West Bengal Election 2022: Goalpokhar Assembly Seat
West Bengal Election: Goalpokhar Assembly Constituency 2022
Goalpokhar is one of the 294 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Uttar Dinajpur district. West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 for Goalpokhar will be held on April 22 and the result was declared on May 2.
In 2016, the Goalpokhar assembly seat had 1,98,207 registered voters. Of the, 1,03,320 were male and 94,881 were female voters. 0.8% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election 2016, Goalpokhar constituency had 7 candidates for assembly seat contention. Goalpokhar was one of 211 seats won by the Indian National Congress. All India Trinamool Congress's Md Gulam Rabbani won the election by upstaging Indian National Congress's Afjal Hosen by a margin of 7,748 votes.
The top three candidates split 95.1% of votes between them. All India Trinamool Congress's Md Gulam Rabbani got a total of 64,869 votes, while Indian National Congress's Afjal Hosen secured 57,121 votes. Bharatiya Janta Party's candidate Debashis Sarkar grabbed the third spot with 16,966 votes. The top three parties got 44.4%, 39.1% and 11.6% respectively.
In West Bengal Assembly election 2011, Indian National Congress's Md. Ghulam Rabbani beat All India Forward Bloc's Safiur Rahaman by 13,413 votes.