Indian political election in West Bengal
2019 Indian general election in West Bengal Opinion polls Turnout 81.76% ( 0.46 pp ) First party Second party Leader Mamata Banerjee Dilip Ghosh Party AITC BJP Alliance NDA Leader since 1998 2014 Leader's seat Did not contest Medinipur Last election 39.8%, 34 seats 17%, 2 seats Seats won 22 18 Seat change 12 16 Popular vote 24,757,345 23,028,517 Percentage 43.3% 40.7% Swing 3.48 pp 22.76 pp Third party Fourth party Leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Surjya Kanta Mishra Party INC CPI(M) Alliance UPA LF Leader since 2015 2011 Leader's seat Baharampur Did not contest Last election 9.7%, 4 seats 23%, 2 seats Seats won 2 0 Seat change 2 2 Popular vote 3,210,491 3,594,283 Percentage 5.67% 6.33% Swing 4.03 pp 16.66 pp
The 2019 Indian general election were held in India between April and May 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha .[ 1] [ 2]
Date published Polling agency Lead AITC Left Front UPA NDA Jan 2019 Republic TV - C Voter 43.7% 14.4% 9.6% 31.8% 11.9%
Poll Type Date published Polling agency Lead AITC UPA Left Front NDA Exit poll [ 3] [ 4]
ABP - Nielson 24 2 0 16 8 Times Now - VMR 28 2 1 11 17 Republic TV- Jan Ki Baat 29 2 0 11 18 India Today - AxisMyIndia [ 5] 19–22 0–1 0 19-23 1 NewsX - CNX 26 2 0 14 8 News24 - Today's Chanakya 23 1 0 18 5 Opinion poll 06 Apr 2019 India TV - CNX[ 6] 28 1 1 12 16 05 Apr 2019 Republic TV - Jan ki Baat[ 7] 25 3 1 13 12 Mar 2019 ABP News- Nielsen[ 8] 31 3 – 8 23 Jan 2019 Spick Media[ 9] 30 4 0 8 22 Jan 2019 Republic TV - C Voter 34 1 0 7 27 Nov 2018 Spick Media[ 10] 32 4 1 5 27 Nov 2018 ABP News - C Voter[ 11] 32 1 – 9 23
On 12 March 2019, party president Mamata Banerjee announced the party candidates for the election.[ 12] 41% of the candidates were women. Notable exclusions from the list were the party's general secretary Subrata Bakshi and Sugata Bose . Bose did not get permission from Harvard University , where he is a professor, to contest the election.[ 13] Notable inclusions were Bengali actresses Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan .[ 14]
Results by alliance or party [ edit ] Vote Share (By alliance)
Others (2.5%)
Parties/ Alliance Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/− AITC 24,756,985 43.27% 4.64% 42 22 12 BJP 23,028,343 40.25% 22.2% 42 18 16 LF CPI(M) 3,594,283 6.28% 31 0 2 AIFB 239,218 0.41% 3 0 CPI 2,27,695 0.39% 3 0 RSP 2,08,275 0.36% 4 0 Total 4,269,471 7.44% 16.72% 41 0 2 INC 3,210,485 5.61% 4.09% 40 2 2 Others 1,941,029 2.5% Total 57,206,313 100%
Constituency-wise Results [ edit ] [ 15]
# Constituency Turnout[ 16] Winner Party Margin 1 Cooch Behar 84.08 Nisith Pramanik Bharatiya Janata Party 54,231 2 Alipurduars 83.79 John Barla Bharatiya Janata Party 2,43,989 3 Jalpaiguri 86.51 Jayanta Kumar Roy Bharatiya Janata Party 1,84,004 4 Darjeeling 78.80 Raju Singh Bisht Bharatiya Janata Party 4,13,443 5 Raiganj 79.82 Debasree Chaudhuri Bharatiya Janata Party 60,574 6 Balurghat 83.69 Sukanta Majumder Bharatiya Janata Party 33,293 7 Maldaha Uttar 80.39 Khagen Murmu Bharatiya Janata Party 84,288 8 Maldaha Dakshin 81.24 Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury Indian National Congress 8,222 9 Jangipur 80.72 Khalilur Rahman All India Trinamool Congress 2,45,782 10 Baharampur 79.41 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Indian National Congress 80,696 11 Murshidabad 84.29 Abu Taher Khan All India Trinamool Congress 2,26,417 12 Krishnanagar 83.75 Mahua Moitra All India Trinamool Congress 63,218 13 Ranaghat 84.26 Jagannath Sarkar Bharatiya Janata Party 2,33,428 14 Bangaon 82.64 Shantanu Thakur Bharatiya Janata Party 1,11,594 15 Barrackpore 76.91 Arjun Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 14,857 16 Dum Dum 76.92 Saugata Roy All India Trinamool Congress 53,002 17 Barasat 81.26 Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar All India Trinamool Congress 1,09,983 18 Basirhat 85.43 Nusrat Jahan All India Trinamool Congress 3,50,369 19 Jaynagar 82.29 Pratima Mondal All India Trinamool Congress 3,16,775 20 Mathurapur 84.86 Choudhury Mohan Jatua All India Trinamool Congress 2,03,974 21 Diamond Harbour 81.98 Abhishek Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 3,20,594 22 Jadavpur 79.11 Mimi Chakraborty All India Trinamool Congress 2,95,239 23 Kolkata Dakshin 69.82 Mala Roy All India Trinamool Congress 1,55,192 24 Kolkata Uttar 65.83 Sudip Bandyopadhyay All India Trinamool Congress 1,27,095 25 Howrah 74.83 Prasun Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 1,03,695 26 Uluberia 81.18 Sajda Ahmed All India Trinamool Congress 2,15,359 27 Srerampore 78.54 Kalyan Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 98,536 28 Hooghly 82.57 Locket Chatterjee Bharatiya Janata Party 73,362 29 Arambagh 83.44 Aparupa Poddar All India Trinamool Congress 1,142 30 Tamluk 85.38 Dibyendu Adhikari All India Trinamool Congress 1,90,165 31 Kanthi 85.83 Sisir Adhikari All India Trinamool Congress 1,11,668 32 Ghatal 82.74 Deepak Adhikari (Dev) All India Trinamool Congress 1,07,973 33 Jhargram 85.71 Kunar Hembram Bharatiya Janata Party 11,767 34 Medinipur 84.24 Dilip Ghosh Bharatiya Janata Party 88,952 35 Purulia 82.38 Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato Bharatiya Janata Party 2,04,732 36 Bankura 83.25 Subhas Sarkar Bharatiya Janata Party 1,74,333 37 Bishnupur 87.34 Saumitra Khan Bharatiya Janata Party 78,047 38 Bardhaman Purba 84.78 Sunil Kumar Mondal All India Trinamool Congress 89,311 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur 82.67 S. S. Ahluwalia Bharatiya Janata Party 2,439 40 Asansol 76.62 Babul Supriyo Bharatiya Janata Party 1,97,637 41 Bolpur 85.74 Asit Kumar Mal All India Trinamool Congress 1,06,402 42 Birbhum 85.34 Shatabdi Roy All India Trinamool Congress 88,924
Constituency wise alliance or party votes [ edit ] # Constituency TMC votes NDA votes UPA votes LF votes Win Margin 1 Cooch Behar 677,363 731,594 28,215 46,648 54,231 2 Alipurduars 506,815 750,804 27,427 54,010 243,989 3 Jalpaiguri 576,141 760,145 28,488 76,054 184,004 4 Darjeeling 336,624 750,067 65,186 50,524 413,443 5 Raiganj 451,078 511,652 83,662 183,039 60,574 6 Balurghat 506,024 539,317 36,783 72,990 33,293 7 Maldaha Uttar 425,236 509,524 305,270 50,401 84,288 8 Maldaha Dakshin 351,353 436,048 444,270 - 8,222 9 Jangipur 562,838 317,056 255,836 95,501 245,782 10 Baharampur 510,410 143,038 591,147 13,362 80,696 11 Murshidabad 604,346 247,809 377,929 180,793 226,417 12 Krishnanagar 614,872 551,654 38,305 120,222 63,218 13 Ranaghat 549,825 783,254 23,297 97,771 233,428 14 Bangaon 576,028 687,622 22,618 90,122 1,11,594 15 Barrackpore 458,137 472,994 15,746 117,456 14,857 16 Dum Dum 512,062 459,060 29,097 167,590 53,002 17 Barasat 648,444 538,275 37,277 124,068 109,983 18 Basirhat 782,078 431,709 104,183 68,316 350,369 19 Jaynagar | 761,206 444,427 18,758 67,913 316,775 20 Mathurapur 726,828 522,854 32,324 92,417 203,974 21 Diamond Harbour 791,127 470,533 19,828 93,941 320,594 22 Jadavpur 688,472 393,233 - 302,264 295,239 23 Kolkata Dakshin 573,119 417,927 42,618 140,275 155,192 24 Kolkata Uttar 474,891 347,796 26,093 71,080 127,095 25 Howrah 576,711 473,016 32,107 105,547 103,695 26 Uluberia 694,945 479,586 27,568 81,314 215,359 27 Srerampore 637,707 539,171 32,509 152,281 98,536 28 Hooghly 598,086 671,448 25,374 121,588 73,362 29 Arambagh 649,929 648,787 25,128 100,520 1,142 30 Tamluk 724,433 534,268 16,001 136,129 190,165 31 Kanthi 711,872 600,204 16,851 76,185 1,11,668 32 Ghatal 717,959 609,986 32,793 97,062 1,07,973 33 Jhargram 614,816 626,583 20,754 75,680 11,767 34 Medinipur 596,481 685,433 20,807 62,319 88,952 35 Purulia 463,375 668,107 84,477 68,464 204,732 36 Bankura 500,986 675,319 20,472 100,282 174,333 37 Bishnupur 578,972 657,019 17,932 102,615 78,047 38 Bardhaman Purba 640,834 551,523 38,472 175,920 89,311 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur 595,937 598,376 38,516 161,329 2,439 40 Asansol 435,741 633,378 21,038 87,608 197,637 41 Bolpur 699,172 592,769 30,112 91,964 106,402 42 Birbhum 654,070 565,153 75,451 96,763 88,924
There has been a major political shift from the left to the right in the 2019 general elections in West Bengal. The Statesman says, “Making an aggressive penetration in Bengal for the first time since its inception in 1980, BJP alone has dramatically increased its vote share close to 40 percent this time. Thus, it has virtually made the CPI-M into a mere marginalised political party and at the same time the saffron party set a strong challenge before the Trinamool Congress hardly two years ahead of the Assembly elections scheduled in 2021 in the state.” This obviously is the most important impact of the general elections in the state visible in the voting pattern right across the state, irrespective of who won or lost a particular seat.[ 17] [ 18]
Assembly segments wise lead of Parties [ edit ] 2019 Lok Sabha in West Bengal by Assembly Segment Postal Ballot wise lead of Parties [ edit ] TMC won 3 out of 3 assembly seats in the next assembly by-elections in November 2019. Even the seat of State BJP president Dilip Ghosh which fell vacant due to Dilip Ghosh's win in Loksabha election, Kharagpur Sadar was won by TMC by a lead of 22,000 votes. TMC was trailing in that seat by 15,800 votes in 2019 general elections.[ 21] [ 22] [ 23] [ 24] [ 25]
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