Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency

Basirhat Uttar
Basirhat Uttar
Constituency No. 125 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Interactive Map Outlining Basirhat Uttar Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Lok Sabha constituency	Basirhat
Established	1951
Total electors	2,38,426
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Mohammad Tauseefur Rahman
Party	AITC
Elected year	2026

Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, 125 Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Basirhat II community development block, and Amlani, Bhebia, Makhal Gachha, Murarisha gram panchayats of Hasnabad community development block.^[1]

Basirhat Uttar Assembly constituency is part of 18. Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member
Basirhat
1951	Profulla Nath Banerjee	Indian National Congress^[2]
1957^[3]	Profulla Nath Banerjee
1962	Bijesh Chandra Sen^[4]
1967	A.B. Bandopadhyay	Communist Party of India^[5]
1969^[6]	A.B. Bandopadhyay	Communist Party of India^[5]
1971	Lalit Kumar Ghosh	Indian National Congress^[7]
1972^[8]	Lalit Kumar Ghosh	Indian National Congress^[7]
1977	Narayan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[9]
1982^[10]
1987^[11]
1991^[12]
1996^[13]
2001^[14]
2006^[15]
Basirhat Uttar
2011	Mostafa Bin Qaseem	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[16]
2011^	ATM Abdullah	Trinamool Congress^[17]
2016	Rafikul Islam Mondal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021	Rafikul Islam Mondal	Trinamool Congress
2026	Md. Tauseef Rahman	Trinamool Congress

^ denotes by-election

Election results

2026

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2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Basirhat Uttar^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Md. Tauseef Rahman	115,503	48.42	−9.13
	ISF	Md. Musa Karemulla	58,233	24.41	+4.33
	BJP	Koushik Sidhartha	55,211	23.14	+3.22
	Independent	Sahanur Mondal	2,532	1.06
	NOTA	None of the above	1,684	0.71	−0.11
Majority			57,270	24.01	−13.46
Turnout			238,563	97.12	+8.17
	AITC hold		Swing	-9.13

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Basirhat Uttar^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Rafikul Islam Mondal	137,216	57.55
	ISF	Md Baijid Amin	47,865	20.08
	BJP	Narayan Chandra Mondal	47,505	19.92
	NOTA	None of the above	1,952	0.82
Majority			89,351	37.47
Turnout			238,426	88.95
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Basirhat Uttar constituency^[16]^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Rafikul Islam Mondal	97,828	45.74	8.85
	AITC	ATM Abdullah	97,336	45,51	11.44
	BJP	Tarafan Ali Gazi	13,072	6.11	1.62
	BSP	Abul Kasem Dhali	3,006	1.41
	NOTA	None of the above	2,636	1.24	N/A
Majority			492	0.23	19.83
Turnout			2,13,885	89.62
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing

The percentage changes of the 2016 election is calculated based upon the 2011 Bypoll.

2011 bypoll

A by-election in 2011 was necessitated by the death of Mostafa bin Kassem, the CPI(M) MLA from Basirhat Uttar, who was found dead outside Kyd street MLA's Hostel on 29 May 2011.^[21]

West Bengal state assembly bye election, 2011: Basirhat Uttar constituency^[17]^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	ATM Abdullah	87,899	56.95	14.12
	CPI(M)	Subid Ali Gazi	56,948	36.89	8.30
	BJP	Subodh Kumar Chakraborty	6,938	4.49	1.08
	Independent	Ajit Pramanick	2,964
Turnout			154,339	80.35	6.49
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

The percentage changes of the bypoll is calculated from the 2011 assembly election.

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Basirhat Uttar constituency^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Mostafa Bin Qaseem	75,576	45.19
	AITC	Sardar Amzad Ali	71,632	42.83
	BJP	Somen Mandal	9,316	5.57
	People’s Democratic Conference of India	Rafikul Mandal	7,327
	BSP	Prosanta Biswas	1,829
	All india Minorities Front	Anwar Hossain Mollah	1,569
Turnout			167,248	86.84
	CPI(M) win (new seat)

As per 2011 census the total population of basirhat uttar is 338937, Hindu 115986, Muslim 222264, Other 687.Hindu 34.22%, Muslim 65.58%, Other 0.20%.

2006

During the period Narayan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won seven elections in a row from 95 Basirhat assembly constituency, defeating his nearest rivals Asit Majumdar of INC in 2006,^[15] Souren Sen of Trinamool Congress in 2001,^[14] Asit Majumdar of Congress in 1996,^[13] Dilip Mazumdar of Congress in 1991^[12] and 1987,^[11] and Debi Prasad Nanda of Congress in 1982^[10] and 1977.^[9]^[22]

1972

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Lalit Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1972^[8] and 1971.^[7] A.B.Bandopadhyay of CPI won in 1969^[6] and 1967.^[5] Bijesh Chandra Sen of Congress won in 1962.^[4] Profulla Nath Banerjee of Congress won in 1957^[3] and in independent India's first election in 1951.^[2]

References

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[delimitation-1] 1 2 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2010.

[vidhansabha1952-2] 1 2 "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

[vidhansabha1957-3] 1 2 "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

[vidhansabha1962-4] 1 2 "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

[vidhansabha1967-5] 1 2 "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

[vidhansabha1969-6] 1 2 "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

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[vidhansabha1996-13] 1 2 "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

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[election2026-18] 1 2 "Assembly Constituency 125 - BASIRHAT UTTAR (West Bengal)". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 12 May 2026.

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