Rajganj Assembly constituency

Rajganj (SC)
Rajganj (SC)
Constituency No. 18 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Interactive Map Outlining Rajganj (SC) Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Jalpaiguri
Lok Sabha constituency	Jalpaiguri (SC)
Established	1967
Total electors	231,186
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
	18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Dinesh Sarkar
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2026

Most Successful parties from Rajganj (SC) assembly

Communist Party of India (Marxist) (7 times) (43.8%)
All India Trinamool Congress (4 times) (25.0%)
Indian National Congress (3 times) (18.8%)
Samyukta Socialist Party (1 time) (6.25%)
Bharatiya Janata Party (1 time) (6.25%)

Rajganj (SC) is an assembly constituency in Jalpaiguri district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 18 Rajganj Assembly constituency (SC) covers Binnaguri, Kukurjan, Majhiali, Mantadari, Panikauri, Sannyasikata, Sikarpur and Sukhani gram panchayats of Rajganj community development block, and Baropatia Nutanabos, Belakoba, Paharpur and Patkata gram panchayats of Jalpaiguri community development block.^[1]

Rajganj Assembly constituency is part of No. 3 Jalpaiguri (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name
1967	B.N.R.Hakim	Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Kiran Chandra Roy	Indian National Congress
1971	Bhagwan Singh Roy
1972	Mrigendra Narayan Roy
1977	Dhirendra Nath Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982
1987
1991	Jotindra Nath Roy
1996
2001
2006	Mahendra Kumar Roy
2009	Khageswar Roy	All India Trinamool Congress
2011
2016
2021
2026	Dinesh Sarkar	Bharatiya Janata Party

Bolded year= Bye Election

Election results

2026

In the 2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Dinesh Sarkar of BJP defeated his nearest rival Swapna Barman of TMC by 21,477 votes. Former MLA Khageswar Roy publicly claimed he had "lost to money," alleging that someone had paid to have his name dropped from the candidate list. He also criticized the choice of Swapna Barman, stating she had "never worked for the TMC" and give guarantee the party would lose the seat.

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Rajganj (SC)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dinesh Sarkar	114,657	51.1	9.91
	AITC	Swapna Barman	93,180	41.53	6.97
	CPI(M)	Kharendra Nath Roy	6,371	2.84	2.77
	IND	Sanjib Roy	1,594	0.71
	INC	Tushar Kanti Roy	1,460	0.65
	BSP	Radha Mandal	1,232	0.55	0.15
	SUCI(C)	Ananta Kumar Roy	1,054	0.47	0.27
	IND	Prakash Chandra Roy	999	0.45
	IND	Swapna Barman	932	0.42
	IND	Bapi Roy	625	0.28
	IND	Kunal Roy	338	0.15
	AMB	Harendranath Roy	308	0.14	0.25
	KPP(U)	Jagadish Chandra Roy	307	0.14	0.72
	NOTA	Nota	1,322	0.59	0.88
Majority			21,477	9.87	2.26
Turnout			224,379	97.06	8.69
Registered electors			231,186		5.31
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	8.44

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Rajganj^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Khageswar Roy	104,641	48.5
	BJP	Supen Roy	88,868	41.19
	CPI(M)	Ratan Ray	12,108	5.61
	NOTA	None of the above	3,175	1.47
Majority			15,773	7.31
Turnout			215,755	88.37

2011

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

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Rajganj (SC) constituency^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Khageswar Roy	74,546	46.64
	CPI(M)	Amulya Chandra Roy	67,526	42.25
	BJP	Supen Roy	8,038	5.03
	JMM	Paresh Chandra Roy	7,104	4.44
	BSP	Santi Kishore Barari	2,624
Turnout			159,838	89.61
	AITC hold		Swing

2009

In the 2009 bye-elections, caused by the election of sitting MLA Mahendra Kumar Roy from Jalpaiguri (Lok Sabha constituency), Khageswar Roy of

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