Berhampore (Lok Sabha constituency)

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Baharampur
Lok Sabha Constituency
IncumbentAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Parliamentary PartyIndian National Congress
Elected Year2019
Constituency Details
Established1951–present
ReservationNone
StateWest Bengal
Total Electors1,453,783[1]
Assembly ConstituenciesBurwan
Kandi
Bharatpur
Rejinagar
Beldanga
Baharampur
Naoda

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[edit]

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]

Constituency number Name Reserved for (SC/ST/None) District
67 Burwan SC Murshidabad
68 Kandi None Murshidabad
69 Bharatpur None Murshidabad
70 Rejinagar None Murshidabad
71 Beldanga None Murshidabad
72 Baharampur None Murshidabad
74 Naoda None Murshidabad

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[edit]

  • Behrampur Lok Sabha Seat
Lok Sabha Duration Name of M.P. Party Affiliation
First 1952-57 Tridib Chaudhuri Revolutionary Socialist Party[4]
Second 1957-62
Third 1962-67
Fourth 1967-71
Fifth 1971-77
Sixth 1977-80
Seventh 1980-84
Eighth 1984-89 Atish Chandra Sinha Indian National Congress[5]
Ninth 1989-91 Nani Bhattacharya Revolutionary Socialist Party [6]
Tenth 1991-93
Tenth 1994-96 Pramothes Mukherjee
Eleventh 1996-98
Twelfth 1998-99
Thirteenth 1999-04 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Indian National Congress[7]
Fourteenth 2004-09
Fifteenth 2009-14
Sixteenth 2014-19
Seventeenth 2019-Till Now

Election results[edit]

General election 2019[edit]

2019 Indian general elections: Baharampur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 5,91,147 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
[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] 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[edit]

2014 Indian general elections: Baharampur[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 583,549 50.54 -6.37
AITC Indranil Sen 226,982 19.69 N/A
[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] 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[edit]

General Election, 2009: Baharampur[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 541,920 56.91 +5.41
[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] 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
e • d 
Party Seats won Seat change Vote percentage
Trinamool Congress 19 Increase18 39.3
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9 Decrease17 22.7
Communist Party of India 2 Decrease1 2.3
Revolutionary Socialist Party 2 Decrease1 2.4
Forward Bloc 2 Decrease1 2.1
Indian National Congress 6 Steady 9.6
Bharatiya Janata Party 1 Increase1 16.8
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) 1 Increase1 0.7

Source: Party-wise trends in General Election to the Lok Sabha 2009
List of successful candidates in General Elections 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha

General election 2004[edit]

General Election, 2004: Baharampur[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 508,095 51.50
[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] 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[edit]

1999 Indian general election: Behrampore
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 434,073 46.86
[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] 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 Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) Swing

General election 1998[edit]

1998 Indian general election: Behrampore
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] 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
[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] hold Swing

General election 1996[edit]

1996 Indian general election: Behrampore
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] 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
[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] hold Swing

1994 By-election[edit]

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 Bye election 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 % ±%
[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] 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
[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] hold Swing +21.27

General elections 1951-2019[edit]

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[4]
1957 Trdib Chaudhuri RSP Nazrul Haque Khandoker Independent[11]
1962 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP Nazrul Haque Khandoker INC[12]
1967 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP D.Sinha INC[13]
1971 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP Rejaul Karim INC[14]
1977 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP Sudip Bandyopadhyay INC[15]
1980 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP Jagadish Sinha INC[16]
1984 Atish Chandra Sinha INC Tridib Chaudhuri RSP[5]
1989 Nani Bhattacharya RSP Sankar Das Paul INC[6]
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[7]
2004 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury INC Pramothes Mukherjee RSP[10]
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[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  2. ↑ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
  3. ↑ "Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha" (PDF). Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies. Election Commission of India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "General Elections, India, 1951- Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "General Elections, 1984 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "General Elections, 1989 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "General Elections, 1999 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  9. ↑ "General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "General Elections, 2004 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  11. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1957- Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  12. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1962- Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  13. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1967 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  14. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1971 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  15. ↑ "General Elections, 1977 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  16. ↑ "General Elections, 1980 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  17. ↑ "General Elections, 1991 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  18. ↑ "General Elections, 1996 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  19. ↑ "General Elections, 1998 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

Coordinates: 24°06′N 88°15′E / 24.1°N 88.25°E / 24.1; 88.25

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