lakshmi Charan Sen of CPI(M) in 1972.[9] Lakshmi Charan Sen of CPI(M) defeated Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1971,[8] Suchit Kumar Sur of Congress in 1969[7] and Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1967.[6]Ganesh Ghosh of CPI won the seat defeating Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1962,[5] Nandalal Banerjee of Congress in 1957[4] and in independent India’s first election in 1951 defeating Sudhir Kumar De of Congress.[3]