Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency)

Dum Dum
Dum Dum
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Saugata Roy
Parliamentary Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1977
Reservation	None
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,405,981
Most Successful Party	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (5 times)
Assembly Constituencies	Khardaha; Dum Dum Uttar; Panihati; Kamarhati; Baranagar; Dum Dum; Rajarhat Gopalpur

Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Dum Dum in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 16 Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency) are in North 24 Parganas 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. 16 Dum Dum is composed of the following segments from 2009:^[2]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Party	MLA
109	Khardaha	None	North 24 Parganas	Vacant
110	Dum Dum Uttar	None	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Chandrima Bhattacharya
111	Panihati	None	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Nirmal Ghosh
112	Kamarhati	None	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Madan Mitra
113	Baranagar	None	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Tapas Roy
114	Dum Dum	None	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Bratya Basu
117	Rajarhat Gopalpur	None	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Aditi Munshi

Members of Parliament[edit]

	Duration	Constituency	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
Sixth	1977-80	Dum Dum	Ashok Krishna Dutt	Bharatiya Lok Dal^[3]
Seventh	1980-84		Niren Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[4]
Eighth	1984-89		Asutosh Laha	Indian National Congress^[5]
Ninth	1989-91		Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) ^[6]^[7]^[8]
Tenth	1991-96
Eleventh	1996-98
Twelfth	1998-99		Tapan Sikdar	Bharatiya Janata Party^[9]^[10]
Thirteenth	1999-04		Tapan Sikdar	Bharatiya Janata Party^[9]^[10]
Fourteenth	2004-09		Amitava Nandy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[11]
Fifteenth	2009-14		Saugata Roy	All India Trinamool Congress^[12]^[13]
Sixteenth	2014-19
Seventeen	2019-Incumbent

Election results[edit]

General election 2019[edit]

2019 Indian general elections: Dum Dum^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Prof. Saugata Roy	5,12,062	42.51	-0.16
	BJP	Samik Bhattacharya	4,59,063	38.11	+15.61
	CPI (M)	Nepaldev Bhattacharjee	1,67,590	13.91	-15.08
	INC	Saurav Saha	29,097	2.42	-0.59
	NOTA	None of the above	14,491	1.20
Majority			53,002	4.40	-9.28
Turnout			12,04,695	76.92	-3.64
	AITC hold		Swing	-7.73

General election 2014[edit]

2014 Indian general elections: Dum Dum^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Saugata Roy	4,83,244	42.67	-4.37
	CPI (M)	Asim Dasgupta	3,28,310	28.99	-15.95
	BJP	Tapan Sikdar	2,54,819	22.50	+16.79
	INC	Dhananjoy Moitra	34,116	3.01	+3.01
	NOTA	None of the Above	16,837	1.49	---
Majority			1,54,934	13.68	-11.58
Turnout			11,32,644	80.56	+0.07
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2009[edit]

2009 Indian general elections: Dum Dum^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Saugata Roy	4,58,988	47.04
	CPI (M)	Amitava Nandy	4,38,510	44.94
	BJP	Tapan Sikdar	55,679	5.70
	BSP	Dulal Chandra Das	9,065	0.92
	Independent	Sunil Pal	8,177	0.83
Majority			20,478	2.09
Turnout			9,75,684	80.49
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

e • d
Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage
Trinamool Congress	19	18	31.8
Indian National Congress	6	0	13.45
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	1	1	NA
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	9	17	33.1
Communist Party of India	2	1	3.6
Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	1	3.56
Forward bloc	2	1	3.04
Bharatiya Janata Party	1	1	6.14

General election 2004[edit]

General Election, 2004:Dum Dum^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Amitava Nandy	619,325	49.70	+9.41
	BJP	Tapan Sikdar	521,073	41.90	-9.69
	INC	Tapas Majumder	76,854	6.20	-0.99
	Independent	Subhankar Nag	10,352	0.80
	BSP	Goutam Das	9,882	0.80
	SP	Krishnendu Goswami	4,358	0.40
	Independent	Ahindra Basu	4,358	0.30
	Independent	Binoy Adhikary	4,358	0.20
Majority			98,252	7.90
Turnout			12,45,065	80.7
	CPI (M) gain from BJP		Swing

General election 1999[edit]

General Election, 1999:Dum Dum^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Tapan Sikdar	614,471	51.59
	CPI (M)	Anil Bhattacharya	479,910	40.29
	INC	Ramesh Bhattacharjee	85,648	7.19
	BSP	Bimal Krishna Biswas	4,848	0.41
	Independent	Manas Chakraborty	1,862	0.16
	NCP	Suryya Ray	1,658	0.14
	Independent	Prabir Ghoshal	956	0.08
	Independent	Ajit Nandi	945	0.08
	Independent	Saikat Nayak	816	0.07
Majority			134,561	11.1
Turnout			12,09,926	75.7%
	BJP hold		Swing

General election 1998[edit]

General Election, 1998:Dum Dum^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Tapan Sikdar	631,383	50.70
	CPI (M)	Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee	493,978	39.70
	INC	Pradyut Guha	111,078	8.90
	BSP	Jaihind Ram	3,524	0.30
	Independent	Aloke Das	2,951	0.20
	Independent	Gobinda Dey	1,164	0.10
	[[Republican Party of India\|Template:Republican Party of India/meta/shortname]]	Milonkanti Choudhuri	763	0.10
	Independent	Prabir Ghoshal	355	0.00
	Independent	Tarun Srivastava	285	0.00
Majority			137,405	10.9
Turnout			12,62,384	80.9
	BJP gain from CPI (M)		Swing

General election 1996[edit]

General Election, 1996:Dum Dum^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI (M)	Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee	580,455	47.40
	INC	Asutosh Laha	522,164	42.70
	BJP	Dibakar Kundu	107,501	8.80
	BSP	Surendra Nath Biswas	6,457	0.05
	Independent	Ashoke Deb Chowdhury	4,858	0.40
	Independent	Milon Kanti Choudhari	2,218	0.20
	Independent	Jhoton Roy	763	0.10
	Independent	Prabir Ghoshal	355	0.00
	Independent	Tarun Srivastava	285	0.00
Majority			58,291	4.7
Turnout			12,52,429	81.1
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

General election 1991[edit]

General Election, 1991:Dum Dum^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI (M)	Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee	446,564	46.10
	INC	Lal Bahadur Singh	341,699	35.03
	BJP	Manohar Aich	163,070	16.80
	BSP	Jai Hind Ram	6,121	0.60
	Jharkhand Party (Naren)	Tilak Ganguly	4,857	0.50
style="background-color: Template:Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh\|Template:Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh/meta/shortname]]	Uday Shankar Ghosh	3,427	0.30
style="background-color: Template:Doordarshi Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Doordarshi Party\|Template:Doordarshi Party/meta/shortname]]	Ramji Sharma	2,044	0.20
	Independent	Pradip Chakraborty	1,186	0.10
Majority			104,865	10.6
Turnout			9,89,892	74.8
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

General election 1989[edit]

General Election, 1989:Dum Dum^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI (M)	Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee	556,139	55.20
	INC	Ashutosh Laha	439,135	43.60
	BJP	Chitta Ranjan Biswas	10,766	16.80
style="background-color: Template:Doordarshi Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Doordarshi Party\|Template:Doordarshi Party/meta/shortname]]	Shikari Dhobey	2,383	0.20
Majority			117,004	11.4
Turnout			10,27,270	79.2
	CPI (M) gain from INC		Swing

General election 1984[edit]

General Election, 1984:Dum Dum^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Ashutosh Laha	381,984	49.00
	CPI (M)	Niren Ghosh	379,281	48.70
Majority			2,703	0.3
Turnout			7,78,814	77.4
	INC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

General election 1980[edit]

General Election, 1980:Dum Dum^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	Niren Ghosh	368,214	61.07
	[[Indian National Congress (Indira)\|Template:Indian National Congress (Indira)/meta/shortname]]	Barid Baran Das	202,542	33.59
	JP	Kalyan Brata Roy	19,400	3.22
	[[Indian National Congress (Urs)\|Template:Indian National Congress (Urs)/meta/shortname]]	Salil BIswas	4,692	0.78	0.78
	[[Republican Party of India\|Template:Republican Party of India/meta/shortname]]	Ramprit Gond	3,081	0.51
	Independent	Aniruddha Bera	1,890	0.31
	Independent	Sahabir Prasad Shaw	1404	0.23
	Independent	Swapan Dutta	767	0.15
	Independent	Karuna Nidhan Roy	927	0.13
Majority			1,65,672	15.1
Turnout			6,02,917	68.30
	Swing to CPI (M) from [[Bharatiya Lok Dal\|Template:Bharatiya Lok Dal/meta/shortname]]		Swing

General election 1977[edit]

1977 Indian general election: Dum Dum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	[[Bharatiya Lok Dal\|Template:Bharatiya Lok Dal/meta/shortname]]	Asoke Krishna Dutt	215,766	51.13
	CPI	Indrajit Gupta	193,986	45.97
	Independent	Baidyanath Ghosh	12,254	2.90%
Margin of victory			21,780
Turnout			4,22,006	54.00
	Bharatiya Lok Dal win (new seat)

General elections 1977-2004[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
1977	Asoke Krishna Dutt	Bharatiya Lok Dal	Indrajit Gupta	Communist Party of India^[3]
1980	Niren Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Barid Baran Das	Indian National Congress (I)^[4]
1984	Ashutosh Laha	Indian National Congress	Niren Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[5]
1989	Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Ashutosh Laha	Indian National Congress^[6]
1991	Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Lal Bahadur Singh	Indian National Congress^[7]
1996	Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Ashutosh Laha	Indian National Congress^[8]
1998	Tapan Sikdar	Bharatiya Janata Party	Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[9]
1999	Tapan Sikdar	Bharatiya Janata Party	Anil Bhattacharya	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[10]
2004	Amitava Nandy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Tapan Sikdar	Bharatiya Janata Party^[11]

References[edit]

↑ "Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
↑ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 "General Elections, 1977 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 "General Elections, 1980 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 "General Elections, 1984 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 "General Elections, 1989 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 "General Elections, 1991 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 "General Elections, 1996 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 "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.
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 "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.
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 ^11.2 "General Elections, 2004 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
↑ ^12.0 ^12.1 "General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
↑ ^13.0 ^13.1 ^13.2 "General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 21 June 2016.

External links[edit]

Dum Dum lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details

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[turnout-1] "Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.

[delimitation-2] "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.

[loksabha1977-3] 3.0 ^3.1 "General Elections, 1977 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

[loksabha1980-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 "General Elections, 1980 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

[loksabha1984-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 "General Elections, 1984 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

[loksabha1989-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 "General Elections, 1989 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

[loksabha1991-7] 7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 "General Elections, 1991 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

[loksabha1996-8] 8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 "General Elections, 1996 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

[loksabha1998-9] 9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 "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.

[loksabha1999-10] 10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 "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.

[loksabha2004-11] 11.0 ^11.1 ^11.2 "General Elections, 2004 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

[loksabha2009-12] 12.0 ^12.1 "General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

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