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{{Use Indian English|date=January 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox settlement



| name = Mekliganj 
| official_name =
| other_name =
| native_name = 
| settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha constituency 
| total_type = 
| motto =

| pushpin_map = India West Bengal#India
| map_caption = Location in West Bengal
| coordinates = {{coord|26|21|N|88|55|E|region:IN-{{IndAbbr|[[West Bengal]]}}|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{IND}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Cooch Behar district|Cooch Behar]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No]]
| subdivision_name3 = 1
| subdivision_type4 = Type
| subdivision_name4 = Reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|SC]]
| subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
| subdivision_name5 = [[Jalpaiguri (Lok Sabha constituency)|3 Jalpaiguri (SC)]]
| subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
| subdivision_name6 = 202689 (2016)

| area_code =
| website =
| footnotes =
| leader_party = [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
| leader_title = Incumbent
| leader_name = [[Paresh Chandra Adhikary]]
}}

'''Mekliganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Cooch Behar district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]]. The seat is reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|scheduled castes]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], No. 1 Mekliganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) covers [[Mekhliganj|Mekliganj]] municipality, [[Mekhliganj (Community development block)|Mekliganj]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]], [[Haldibari, India|Haldibari]] municipality and [[Haldibari (Community development block)|Haldibari]] community development block.<ref name =delimitation>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/WestBengal/FINAL%20ORDER%20NOTIFICATION_English.pdf | title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 | accessdate = 20 June 2014 | work = West Bengal | publisher = Election Commission}}</ref>

Mekliganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 3 [[Jalpaiguri (Lok Sabha constituency)]] (SC).<ref name =delimitation/>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable"
!Election<br/> Year
!Constituency
!colspan="2" |Name of M.L.A.
!Party
|-
|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]
|rowspan="17"| Mekligan
|bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}"|
|Prasanta Chatterjee
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]<ref name=vidhansabha1952>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
|bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}"|
|Prasanta Chatterjee
|INC<ref name=vidhansabha1957>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|[[Amar Roy Pradhan]]
|[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]]<ref name=vidhansabha1962>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|Amar Roy Pradhan
|AIFB<ref name=vidhansabha1967>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|Amar Roy Pradhan
|AIFB<ref name=vidhansabha1969>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission |accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|Mihir Kumar Roy
|AIFB<ref name=vidhansabha1971>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}"|
|Madhu Sudan Roy
|INC<ref name=vidhansabha1972>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|Sada Kanta Roy
|AIFB<ref name=vidhansabha1977>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|Sada Kanta Roy
|AIFB<ref name=vidhansabha1982>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|Sada Kanta Roy
|AIFB<ref name=vidhansabha1987>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1987/StatisticalReportWestBengal87.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|Paresh Chandra Adhikari
|AIFB<ref name=vidhansabha1991>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-West%20Bengal91.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|Ramesh Roy
|AIFB<ref name=vidhansabha1996>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-WB96.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|Paresh Chandra Adhikary
|AIFB<ref name=vidhansabha2001>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|Paresh Chandra Adhikary
|AIFB<ref name=vidhansabha2006>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_WB_2006.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|Paresh Chandra Adhikary
|AIFB<ref name=vidhansabha2011>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|
|[[Arghya Roy Pradhan]]
|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|bgcolor="{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|
|[[Paresh Chandra Adhikary]]
|AITC<ref>{{Cite web|title=Election Commission of India|url=https://results.eci.gov.in/Result2021/ConstituencywiseS251.htm?ac=1|access-date=2021-05-06|website=results.eci.gov.in}}</ref>
|}
{{bar box
|float=right
|title= Vote share of Winning candidates
|titlebar=#ddd
|width=300px
|barwidth=275px
|bars=
{{bar percent|2021|{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}|49.98}}
}}

==2021 Election Result==
In 2021 election, [[All India Trinamool Congress]] candidate [[Paresh Chandra Adhikary]] defeated [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] candidate Dadhiram Ray by a margin of 14,685 votes.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Election Commission of India|url=https://results.eci.gov.in/Result2021/ConstituencywiseS251.htm?ac=1|access-date=2021-05-08|website=results.eci.gov.in}}</ref>
{{Election box begin | title= [[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Mekliganj (SC) constituency}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=[[Paresh Chandra Adhikary]]|votes=99338|percentage=49.98|change=8.63}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Dadhiram Ray|votes=84653|percentage=42.59|change=29.68}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=All India Forward Bloc|candidate=Gobindo Ray|votes=6853|percentage=3.45|change=-34.23}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|candidate=Ranjit Kumar Roy|votes=1768|percentage=0.89|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Jyotish Roy|votes=1025|percentage=0.52|change=-2.6}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party= None of the above|candidate= None of the above|votes=2447|percentage=1.23|change=}}
{{Election box majority||votes=14685|percentage=7.38|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=198744|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner =All India Trinamool Congress
|loser =Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==2016 Election==
{{Election box begin | title= [[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Mekliganj (SC) constituency}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=[[Arghya Roy Pradhan]]|votes=74823|percentage=41.35|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=All India Forward Bloc|candidate=Paresh Chandra Adhikary|votes=68186|percentage=37.68|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Dadhiram Ray|votes=23355|percentage=12.91|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Jyotish Roy|votes=5650|percentage=3.12|change=}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 180960
|percentage = 89.28
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = All India Forward Bloc
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==Election results==

===2011===
In the 2011 elections, Paresh Chandra Adhikary of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Jayanta Kumar Ray of Congress.

{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Mekliganj (SC) constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=1|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Mekliganj| publisher =Empowering India |accessdate = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Paresh Chandra Adhikary
|votes = 72,040
|percentage = 48.67
|change = +1.88
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Jayanta Kumar Ray
|votes = 39,408
|percentage = 26.63
|change = -0.75
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Sunil Chandra Roy
|votes = 23,540
|percentage = 15.9
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Subhash Barman
|votes = 3,713
|percentage = 2.51
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Jyotish Ray
|votes = 3,359
|percentage = 2.27
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Pramila Roy
|votes = 2,593
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Purnendu Ray
|votes = 1,474
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Amra Bangalee
|candidate = Ratan Barman
|votes = 123
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 148,010
|percentage = 87.01
|change =
}}{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Forward Bloc
|swing = 2.63
}}
{{Election box end}}

===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006 state assembly elections]],<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> Paresh Chandra Adhikary of [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]] won the Mekliganj seat defeating his nearest rival Sunil Chandra Roy of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001,<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> Paresh Chandra Adhikary of Forward Bloc defeated Ramesh Roy of Trinmool Congress. In 1996,<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> Ramesh Roy representing Forward Bloc defeated Sunil Chandra Roy representing [[Indian National Congress|Congress]]. In 1991,<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Paresh Chandra Adhikary of Forward Bloc defeated Mani Bhusan Roy of Congress. Sada Kanta Roy of Forward Bloc defeated Madhu Sudan Roy of Congress in 1987,<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Niren Chowdhury of [[Indian National Congress (Socialist)|ICS]] in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Madhu Sudan Roy of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp01.htm | title =1 - Mekliganj (SC) Assembly Constituency | accessdate = 29 August 2009 | work =Partwise comparison since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India}}</ref>

===1951-1972===
Madhu Sudan Roy of Congress won in 1972.<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> Mihir Kumar Ray of Forward Bloc won in 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> [[Amarendra Nath Roy Pradhan]] of Forward Bloc won in 1969,<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> 1967<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> and [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]].<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> Prasanta Chatterjee of Congress won in [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]]<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> and in [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1951]].<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>

==References==
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{{Cooch Behar topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Cooch Behar district]]

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->MPGuy2824: /* Members of Legislative Assembly */ unnecessary column since the article is about the constituency

->Frietjes: per TfD outcome