Balagarh is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
191 Balagarh Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Balagarh community development block and Chandrahati I, Chandrahati II, Digsui and Mogra I gram panchayats of Chinsurah Mogra community development block.
The Balagarh seat fell vacant because of the death of the sitting MLA, Dibakanta Routh.
Abinash Pramanik of CPI (M) won the seat in 1991,[12] 1987,[11] 1982[10] and 1977[9] defeating his nearest rivals Biswanath Malik, Gopal Krishna Dhar, Nilmoni Mandal and Gauranga Halder, all of Congress, in the respective years.
[3] In independent India's first election in 1951[2] the Balagarh seat was won by Brindaban Chattopdhyay of Congress.