Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency

Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. All seven assembly segments under Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency are in Purba Medinipur district.

Tamluk WB-30
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Tamluk Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Tamluk Panskura Purba Moyna Nandakumar Mahisadal Haldia Nandigram
Established	1951
Total electors	18,50,741[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Abhijit Gangopadhyay
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
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 issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 30 Tamluk is composed of the following segments:^[2]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
203	Tamluk	Purba Medinipur	Soumen Mahapatra		Trinamool Congress		Bharatiya Janata Party
204	Panskura Purba		Biplab Roy Chowdhury
206	Moyna		Ashok Dinda		Bharatiya Janata Party
207	Nandakumar		Sukumar Dey		Trinamool Congress
208	Mahishadal		Tilak Kumar Chakraborty
209	Haldia		Tapasi Mondal
210	Nandigram		Suvendu Adhikari		Bharatiya Janata Party

Prior to delimitation Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:^[3] Panskura East (assembly constituency no. 201), Tamluk (assembly constituency no. 202), Moyna (assembly constituency no. 203), Mahisadal (assembly constituency no. 204), Sutahata (SC) (assembly constituency no. 205), Nandigram (assembly constituency no. 206) and Narghat (assembly constituency no. 207).

Members of Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha	Name of M.P.	Party affiliation
1952	Satish Chandra Samanta		Indian National Congress[4][5][6]
1957
1962
1967			Bangla Congress
1971
1977	Sushil Kumar Dhara		Janata Party[7]
1980	Satyagopal Mishra		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
1984
1989
1991
1996	Jayanta Bhattacharya		Indian National Congress[9]
1998	Lakshman Chandra Seth		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1999
2004
2009	Suvendu Adhikari		Trinamool Congress[11]
2014
2016^	Dibyendu Adhikari
2019
2024	Abhijit Gangopadhyay		Bharatiya Janata Party

^ – By poll

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Tamluk

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Abhijit Gangopadhyay	765,584	48.54	11.6
	AITC	Debangshu Bhattacharya	687,851	43.61	6.47
	CPI(M)	Sayan Banerjee	85,389	5.41	4.0
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,553	0.52
Majority			77,733	4.93
Turnout			14,04,353
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Tamluk

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dibyendu Adhikari	724,433	50.08	−3.52
	BJP	Siddharth Naskar	534,268	36.94	+30.54
	CPI(M)	Sk. Ibrahim Ali	136,129	9.41	−25.79
	INC	Lakshman Chandra Seth	16,001	1.11	−1.09
Majority			190,165	13.14
Turnout			1,446,940	85.38
	AITC hold		Swing

2016 by-election

By-election 2016 : Tamluk

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dibyendu Adhikari	779,594	59.76	+6.16
	CPI(M)	Mandira Panda	2,82,066	21.62	−13.58
	BJP	Prof. Ambujaksha Mahanti	1,96,450	15.06	+8.66
	INC	Batabyal Partha	19,851	1.52	−0.68
	SUCI(C)	Dilip Maiti	10,179	0.78	−0.02
	Independent	Dhananjoy Dalai	3,859	0.30	N/A
	PDS	Subhrajit Bhaduri	2,718	0.21
	NOTA	None of the above	9,801	0.75	−0.12
Majority			497,528	38.14	+19.74
Turnout			13,04,518	82.04	−5.56
Registered electors			1,590,004
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Tamluk^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Suvendu Adhikari	716,928	53.60	−1.44
	CPI(M)	Sk. Ibrahim Ali	4,70,447	35.20	−5.30
	BJP	Badsha Alam	86,265	6.40	+4.61
	INC	Sk. Anwar Ali	29,645	2.20
	SUCI(C)	Vivekananda Roy	10,197	0.80
	Independent	Rajyasree Chaudhuri	3,609	0.30
	BSP	Kamal Bag	3,110	0.20
	Independent	Kalisankar Jana	2,658	0.20
	Independent	Abdur Rezak Sk	1,682	0.10
	IUML	Manick Chandra Mondal	1,500	0.10
	NOTA	None of the above	11,643	0.87
Majority			246,481	18.40
Turnout			13,37,684	87.60
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Tamluk^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Suvendu Adhikari	637,664	55.54	+11.94
	CPI(M)	Lakshman Chandra Seth	4,64,706	40.50	− 8.90
	BJP	Rajyashree Chaudhuri	20,573	1.79
	AUDF	Jahed Sek	8,486
	BSP	Manoranjan Mandal	5,891
	Independent	Sheikh Nurul Islam	5,401
	LJP	Manik Chandra Mondal	2,044
	Independent	Bhakti Adhikary	1,985
	Independent	Abdur Rejak Seikh	1,456
Majority			172,958	15.90
Turnout			11,48,206	90.32
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Tamluk^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Lakshman Chandra Seth	507,228	49.20	−0,84
	AITC	Suvendu Adhikari	449,848	43.60	+0.10
	INC	Sudarsan Panja	34,794	3.40
	BSP	Ajit Das	14,087	1.40
	NCP	Manab Bera	13,339	1.30
	Independent	Hossain Mahmud Sheikh	6,239	0.60
	SP	Trilochan Kuila	6,082	0.60
	Independent	Bhakti Adhikary	3,652	0.40
Majority			57,380	5.60
Turnout			10,30,848	86.9
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing

General election 1999

General Election, 1999: Tamluk^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Lakshman Chandra Seth	455,168	50.04
	AITC	Nirmalendu Bhattacharya	400,342	43.50
	INC	Manik Bhowmik	44,622	4.90
	NCP	Srikesh Pramanik	7,623	0.80
	RJD	Buddhadeb Jana	1,105	0.10
	Independent	Bhakti Adhikari	822	0.10
Majority			54,826	6.00
Turnout			9,19,886	83.8%
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing

General election 1998

General Election, 1998: Tamluk^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Lakshman Chandra Seth	477,516	51.10	3.28
	Trinamool Congress	Nirmalendu Bhattacharya	389,564	41.30	New
	INC	Jayanta Bhattacharya	56,538	6.00	42.67
	Independent	Ashutosh Samanta	7,542	0.80	0.32
	Independent	Ananata Kumar Paul	837	0.10	N/A
Majority			87,952	9.30	5.99
Turnout			9,42,965	86.6	3.20
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing	3.28

General election 1996

General Election, 1996: Tamluk^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Jayanta Bhattacharya	450,473	48.67
	CPI(M)	Lakshman Chandra Seth	442,563	47.82
	BJP	Saswati Bag	19,475	2.10
	Independent	Ashutosh Samanta	10,330	1.12
	Independent	Ananta Kumar Das	1,029	0.11
	Independent	Muktinath Bag	976	0.11
	Independent	Shishir Kumar Panda	669	0.07
Majority			7,910	3.31
Turnout			9,25,515	89.80
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

General elections 1951-2004

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

Year	Winner		Runner-up
	Candidate	Party	Candidate	Party
1951	Satish Chandra Samanta	Indian National Congress	Tripati Hrishikesh	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party[4][14]
1957	Satish Chandra Samanta	Indian National Congress	Gobinda Chandra. Bhowmick	All India Forward Bloc[5]
1962	Satish Chandra Samanta	Indian National Congress	Govinda Chandra. Bhowmick	All India Forward Bloc[6]
1967	Satish Chandra Samanta	Bangla Congress	G. Bhowmick	Indian National Congress[15]
1971	Satish Chandra Samanta	Bangla Congress	Aruna Asaf Ali	Communist Party of India[16]
1977	Sushil Kumar Dhara	Janata Party	Satish Chandra Samanta	Indian National Congress[7]
1980	Satyagopal Mishra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Shyam Das Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress[8]
1984	Satyagopal Mishra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Saradindu Samanta	Indian National Congress[17]
1989	Satyagopal Mishra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Jayanta Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress[18]
1991	Satyagopal Mishra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Jayanta Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress[19]
1996	Jayanta Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress	Lakshman Chandra Seth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
1998	Lakshman Chandra Seth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nirmalendu Bhattacharya	Trinamool Congress[10]
1999	Lakshman Chandra Seth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nirmalendu Bhattacharya	Trinamool Congress[13]
2004	Lakshman Chandra Seth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Suvendu Adhikari	Trinamool Congress[20]