 Ghulam Rabbani of Congress By almost a Margin of 15,000 Votes.In the by election in 2009 caused by the election of the sitting MLA, Deepa Dasmunshi of Congress to the Lok Sabha from Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency), the Goalpokhar assembly seat was won by Ali Imran Ramz of Forward Bloc.Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned.