[1] It was earlier part of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency).
In the 2006[13] 2001[12] and 1996[11] state assembly elections Sk Majed Ali of CPI (M) won the Pandua assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Alam Kazi Rowshan of Trinamool Congress, Sailen Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress and Madhusudan Banerjee of Congress, in the respective years.
Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned.
Deb Narayan Chakraborty of CPI (M) won the seat in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977 defeating his nearest rivals, Hrishikesh Ghosh of Congress in 1991[10] and 1987,[9] Haren Singha Roy of Congress in 1982[8] and Sailendra Chattopadhya of Congress in 1977.
[3] Radha Nath Das of Congress won in 1962.