2014 Indian general election in West Bengal

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
 
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Leader Surjya Kanta Mishra Rahul Sinha
Party CPI(M) BJP
Alliance LF NDA
Leader's seat Did not contest Kolkata Uttar (lost)
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

There are 42 Lok Sabha Constituencies in West Bengal, India. Here is the list of candidates of all the major parties.

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 + 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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