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{{Infobox settlement



| name = Rajganj 
| 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|33|22|N|88|30|31|E|region:IN-WB|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 = [[Jalpaiguri district|Jalpaiguri]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No]]
| subdivision_name3 = 18
| 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 = 178,377 (2011)

| area_code =
| website =
| footnotes =
| leader_party = [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
| leader_title = MLA
| leader_name = [[Khageswar Roy]]
}}

'''Rajganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Jalpaiguri 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. 18 Rajganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) covers Binnaguri, Kukurjan, Majhiali, Mantadari, Panikauri, Sannyasikata, Sikarpur and Sukhani [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Rajganj (Community development block)|Rajganj]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]], and Baropatia Nutanabos, Belakoba, Paharpur and Patkata gram panchayats of [[Jalpaiguri (Community development block)|Jalpaiguri]] 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|access-date= 30 June 2014| work= West Bengal|publisher= Election Commission of India}}</ref>

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

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable"ìÍĦĤĠčw
|-
! Election<br/> Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||Rajganj||B.N.R.Hakim||[[Samyukta Socialist Party]]<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 | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Kiran Chandra Roy||[[Indian National Congress]]<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 |access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Bhagwan Singh Roy||Indian National Congress<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 | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1972||||Mrigendra Narayan Roy||Indian National Congress<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 | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||Dhirendra Nath Roy||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<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 | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||Dhirendra Nath Roy||Communist Party of India (Marxist) <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 | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||Dhirendra Nath Roy||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1991||||[[Jotindra Nath Roy]]||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1996||||[[Jotindra Nath Roy]]||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||[[Jotindra Nath Roy]]||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||[[Mahendra Kumar Roy (West Bengal politician)|Mahendra Kumar Roy]]||Communist Party of India (Marxist) <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 | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|2009 Bye election||||Khageswar Roy||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha2009bye>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/press/current/pn101109.pdf|title=Results of bye – elections to the 31 (thirty one) Assembly Constituencies and 1(one) Lok Sabha Constituency|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date= 2009-08-29}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||||Khageswar Roy||All India Trinamool Congress<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 | access-date = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|
|Khageswar Roy
|All India Trinamool Congress
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|
|[[Khageswar Roy]]
|All India Trinamool Congress
|}

==2021 Election==

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|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
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==Election results==

===2011===
In the 2011 elections, Khageshwar Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Amulya Chandra Roy of CPI(M).

{{Election box begin | title=West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Rajganj (SC) constituency <ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=18|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Rajganj| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 1 June 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Khageswar Roy
|votes = 74,546
|percentage = 46.64
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{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Amulya Chandra Roy
|votes = 67,526
|percentage = 42.25
|change =
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{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Supen Roy
|votes = 8,038
|percentage = 5.03
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{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
|candidate = Paresh Chandra Roy
|votes = 7,104
|percentage = 4.44
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{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Santi Kishore Barari
|votes = 2,624
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{{Election box turnout
|votes = 159,838
|percentage = 89.61
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|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
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===1977-2009===
In the 2009 bye-elections, caused by the election of sitting MLA [[Mahendra Kumar Roy (Marxist)|Mahendra Kumar Roy]] from [[Jalpaiguri (Lok Sabha constituency)]], Khageswar Roy of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] won the Rajganj (SC) seat.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://indian-electionaffairs.com/results/bye-elections/West_Bengal_bye-elections-2009.html | title = West Bengal State Assembly Byelections 2009 | publisher = Indian Election Affairs | access-date = 29 August 2009 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110713024926/http://indian-electionaffairs.com/results/bye-elections/West_Bengal_bye-elections-2009.html | archive-date = 13 July 2011 | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/press/current/pn101109.pdf|title=Results of bye – elections to the 31 (thirty one) Assembly Constituencies and 1(one) Lok Sabha Constituency|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date= 29 August 2009}}</ref>

In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006 state assembly elections]],<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> Mahendra Kumar Roy of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] won the Rajganj (SC) assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Khageswar Roy of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Jotindra Nath Roy of CPI(M) defeated Khageswar Roy of Trinamool Congress in 2001,<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> and Ajit Kumar Roy of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Dhirendra Nath Roy of CPI(M) defeated Birendra Das of Congress in 1987,<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Jiban Kumar Ray of Congress in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Monomohan Roy of [[Janata Party]] in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp21.htm | title = 21 - Rajganj (SC) Assembly Constituency|work=Partywise Comparison Since 1977|publisher=Election Commission of India| access-date = 29 August 2009}}</ref>

===1967–1972===
Mrigendra Narayan Roy of Congress won in 1972.<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> Bhagwan Singh Roy of Congress won in 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Kiran Chandra Roy of Congress won in 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> B.N.R.Hakim of [[Samyukta Socialist Party|SSP]] won in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Jalpaiguri topics}}
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Jalpaiguri district]]

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