Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency
| Bardhaman Purba WB-38 | |
|---|---|
| Lok Sabha constituency | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| Assembly constituencies | Raina Jamalpur Kalna Memari Purbasthali Dakshin Purbasthali Uttar Katwa |
| Established | 2009 |
| Total electors | 18,01,333 (2024)[1] |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Parliament | |
| 18th Lok Sabha | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2024 |
Bardhaman Purba is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency is based on Purba Bardhaman district in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency are in Purba Bardhaman district. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency, Katwa Lok Sabha constituency and Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency ceased to exist from 2009 and new constituencies came into being: Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency and Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency.[2]
Assembly segments
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Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency (parliamentary constituency no. 38) is composed of the following assembly segments:[2]
| Constituency number | Name | District | Party (as of 2021) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 261 | Raina (SC) | Purba Bardhaman | TMC |
| 262 | Jamalpur (SC) | TMC | |
| 264 | Kalna (SC) | TMC | |
| 265 | Memari | TMC | |
| 268 | Purbasthali Dakshin | TMC | |
| 269 | Purbasthali Uttar | TMC | |
| 270 | Katwa | TMC |
Members of Parliament
[edit]| Lok Sabha | Duration | Name of M.P. | Party Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fifteenth | 2009-14 | Anup Kumar Saha | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[3] | |
| Sixteenth[4] | 2014-2019 | Sunil Kumar Mandal | Trinamool Congress | |
| Seventeenth | 2019-2024 | |||
| Eighteenth | 2024-Incumbent | Sharmila Sarkar | ||
For Members of Parliament from this area in previous years see Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency and Katwa Lok Sabha constituency
Election results
[edit]2024
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sharmila Sarkar | 730,302 | 48.11 |  3.59
| |
| BJP | Ashim Kumar Sarkar | 5,59,730 | 37.38 | 0.94
| |
| CPI(M) | Nirab Khan | 1,76,899 | 11.81 |  0.41
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 12,697 | 0.85 | 0.10
| |
| Majority | 1,60,572 | 10.72 | 2.06
| ||
| Turnout | 14,97,310 | 83.12 | 1.66
| ||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
2019
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sunil Kumar Mandal | 640,834 | 44.52 | +1.02 | |
| BJP | Paresh Chandra Das | 551,523 | 38.32 | +25.39 | |
| CPI(M) | Ishwar Chandra Das | 175,920 | 12.22 | −22.61 | |
| INC | Sidhartha Majumdar | 38,472 | 2.67 | −3.54 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 10,747 | 0.75 | N/A | |
| Majority | 89,311 | 8.66 | +3.38 | ||
| Turnout | 14,39,603 | 84.78 | |||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
General election 2014
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Sunil Kumar Mandal | 5,74,660 | 43.50 | +1.48 | |
| CPI(M) | Ishwar Chandra Das | 4,60,181 | 34.83 | −12.48 | |
| BJP | Santosh Roy | 1,70,828 | 12.93 | +6.56 | |
| INC | Chandana Majhi | 68,884 | 5.21 | N/A | |
| JMM | Swapan Malik | 9,666 | 0.73 | N/A | |
| SUCI(C) | Kalicharan Sardar | 7,981 | 0.60 | N/A | |
| CPI(ML)L | Pejush Kumar Sahana | 5,919 | 0.44 | −0.30 | |
| BSP | Mukul Biswas | 5,442 | 0.41 | −0.39 | |
| JDP | Prosanta Bag | 3,410 | 0.25 | ||
| Majority | 1,14,479 | 8.66 | +3.38 | ||
| Turnout | 13,20,922 | 86.21 | −1.00 | ||
| AITC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | -4.76 | |||
General election 2009
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Dr Anup Kumar Saha | 5,31,987 | 47.31 | ||
| AITC | Ashoke Biswas | 4,72,568 | 42.02 | ||
| BJP | Sankar Haldar | 71,632 | 6.37 | ||
| AUDF | Rabindranath Bag | 17,716 | 1.57 | ||
| JDP | Raju Malik | 12,982 | 1.15 | ||
| BSP | Mukul Biswas | 9,069 | 0.80 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Pijush Kumar Sahana | 8,419 | 0.74 | ||
| Majority | 59,419 | 5.28 | |||
| Turnout | 11,24,373 | 87.21 | |||
| CPI(M) win (new seat) | |||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ https://elections24.eci.gov.in/docs/WYKXFehhEH.pdf Archived 26 May 2024 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
- ^ a b "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
- ^ a b "General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Result" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ a b "General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ^ https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/ConstituencywiseS2538.htm [bare URL]
- ^ "General Elections 2019 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results". West Bengal. Election commission of India. Archived from the original on 22 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.