Indian political election in West Bengal
2024 Indian general election in West Bengal ← 2019 19 April 2024 to 1 June 2024 2029 →
All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok SabhaOpinion polls Turnout 79.29% ( 2.47 pp) First party Second party Leader Mamata Banerjee Sukanta Majumdar Party AITC BJP Leader since 1998 2021 Leader's seat Did not contest Balurghat Last election 43.3%, 22 seats 40.7%, 18 seats Seats won 29 12 Seat change 7 6 Popular vote 27,564,561 23,327,349 Percentage 45.76% 38.73% Swing 2.46 pp 1.97 pp Third party Fourth party Leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Mohammed Salim Party INC CPI(M) Alliance LF+INC LF+INC Leader since 2020 2022 Leader's seat Baharampur (Lost) Murshidabad (Lost) Last election 5.67%, 2 seats 6.33%, 0 seats Seats won 1 0 Seat change 1 - Popular vote 2,818,728 3,416,941 Percentage 4.68% 5.67% Swing 0.99pp 0.66pp
Seatwise Result Map of the 2024 general election in West Bengal
The 2024 Indian general election was held in West Bengal in seven phases between 19 April and 1 June 2024 to elect 42 members of the 18th Lok Sabha .[1] [2] The result of the election was announced on 4 June 2024.
The by-elections for Bhagabangola and Baranagar in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly was also scheduled with the general election and took place on 7 May and 1 June respectively.[3]
West Bengal , along with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar , were the only states where the 2024 Indian general election was held in all 7 phases.
Election schedule Phase wise schedule of 2024 Indian general election in West Bengal On 16 March 2024, the Election Commission of India announced the schedule of the 2024 Indian general election , with West Bengal scheduled to vote during all the 7 phases starting from 19 April and concluding on 1 June. [4] [5]
Poll event Phase 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
Parties and alliances Seat-sharing of Secular Democratic Alliance (SDA) in West Bengal Others Candidates Surveys and polls Opinion polls Exit polls Voter turnout Phase wise Phase Poll Date Constituencies[17] Voter Turnout (%) I 19 April 2024 Cooch Behar , Alipurduars , Jalpaiguri 81.91% II 26 April 2024 Darjeeling , Raiganj , Balurghat 76.58% III 7 May 2024 Maldaha Uttar , Maldaha Dakshin , Jangipur , Murshidabad 77.53% IV 13 May 2024 Baharampur , Krishnanagar , Ranaghat , Bardhaman Purba , Bardhaman–Durgapur , Asansol , Bolpur , Birbhum 80.22% V 20 May 2024 Bongaon , Barrackpore , Howrah , Uluberia , Serampore , Hooghly , Arambagh 78.45% VI 25 May 2024 Tamluk , Kanthi , Ghatal , Jhargram , Medinipur , Purulia , Bankura , Bishnupur 82.71% VII 1 June 2024 Dum Dum , Barasat , Basirhat , Jaynagar , Mathurapur , Diamond Harbour , Jadavpur , Kolkata Dakshin , Kolkata Uttar 69.89% Total 79.29%
Constituency wise Results Results by party or alliance Vote Share (By alliance)
Others (3.45%)
Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/− AITC 27,565,561 45.76% 2.49% 42 29 7 NDA BJP 23,327,349 38.73% 1.52% 42 12 6 LF+INC CPI(M) 3,416,941 5.67% 0.61% 23 0 INC 2,818,728 4.68% 0.93% 12 1 1 AIFB 143,946 0.24% 0.17% 2 0 RSP 134,039 0.22% 0.17% 3 0 CPI 131,744 0.22% 0.14% 2 0 Total 11.03% 42 Others 2,076,281 3.45% NOTA 522,724 0.87% Total 100% - 42 -
Constituency wise party or alliance votes # Constituency TMC votes NDA votes LF votes INC votes Win Margin 1 Cooch Behar 788,375 749,125 30,267 10,679 39,250 2 Alipurduars 619,867 695,314 27,427 - 75,447 3 Jalpaiguri 679,875 766,568 74,092 - 86,693 4 Darjeeling 500,806 679,331 - 83,374 178,525 5 Raiganj 492,700 560,897 - 263,273 68,197 6 Balurghat 564,610 574,996 54,217 - 10,386 7 Maldaha Uttar 449,315 527,023 - 384,764 77,708 8 Maldaha Dakshin 301,026 444,027 - 572,395 128,368 9 Jangipur 544,427 340,814 - 427,790 116,637 10 Baharampur 524,516 371,885 - 439,494 85,022 11 Murshidabad 682,442 292,031 518,227 - 164,215 12 Krishnanagar 628,789 572,084 180,201 - 56,705 13 Ranaghat 595,497 782,396 - 123,810 186,899 14 Bangaon 645,812 719,505 - 65,176 73,693 15 Barrackpore 520,231 455,793 109,564 - 64,438 16 Dum Dum 528,579 457,919 240,784 - 70,660 17 Barasat 692,010 577,821 100,000 114,189 18 Basirhat 803,762 470,215 77,899 - 333,547 19 Jaynagar 894,312 424,093 40,113 - 470,219 20 Mathurapur 755,731 554,674 61,100 - 201,057 21 Diamond Harbour 1,048,230 337,300 86,953 - 710,930 22 Jadavpur 717,899 459,698 258,712 - 258,201 23 Kolkata Dakshin 615,274 428,043 168,531 - 187,231 24 Kolkata Uttar 454,696 362,136 - 114,982 92,560 25 Howrah 626,493 457,051 152,005 - 169,442 26 Uluberia 724,622 505,949 - 78,589 505,949 27 Srerampore 673,970 499,140 239,146 - 174,830 28 Hooghly 702,744 625,891 139,919 - 76,853 29 Arambagh 712,587 706,188 92,502 - 6,399 30 Tamluk 687,851 765,584 85,389 - 77,733 31 Kanthi 715,431 763,195 - 31,122 47,764 32 Ghatal 837,990 655,122 74,908 - 182,868 33 Jhargram 743,478 569,430 77,302 - 174,048 34 Medinipur 702,192 675,001 57,785 - 27,191 35 Purulia 561,410 578,489 - 129,157 17,079 36 Bankura 641,813 609,035 105,359 - 32,778 37 Bishnupur 674,563 680,130 105,411 5,567 38 Bardhaman Purba 720,302 559,730 176,899 - 160,572 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur 720,667 582,686 153,829 - 137,981 40 Asansol 605,645 546,081 105,964 59,564 41 Bolpur 855,633 528,380 99,383 327,253 42 Birbhum 717,961 520,311 - 226,260 197,650
Results by constituency Constituency Turnout Winner Runner Up Margin Party Alliance Candidate Votes % Party Alliance Candidate Votes % Votes pp 1 Cooch Behar (SC) 82.16% AITC AITC Jagadish Chandra Basunia 7,88,375 48.57% BJP NDA Nisith Pramanik 7,49,125 46.16% 39,250 2.41% 2 Alipurduars (ST) 79.76% BJP NDA Manoj Tigga 6,95,314 48.92% AITC AITC Prakash Chik Baraik 6,19,867 43.61% 75,447 5.30% 3 Jalpaiguri (SC) 83.66% BJP NDA Jayanta Kumar Roy 7,66,568 48.57% AITC AITC Nirmal Chandra Roy 6,79,875 43.07% 86,693 5.50% 4 Darjeeling 74.76% BJP NDA Raju Bista 6,79,331 51.18% AITC AITC Gopal Lama 5,00,806 37.73% 1,78,525 13.45% 5 Raiganj 76.18% BJP NDA Kartick Chandra Paul 5,60,897 40.99% AITC AITC Krishna Kalyani 4,92,700 36.00% 68,197 4.99% 6 Balurghat 79.09% BJP NDA Sukanta Majumder 5,74,996 46.47% AITC AITC Biplab Mitra 5,64,610 45.63% 10,386 0.84% 7 Maldaha Uttar 76.03% BJP NDA Khagen Murmu 5,27,023 37.18% AITC AITC Prasun Banerjee 4,49,315 31.70% 77,708 5.48% 8 Maldaha Dakshin 76.69% INC SDA Isha Khan Choudhury 5,72,395 41.79% BJP NDA Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury 4,44,027 32.42% 1,28,368 9.37% 9 Jangipur 75.72% AITC AITC Khalilur Rahaman 5,44,427 39.75% INC SDA Murtoja Hossain Bokul 4,27,790 31.23% 1,16,637 8.52% 10 Baharampur 77.54% AITC AITC Yusuf Pathan 5,24,516 37.88% INC SDA Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 4,39,494 31.74% 85,022 6.14% 11 Murshidabad 81.52% AITC AITC Abu Taher Khan 6,82,442 44.27% CPI(M) SDA Md. Salim 5,18,227 33.62% 1,64,215 10.65% 12 Krishnanagar 80.65% AITC AITC Mahua Moitra 6,28,789 44.10% BJP NDA Amrita Roy 5,72,084 40.13% 56,705 3.98% 13 Ranaghat (SC) 81.87% BJP NDA Jagannath Sarkar 7,82,396 50.78% AITC AITC Mukut Mani Adhikari 5,95,497 38.65% 1,86,899 12.13% 14 Bangaon (SC) 81.04% BJP NDA Shantanu Thakur 7,19,505 48.19% AITC AITC Biswajit Das 6,45,812 43.25% 73,693 4.94% 15 Barrackpore 75.41% AITC AITC Partha Bhowmick 5,20,231 45.56% BJP NDA Arjun Singh 4,55,793 39.92% 64,438 5.64% 16 Dum Dum 73.81% AITC AITC Saugata Roy 5,28,579 41.95% BJP NDA Silbhadra Datta 4,57,919 36.34% 70,660 5.61% 17 Barasat 80.17% AITC AITC Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar 6,92,010 45.15% BJP NDA Swapan Majumder 5,77,821 37.70% 1,14,189 7.45% 18 Basirhat 84.31% AITC AITC Haji Nurul Islam 8,03,762 52.76% BJP NDA Rekha Patra 4,70,215 30.87% 333,547 21.89% 19 Jaynagar (SC) 80.08% AITC AITC Pratima Mondal 8,94,312 60.32% BJP NDA Ashok Kandari 4,24,093 28.60% 470,219 31.72% 20 Mathurapur (SC) 82.02% AITC AITC Bapi Halder 7,55,731 50.52% BJP NDA Ashok Purkait 5,54,674 37.08% 201,057 13.44% 21 Diamond Harbour 81.04% AITC AITC Abhishek Banerjee 10,48,230 68.48% BJP NDA Abhijit Das (Bobby) 3,37,300 22.03% 710,930 46.45% 22 Jadavpur 76.68% AITC AITC Saayoni Ghosh 7,17,899 45.83% BJP NDA Anirban Ganguly 4,59,698 29.35% 258,201 16.48% 23 Kolkata Dakshin 66.95% AITC AITC Mala Roy 6,15,274 49.48% BJP NDA Debasree Chaudhuri 4,28,043 34.42% 187,231 15.06% 24 Kolkata Uttar 63.59% AITC AITC Sudip Bandyopadhyay 4,54,696 47.44% BJP NDA Tapas Roy 3,62,136 37.78% 92,560 9.62% 25 Howrah 71.73% AITC AITC Prasun Banerjee 6,26,493 49.26% BJP NDA Rathin Chakraborty 4,57,051 35.94% 169,442 13.32% 26 Uluberia 79.78% AITC AITC Sajda Ahmed 7,24,622 52.10% BJP NDA Arun Uday Pal Chaudhary 5,05,949 36.38% 218,673 15.72% 27 Srerampur 76.44% AITC AITC Kalyan Banerjee 6,73,970 45.65% BJP NDA Kabir Shankar Bose 4,99,140 33.80% 174,830 11.85% 28 Hooghly 81.38% AITC AITC Rachana Banerjee 7,02,744 46.31% BJP NDA Locket Chatterjee 6,25,891 41.24% 76,853 5.07% 29 Arambagh (SC) 82.62% AITC AITC Mitali Bag 7,12,587 45.71% BJP NDA Arup Kanti Digar 7,06,188 45.30% 6,399 0.41% 30 Tamluk 84.79% BJP NDA Abhijit Gangopadhyay 7,65,584 48.54% AITC AITC Debangshu Bhattacharya 6,87,851 43.61% 77,733 4.93% 31 Kanthi 84.77% BJP NDA Soumendu Adhikari 7,63,195 49.85% AITC AITC Uttam Barik 7,15,431 46.73% 47,764 3.12% 32 Ghatal 82.17% AITC AITC Deepak Adhikari 8,37,990 52.36% BJP NDA Hiran Chatterjee 6,55,122 40.93% 182,868 11.43% 33 Jhargram (ST) 83.47% AITC AITC Kalipada Soren 7,43,478 49.87% BJP NDA Dr. Pranat Tudu 5,69,430 38.20% 174,048 11.67% 34 Medinipur 81.56% AITC AITC June Malia 7,02,192 47.40% BJP NDA Agnimitra Paul 6,75,001 45.56% 27,191 1.84% 35 Purulia 78.39% BJP NDA Jyotirmay Singh Mahato 5,78,489 40.34% AITC AITC Santiram Mahato 5,61,410 39.15% 17,079 1.19% 36 Bankura 80.75% AITC AITC Arup Chakraborty 6,41,813 44.33% BJP NDA Subhas Sarkar 6,09,035 42.07% 32,778 2.26% 37 Bishnupur (SC) 85.91% BJP NDA Saumitra Khan 6,80,130 44.93% AITC AITC Sujata Mondal 6,74,563 44.56% 5,567 0.37% 38 Bardhaman Purba (SC) 82.85% AITC AITC Sharmila Sarkar 7,30,302 48.11% BJP NDA Ashim Kumar Sarkar 5,59,730 37.38% 160,572 10.72% 39 Bardhaman–Durgapur 80.72% AITC AITC Kirti Azad 7,20,667 47.99% BJP NDA Dilip Ghosh 5,82,686 38.80% 137,981 9.19% 40 Asansol 73.27% AITC AITC Shatrughan Sinha 6,05,645 46.53% BJP NDA S. S. Ahluwalia 5,46,081 41.96% 59,564 4.78% 41 Bolpur (SC) 82.66% AITC AITC Asit Kumar Mal 8,55,633 55.98% BJP NDA Piya Saha 5,28,380 34.57% 327,253 21.41% 42 Birbhum 81.91% AITC AITC Satabdi Roy 7,17,961 47.00% BJP NDA Debtanu Bhattacharya 5,20,311 34.06% 197,650 12.94%
Assembly segments wise lead of Parties 2024 Lok Sabha in West Bengal by Assembly Segment Postal Ballot wise lead of Parties 2024 Lok Sabha West Bengal Postal Ballot Wise Leads Map Region-Wise Results Region Total seats All India Trinamool Congress Bharatiya Janata Party Indian National Congress Communist Party of India (Marxist) Others East Bengal (Ganges Delta Region) 10 08 01 02 01 00 00 00 North Bengal 8 04 01 03 01 01 00 00 Northern Hills 4 01 01 03 01 00 00 00 West Bengal (Rarh Region) 10 08 05 02 05 00 00 00 South Bengal 10 08 01 02 01 00 00 00 Total 42 29 07 12 06 01 01 00 00
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