2014 Indian general election in West Bengal
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The 2014 Indian general election in West Bengal was held for 42 seats in the Lok Sabha.
List of major parties' candidates in West Bengal for 2014
Constituency No. | Constituency | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) | TMC Candidate[1] | Left Front Candidate[2] | BJP Candidate | Congress Candidate |
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1 | Cooch Behar | SC | Renuka Sinha | Dipak Kumar Roy | Hemchandra Burman | Keshab Chandra Ray |
2 | Alipurduars | ST | Dasarath Tirkey | Manohar Tirkey | Birendra Bora Oraon | Joseph Munda |
3 | Jalpaiguri | SC | Bijoy Bhusan Burman | Mahendra Kumar Roy | Satyalal Sarkar | Sukhbilas Barma |
4 | Darjeeling | None | Baichung Bhutia | Saman Pathak | S. S. Ahluwalia | Sujoy Ghatak |
5 | Raiganj | None | Satya Ranjan Dasmunshi | Md. Salim | Nimu Bhowmick | Deepa Dasmunshi |
6 | Balurghat | None | Arpita Ghosh | Bimal Sarkar | Biswapriya Roychowdhary | Om Prakash Mishra |
7 | Maldaha Uttar | None | Soumitra Roy | Khagen Murmu | Subashkrishna Goswami | Mausam Noor |
8 | Maldaha Dakshin | None | Dr Moazzen Hossen | Abul Hasnat Khan | Bishnu Pada Roy | Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury |
9 | Jangipur | None | Haji Nurul Islam | Muzaffar Hossain | Samrat Ghosh | Abhijit Mukherjee |
10 | Baharampur | None | Indranil Sen | Pramothes Mukherjee | Debesh Kumar Adhikari | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury |
11 | Murshidabad | None | Mohammed Ali | Badaruddoza Khan | Sujit Kumar Ghosh | Abdul Mannan Hossain |
12 | Krishnanagar | None | Tapas Paul | Santanu Jha | Satyabrata Mukherjee | Razia Ahmed |
13 | Ranaghat | SC | Tapas Mondal | Archna Biswas | Supravat Biswas | Pratap Roy |
14 | Bangaon | SC | Kapil Krishna Thakur | Debesh Das | K.D. Biswas | Ila Mandal |
15 | Barrackpur | None | Dinesh Trivedi | Subhashini Ali | R.K. Handa | Samrat Topedar |
16 | Dum Dum | None | Sougata Roy | Asim Dasgupta | Tapan Sikdar | Dhananjay Moitra |
17 | Barasat | None | Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar | Mortaza Hossain | P.C. Sarkar (Jr.) | Rizul Ghoshal |
18 | Basirhat | None | Idris Ali | Nurul Huda | Samik Bhattacharya | Abdur Rahim Quazi |
19 | Jaynagar | SC | Pratima Mondal | Subhas Naskar | Biplab Mondal | Arnab Roy |
20 | Mathurapur | None | C M Jatua | Rinku Naskar | Tapan Naskar | Manoranjan Halder |
21 | Diamond Harbour | None | Abhishek Banerjee | Dr. Abul Hasnat | Avijit Das | Mohmd Qumarhuzzan Qumar |
22 | Jadavpur | None | Sugata Bose | Sujan Chakraborty | Swarup Prashad Ghosh | Samir Aich |
23 | Kolkata Dakshin | None | Subrata Bakshi | Nandini Mukherjee | Tathagata Roy | Mala Roy |
24 | Kolkata Uttar | None | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | Rupa Bagchi | Rahul Sinha | Somendra Nath Mitra |
25 | Howrah | None | Prasun Banerjee | Sreedip Bhattacharya | George Baker | Manoj Kumar Pandey |
26 | Uluberia | None | Sultan Ahmed | Sabiruddin Mollah | R.K. Mahanti | Asit Mitra |
27 | Sreerampur | None | Kalyan Banerjee | Tirthankar Roy | Bappi Lahiri | Abdul Mannan |
28 | Hooghly | None | Ratna De Nag | Pradip Saha | Chandan Mitra | Pritam Ghosh |
29 | Arambag | SC | Aparupa Poddar ( Afrin Ali ) | Sakti Mohan Malik | Madhusudhan Bag | Sambhu Nath Malik |
30 | Tamluk | None | Suvendu Adhikari | Sk. Ibrahim Ali | Badsah Alam | Anwar Ali |
31 | Kanthi | None | Sisir Adhikari | Tapas Sinha | Kamalendu Pahari | Kunal Banerjee |
32 | Ghatal | None | Dipak Adhikari (Deb) | Santosh Rana | Md Alam | Manas Bhunia |
33 | Jhargram | ST | Dr Uma Soren | Pulin Bihari Baske | Bikash Mudi | Anita Hansdar |
34 | Medinipur | None | Sandhya Roy | Prabodh Panda | Prabhakar Tiwari | Bimal Raj |
35 | Purulia | None | Mriganko Mahato | Narahari Mahato | Bikash Banerjee | Nepal Mahato |
36 | Bankura | None | Munmun Sen | Basudeb Acharia | Subash Sarkar | Neel Madhava Gupta |
37 | Bishnupur | SC | Soumitra Khan | Susmita Bauri | Dr. Jayanta Mondal | Narayan Chander Khan |
38 | Bardhaman Purba | SC | Sunil Mandal | Iswar Chandra Das | Santosh Roy | Chandana Majhi |
39 | Bardhaman-Durgapur | None | Mamtaj Sanghamita | Sk. Saidul Haque | Deboshree Chowdhury | Pradip Agasty |
40 | Asansol | None | Dola Sen | Bansa Gopal Chowdhury | Babul Supriyo | Indrani Mishra |
41 | Bolpur | SC | Anupam Hazra | Dr.Ram Chandra Dome | Kamini Mohan Sarkar | Tapan Kumar Saha |
42 | Birbhum | None | Satabdi Roy | Dr. Mohammed Qamre Elahi | Joy Banerjee | Syed Siraj Jimmi |
Results
2 | 4 | 2 | 34 |
BJP | INC | CPI(M) | AITC |
Name of Party | Vote Share % | Change | Seats won | Changes |
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All India Trinamool Congress | 39.05% | +8.13 | 34 | +15 |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) + | 29.71% | 2 | −13 | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 17.02% | +10.88 | 2 | +1 |
Indian National Congress | 9.58% | −3.85 | 4 | −2 |
Results by constituency
No. | Constituency | Turnout % | Winner | Party | Margin | |
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1 | Cooch Behar (SC) | 82.62 ![]() | Renuka Sinha | All India Trinamool Congress | 87,107 | |
2 | Alipurduars (ST) | 83.30 ![]() | Dasrath Tirkey | All India Trinamool Congress | 21,397 | |
3 | Jalpaiguri (SC) | 85.17 ![]() | Bijoy Chandra Barman | All India Trinamool Congress | 69,606 | |
4 | Darjeeling | 79.51 ![]() | S.S.Ahluwalia | Bharatiya Janata Party | 1,97,239 | |
5 | Raiganj | 79.89 ![]() | Md. Salim | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 1,634 | |
6 | Balurghat | 84.77 ![]() | Arpita Ghosh | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,06,964 | |
7 | Maldaha Uttar | 81.60 ![]() | Mausam Noor | Indian National Congress | 65,705 | |
8 | Maldaha Dakshin | 81.09 ![]() | Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury | Indian National Congress | 1,64,111 | |
9 | Jangipur | 80.43 ![]() | Abhijit Mukherjee | Indian National Congress | 8,161 | |
10 | Baharampur | 79.43 ![]() | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | Indian National Congress | 3,56,567 | |
11 | Murshidabad | 85.22 ![]() | Badaruddoza Khan | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 18,453 | |
12 | Krishnanagar | 84.56 ![]() | Tapas Paul | All India Trinamool Congress | 71,255 | |
13 | Ranaghat (SC) | 84.45 ![]() | Tapas Mandal | All India Trinamool Congress | 2,01,767 | |
14 | Bangaon (SC) | 83.36 ![]() | Mamata Thakur | All India Trinamool Congress | 2,11,785 | |
15 | Barrackpore | 81.77 ![]() | Dinesh Trivedi | All India Trinamool Congress | 2,06,773 | |
16 | Dum Dum | 80.64 ![]() | Saugata Roy | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,54,934 | |
17 | Barasat | 83.96 ![]() | Dr. Kakali Ghoshdostidar | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,73,141 | |
18 | Basirhat | 85.47 ![]() | Idris Ali | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,09,659 | |
19 | Jaynagar (SC) | 81.52 ![]() | Pratima Mondal | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,08,384 | |
20 | Mathurapur (SC) | 85.39 ![]() | Choudhury Mohan Jatua | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,38,436 | |
21 | Diamond Harbour | 81.07 ![]() | Abhishek Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress | 71,298 | |
22 | Jadavpur | 79.88 ![]() | Sugata Bose | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,25,203 | |
23 | Kolkata Dakshin | 69.33 ![]() | Subrata Bakshi | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,36,339 | |
24 | Kolkata Uttar | 66.68 ![]() | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | All India Trinamool Congress | 96,226 | |
25 | Howrah | 74.79 ![]() | Prasun Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,96,956 | |
26 | Uluberia | 81.95 ![]() | Sultan Ahmed | All India Trinamool Congress | 2,01,222 | |
27 | Srerampur | 79.50 ![]() | Kalyan Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,52,526 | |
28 | Hooghly | 82.88 ![]() | Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,89,084 | |
29 | Arambagh (SC) | 85.16 ![]() | Aparupa Poddar | All India Trinamool Congress | 3,46,845 | |
30 | Tamluk | 87.63 ![]() | Adhikari Suvendu | All India Trinamool Congress | 2,46,481 | |
31 | Kanthi | 86.71 ![]() | Adhikari Sisir Kumar | All India Trinamool Congress | 2,29,490 | |
32 | Ghatal | 84.92 ![]() | Adhikari Deepak (Dev) | All India Trinamool Congress | 2,60,891 | |
33 | Jhargram (ST) | 85.26 ![]() | Uma Saren | All India Trinamool Congress | 3,47,883 | |
34 | Medinipur | 84.22 ![]() | Sandhya Roy | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,84,666 | |
35 | Purulia | 81.98 ![]() | Dr. Mriganka Mahato | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,53,877 | |
36 | Bankura | 82.23 ![]() | Moon Moon Sen | All India Trinamool Congress | 98,506 | |
37 | Bishnupur (SC) | 86.72 ![]() | Khan Saumitra | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,49,685 | |
38 | Bardhaman Purba (SC) | 86.22 ![]() | Sunil Kumar Mondal | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,14,479 | |
39 | Bardhaman-Durgapur | 84.10 ![]() | Mamtaz Sanghamita | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,07,331 | |
40 | Asansol | 77.76 ![]() | Babul Supriyo | Bharatiya Janata Party | 70,480 | |
41 | Bolpur (SC) | 84.83 ![]() | Anupam Hazra | All India Trinamool Congress | 2,36,112 | |
42 | Birbhum | 85.34 ![]() | Satabdi Roy (Banerjee) | All India Trinamool Congress | 6,726 |
Analysis
According to DNA newspaper's analysis: "BJP emerged as a potential force in West Bengal where it is traditionally considered weak.". While BJP won only 2 seats, BJP candidates for the first time, returned runner-up in 3 seats and it also got 16.8% vote share - BJP's best performance so far surpassing its previous best of 11.66% in 1991 elections. However. Trinamool Congress dominated the election winning 34 seats. The CPI-M led Left Front was decimated winning only 2 seats as the BJP made inroads in its vote share. It was also argued that, ""resurgence of the Left can never be ruled out"[3]
Assembly segments wise lead of Parties
Party | Assembly segments[4] | Constituencies | Position in Assembly (as of 2016 election) | Constituencies | |||
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All India Trinamool Congress | 214 | 211 | |||||
Left Front | 29 | 32 | |||||
Bharatiya Janata Party | 23 | 3 | |||||
Indian National Congress | 28 | 44 | |||||
Others | 0 | 4 | |||||
Total | 294 |
Postal Ballot wise lead of Parties
Party | No. of Constituencies | |
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All India Trinamool Congress | 16 | |
Left Front | 23 | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 2 | |
Indian National Congress | 1 | |
Total | 42 |
Region | Total seats | All India Trinamool Congress | Bharatiya Janata Party | Indian National Congress | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Others |
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Ganges Delta | 10 | 10 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
North Bengal | 8 | 01 | 01 | 04 | 02 | 00 |
Northern Hills | 4 | 03 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
Rarh Bengal | 10 | 10 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
South Bengal | 10 | 10 | 01 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
Total | 42 | 34 | 02 | 04 | 02 | 00 |
References
- ^ People's Democracy. [1]
- ^ People's Democracy. West Bengal Left Front Releases List of Candidates
- ^ "The rise of BJP in West Bengal | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". dna. 17 May 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
- ^ Lok Sabha results: Numbers point to tough fight ahead in West Bengal assembly polls