Mekliganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

In the 2011 elections, Paresh Chandra Adhikary of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Jayanta Kumar Ray of Congress.

In the 2006 state assembly elections,[12] Paresh Chandra Adhikary of Forward Bloc won the Mekliganj seat defeating his nearest rival Sunil Chandra Roy of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001,[13] Paresh Chandra Adhikary of Forward Bloc defeated Ramesh Roy of Trinmool Congress. In 1996,[14] Ramesh Roy representing Forward Bloc defeated Sunil Chandra Roy representing Congress. In 1991,[15] Paresh Chandra Adhikary of Forward Bloc defeated Mani Bhusan Roy of Congress. Sada Kanta Roy of Forward Bloc defeated Madhu Sudan Roy of Congress in 1987,[16] Niren Chowdhury of ICS in 1982[17] and Madhu Sudan Roy of Congress in 1977.[8][18]

Madhu Sudan Roy of Congress won in 1972.[7] Mihir Kumar Ray of Forward Bloc won in 1971.[19] Amarendra Nath Roy Pradhan of Forward Bloc won in 1969,[20] 1967[21] and 1962.[6] Prasanta Chatterjee of Congress won in 1957[22] and in independent India's first election in 1951.[5]