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Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency

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Bardhaman Purba
WB-38
Lok Sabha constituency
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Interactive Map Outlining Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
Assembly constituenciesRaina
Jamalpur
Kalna
Memari
Purbasthali Dakshin
Purbasthali Uttar
Katwa
Established2009
Total electors18,01,333 (2024)[1]
ReservationSC
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
PartyTrinamool Congress
Elected year2024

Bardhaman Purba is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency is based on Purba Bardhaman district in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency are in Purba Bardhaman district. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency, Katwa Lok Sabha constituency and Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency ceased to exist from 2009 and new constituencies came into being: Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency and Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency.[2]

Assembly segments

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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

Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency (parliamentary constituency no. 38) is composed of the following assembly segments:[2]

Constituency number Name District Party
(as of 2021)
261 Raina (SC) Purba Bardhaman TMC
262 Jamalpur (SC) TMC
264 Kalna (SC) TMC
265 Memari TMC
268 Purbasthali Dakshin TMC
269 Purbasthali Uttar TMC
270 Katwa TMC

Members of Parliament

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Lok Sabha Duration Name of M.P. Party Affiliation
Fifteenth 2009-14 Anup Kumar Saha Communist Party of India (Marxist)[3]
Sixteenth[4] 2014-2019 Sunil Kumar Mandal Trinamool Congress
Seventeenth 2019-2024
Eighteenth 2024-Incumbent Sharmila Sarkar

For Members of Parliament from this area in previous years see Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency and Katwa Lok Sabha constituency

Election results

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2024

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2024 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Sharmila Sarkar 730,302 48.11 Increase3.59
BJP Ashim Kumar Sarkar 5,59,730 37.38 Increase0.94
CPI(M) Nirab Khan 1,76,899 11.81 Decrease0.41
NOTA None of the above 12,697 0.85 Increase0.10
Majority 1,60,572 10.72 Increase2.06
Turnout 14,97,310 83.12 Decrease1.66
AITC hold Swing

2019

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2019 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Sunil Kumar Mandal 640,834 44.52 +1.02
BJP Paresh Chandra Das 551,523 38.32 +25.39
CPI(M) Ishwar Chandra Das 175,920 12.22 −22.61
INC Sidhartha Majumdar 38,472 2.67 −3.54
NOTA None of the above 10,747 0.75 N/A
Majority 89,311 8.66 +3.38
Turnout 14,39,603 84.78
AITC hold Swing

General election 2014

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2014 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Sunil Kumar Mandal 5,74,660 43.50 +1.48
CPI(M) Ishwar Chandra Das 4,60,181 34.83 −12.48
BJP Santosh Roy 1,70,828 12.93 +6.56
INC Chandana Majhi 68,884 5.21 N/A
JMM Swapan Malik 9,666 0.73 N/A
SUCI(C) Kalicharan Sardar 7,981 0.60 N/A
CPI(ML)L Pejush Kumar Sahana 5,919 0.44 −0.30
BSP Mukul Biswas 5,442 0.41 −0.39
JDP Prosanta Bag 3,410 0.25
Majority 1,14,479 8.66 +3.38
Turnout 13,20,922 86.21 −1.00
AITC gain from CPI(M) Swing -4.76

General election 2009

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2009 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Dr Anup Kumar Saha 5,31,987 47.31
AITC Ashoke Biswas 4,72,568 42.02
BJP Sankar Haldar 71,632 6.37
AUDF Rabindranath Bag 17,716 1.57
JDP Raju Malik 12,982 1.15
BSP Mukul Biswas 9,069 0.80
CPI(ML)L Pijush Kumar Sahana 8,419 0.74
Majority 59,419 5.28
Turnout 11,24,373 87.21
CPI(M) win (new seat)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ https://elections24.eci.gov.in/docs/WYKXFehhEH.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ a b "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
  3. ^ a b "General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Result" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  4. ^ a b "General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  5. ^ https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/ConstituencywiseS2538.htm [bare URL]
  6. ^ "General Elections 2019 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results". West Bengal. Election commission of India. Archived from the original on 22 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.

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