Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency

Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Cooch Behar in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 1 Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency are in Cooch Behar district. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.

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Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Cooch Behar Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Mathabhanga Cooch Behar Uttar Cooch Behar Dakshin Sitalkuchi Sitai Dinhata Natabari
Established	1957
Total electors	19,66,893 (2024)[1]
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2024

Assembly segments

Parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal1. 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 Uttar, 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

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 1 Coochbehar, reserved for Scheduled castes (SC), is composed of the following segments from 2009:^[2]

#	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
2	Mathabhanga (SC)	Cooch Behar	Sushil Barman		BJP		BJP
3	Cooch Behar Uttar (SC)		Sukumar Roy		BJP		BJP
4	Cooch Behar Dakshin		Nikhil Ranjan Dey		BJP		AITC
5	Sitalkuchi (SC)		Baren Chandra Barman		BJP		AITC
6	Sitai (SC)		Vacant				AITC
7	Dinhata		Udayan Guha		AITC		AITC
8	Natabari		Mihir Goswami		BJP		BJP

The area under the Mathabhanga subdivision of the Cooch Behar district will constitute the assembly constituencies of Mathabhanga and Sitalkuchi, whereas the area under the Dinhata subdivision will form the constituencies of Dinahata and Sitai.^[2] The area under Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision will form Cooch Behar Uttar, Cooch Behar Dakshin and Natabari constituencies, though Natabari will contain gram panchayats from Tufanganj subdivision also.^[2]

Members of Parliament

Year	Member[3]	Party
1951	Upendra Nath Barman		Indian National Congress
	Birendra Nath Katham
	Amiya Kanta Basu
1957	Upendra Nath Barman
	Santosh Banerjee
1962	Debendra Nath Karjee		All India Forward Bloc
1963^	P. C. Barman		Indian National Congress
1967	Benoy Krishna Das Choudhury		All India Forward Bloc
1971			Indian National Congress
1977	Amar Roy Pradhan		All India Forward Bloc
1980
1984
1989
1991
1996
1998
1999
2004	Hiten Barman
2009	Nripendra Nath Roy
2014	Renuka Sinha		Trinamool Congress
2016^	Partha Pratim Roy
2019	Nisith Pramanik		Bharatiya Janata Party
2024	Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia		Trinamool Congress

^ denotes by-polls

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Cooch Behar^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia	788,375	48.57	4.24
	BJP	Nisith Pramanik	749,125	46.16	1.82
	AIFB	Nitish Chandra Roy	30267	1.86	1.21
	INC	Piya Roy Chowdhury	10679	0.66	1.19
	Independent	Harekrishna Sarkar	9467	0.58	New
	Independent	Kamalesh Barman	2993	0.18	New
	Independent	Nabi Barman	2724	0.17	New
	Independent	Subodh Barman	2599	0.16	New
	SUCI(C)	Dilip Chandra Barman	2468	0.15	New
	BSP	Purna Mohan Roy	2097	0.13	New
	Independent	Bidhan Das	2072	0.13	New
	Independent	Kishore Ray	1606	0.1	New
	Kamtapur People's Party	Pradip Kumar Roy	1518	0.09	New
	Independent	Amal Das	1495	0.09	New
	NOTA	None of the above	15563	0.96	0.1
Majority			39250	0.02	3.53
Turnout			1623048	82.16	1.92
	AITC gain from BJP		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Cooch Behar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Nisith Pramanik	731,594	47.98	31.64
	AITC	Paresh Chandra Adhikary	677,363	44.43	4.92
	AIFB	Gobinda Chandra Roy	46,648	3.07	29.91
	INC	Piya Roy Chowdhury	28,215	1.85	2.52
	NOTA	None of the above	14,490	0.95
Majority			54,231	3.55
Turnout			1,525,446	84.08	1.27
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	13.36

2016 by-election

Bye-election, 2016 : Cooch Behar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Partha Pratim Ray	794,375	59.03	+19.52
	BJP	Hem Chandra Barman	3,81,134	28.32	+11.98
	AIFB	Nripendra Nath Roy	87,363	6.49	−26.49
	INC	Partha Pratim Isore	33,470	2.49	−3.10
	NOTA	None of the above	9,680	0.72	−0.14
Majority			4,13,241	30.71	+24.18
Turnout			13,45,717	78.39	−4.42
	AITC hold		Swing

2014 result

2014 Indian general elections: Cooch Behar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Renuka Sinha	5,26,499	39.51	−2.14
	AIFB	Dipak Kumar Roy	4,39,393	32.98	−11.68
	BJP	Hem Chandra Barman	2,17,653	16.34	+10.51
	INC	Keshab Chandra Ray	74,540	5.59	N/A
	BSP	Girindra Nath Barman	15,683	1.18	−0.86
	Independent	Bangshi Badan Barman	13,205	0.99	−2.33
	NOTA	None of the above	11,409	0.86	N/A
Majority			87,107	6.53	+3.52
Turnout			13,32,409	82.81	−1.54
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Cooch Behar^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Nripendra Nath Roy	5,08,677	44.66
	AITC	Arghya Roy Pradhan	4,66,928	41.65
	BJP	Bhabendra Nath Barman	65,325	5.83
	Independent	Bangshi Badan Barman	37,226	3.32
	BSP	Niranjan Barman	22,925	2.04
	Independent	Hitendra Das	11,374	1.01
Majority			41,749	3.01
Turnout			11,21,043	84.35
	AIFB hold		Swing

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Cooch Behar^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Hiten Barman	490,982	51.90
	AITC	Girindra Nath Barman	264,413	27.90
	INC	Sailen Barma	116,715	12.30
	Forward Bloc(S)	Amar Roy Pradhan	26,755	2.80
	NCP	Bharat Singha Sarkar	17,393	1.80
	Independent	Pradip Kumar Roy	11,021	1.20
	Independent	Nripen Karjee	10,682	1.10
	AMB	Dalendra Roy	8,527	0.90
	Samajwadi Party	Piyush Barman	6,075	0.60
Majority			226,569	23.90%
Turnout			9,47,381	82.5%
	AIFB hold		Swing

General election 1999

General Election, 1999: Cooch Behar^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Amar Roy Pradhan	443,148	49.70
	AITC	Ambika Charan Ray	334,983	37.60
	INC	Sabita Roy	90,378	10.10
	BSP	Papiya Barman	17,188	1.90
	Independent (politician) (KPP)	Mahendra Nath Das	2,766	0.30
	Independent	Nripen Karjee	2,385	0.30
	NCP	Usha Roy	981	0.10
Majority			108,165	(12.0%)
Turnout			9,02,487	(80.8%)
	AIFB hold		Swing

General election 1998

General Election, 1998: Cooch Behar^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Amar Roy Pradhan	396,140	43.20
	MFB	Gobinda Ray	272,974	29.80
	AITC	Prasenjit Barman	218,093	10.10
	BSP	Papiya Barman	13,480	1.50
	AMB	Karneswar Barman	2,766	0.30
Majority			123,166	13.4
Turnout			9,16,783	83.6%
	AIFB hold		Swing

General elections 1957-2004

In 1951, Upendra Nath Barman, Birendra Nath Katham and Amiya Kanta Basu, all of Congress, won the North Bengal seat.^[9] The winners and runners-up from Cooch Behar for subsequent elections are shown below. In a (by-election) in 1958^[10]Nalini Ranjan Ghosh of Indian National Congress won.

Year	Winner		Runner Up		Ref.
	Candidate	Party	Candidate	Party
1957	Santosh Banerjee	Indian National Congress	Shibendra Kumar Bhattacharya	All India Forward Bloc
	Upendranath Barman
1962	Debendranath Karjee	All India Forward Bloc	Upendra Nath Barman	Indian National Congress	[11]
1967	BKD Chowdhury		PC Barman	Indian National Congress	[12]
1972	Benoy Krishna Das Chowdhury	Indian National Congress	Nagendra Nath Roy	CPI(M)	[13]
1977	Amarendra Nath Roy Pradhan	All India Forward Bloc	Benoy Krishna Daschowdhury	Indian National Congress	[14]
1980	Amar Roy Pradhan		Ambika Charan Roy	Indian National Congress (I)	[15]
1984	Amar Roy Pradhan		Prasenjit Barman	Indian National Congress	[16]
1989	Amar Roy Pradhan		Sabita Roy	Indian National Congress	[17]
1991	Amar Roy Pradhan		Sabita Roy	Indian National Congress	[18]
1996	Amar Roy Pradhan		Sabita Roy	Indian National Congress	[19]
1998	Amar Roy Pradhan		Gobinda Roy	Forward Bloc (Socialist)	[20]
1999	Amar Roy Pradhan		Ambika Charan Ray	All India Trinamool Congress	[21]
2004	Hiten Barman		Girindra Nath Barman	All India Trinamool Congress	[22]
2009	Nripendra Nath Roy		Arghya Roy Pradhan	All India Trinamool Congress
2014	Renuka Sinha	All India Trinamool Congress	Dipak Kumar Roy	All India Forward Bloc
2016 (By Poll)	Partha Pratim Roy		Hem Chandra Barman	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Nisith Pramanik	Bharatiya Janata Party	Paresh Chandra Adhikari	All India Trinamool Congress

Notes

See also

• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

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