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2019 Indian general election in West Bengal

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2019 Indian general election in West Bengal

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All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Opinion polls
Turnout81.76% (Decrease 0.46 pp)
  First party Second party
 
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Dilip Ghosh.jpg
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 Decrease 12 Increase 16
Popular vote 24,757,345 23,028,517
Percentage 43.3% 40.7%
Swing Increase 3.48 pp Increase 22.76 pp

  Third party Fourth party
 
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Dr. Surjya Kanta Mishra at a meeting to assess implementation of safe drinking water, rural sanitation and NREGA schemes, in Kolkata on June 01, 2007.jpg
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 Decrease 2 Decrease2
Popular vote 3,210,491 3,594,283
Percentage 5.67% 6.33%
Swing Decrease 4.03 pp Decrease 16.66 pp



Prime Minister before election

Narendra Modi
BJP

Prime Minister after election

Narendra Modi
BJP

The 2019 Indian general election were held in India between April and May 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha.[1][2]

Surveys and Polls

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Vote share

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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%

Seat projections

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Poll Type Date published Polling agency Lead
AITC UPA Left Front NDA
Exit poll

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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

Candidates

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Trinamool Congress

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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]

List of candidates

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# Constituency Reserved for

(SC/ST/None)

Candidates Name
All India Trinamool Congress Indian National Congress Left Front Bharatiya Janata Party
1 Cooch Behar SC Paresh Chandra Adhikary Priya Roy Choudhury Gobinda Chandra Roy

(AIFB)

Nisith Pramanik
2 Alipurduars ST Dasrath Tirkey Mohan Lal Basumuta Mili Oraon

(RSP)

John Barla
3 Jalpaiguri SC Bijoy Chandra Barman Mani Kumar Darnal Bhagirath Chandra Roy

(CPI(M))

Jayanta Ray
4 Darjeeling None Amar Singh Rai Shankar Malakar Saman Pathak

(CPI(M))

Raju Singh Bisht
5 Raiganj None Kanaia Lal Agarwal Deepa Dasmunshi Mohammed Salim

(CPI(M))

Deboshree Chaudhary
6 Balurghat None Arpita Ghosh Sadik Sarkar Ranen Barman

(RSP)

Sukanta Majumdar
7 Maldaha Uttar None Mausam Noor Isha Khan Chowdhury Biswanath Ghosh

(CPI(M))

Khagen Murmu
8 Maldaha Dakshin None Moazzem Hossain Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury CPI(M) supports INC Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury
9 Jangipur None Khalilur Rehman Abhijit Mukherjee Md. Zulfikar Ali

(CPI(M))

Mafuja Khatun
10 Baharampur None Apurba Sarkar Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Saikh Id Mohammad

(RSP)

Krishna Juardar Arya
11 Murshidabad None Abu Taher Khan Abu Hena Badaruddoza Khan

(CPI(M))

Humayun Kabir
12 Krishnanagar None Mahua Moitra Intaj Ali Shah Dr. Shantanu Jha

(CPI(M))

Kalyan Chaubey
13 Ranaghat SC Rupaali Biswas Minati Biswas CA Rama Biswas

(CPI(M))

Jagannath Sarkar
14 Bangaon SC Mamata Bala Thakur Sourav Prasad Alakesh Das

(CPI(M))

Shantanu Thakur
15 Barrackpur None Dinesh Trivedi Mohammad Alam Gargi Chatterjee

(CPI(M))

Arjun Singh
16 Dum Dum None Sougata Roy Saurav Saha Nepaldev Bhattacharya

(CPI(M))

Samik Bhattacharya
17 Barasat None Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar Subrota (Rashu) Dutta Haripada Biswas

(AIFB)

Mrinal Kanthi Debnath
18 Basirhat None Nusrat Jahan Quazi Abdur Rahim Pallab Sengupta

(CPI)

Sayantan Basu
19 Jaynagar SC Pratima Mondal Tapan Mondal Subhas Naskar

(RSP)

Ashok Kandari
20 Mathurapur SC Choudhury Mohan Jatua Krittibas Sardar Dr. Sarat Chandra Haldar

(CPI(M))

Shyamaprasad Halder
21 Diamond Harbour None Abhishek Banerjee Soumya Aich Roy Dr. Fuad Halim

(CPI(M))

Nilanjan Roy
22 Jadavpur None Mimi Chakraborty INC supports CPI(M) Adv. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya

(CPI(M))

Anupam Hazra
23 Kolkata Dakshin None Mala Roy Mita Chakraborty Dr. Nandini Mukherjee

(CPI(M))

Chandra Kumar Bose
24 Kolkata Uttar None Sudip Bandyopadhyay Syed Shahid Imam Kaninika Bose (Ghosh)

(CPI(M))

Rahul Sinha
25 Howrah None Prasun Banerjee Suvra Ghosh Adv. Sumitro Adhikary

(CPI(M))

Rantideb Sen Gupta
26 Uluberia None Sajda Ahmed Shoma Ranisree Roy Dr. Maksuda Khatun

(CPI(M))

Joy Banerjee
27 Serampore None Kalyan Banerjee Debabrata Biswas CA Tirthankar Ray

(CPI(M))

Debajit Sarkar
28 Hooghly None Ratna De (Nag) Pratul Saha Pradip Saha

(CPI(M))

Locket Chatterjee
29 Arambagh SC Aparupa Poddar Jyoti Das Sakti Mohan Malik

(CPI(M))

Tapan Roy
30 Tamluk None Dibyendu Adhikari Lakshman Chandra Seth Sk. Ibrahim Ali

(CPI(M))

Siddhartha Naskar
31 Contai None Sisir Adhikari Dipak Kumar Das Paritosh Pattanayak

(CPI(M))

Debasish Samant
32 Ghatal None Dev Khandakar Mohammad Saifullah Tapan Ganguli

(CPI)

Bharati Ghosh
33 Jhargram ST Birbaha Soren Jagyeswar Hembram Deblina Hembram

(CPI(M))

Kunar Hembram
34 Medinipur None Manas Bhunia Sambhunath Chatterjee Biplab Bhatta

(CPI)

Dilip Ghosh
35 Purulia None Mriganko Mahato Nepal Mahato Bir Singh Mahato

(AIFB)

Jyotirmoy Mahto
36 Bankura None Subrata Mukherjee Did Not Contest Dr. Amiya Patra

(CPI(M))

Subhash Sarkar
37 Bishnupur SC Shyamal Santra Narayan Chandra Khan Sunil Khan

(CPI(M))

Saumitra Khan
38 Bardhaman Purba SC Sunil Kumar Mandal Siddhartha Majumder Iswar Chandra Das

(CPI(M))

Paresh Chandra Das
39 Bardhaman-Durgapur None Mamtaz Sanghamita Ranajit Mukherjee Abhas Ray Chaudhuri

(CPI(M))

S. S. Ahluwalia
40 Asansol None Moon Moon Sen Biswarup Mondal Gouranga Chatterjee

(CPI(M))

Babul Supriyo
41 Bolpur SC Asit Kumar Mal Abhijit Saha Dr. Ram Chandra Dome

(CPI(M))

Ram Prashad Das
42 Birbhum None Shatabdi Roy Imam Hossain Dr. Md. Rezaul Karim

(CPI(M))

Dudh Kumar Mondal

Results

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Results by alliance or party

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22 18 2
AITC BJP INC

Vote Share (By alliance)

  AITC (43.27%)
  BJP (40.25%)
  LF (7.44%)
  INC (5.61%)
  Others (2.5%)
Parties/ Alliance Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/−
AITC 24,756,985 43.27% Increase 4.64% 42 22 Decrease 12
BJP 23,028,343 40.25% Increase 22.2% 42 18 Increase 16
LF
CPI(M) 3,594,283 6.28% Decrease 31 0 Decrease 2
AIFB 239,218 0.41% Decrease 3 0 Steady
CPI 2,27,695 0.39% Decrease 3 0 Steady
RSP 2,08,275 0.36% Decrease 4 0 Steady
Total 4,269,471 7.44% Decrease 16.72% 41 0 Decrease 2
INC 3,210,485 5.61% Decrease 4.09% 40 2 Decrease 2
Others 1,941,029 2.5% Steady
Total 57,206,313 100%

Constituency-wise Results

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# Constituency Turnout[16] Winner Party Margin
1 Cooch Behar 84.08 Increase Nisith Pramanik Bharatiya Janata Party 54,231
2 Alipurduars 83.79 Increase John Barla Bharatiya Janata Party 2,43,989
3 Jalpaiguri 86.51 Increase Jayanta Kumar Roy Bharatiya Janata Party 1,84,004
4 Darjeeling 78.80 Decrease Raju Singh Bisht Bharatiya Janata Party 4,13,443
5 Raiganj 79.82 Decrease Debasree Chaudhuri Bharatiya Janata Party 60,574
6 Balurghat 83.69 Decrease Sukanta Majumder Bharatiya Janata Party 33,293
7 Maldaha Uttar 80.39 Decrease Khagen Murmu Bharatiya Janata Party 84,288
8 Maldaha Dakshin 81.24 Increase Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury Indian National Congress 8,222
9 Jangipur 80.72 Increase Khalilur Rahman All India Trinamool Congress 2,45,782
10 Baharampur 79.41 Increase Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Indian National Congress 80,696
11 Murshidabad 84.29 Decrease Abu Taher Khan All India Trinamool Congress 2,26,417
12 Krishnanagar 83.75 Decrease Mahua Moitra All India Trinamool Congress 63,218
13 Ranaghat 84.26 Decrease Jagannath Sarkar Bharatiya Janata Party 2,33,428
14 Bangaon 82.64 Decrease Shantanu Thakur Bharatiya Janata Party 1,11,594
15 Barrackpore 76.91 Decrease Arjun Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 14,857
16 Dum Dum 76.92 Decrease Saugata Roy All India Trinamool Congress 53,002
17 Barasat 81.26 Decrease Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar All India Trinamool Congress 1,09,983
18 Basirhat 85.43 Decrease Nusrat Jahan All India Trinamool Congress 3,50,369
19 Jaynagar 82.29 Increase Pratima Mondal All India Trinamool Congress 3,16,775
20 Mathurapur 84.86 Decrease Choudhury Mohan Jatua All India Trinamool Congress 2,03,974
21 Diamond Harbour 81.98 Increase Abhishek Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 3,20,594
22 Jadavpur 79.11 Decrease Mimi Chakraborty All India Trinamool Congress 2,95,239
23 Kolkata Dakshin 69.82 Increase Mala Roy All India Trinamool Congress 1,55,192
24 Kolkata Uttar 65.83 Decrease Sudip Bandyopadhyay All India Trinamool Congress 1,27,095
25 Howrah 74.83 Increase Prasun Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 1,03,695
26 Uluberia 81.18 Decrease Sajda Ahmed All India Trinamool Congress 2,15,359
27 Srerampore 78.54 Decrease Kalyan Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 98,536
28 Hooghly 82.57 Decrease Locket Chatterjee Bharatiya Janata Party 73,362
29 Arambagh 83.44 Decrease Aparupa Poddar All India Trinamool Congress 1,142
30 Tamluk 85.38 Decrease Dibyendu Adhikari All India Trinamool Congress 1,90,165
31 Kanthi 85.83 Decrease Sisir Adhikari All India Trinamool Congress 1,11,668
32 Ghatal 82.74 Decrease Deepak Adhikari (Dev) All India Trinamool Congress 1,07,973
33 Jhargram 85.71 Increase Kunar Hembram Bharatiya Janata Party 11,767
34 Medinipur 84.24 Increase Dilip Ghosh Bharatiya Janata Party 88,952
35 Purulia 82.38 Increase Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato Bharatiya Janata Party 2,04,732
36 Bankura 83.25 Increase Subhas Sarkar Bharatiya Janata Party 1,74,333
37 Bishnupur 87.34 Increase Saumitra Khan Bharatiya Janata Party 78,047
38 Bardhaman Purba 84.78 Decrease Sunil Kumar Mondal All India Trinamool Congress 89,311
39 Bardhaman-Durgapur 82.67 Decrease S. S. Ahluwalia Bharatiya Janata Party 2,439
40 Asansol 76.62 Decrease Babul Supriyo Bharatiya Janata Party 1,97,637
41 Bolpur 85.74 Increase Asit Kumar Mal All India Trinamool Congress 1,06,402
42 Birbhum 85.34 Increase Shatabdi Roy All India Trinamool Congress 88,924

Constituency wise alliance or party votes

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# 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

Impact

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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]

Analysis

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Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

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2019 Lok Sabha in West Bengal by Assembly Segment
Party 2016 West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election West Bengal Vidhan Sabha segments (as of 2019 India Lok Sabha election)[19][20] 2021 West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election West Bengal Vidhan Sabha segments (as of 2024 India Lok Sabha election)
BJP 3 121 77 90 (by from 20 , ceo West Bengal)
INC 44 9 0 11
TMC 211 164 215 192 ( by form 20 , ceo West Bengal)
Left Front 32 0 0 1
Others 4 0 2 0
Total 294 294 294 294

Postal Ballot wise lead of Parties

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Party No. of Constituencies
All India Trinamool Congress 2
Left Front 1
Bharatiya Janata Party 39
Indian National Congress 0
Total 42

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]

Region-Wise Results

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Region Total seats All India Trinamool Congress Bharatiya Janata Party Indian National Congress Communist Party of India (Marxist) Others
East Bengal (Ganges Delta Region) 10 7 Decrease 3 3 Increase 3 0 Steady 0 Steady 0
North Bengal 8 3 Increase 1 3 Increase 3 2 Decrease 2 0 Decrease 2 0
Northern Hills 4 0 Decrease 3 4 Increase 3 0 Steady 0 Steady 0
West Bengal (Rarh Region) 10 3 Decrease 7 7 Increase 7 0 Steady 0 Steady 0
South Bengal 10 9 Decrease 1 1 Steady 0 Steady 0 Steady 0
Total 42 22 Decrease 12 18 Increase 16 2 Decrease 2 0 Decrease 2 0

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