2014 Indian general election in West Bengal

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2014 Indian general election in West Bengal
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All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Turnout82.2% (Increase 0.8 pp)
  First party Second party
 
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Leader
Mamata Bannerjee
 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Party
AITC
 INC
Alliance
–
 UPA
Leader's seat Did not contest
Baharampur
Last election 31.2%, 19 seats 13.5%, 6 seats
Seats won 34 4
Seat change Increase 15 Decrease 2
Popular vote 20,313,280 4,946,581
Percentage 39.8% 9.7%
Swing Increase 8.1 pp Decrease 10.1 pp
  Third party Fourth party
 
Dr. Surjya Kanta Mishra at a meeting to assess implementation of safe drinking water, rural sanitation and NREGA schemes, in Kolkata on June 01, 2007.jpg
SS Ahluwalia, BJP.jpg
Leader Surjya Kanta Mishra S. S. Ahluwalia
Party CPI(M) BJP
Alliance LF
NDA
Leader's seat Did not contest
Darjeeling
Last election 33.1%, 15 seats 6.1%, 1 seat
Seats won 2 2
Seat change Decrease 13 Increase 1
Popular vote 11,720,997 8,691,765
Percentage 23% 17%
Swing Decrease 3.9 pp Increase 10.9 pp
Prime Minister
before election

Manmohan Singh
INC

Prime Minister
after election

Narendra Modi
BJP

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
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
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
1
Cooch Behar
 82.62 Decrease Renuka Sinha
All India Trinamool Congress
 87,107
2
Alipurduars
 83.30 Increase Dasrath Tirkey
All India Trinamool Congress
 21,397
3
Jalpaiguri
 85.17 Increase Bijoy Chandra Barman
All India Trinamool Congress
 69,606
4
Darjeeling
 79.51 Increase S.S.Ahluwalia Bharatiya Janata Party 1,97,239
5
Raiganj
 79.89 Decrease Md. Salim Communist Party of India (Marxist) 1,634
6
Balurghat
 84.77 Decrease Arpita Ghosh
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,06,964
7
Maldaha Uttar
 81.60 Decrease Mausam Noor Indian National Congress 65,705
8
Maldaha Dakshin
 81.09 Increase Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury Indian National Congress 1,64,111
9
Jangipur
 80.43 Decrease Abhijit Mukherjee Indian National Congress 8,161
10
Baharampur
 79.43 Decrease Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Indian National Congress 3,56,567
11
Murshidabad
 85.22 Decrease Badaruddoza Khan Communist Party of India (Marxist) 18,453
12
Krishnanagar
 84.56 Decrease Tapas Paul
All India Trinamool Congress
 71,255
13
Ranaghat
 84.45 Decrease Tapas Mandal
All India Trinamool Congress
 2,01,767
14
Bangaon
 83.36 Decrease Mamata Thakur
All India Trinamool Congress
 2,11,785
15
Barrackpore
 81.77 Increase Dinesh Trivedi
All India Trinamool Congress
 2,06,773
16
Dum Dum
 80.64 Increase Saugata Roy
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,54,934
17
Barasat
 83.96 Increase Dr. Kakali Ghoshdostidar
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,73,141
18
Basirhat
 85.47 Decrease Idris Ali
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,09,659
19
Jaynagar
 81.52 Increase Pratima Mondal
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,08,384
20
Mathurapur
 85.39 Decrease Choudhury Mohan Jatua
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,38,436
21
Diamond Harbour
 81.07 Increase Abhishek Banerjee
All India Trinamool Congress
 71,298
22
Jadavpur
 79.88 Decrease Sugata Bose
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,25,203
23
Kolkata Dakshin
 69.33 Increase Subrata Bakshi
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,36,339
24
Kolkata Uttar
 66.68 Increase Sudip Bandyopadhyay
All India Trinamool Congress
 96,226
25
Howrah
 74.79 Increase Prasun Banerjee
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,96,956
26
Uluberia
 81.95 Increase Sultan Ahmed
All India Trinamool Congress
 2,01,222
27
Srerampur
 79.50 Increase Kalyan Banerjee
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,52,526
28
Hooghly
 82.88 Decrease Dr. Ratna De (Nag)
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,89,084
29
Arambagh
 85.16 Increase Aparupa Poddar
All India Trinamool Congress
 3,46,845
30
Tamluk
 87.63 Decrease Adhikari Suvendu
All India Trinamool Congress
 2,46,481
31
Kanthi
 86.71 Decrease Adhikari Sisir Kumar
All India Trinamool Congress
 2,29,490
32
Ghatal
 84.92 Decrease Adhikari Deepak (Dev)
All India Trinamool Congress
 2,60,891
33
Jhargram
 85.26 Increase Uma Saren
All India Trinamool Congress
 3,47,883
34
Medinipur
 84.22 Decrease Sandhya Roy
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,84,666
35
Purulia
 81.98 Increase Dr. Mriganka Mahato
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,53,877
36
Bankura
 82.23 Decrease Moon Moon Sen
All India Trinamool Congress
 98,506
37
Bishnupur
 86.72 Increase Khan Saumitra
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,49,685
38
Bardhaman Purba
 86.22 Decrease Sunil Kumar Mondal
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,14,479
39
Bardhaman-Durgapur
 84.10 Increase Mamtaz Sanghamita
All India Trinamool Congress
 1,07,331
40
Asansol
 77.76 Increase Babul Supriyo Bharatiya Janata Party 70,480
41
Bolpur
 84.83 Increase Anupam Hazra
All India Trinamool Congress
 2,36,112
42
Birbhum
 85.34 Increase 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
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
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
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

  1. ^ People's Democracy. [1]
  2. ^ People's Democracy. West Bengal Left Front Releases List of Candidates
  3. ^ "The rise of BJP in West Bengal | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". dna. 17 May 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  4. ^ Lok Sabha results: Numbers point to tough fight ahead in West Bengal assembly polls
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