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Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Birbhum Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on the western part of Birbhum district in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 42 Birbhum Lok Sabha constituency are in Birbhum district. The seat was reserved for scheduled castes from 1962 to 2004, but was declared a free seat in 2009 general elections.
Birbhum WB-42 | |
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Lok Sabha constituency | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | East India |
State | West Bengal |
Assembly constituencies | Dubrajpur Suri Sainthia Rampurhat Hansan Nalhati Murarai |
Established | 1951 |
Total electors | 18,57,022 |
Reservation | None |
Member of Parliament | |
18th Lok Sabha | |
Incumbent | |
Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
Elected year | 2024 |
As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 42 Birbhum is composed of the following assembly segments from 2009:[1]
Prior to delimitation, Birbhum Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[2]Rajnagar (SC) (assembly constituency no. 287), Suri (assembly constituency no. 288), Mahammad Bazar (assembly constituency no. 289), Rampurhat (assembly constituency no. 291), Hansan (SC) (assembly constituency no. 292), Nalhati (assembly constituency no. 293) and Murarai (assembly constituency no. 294).
Lok Sabha | Duration | Constituency | Name of M.P. | Party | |
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First* | 1952-57 | Birbhum | Kamal Krishna Das | Indian National Congress[3] | |
Anil Kumar Chanda[3] | |||||
Second* | 1957-62 | Anil Kumar Chanda[4] | |||
Kamal Krishna Das[4] | |||||
Third | 1962-67 | Sisir Kumar Das[5] | |||
Fourth | 1967-71 | [6] | |||
Fifth | 1971-77 | Gadadhar Saha | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7] | ||
Sixth | 1977-80 | [8] | |||
Seventh | 1980-84 | [9] | |||
Eighth | 1984-89 | [10] | |||
Ninth | 1989-91 | Dr. Ram Chandra Dome[11] | |||
Tenth | 1991-96 | [12] | |||
Eleventh | 1996-98 | [13] | |||
Twelfth | 1998-99 | [14] | |||
Thirteenth | 1999-04 | [15] | |||
Fourteenth | 2004-09 | [16] | |||
Fifteenth | 2009-14 | Satabdi Roy | Trinamool Congress[17] | ||
Sixteenth | 2014-19 | [18] | |||
Seventeenth | 2019-24 | ||||
Seventeenth | 2024-incumbent |
.* In 1951 and 1957, Birbhum had dual seats.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AITC | Satabdi Roy | 717,961 | 47.00 | 1.87 | |
BJP | Debtanu Bhattacharya | 5,20,311 | 34.06 | 4.93 | |
INC | Milton Rashid | 2,26,260 | 14.81 | 9.60 | |
NOTA | None of the above | 14,093 | 0.92 | 0.07 | |
Majority | 1,97,650 | 12.94 | 6.75 | ||
Turnout | 15,27,432 | 82.25 | 3.09 | ||
AITC hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AITC | Satabdi Roy | 654,070 | 45.13 | +7.32 | |
BJP | Dudh Kumar Mondal | 565,153 | 38.99 | +20.52 | |
CPI(M) | Dr. Rezaul Karim | 96,763 | 6.68 | −24.14 | |
INC | Imam Hossain | 75,451 | 5.21 | −5.14 | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 12,307 | 0.85 | N/A | |
Majority | 89,711 | 6.19 | |||
Turnout | 14,50,108 | 85.34 | |||
AITC hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AITC | Satabdi Roy | 4,60,568 | 36.09 | −11.72 | |
CPI(M) | Dr. Mohammed Qamre Elahi | 3,93,305 | 30.82 | −10.95 | |
BJP | Joy Banerjee | 2,35,753 | 18.47 | +13.85 | |
INC | Syed Siraj Jimmi | 1,32,084 | 10.35 | N/A | |
JMM | Shibratan Sharma | 7,989 | 0.62 | +0.47 | |
SP | Prasanta Roy | 7,194 | 0.56 | −1.12 | |
Majority | 67,263 | 5.27 | −0.77 | ||
Turnout | 12,75,819 | 85.33 | |||
AITC hold | Swing | +2.49 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AITC | Satabdi Roy | 4,86,553 | 47.82 | ||
CPI(M) | Braja Mukherjee | 4,25,034 | 41.77 | ||
BJP | Tapas Mukherjee | 47,068 | 4.62 | ||
SP | Asgar Ali | 17,177 | 1.68 | ||
BSP | Radheshyam Singh | 13,388 | 1.31 | ||
JMM | Shib Ratan Sharma | 1,591 | 0.15 | ||
Majority | 61,519 | 6.04 | |||
Turnout | 10,17,493 | 83.27 | |||
AITC gain from CPI(M) | Swing |
In 1951 and 1957 Birbhum had dual seats. It had single seats in other years, Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
Year | Voters | Voter Turnout | Winner | Runners up | ||||
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%age | Candidate | %age | Party | Candidate | %age | Party | ||
1951 | 503,410 | 33.04 | Arun Kumar Chanda | 23.19 | Congress | |||
Kamal Krishna Das | 21.80 | Congress | Nitya Narayan Bandopadhyay | 17.94 | Hindu Mahasabha[3] | |||
1957 | 737,913 | 42.85 | Kamal Krishna Das | 32.49 | Congress | |||
Anil Kumar Chanda | 26.80 | Congress | Manmatha Nath Das | 22.91 | Hindu Mahasabha[4] | |||
1962 | 180,916 | 38.28 | Sisir Kumar Saha | 43.15 | Congress | Mrityunjay Manadal | 24.40 | Forward Bloc[5] |
1967 | 242,686 | 52.04 | S.K.Saha | 36.27 | Congress | G.Bauri | 22.31 | Forward Bloc[6] |
1971 | 215,720 | 43.86 | Gadadhar Saha | 39.59 | CPI(M) | Kanai Saha | 35.47 | Congress[7] |
1977 | 288.120 | 52.08 | Gadadhar Saha | 49.00 | CPI(M) | Birendaban Saha | 38.04 | INC[8] |
1980 | 441,810 | 67.18 | Gadadhar Saha | 51.91 | CPI(M) | Badal Chandra Bagdi | 42.48 | INC(I)[9] |
1984 | 563,390 | 74.98 | Gadadhar Saha | 50.32 | CPI(M) | Badal Bagdi | 47.88 | INC[10] |
1989 | 692,220 | 76.28 | Dr. Ram Chandra Dome | 50.88 | CPI(M) | Badal Bagdi | 41.77 | INC[11] |
1991 | 692,510 | 75.21 | Dr. Ram Chandra Dome | 49.71 | CPI(M) | Subhendu Mondal | 25.47 | INC[12] |
1996 | 827,370 | 83.18 | Dr. Ram Chandra Dome | 50.35 | CPI(M) | Mamata Saha | 36.48 | INC[13] |
1998 | 789,910 | 76.83 | Dr. Ram Chandra Dome | 69.07 | CPI(M) | Dr. Madan Lal Choudhury | 28.23 | BJP[14] |
1999 | 734,170 | 70.33 | Dr. Ram Chandra Dome | 51.65 | CPI(M) | Dr. Madan Lal Choudhury | 29.93 | BJP[15] |
2004 | 724, 090 | 70.31 | Dr. Ram Chandra Dome | 51.42 | CPI(M) | Gopal Chadra Das | 24.95 | INC[16] |
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