In independent India's first election in 1951, Atindra Nath Bose of Forward Bloc (Ruikar) won the seat defeating Yogendranath Roy of Congress.

[19] In the 2006 state assembly elections, Prativa Ranjan Mukherjee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)) won the Asansol seat, defeating his nearest rival Kalyan Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress.

In 1991, Goutam Roy Choudhury had won the seat defeating Bajrangi Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

In 1982, Bejoy Pal of CPI (M) defeated his nearest rival Sukumar Banerjee of Congress.

In 1977, Haradhan Roy of CPI (M) defeated Gopika Ranjan Mitra of Congress.