Baharampur
Lok Sabha constituency
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Interactive Map Outlining Berhampore Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
Assembly constituenciesBurwan
Kandi
Bharatpur
Rejinagar
Beldanga
Baharampur
Naoda
Established1951
Total electors1,453,783[1]
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Party Indian National Congress
Elected year2019

Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency (earlier known as Berhampore) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Baharampur in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 10 Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency are in Murshidabad district.

Assembly segments

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

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 10 Baharampur is composed of the following assembly segments from 2009:[2]

No Name District Member Party
67 Burwan (SC) Murshidabad Jiban Krishna Saha Trinamool Congress
68 Kandi Apurba Sarkar Trinamool Congress
69 Bharatpur Humayun Kabir Trinamool Congress
70 Rejinagar Rabiul Alam Chowdhury Trinamool Congress
71 Beldanga Hasanuzzaman Sk. Trinamool Congress
72 Baharampur Subrata Maitra Bharatiya Janata Party
74 Naoda Sahina Mamtaj Begum Trinamool Congress

In 2004 Berhampore Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[3]Naoda (assembly constituency no. 61), Berhampore (assembly constituency no. 63), Beldanga (assembly constituency no. 64), Kandi (assembly constituency no. 65), Barwan (assembly constituency no. 67), Bharatpur (assembly constituency no. 68), Ketugram (SC) (assembly constituency no. 282)

Members of Parliament

Year Name[4] Party
1952 Tridib Chaudhuri Revolutionary Socialist Party
1957
1962
1967
1971
1977
1980
1984 Atish Chandra Sinha Indian National Congress
1989 Nani Bhattacharya Revolutionary Socialist Party
1991
1996 Pramothes Mukherjee
1998
1999 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Indian National Congress
2004
2009
2014
2019

Election results

General Election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Baharampur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
BJP Dr. Nirmal Kumar Saha
AITC
NOTA None of the above
Majority
Turnout
gain from Swing

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Baharampur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 591,147 45.47 -5.07
AITC Apurba Sarkar (David) 5,10,410 39.26 +19.61
BJP Krishna Juardar Arya 1,43,038 11.00 +3.93
RSP Id Mohammad 13,362 1.00 -18.54
NOTA None of the above 14,086 1.08
Majority 80,696 6.21 -24.64
Turnout 13,01,033 79.41 +0.02
Registered electors 16,38,378
INC hold Swing -4.50

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Baharampur[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 583,549 50.54 -6.37
AITC Indranil Sen 226,982 19.69 N/A
RSP Pramothes Mukherjee 225,699 19.54 -17.73
BJP Debesh Kumar Adhikary 81,656 7.07 +5.07
SDPI Badrul Sekh 11,642 1.00
Jamat-e-Seratul Mustakim Md. Ezaruddin 4,869 4.21
BSP Kushadhwaj Bala 4,676 0.40
IUML Abdus Sukur 4,322 0.34
Majority 356,567 30.85 +11.22
Turnout 11,54,587 79.42 -1.28
INC hold Swing -6.37

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Baharampur[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 541,920 56.91 +5.41
RSP Pramothes Mukherjee 354,943 37.27 -4.13
BJP Bidyut Kumar Halder 27,619 2.00
Independent Baidya Nath Mondal 9,195 0.96
BSP Kushadhwaj Bala 8,587 0.90
RPI(A) Ghosh Babu Saw 3,823 0.40
SP Ashoke Kumar Singha 3,076 0.32
RDMP Rabindra Nath Roy 3,050 0.32
Majority 186,977 19.63
Turnout 9,52,213 80.70
INC hold Swing

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Baharampur[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 508,095 51.50
RSP Pramothes Mukherjee 409,194 41.40
BJP Tapas Kumar Chatterjee 41,490 4.20
Independent Jyotirmoy Thakur 9,672 1.00
JDP Apurba Banerjee 6,818 0.70
Independent Sunil Kumar Mandal 5,643 0.60
RPI(A) Ashim Roy 3,798 0.40
Independent Krishna Prasad Biswas 3,428 0.30
Samajwadi Party Ashok Kumar Singha 3,377 0.30
Majority 98,901 10.0
Turnout 9,87,380 80.9%
INC hold Swing

General election 1999

1999 Indian general election: Behrampore
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 434,073 46.86
RSP Pramothes Mukherjee 338,683 36.56
BJP Colonel (Retd.) Sabyasachi Bagchi 134,569 14.53
Independent Jyotirmoy Thakur 8,948 0.97
IUML Nurul Islam 3,618 0.39
Independent Siddhartha Chatterjee 2,679 0.29
BSP Sunil Kumar Mandal 1,066 0.12
Independent Kanan Kumar Saha 911 0.10
Independent Sadhan Roy 881 0.10
Independent Santosh Majhi 745 0.08
Independent Anarul Haque Malitha 203 0.02
Majority 95,391
Turnout 9,26,375 77.33
INC gain from RSP Swing

General election 1998

1998 Indian general election: Behrampore
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RSP Pramothes Mukherjee 385,979 44.46
BJP Colonel (Retd.) Sabyasachi Bagchi 262,610 30.25
INC Prodip Mazumdar 188,985 21.77
MUL Abdus Sukur 29,888 3.44
Independent Kanan Kumar Saha 784 0.09
Majority 1,23,369
Turnout 9,26,375 77.33
RSP hold Swing

General election 1996

1996 Indian general election: Behrampore
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RSP Pramothes Mukherjee 449,656 45.86
INC Siddhartha Shankar Ray 405,299 36.56
BJP Subhendu Biswas 56,073 26.96
Independent Naimul Haque 2,886 0.97
Majority 44,357
Turnout 9,26,375 77.33
RSP hold Swing

1994 By-election

In the Behrampore seat, the by-election was held due to the death of the sitting RSP-MP Nani Bhattacharya on 11 October 1993. The by-election was held on 12 March 1994. Pramothes Mukherjee of RSP defeated Siddhartha Shankar Ray of Congress.

Indian Parliamentary bye election, 1994: Behrampore constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RSP Pramothes Mukherjee 387,549 52.39
INC Siddhartha Shankar Ray 292,262 39.84
BJP Mohasin Ali Mondal 128,570 19.85
IUML Abdul Hossain Sekh 93,912 12.93
Independent Arup Chakraborty 12,719 1.89
Majority 95,287 8.70
Turnout 96,650 47.69 -6.7
RSP hold Swing +21.27

General elections 1951-2019

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

Year Winner Runner-up
Candidate Party Candidate Party
1951 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP A.K.M.Zakariah Independent[8]
1957 Trdib Chaudhuri RSP Nazrul Haque Khandoker Independent[9]
1962 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP Nazrul Haque Khandoker INC[10]
1967 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP D.Sinha INC[11]
1971 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP Rejaul Karim INC[12]
1977 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP Sudip Bandyopadhyay INC[13]
1980 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP Jagadish Sinha INC[14]
1984 Atish Chandra Sinha INC Tridib Chaudhuri RSP[15]
1989 Nani Bhattacharya RSP Sankar Das Paul INC[16]
1991 Nani Bhattacharya RSP Kumar Dipti Sengupta INC[17]
1996 Promothes Mukherjee RSP Siddhartha Shankar Ray INC[18]
1998 Promothes Mukherjee RSP Sabyasachi Bagchi BJP[19]
1999 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury INC Pramothes Mukherjee RSP[20]
2004 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury INC Pramothes Mukherjee RSP[7]
2009 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury INC Pramothes Mukherjee RSP
2014 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury INC Indranil Sen AITC
2019 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury INC Apurbo Sarkar AITC

See also

References

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