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All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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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]
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.
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 | ||||||
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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] | Voter Turnout (%) |
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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 | Bangaon, 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 |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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All India Trinamool Congress | ![]() |
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Mamata Banerjee | 42 |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Bharatiya Janata Party | ![]() |
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Sukanta Majumdar | 42 |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | ||
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) | ![]() |
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Mohammed Salim | 23 | 42[a] | |
Indian National Congress | ![]() |
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Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | 12[b] | ||
Revolutionary Socialist Party | ![]() |
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Tapan Hor | 3 | ||
Communist Party of India | ![]() |
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Swapan Banerjee | 2 | ||
All India Forward Bloc | ![]() |
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Naren Chatterjee | 2[c] |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | ![]() |
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Provash Ghosh | 42 | |
Indian Secular Front | ![]() |
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Nawsad Siddique | 17 | |
Bahujan Samaj Party | ![]() |
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Manoj Hawladar | 5 | |
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen | ![]() |
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- | 4 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | ![]() |
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Dipankar Bhattacharya | 1 |
Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | Lead | ||||
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AITC | NDA | SDA | Others | ||||
News18 | March 2024[7] | ±4% | 17 | 25 | 0 | 0 | NDA |
ABP News-CVoter | March 2024[8] | ±5% | 23 | 19 | 0 | 0 | AITC |
India TV-CNX | March 2024[9] | ±3% | 21 | 20 | 1 | 0 | AITC |
Zee News-Matrize | February 2024[10] | ±2% | 24 | 17 | 1 | 0 | AITC |
India Today-CVoter | February 2024[11] | ±3-5% | 22 | 19 | 1 | 0 | AITC |
Times Now-ETG | February 2024[12] | ±2% | 26 | 15 | 1 | 0 | AITC |
ABP News-CVoter | December 2023[13] | ±3-5% | 23-25 | 16-18 | 0-2 | 0 | AITC |
Times Now-ETG | December 2023[14] | ±3% | 20-24 | 18-20 | 2-4 | 0 | AITC |
India TV-CNX | October 2023[15] | ±3% | 30 | 10 | 2 | 0 | AITC |
Times Now-ETG | August 2023[16] | ±3% | 22-24 | 16-18 | 0-3 | 0 | AITC |
Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | Lead | ||||
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AITC | NDA | SDA | Others | ||||
ABP News-CVoter | March 2024[17] | ±5% | 42.5% | 40.9% | 17.6% | 1.6 |
Alliance/Parties | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
AITC | 42 | ||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||
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Party | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||||
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 | Bangaon (SC) | |||||||||||||||
15 | Barrackpur | |||||||||||||||
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 |