Narayan Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP won in 1969 and 1967. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee of Congress won in 1962 and 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, it was a joint seat. Pijush Kanti Mukherjee and Dhirandra Brahma Mandal, both from Congress, won.
1977-2006
Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections, Nirmal Das of RSP defeated Sourav Chakraborty of Congress, Prasanta Narayan Majumdar of Trinamool Congress, Manindralal Rakshit of Congress and Biswa Ranjan Sarkar of Congress, respectively. Nani Bhattacharya of RSP defeated Debabrata Chatterjee of Congress in 1987, Pallab Ghosh of Congress in 1982 and Narayan Bhattachary of Congress in 1977.
