Jaynagar Lok Sabha constituency

Jaynagar is one of the 543 Parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Jaynagar Majilpur in West Bengal. All the seven legislative assembly segments of No. 19 Jaynagar Lok Sabha constituency are in South 24 Parganas district. The seat is reserved for Scheduled Castes.

Jaynagar WB-19
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Jaynagar Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Gosaba Basanti Kultali Jaynagar Canning Paschim Canning Purba Magrahat Purba
Established	1962–Present
Total electors	1,645,203[1]
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Pratima Mondal
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2024

Assembly segments

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 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, Jaynagar Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following legislative assembly segments from 2009:^[2]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
127	Gosaba (SC)	South 24 Parganas	Subrata Mondal		Trinamool Congress		Trinamool Congress
128	Basanti (SC)		Shyamal Mondal
129	Kultali (SC)		Ganesh Chandra Mondal
136	Jaynagar (SC)		Biswanath Das
138	Canning Paschim (SC)		Paresh Ram Das
139	Canning Purba		Saokat Molla
141	Magrahat Purba (SC)		Namita Saha

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Name of M.P.	Party
Third	1962–1967	Paresh Nath Kayal		Indian National Congress[3]
Fourth	1967–1971	Chitta Roy		Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[4][5]
Fifth	1971–1977	Sakti Kumar Sarkar		Indian National Congress[6]
Sixth	1977–1980			Janata Party[7]
Seventh	1980–1984	Sanat Kumar Mandal		Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Eighth	1984–1989
Ninth	1989–1991
Tenth	1991–1996
Eleventh	1996–1998
Twelfth	1998–1999
Thirteenth	1999–2004
Fourteenth	2004–2009
Fifteenth	2009–2014	Tarun Mandal		Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[16]
Sixteenth	2014–2019	Pratima Mondal		Trinamool Congress[17]
Seventeenth	2019–2024
Eighteenth	2024–Incumbent

Election Results

General Election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Jaynagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Pratima Mondal	894,312	60.32	4.19
	BJP	Ashok Kandari	424,093	28.60	4.17
	ISF	Meghnath Halder	65,372	4.41	New
	RSP	Samarendra Nath Mandal	40,113	2.71	2.30
	SUCI(C)	Niranjan Naskar	14,622	0.99	1.83
	NOTA	None of the above	9,788	0.66
Majority			470,219
Turnout			1,482,631
	AITC hold		Swing

General Election 2019

2019 Indian general election: Jaynagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Pratima Mondal	761,206	56.13	+14.42
	BJP	Ashok Kandari	444,427	32.77	+23.23
	RSP	Subhas Naskar	67,913	5.01	−27.57
	SUCI(C)	Joy Krishna Halder	38,261	2.82	−7.08
	INC	Tapan Mondal	18,758	1.38	−2.87
Majority			316,775	23.36	14.22
Turnout			1,356,386	82.29
	AITC hold		Swing

General Election 2014

2014 Indian general election: Jaynagar^[17][18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Pratima Mondal	4,94,746	41.71	+41.71
	RSP	Subhas Naskar	3,86,362	32.58	−10.28
	SUCI(C)	Tarun Mandal	1,17,454	9.90	−38.82
	BJP	Krishnapada Majumdar	1,13,206	9.54	+6.85
	INC	Arnab Roy	38,493	3.25	+3.25
	AIUDF	Taranga Mondal	13,333	1.12
	NOTA	None of The Above	8,819	0.60	−−−
Majority			1,08,384	9.14
Turnout			11,89,048	81.51
	AITC gain from SUCI(C)		Swing

General Election 2009

2009 Indian general election:Jaynagar^[16][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SUCI(C)	Tarun Mandal	4,46,200	48.72
	RSP	Nimai Barman	3,92,495	42.86
	BJP	Nirode Chandra Halder	24,608	2.15
	AIUDF	Taranga Mondal	17,087	1.49
	IND	Shyamal Naskar	10,809	0.95
Majority			53,705	5.90
Turnout			9,15,836	80.08
	SUCI(C) gain from RSP		Swing

2009 Indian general election
West Bengal summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage
Trinamool Congress	19	18	31.8
Indian National Congress	6	0	13.45
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	1	1	NA
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	9	17	33.1
Communist Party of India	2	1	3.6
Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	1	3.56
Forward bloc	2	1	3.04
Bharatiya Janata Party	1	1	6.14

General Elections 1962-2004

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

Year	Voters	Voter Turnout	Winner			Runners up
		%age	Candidate	%age	Party	Candidate	%age	Party
1962	297,962	55.98	Paresh Nath Kayal	53.28	Indian National Congress	Sailendra Nath Haldar	46.72	Communist Party of India[3]
1967	373,749	71.07	Chitta Roy	43.95	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	Paresh Nath Kayal	35.84	Indian National Congress[4][5]
1971	393,696	70.16	Sakti Kumar Sarkar	41.61	Indian National Congress	Nirmal Kumar Sinha	22.18	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
1977	380,210	60.73		48.92	Janata Party	Nirmal Kanti Mondal	32.49	Indian National Congress[7]
1980	528,330	75.97		45.72	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)	Gobinda Chandra Naskar	36.32
1984	611,190	80.11		44.17		Ardhendu Sekhar Naskar	40.76
1989	758,240	81.34		45.35		Ardhendu Sekhar Naskar	36.78
1991	754,350	78.88		46.01		Narayan Naskar	28.02
1996	894.59	84.11		48.17		Jogesh Roy	31.60
1998	858,360	77.98		48.48		Krishnapada Majumdar	27.49	Bharatiya Janata Party[13]
1999	815.92	73.05		49.39		Krishnapada Majumdar	34.80
2004	807,320	71.01		55.81		Asit Baran Thakur	27.22

See also

• Jaynagar Majilpur
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha