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The Sitalkuchi Assembly / Vidhan Sabha constituency is located in the Cooch Behar district of West Bengal. It belongs to the Cooch Behar (SC) Lok Sabha constituency.

The constituency, reserved for candidates from the programmed castes, has 2,75,415 voters and 301 polling stations.

Voter turnout in previous elections
Voter turnout in Sitalkuchi in the previous Assembly election was 88.05 percent.

Winners and results of previous elections
In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections, Hiten Barman from the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) won the seat from Sitalkuchi. The AITC, BJP, and CPM obtained 44.18, 11.89, and 37.45 percent of votes respectively in the 2016 polls. Barman had also emerged victorious from the constituency in the 2011 Assembly elections.

The Sitalkuchi Assembly constituency is expected to go to the polls in April or May 2021, as part of the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections.

The West Bengal Assembly elections will be held to elect a total of 294 members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA).

According to the 2011 census estimates, Sitalkuchi has a 3,44,092 inhabitants. Programmed Castes (SC) and Programmed Tribes (ST) are 63.58 and 0.11 percent, respectively, of the total population.

Sitalkuchi has an average literacy rate of 76 percent, higher than the national average of 70.34 percent. Male literacy is 77.03 percent and female literacy is 63.41 percent. Agriculture is the main way of life in the district, and paddy rice and jute are among the highest producing crops.

The constituency has witnessed a sensitive atmosphere in the past and, often, incidents resulting from the political rivalry between the TMC and the BJP. Shortly after the Lok Sabha elections in 2019, the Trinamool office in the Sitalkuchi area of ​​the district was looted. “Since the results came in, the BJP workers closed our party’s offices or destroyed or set them on fire,” Trinamool Sitalkuchi bloc president Abed Ali Miya told reporters. BJP’s Nisith Pramanik had defeated Trinamool’s Paresh Adhikary in the Coochbehar seat.

The vehicle of West Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh was attacked in 2018 in Sitalkuchi while on his way to a Rath Yatra in Mathabhanga, sparking a blame game between the TMC and the saffron party.