2024_Indian_general_election_in_West_Bengal

2024 Indian general election in West Bengal
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	Constituencies in the state. Constituencies in yellow and in pink represent seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes respectively.
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2024 Indian general election in West Bengal

Indian political election in West Bengal

The 2024 Indian general election in West Bengal will be held in all 7 phases from 19 April to 1 June to elect 42 members of the 18th Lok Sabha, with the results declared on 4 June.^[1] ^[2] The by-elections for Bhagabangola and Baranagar in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly are also scheduled with the general election and will take place on 7 May and 1 June respectively.^[3]

Quick Facts All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha, Leader ...

West Bengal, along with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, will be the only states where the 2024 Indian general election will be held in all 7 phases.

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[7] INC and AIFB are contesting 1 seat each (Cooch Behar and Purulia Lok Sabha constituencies respectively) independently outside of alliance.

[8] INC is contesting 12 seats under the alliance and 1 seat (Cooch Behar) independently.

[9] AIFB is contesting 2 seats under the alliance and 1 seat (Purulia) independently.

[10] INC's Piya Roy Chowdhury is also contesting the seat independently outside of alliance.

[11] AIFB's Dhirendra Nath Mahato is also contesting the seat independently outside of alliance.

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Poll event	Phase
Poll event	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII
Notification Date	20 March	28 March	12 April	18 April	26 April	29 April	7 May
Last Date for filing nomination	27 March	4 April	19 April	25 April	3 May	6 May	14 May
Scrutiny of nomination	28 March	5 April	20 April	26 April	4 May	7 May	15 May
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination	30 March	8 April	22 April	29 April	6 May	9 May	17 May
Date of poll	19 April	26 April	7 May	13 May	20 May	25 May	1 June
Date of counting of votes/Result	4 June 2024
No. of constituencies	3	3	4	8	7	8	9

Phase	Poll Date	Constituencies^[6]
I	19 April	Cooch Behar, Alipurduars, Jalpaiguri
II	26 April	Darjeeling, Raiganj, Balurghat
III	7 May	Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, Jangipur, Murshidabad
IV	13 May	Baharampur, Krishnanagar, Ranaghat, Bardhaman Purba, Bardhaman–Durgapur, Asansol, Bolpur, Birbhum
V	20 May	Bongaon, Barrackpore, Howrah, Uluberia, Serampore, Hooghly, Arambagh
VI	25 May	Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal, Jhargram, Medinipur, Purulia, Bankura, Bishnupur
VII	1 June	Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin, Kolkata Uttar

	Leader	Contesting Seats
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Mohammed Salim	23	42^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Indian National Congress	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	12^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Revolutionary Socialist Party	Tapan Hor	3
Communist Party of India	Swapan Banerjee	2
All India Forward Bloc	Naren Chatterjee	2^{[lower-alpha 3]}

	Leader	Contesting Seats
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	Provash Ghosh	42
Indian Secular Front	Nawsad Siddique	17
Bahujan Samaj Party	Manoj Hawladar	5
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	-	4
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation	Dipankar Bhattacharya	1

Constituency
Constituency
1	Cooch Behar (SC)	AITC	Jagadish Chandra Basunia	BJP	Nisith Pramanik	AIFB	Nitish Chandra Roy^{[lower-alpha 4]}
2	Alipurduars (ST)	AITC	Prakash Chik Baraik	BJP	Manoj Tigga	RSP	Mili Oraon
3	Jalpaiguri (SC)	AITC	Nirmal Chandra Roy	BJP	Jayanta Kumar Roy	CPI(M)	Debraj Barman
4	Darjeeling	AITC	Gopal Lama	BJP	Raju Bista	INC	Munish Tamang
5	Raiganj	AITC	Krishna Kalyani	BJP	Kartick Paul	INC	Ali Imran Ramz (Victor)
6	Balurghat	AITC	Biplab Mitra	BJP	Sukanta Majumdar	RSP	Jaydeb Siddhanta
7	Maldaha Uttar	AITC	Prasun Banerjee	BJP	Khagen Murmu	INC	Mostaque Alam
8	Maldaha Dakshin	AITC	Shahnawaz Ali Raihan	BJP	Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury	INC	Isha Khan Choudhury
9	Jangipur	AITC	Khalilur Rahaman	BJP	Dhananjay Ghosh	INC	Mortaza Hossain Bokul
10	Baharampur	AITC	Yusuf Pathan	BJP	Nirmal Kumar Saha	INC	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
11	Murshidabad	AITC	Abu Taher Khan	BJP	Gouri Shankar Ghosh	CPI(M)	Mohammed Salim
12	Krishnanagar	AITC	Mahua Moitra	BJP	Amrita Roy	CPI(M)	S. M. Saadi
13	Ranaghat (SC)	AITC	Mukut Mani Adhikari	BJP	Jagannath Sarkar	CPI(M)	Alokesh Das
14	Bongaon (SC)	AITC	Biswajit Das	BJP	Shantanu Thakur	INC	Pradip Biswas
15	Barrackpore	AITC	Partha Bhowmick	BJP	Arjun Singh	CPI(M)	Debdut Ghosh
16	Dum Dum	AITC	Saugata Roy	BJP	Shilbhadra Dutta	CPI(M)	Sujan Chakraborty
17	Barasat	AITC	Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar	BJP	Swapan Majumder	AIFB	Sanjib Chatterjee
18	Basirhat	AITC	Haji Nurul Islam	BJP	Rekha Patra	CPI(M)	Nirapada Sardar
19	Jaynagar (SC)	AITC	Pratima Mondal	BJP	Ashok Kandari	RSP	Samarendra Nath Mandal
20	Mathurapur (SC)	AITC	Bapi Halder	BJP	Ashok Purkait	CPI(M)	Sarat Chandra Haldar
21	Diamond Harbour	AITC	Abhishek Banerjee	BJP	Abhijit Das (Bobby)	CPI(M)	Pratik Ur Rahaman
22	Jadavpur	AITC	Saayoni Ghosh	BJP	Anirban Ganguly	CPI(M)	Srijan Bhattacharyya
23	Kolkata Dakshin	AITC	Mala Roy	BJP	Debasree Chaudhuri	CPI(M)	Saira Shah Halim
24	Kolkata Uttar	AITC	Sudip Bandyopadhyay	BJP	Tapas Roy	INC	Pradip Bhattacharya
25	Howrah	AITC	Prasun Banerjee	BJP	Rathin Chakraborty	CPI(M)	Sabyasachi Chatterjee
26	Uluberia	AITC	Sajda Ahmed	BJP	Arun Uday Paul Chowdhury	INC	Azahar Mallick
27	Serampore	AITC	Kalyan Banerjee	BJP	Kabir Sankar Bose	CPI(M)	Dipsita Dhar
28	Hooghly	AITC	Rachna Banerjee	BJP	Locket Chatterjee	CPI(M)	Monodip Ghosh
29	Arambagh (SC)	AITC	Mitali Bag	BJP	Arup Kanti Digar	CPI(M)	Biplab Kumar Moitra
30	Tamluk	AITC	Debangshu Bhattacharya	BJP	Abhijit Gangopadhyay	CPI(M)	Sayan Banerjee
31	Kanthi	AITC	Uttam Barik	BJP	Soumendu Adhikari	INC	Urbashi Bhattacharya
32	Ghatal	AITC	Deepak Adhikari (Dev)	BJP	Hiran Chatterjee	CPI	Tapan Ganguly
33	Jhargram (ST)	AITC	Kalipada Soren	BJP	Pranat Tudu	CPI(M)	Sonamoni Murmu (Tudu)
34	Medinipur	AITC	June Malia	BJP	Agnimitra Paul	CPI	Biplab Bhatta
35	Purulia	AITC	Santiram Mahato	BJP	Jyotirmay Singh Mahato	INC	Nepal Mahato^{[lower-alpha 5]}
36	Bankura	AITC	Arup Chakraborty	BJP	Subhas Sarkar	CPI(M)	Nilanjan Dasgupta
37	Bishnupur (SC)	AITC	Sujata Mondal	BJP	Saumitra Khan	CPI(M)	Shital Kaibartya
38	Bardhaman Purba (SC)	AITC	Sharmila Sarkar	BJP	Ashim Kumar Sarkar	CPI(M)	Nirav Kha
39	Bardhaman–Durgapur	AITC	Kirti Azad	BJP	Dilip Ghosh	CPI(M)	Sukriti Ghosal
40	Asansol	AITC	Shatrughan Sinha	BJP	S. S. Ahluwalia	CPI(M)	Jahanara Khan
41	Bolpur (SC)	AITC	Asit Kumar Mal	BJP	Priya Saha	CPI(M)	Shyamali Pradhan
42	Birbhum	AITC	Satabdi Roy	BJP	Debtanu Bhattacharya	INC	Milton Rashid

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2024 Indian general election in West Bengal

Election schedule

Constituencies in phases

Parties and alliances

All India Trinamool Congress

Bharatiya Janata Party

Secular Democratic Alliance

Others

Candidates

Surveys and polls

Opinion polls

Results

Results by party or alliance

Results by constituency

See also

References

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			AITC	SDA	BJP	Others
Polling agency	Date published	Margin of Error					Lead
			INDIA

News18	March 2024^[7]	±4%	17	0	25	0	BJP
ABP News-CVoter	March 2024^[8]	±5%	23	0	19	0	AITC
India TV-CNX	March 2024^[9]	±3%	21	1	20	0	AITC
Zee News-Matrize	February 2024^[10]	±2%	24	1	17	0	AITC
India Today-CVoter	February 2024^[11]	±3-5%	22	1	19	0	AITC
Times Now-ETG	February 2024^[12]	±2%	26	1	15	0	AITC
ABP News-CVoter	December 2023^[13]	±3-5%	23-25	0-2	16-18	0	AITC
Times Now-ETG	December 2023^[14]	±3%	20-24	2-4	18-20	0	AITC
India TV-CNX	October 2023^[15]	±3%	30	2	10	0	AITC
Times Now-ETG	August 2023^[16]	±3%	22-24	0-3	16-18	0	AITC

Alliance/ Parties				Popular vote			Seats
Alliance/ Parties				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	AITC						42
	NDA		BJP				42
	SDA		CPI(M)				23
			INC				12
			RSP				3
			CPI				2
			AIFB				2
		Total					42
	Others
	IND
	NOTA
Total					100%	-		42	-

Constituency		Winner					Runner Up					Margin
Constituency		Party	Alliance	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Alliance	Candidate	Votes	%	Margin
1	Cooch Behar (SC)
2	Alipurduars (ST)
3	Jalpaiguri (SC)
4	Darjeeling
5	Raiganj
6	Balurghat
7	Maldaha Uttar
8	Maldaha Dakshin
9	Jangipur
10	Baharampur
11	Murshidabad
12	Krishnanagar
13	Ranaghat (SC)
14	Bongaon (SC)
15	Barrackpore
16	Dum Dum
17	Barasat
18	Basirhat
19	Jaynagar (SC)
20	Mathurapur (SC)
21	Diamond Harbour
22	Jadavpur
23	Kolkata Dakshin
24	Kolkata Uttar
25	Howrah
26	Uluberia
27	Serampore
28	Hooghly
29	Arambagh (SC)
30	Tamluk
31	Kanthi
32	Ghatal
33	Jhargram (ST)
34	Medinipur
35	Purulia
36	Bankura
37	Bishnupur (SC)
38	Bardhaman Purba (SC)
39	Bardhaman–Durgapur
40	Asansol
41	Bolpur (SC)
42	Birbhum