Asansol Lok Sabha constituency

Asansol Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Asansol in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 40 Asansol Lok Sabha constituency are in Paschim Bardhaman district.

Asansol WB-40
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Asansol Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Pandabeswar Raniganj Jamuria Asansol Dakshin Asansol Uttar Kulti Barabani
Established	1957
Total electors	17,70,281
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Shatrughan Sinha
Party	AITC
Alliance	I.N.D.I.A.
Elected year	2024
Preceded by	Babul Supriyo Won as :   BJP Current :   AITC

Overview

Parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal - 1. Cooch Behar, 2. Alipurduars, 3. Jalpaiguri, 4. Darjeeling, 5. Raiganj, 6. Balurghat, 7. Maldaha Uttar, 8. Maldaha Dakshin, 9. Jangipur, 10. Baharampur, 11. Murshidabad, 12. Krishnanagar, 13. Ranaghat, 14. Bangaon, 15. Barrackpore, 16. Dum Dum, 17. Barasat, 18. Basirhat, 19. Jaynagar, 20. Mathurapur, 21. Diamond Harbour, 22. Jadavpur, 23. Kolkata Dakshin, 24. Kolkata Uttara, 25. Howrah, 26. Uluberia, 27. Serampore, 28. Hooghly, 29. Arambagh, 30. Tamluk, 31, Kanthi, 32. Ghatal, 33. Jhargram, 34. Medinipur, 35. Purulia, 36. Bankura, 37. Bishnupur, 38. Bardhaman Purba, 39. Bardhaman Durgapur, 40. Asansol, 41. Bolpur, 42. Birbhum

On the eve of 2014 elections, The Statesman described the constituency as follows: "The Asansol Lok Sabha constituency is conspicuous by its mixed population — coal mine workers, factory workers, coal mafia, scrap dealers, minority population and a large section of Hindi speaking population."^[1] The New Indian Express said that the constituency was dotted with coal mines and 50% of the electorate was Hindi speaking.^[2] The Statesman has put the proportion of non-Bengali voters in the constituency at 36%.^[3]

The United News of India (UNI) has been candid about the second largest city and urban agglomeration in West Bengal after Kolkata that is a hub of coal mining and railway activity bordering Jharkhand. Asansol has seen, it writes, "a sustained hold over it by the CPI(M) since 1984 (1989?). Before that it was a tale of fluctuating fortune for the CPI(M) and the Congress... However, as the green surge swept Bengal to demolish the red bastion in 2011 Assembly elections... Moreover, as the Left still remained cornered in state politics, their neutralised voters are increasingly migrating to the BJP for a viable alternative."^[4]

The modernisation and expansion programme of IISCO Steel Plant, in this constituency, was completed at a cost of over 16,000 crores.^[5] As of 2015, it was the single largest investment in West Bengal till then.^[6]

Assembly segments

As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 40 Asansol is composed of the following assembly segments:^[7]

Constituency number	Name	District	Party (2021 Assembly Election Winner)	Party (Leading in 2024 Lok Sabha)
275	Pandabeswar	Paschim Bardhaman	TMC	TMC
278	Raniganj		TMC	TMC
279	Jamuria		TMC	TMC
280	Asansol Dakshin		BJP	BJP
281	Asansol Uttar		TMC	TMC
282	Kulti		BJP	BJP
283	Barabani		TMC	TMC

Before delimitation, Asansol Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:^[8] Kulti (assembly constituency no. 257), Barabani (assembly constituency no. 258), Hirapur (assembly constituency no. 259), Asansol (assembly constituency no. 260), Raniganj (assembly constituency no. 261), Jamuria (assembly constituency no. 262) and Ukhra (SC) (assembly constituency no. 263)

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Name of M.P.	Party
Second	1957-62	Mono Mohan Das		Indian National Congress[9]
		Atulya Ghosh[9][10]
Third	1962-67	Atulya Ghosh
Fourth	1967-71	Deben Sen		Samyukta Socialist Party[11]
Fifth	1971-77	Robin Sen		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12][13]
Sixth	1977-80
Seventh	1980-84	Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhyay		Indian National Congress[14][15]
Eighth	1984-89
Ninth	1989-91	Haradhan Roy		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[16][17][18]
Tenth	1991-96
Eleventh	1996-98
Twelfth	1998-99	Bikash Chowdhury[19][20][21]
Thirteenth	1999-04
Fourteenth	2004-05
	2005^-2009	Bansa Gopal Chowdhury[22][23]
Fifteenth	2009-14
Sixteenth	2014-19	Babul Supriyo Baral		Bharatiya Janata Party[24][25]
Seventeenth	2019-22
	2022^–24	Shatrughan Sinha		Trinamool Congress[26]
Eighteenth	2024–Incumbent

^By-Poll

Note: In 1951 the Asansol area was part of Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency. In 1957, it was double seat constituency.

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Asansol^[27]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Shatrughan Sinha	605,645	46.53	10.09
	BJP	S. S. Ahluwalia	546,081	41.96	11.50
	CPI(M)	Jahanara Khan	105,964	8.14	0.34
	NOTA	None of the above	15,510	1.19	0.08
Majority			59,564	4.78	21.38
Turnout			1,301,540	73.52	6.78
Registered electors			17,70,281
	AITC hold		Swing

2022 by-election

By-election, 2022: Asansol

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Shatrughan Sinha	656,358	56.62	21.43
	BJP	Agnimitra Paul	353,149	30.46	20.70
	CPI(M)	Partha Mukherjee	90,412	7.80	0.72
	INC	Prasenjit Puitandy	15,035	1.30	0.40
	NOTA	None of the above	12,702	1.11	0.06
Majority			3,03,209	26.16	+16.36
Turnout			11,59,764	66.74
Registered electors			17,37,819
	AITC gain from BJP		Swing	+13.08

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Asansol^[25]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Babul Supriyo Baral	633,378	51.16	+14.41
	AITC	Moon Moon Sen	4,35,741	35.19	+4.61
	CPI(M)	Gouranga Chattopadhyay	87,608	7.08	−15.31
	INC	Biswarup Mondal	21,038	1.7	−2.54
	NOTA	None of the above	14,447	1.17	+0.17
Majority			1,97,637	15.97	+9.80
Turnout			12,38,151	76.62	−1.11
Registered electors			16,15,865
	BJP hold		Swing	+4.90

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Asansol^[24][28]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Babul Supriyo	419,983	36.75	+31.19
	AITC	Dola Sen	3,49,503	30.58	−9.95
	CPI(M)	Bansa Gopal Chowdhury	2,55,829	22.39	−26.30
	INC	Indrani Mishra	48,502	4.24
	Independent	Manash Sarkar	14,263	1.25
	Independent	Jyotirmoy Maity	10,227	0.89	−0.59
	JMM	Kanai Banerjee	5,728	0.50
	Independent	Sujit Kar	5,016	0.44
	IUML	Md. Reyazuddin	4,947	0.43
	BSP	Jarasandha Sinha	4,663	0.41	−1.21
	BMP	Atul Chandra Bouri	4,256	0.37
	SUCI(C)	Ananta Lal Gupta	3,115	0.27
	Gareeb Aadmi Party	Md. Mustaqim	2,450	0.21
	JDP	Buro Murmu	2,434	0.21
	NOTA	None of the Above	11,479	1.00
Majority			70,480	6.17	−1.99
Turnout			11,42,395	77.73	+6.24
	BJP gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+28.75

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Asansol^[23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Bansa Gopal Chowdhury	4,35,161	48.69	−12.64
	AITC	Moloy Ghatak	3,62,205	40.53	+13.53
	BJP	Suryya Ray	49,646	5.56
	BSP	Ajay Singh	14,490	1.62
	Independent	Jyotirmoy Maity	13,190	1.48
	LJP	Goutam Das	10,181	1.14
	Independent	Jarasandha Sinha	8,831	0.99
Majority			72,956	8.16
Turnout			8,93,704	71.49
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

2005 Bye-election

In the Asansol seat, the by-election was held due to the death of the sitting CPI(M)-MP Bikash Chowdhury on 1 August 2005. The Bye election Held On 5 September 2005.Bansa Gopal Chowdhury of CPI(M) defeated Moloy Ghatak of Trinamool Congress.

Indian Parliamentary bye election, 2005: Asansol constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Bansa Gopal Chowdhury	4,10,740	61.33
	AITC	Moloy Ghatak	1,80,799	27.00
	INC	Provat Goswami	52,570	7.85
	Independent	Shakti Ranjan Mondal	12,912	1.93
	Independent	Kanchan Kumar Chakraborty	12,719	1.89
Majority			2,29,941	60%
Turnout			96,650	47.69	−6.7
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	+21.27

General elections 1957-2014

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

Year	Voters	Voter Turnout	Winner	%age	Party	Runners up	%age	Party
1957	629,589	39.83	Mono Mohan Das	29.6	Congress
			Atulya Ghosh	26.01	Congress	Ambuja Bhusan Bose	20.02	Independent[10]
1962	188,922	41.56	Atulya Ghosh	38.84	Congress	Ket Narayan Misra	33.99	CPI[10]
1967	255,556	57.56	Deben Sen	40.56	SSP	J.N.Mukhopadhyay	37.71	Congress[11]
1971	280,338	51.64	Robin Sen	49.38	CPI(M)	Narayan Choudhury	36.81	Congress[12]
1977	2,87,230	44.38	Robin Sen	59.07	CPI(M)	Syed Mohd. Jalal	32.97	Congress[13]
1980	4,23,790	55.52	Ananda Gopal Mukhopadyay	49.21	Congress	Robin Sen	40.55	CPI(M)[14]
1984	6,25,070	69.94	Ananda Gopal Mukhopadyay	55.18	Congress	Bamapada Mukherjee	40.87	CPI(M)[15]
1989	7,71,580	69.86	Haradhan Roy	49.59	CPI(M)	Pradip Bhattacharjee	43.99	Congress[16]
1991	7,22,290	64.13	Haradhan Roy	45.13	CPI(M)	Deba Prosad Roy	31.61	Congress[17]
1996	8,41,740	69.69	Haradhan Roy	46.37	CPI(M)	Sukumar Bandopadhyay	40.60	Congress[18]
1998	8,83,830	71.12	Bikash Chowdhury	41.09	CPI(M)	Moloy Ghatak	38.07	Trinamool Congress[19]
1999	8,29,150	65.52	Bikash Chowdhury	46.27	CPI(M)	Moloy Ghatak	41.63	Trinamool Congress[20]
2004	7,26,480	66.52	Bikash Chowdhury	51.00	CPI(M)	Moloy Ghatak	33.85	Trinamool Congress[21]
2005			Bansa Gopal Chowdhury		CPI(M)	Moloy Ghatak		Trinamool Congress[22]
2009	893,477	71.49	Bansa Gopal Chowdhury		CPI(M)	Moloy Ghatak		Trinamool Congress[23]
2014	11,42,395	77.40	Babul Supriyo	36.76	BJP	Dola Sen	30.59	Trinamool Congress[24]

See also

• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

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