Bankura Lok Sabha constituency

Bankura Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. While six assembly segments of No. 36 Bankura Lok Sabha constituency are in Bankura district, one assembly segment is in Purulia district.

Bankura WB-36
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Bankura Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Raghunathpur Saltora Chhatna Ranibandh Raipur Taldangra Bankura
Established	1951
Total electors	17,80,580[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Arup Chakraborty
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2024

Assembly segments

Parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal - 1. Cooch Behar, 2. Alipurduars, 3. Jalpaipuri, 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 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 36 Bankura is composed of the following assembly segments:^[2]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
246	Raghunathpur (SC)	Purulia	Vivekananda Bauri		Bharatiya Janata Party		Trinamool Congress
247	Saltora (SC)	Bankura	Chandana Bauri
248	Chhatna		Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay
249	Ranibandh (ST)		Jyotsna Mandi		Trinamool Congress
250	Raipur (ST)		Mrityunjoy Murmu
251	Taldangra		Falguni Singhababu
252	Bankura		Niladri Sekhar Dana		Bharatiya Janata Party		Bharatiya Janata Party

Prior to delimitation, Bankura Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:^[3]Para (SC) (assembly constituency no. 240), Raghunathpur (SC) (assembly constituency no. 241), Kashipur (ST) (assembly constituency no. 242), Hura (assembly constituency no. 243), Chhatna (assembly constituency no. 248), Bankura (assembly constituency no. 251) and Onda (assembly constituency no. 252)

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Constituency	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
First	1952-57	Bankura	Pashupati Mandal		Indian National Congress[4]
			Jagannath Kolay[4]
Second	1957-62		Ramgati Banerjee[5]
			Pasupati Mandal[5]
Third	1962-67		Ramgati Banerjee[6]
Fourth	1967-71		J.M. Biswas		Communist Party of India[7]
Fifth	1971-77		Sankar Narayan Singh Deo		Indian National Congress[8]
Sixth	1977-80		Bijoy Mondal		Janata Party[9]
Seventh	1980-84		Basudeb Acharia[10][11][12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17][18]		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Eighth	1984-89
Ninth	1989-91
Tenth	1991-96
Eleventh	1996-98
Twelfth	1998-99
Thirteenth	1999-04
Fourteenth	2004-09
Fifteenth	2009-14
Sixteenth	2014-19		Moon Moon Sen		Trinamool Congress[19]
Seventeenth	2019-24		Subhas Sarkar		Bharatiya Janata Party
Eighteenth	2024-Incumbent		Arup Chakraborty		Trinamool Congress

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Bankura^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Arup Chakraborty	641,813	44.33	7.8
	BJP	Subhas Sarkar	609,035	42.07	7.13
	CPI(M)	Nilanjan Dasgupta	1,05,359	7.28	0.03
	NOTA	None of the above	26,209	1.81	0.79
Majority			32,778	26.83	14.01
Turnout			14,47,674	81.30	2.22
	AITC gain from BJP		Swing

2019

Indian general elections,2019: Bankura^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Subhas Sarkar	675,319	49.2	+28.92
	AITC	Subrata Mukherjee	500,986	36.5	−2.60
	CPI(M)	Amiya Patra	100,282	7.3	−24.02
	Independent	Milan Mandi	14,942	1.1
	None of the Above	None of the Above	14,019	1.02	+1.02
	Independent	Bibhuti Sardar	12,372	0.9
	Bharatiya Nyay-Adhikar Raksha Party	Animesh Mal	9,123	0.7
	SS	Subhash Sarkar	9,072	0.7
	BSP	Mahadeb Bauri	6,707	0.5
	Independent	Abdul Rahim Mallik	5,819	0.4
	SUCI(C)	Tanmay Mandal	5,679	0.4
	Independent	Shyamal Kumar Palit	5,034	0.4
	JHAP	Prabir Banerjee	4,164	0.3
	RJSP	Ananda Kumar Saren	3,228	0.2
	CPI(ML) Red Star	Sukchand Saren	2,889	0.2
	JPP	Gour Chandra Hembram	2,220	0.2
Majority			1,74,333	12.7
Turnout			13,72,645	83.25
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+28.92

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Bankura^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Moon Moon Sen	483,455	39.10	N/A
	CPI(M)	Basudeb Acharia	384,949	31.05	−16.61
	BJP	Subhas Sarkar	251,183	20.31	+15.98
	INC	Nilmadhab Gupta	22,021	1.78	−35.93
	JMM	Paresh Marandi	10,229	0.82	−1.15
	SUCI(C)	Kabita Singhababu	9,125	0.73	N/A
	Independent	Shyamal Sikdar	9,045	0.73	N/A
	CPI(ML)L	Sudhir Kumar Murmu	7,979	0.64	−0.17
	BMP	Hulu Khetrapal	7,564	0.61	N/A
	BSP	Binoy Chowdhury	7,388	0.59	−0.54
	Jharkhand Anushilan Party	Prabir Banerjee	6,209	0.50	N/A
	JDP	Panmani Besra	5,909	0.47	N/A
	Independent	Gour Chandra Hembrom	4,876	0.39	N/A
	JVM(P)	Shib Shankar Ghosh	3,105	0.25	N/A
Majority			98,506	8.0%	−2.90
Turnout			12,36,319	82.21	−4.57
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+30.79

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Bankura^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Basudeb Acharia	469,223	47.66
	INC	Subrata Mukherjee	362,421	36.71
	BJP	Rahul Sinha	42,660	4.33
	Independent	Lakshmi Sarkar	26,469	2.79
	Independent	Prabir Banerjee	22,645	2.30
	JMM	Paresh Marandi	19,440	1.97
	JKP (N)	Aswini Duley	13,132	1.33
	BSP	Ganesh Ray	11,083	1.13
	CPI(ML)L	Sudhir Kumar Murmu	8,007	0.81
	JD(U)	Byasdeb Chakrabortty	5,554	0.56
	RDMP	Tapan Kumar Pathak	3,970	0.40
Majority			108,502	10.95
Turnout			984,604	77.64
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General elections 1951-2004

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

Year	Voters	Voter Turnout	Winner			Runners up
		%age	Candidate	%age	Party	Candidate	%age	Party
1951*	565,367	39.28	Jagganath Koley	19.26	Indian National Congress	Atul Patra	15.94	Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
			Pashupati Mandal	17.03	Indian National Congress[4]
1957*	609,454	37.77	Pasupati Mandal	25.05	Indian National Congress	Biswanath Bauri	13.66	Independent[5]
			Ramgati Banerjee	24.78	Indian National Congress
1962	151,859	33.47	Ramgati Banerjee	51.13	Indian National Congress	Kanai Lal De	31.34	Praja Socialist Party[6]
1967	273,639	52.55	J.M.Biswas	46.53	Communist Party of India	Atulya Ghosh	35.04	Indian National Congress[7]
1971	262,110	48.02	Sankar Narayan Singh Deo	33.01	Indian National Congress	Mahadeb Mukherjee	22.64	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
1977	320,480	53.11	Bijoy Mondal	57.04	Bharatiya Lok Dal	Shankar Narayan Singh Deo	31.04	Indian National Congress[9]
1980	459,860	63.79	Basudeb Acharia	45.04	CPI(M)	Shankar Narayan Singh Deo	35.13	Indian National Congress(I)[10]
1984	567,300	73.57	Basudeb Acharia	48.62	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Arun Kumar Bhattacharya	44,23	Indian National Congress[11]
1989	694,890	75.92	Basudeb Acharia	55.91	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Ashis Chakrabarty	37.66	Indian National Congress[12]
1991	682,530	72.43	Basudeb Acharia	56.32	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Brajabasi Biswas	28.82	Indian National Congress[13]
1996	7774, 920	77.95	Basudeb Achatia	56.24	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Gouri Sankar Dey	25.61	Indian National Congress[14]
1998	766.640	74.52	Basudeb Acharia	49.42	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Sukumar Banerjee	34.51	Bharatiya Janata Party[15]
1999	741,300	71.19	Basudeb Acharia	52.73	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Natabar Bagdi	37.95	Independent[16]
2004	695,980	68.23	Basudeb Acharia	60.07	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Deb Prasad Kundu	26.96	All India Trinamool Congress[17]

*In 1951 and 1957 Bankura constituency had two seats with one reserved for Scheduled Castes

See also

• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha