2004 Indian general election in West Bengal

2004 Indian general election in West Bengal

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All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Registered	47,437,431
Turnout	77.7% ( 2.65 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Pranab Mukherjee Mamata Banerjee Party CPI(M) INC AITC Alliance LF INC+ (post poll UPA) NDA Leader since 2000 2000 1998 Leader's seat Did not contest Jangipur Kolkata South Last election 35.57%, 21 seats 13.29%, 3 seats 26.04%, 8 seats Seats won 26 6 1 Seat change 5 3 7 Popular vote 14,271,042 5,385,754 7,786,178 Percentage 38.57% 14.56% 21.04% Swing 3.01 pp 1.27 pp 5.01 pp Alliance seats 35 6 1
Results by constituencies
Prime minister before election Atal Bihari Vajpayee BJP Prime minister after election Manmohan Singh INC

The 2004 Indian general election were held in Indian state West Bengal in 2004 to elect all 42 seats of Lok Sabha in the state. ^{[1] [2]} The election took place on 10 May 2004 and a turnout of 77.7% was recorded.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front had an overwhelming victory in the state by winning 35 seats. ^{[3] [4]} On the national level, Indian National Congress became the single largest party and formed the new government with its allies and taking external support from Left Front and other parties. ^{[5] [6]}

Schedule

The election schedule was declared by Election Commission of India on 29 February 2004. ^[7]

Poll event	Date
Notification date	16 April
Last date for filing nomination	23 April
Scrutiny of nomination	24 April
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination	26 April
Date of poll	10 May
Date of counting of votes	13 May

Parties and alliances

   Left Front

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
1.	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee	32
2.	Revolutionary Socialist Party			Manoj Bhattacharya	4
3.	All India Forward Bloc			Debabrata Biswas	3
4.	Communist Party of India			Swapan Banerjee	3

Other Left Front members that didn't fielded candidates in the election but supported the alliance were Biplobi Bangla Congress, Democratic Socialist Party, Marxist Forward Bloc, West Bengal Socialist Party, Revolutionary Communist Party of India and other left front parties.

   United Progressive Alliance

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
1.	Indian National Congress			Pranab Mukherjee	37
2.	Party of Democratic Socialism			Samir Putatundu	2
3.	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha			N/A	2
4.	Independent	—	—	N/A	1

Gorkha National Liberation Front supported the Congress candidate in Darjeeling constituency.

   National Democratic Alliance

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
1.	All India Trinamool Congress			Mamata Banerjee	29
2.	Bharatiya Janata Party			Tathagata Roy	13

List of Candidates

Constituency
		LF			NDA			UPA
1	Cooch Behar (SC)		AIFB	Hiten Barman		AITC	Girindra Nath Barman		INC	Sailen Barma
2	Alipurduars (ST)		RSP	Joachim Baxla		BJP	Manoj Tigga		INC	Ratan Lal Baraik
3	Jalpaiguri		CPI(M)	Minati Sen		AITC	Parash Dutta		INC	Dipak Krishna Bhowmik
4	Darjeeling		CPI(M)	Moni Thapa		BJP	Dr. G. S. Yonzone		INC	Dawa Narbula
5	Raiganj		CPI(M)	Minati Ghosh		AITC	Zainal Abedin		INC	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi
6	Balurghat (SC)		RSP	Ranen Barman		BJP	Manomohan Ray		INC	Dipti Barman
7	Malda		CPI(M)	Pranab Das		BJP	Badsha Alam		INC	A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury
8	Jangipur		CPI(M)	Abul Hasnat Khan		AITC	Shish Mohammad		INC	Pranab Mukherjee
9	Murshidabad		CPI(M)	Moinul Hassan Ahamed		AITC	Ali Mohammad		INC	Abdul Mannan Hossain
10	Berhampore		RSP	Promothes Mukherjee		BJP	Tapas Kumar Chatterjee		INC	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
11	Krishnagar		CPI(M)	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar		BJP	Satyabrata Mookherjee		INC	Asim Kumar Saha
12	Nabadwip (SC)		CPI(M)	Alokesh Das		AITC	Nilima Nag (Mallick)		INC	Howladar Nripendra Nath
13	Barasat		AIFB	Subrata Bose		AITC	Ranjit Kumar Panja		INC	Prabir Banerjee
14	Basirhat		CPI	Ajay Chakraborty		AITC	Sujit Bose		INC	Syed Md. Nizamuddin
15	Joynagar (SC)		RSP	Sanat Kumar Mandal		BJP	Asit Baran Thakur		Ind.	Tarun Kanti Naskar
16	Mathurapur (SC)		CPI(M)	Basudeb Barman		AITC	Radhika Ranjan Pramanik		INC	Manoranjan Halder
17	Diamond Harbour		CPI(M)	Samik Lahiri		AITC	Saugata Roy		INC	Daulat Ali Sheikh
18	Jadavpur		CPI(M)	Sujan Chakraborty		AITC	Krishna Bose		INC	Prof. Omprakash Mishra
19	Barrackpore		CPI(M)	Tarit Baran Topdar		AITC	Arjun Singh		INC	Debi Ghosal
20	Dum Dum		CPI(M)	Amitava Nandy		BJP	Tapan Sikdar		INC	Tapas Majumder
21	Calcutta North West		CPI(M)	Sudhangshu Seal		AITC	Subrata Mukherjee		Ind.	Sudip Bandyopadhyay
22	Calcutta North East		CPI(M)	Md. Salim		AITC	Ajit Kumar Panja		INC	Moushumi Chatterjee
23	Calcutta South		CPI(M)	Rabin Deb		AITC	Mamata Banerjee		INC	Nafisa Ali
24	Howrah		CPI(M)	Swadesh Chakraborty		AITC	Bikram Sarkar		INC	Sultan Singh
25	Uluberia		CPI(M)	Hannan Mollah		AITC	Rajib Banerjee		INC	Kazi Abdul Rajjak
26	Serampore		CPI(M)	Santasri Chatterjee		AITC	Akbar Ali Khondkar		INC	Kesto Mukherjee
27	Hooghly		CPI(M)	Rupchand Pal		AITC	Indrani Mukherjee		INC	Asok Kumar Das
28	Arambagh		CPI(M)	Anil Basu		BJP	Swapan Kumar Nandi		INC	Datta Pradip
29	Panskura		CPI	Gurudas Dasgupta		AITC	Hema Choubey		INC	Nazim Ahmed
30	Tamluk		CPI(M)	Lakshman Chandra Seth		AITC	Suvendu Adhikari		INC	Sudarsan Panja
31	Contai		CPI(M)	Prasanta Pradhan		AITC	Nitish Sengupta		INC	Kshitindra Mohan Sahoo
32	Midnapore		CPI	Prabodh Panda		BJP	Rahul (Biswajit) Sinha		INC	Narayan Chandra Paria
33	Jhargram (ST)		CPI(M)	Rupchand Murmu		AITC	Nityananda Hembram		JMM	Mongal Soren
34	Purulia		AIFB	Bir Singh Mahato		AITC	Niyati Mahato		INC	Santiram Mahato
35	Bankura		CPI(M)	Basudeb Acharia		AITC	Deb Prasad Kundu (Tara)		PDS	Natabar Bagdi
36	Vishnupur (SC)		CPI(M)	Susmita Bauri		AITC	Janardan Saha		INC	Achintya Majhi
37	Durgapur (SC)		CPI(M)	Sunil Khan		BJP	Shib Narayan Saha		INC	Dhibar Shova
38	Asansol		CPI(M)	Bikash Chowdhury		AITC	Moloy Ghatak		INC	Tapas Banerjee
39	Burdwan		CPI(M)	Nikhilananda Sar		BJP	Anindya Gopal Mitra		INC	Champak Garai
40	Katwa		CPI(M)	Mahboob Zahedi		AITC	Ahmed Sultan		PDS	Saifuddin Choudhury
41	Bolpur		CPI(M)	Somnath Chatterjee		AITC	Dr. Nirmal Kumar Maji		INC	Dhananjoy Ghosh
42	Birbhum (SC)		CPI(M)	Ram Chandra Dome		BJP	Arjun Saha		INC	Gopal Chandra Das

Results

Results by alliance

LF	SEATS	%	UPA	SEATS	%	NDA	SEATS	%
CPI(M)	26	38.57	INC	6	14.56	AITC	1	21.04
RSP	3	4.48	PDS	0	0.22	BJP	0	8.06
CPI	3	4.02	JMM	0	0.15
AIFB	3	3.67	IND	0	0.14
TOTAL	35	50.74	TOTAL	6	15.07	TOTAL	1	29.10

Results by party

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	14,271,042	38.71	26
	Trinamool Congress	7,786,178	21.12	1
	Indian National Congress	5,385,754	14.61	6
	Bharatiya Janata Party	2,983,950	8.09	0
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	1,658,787	4.50	3
	Communist Party of India	1,484,152	4.03	3
	All India Forward Bloc	1,352,423	3.67	3
	Bahujan Samaj Party	331,319	0.90	0
	Samajwadi Party	108,514	0.29	0
	Other parties	302,833	0.82	0
	Independents	1,205,970	3.27	0
Total		36,870,922	100.00	42

Results by constituency

No.	Constituency	Name of elected M.P.	Party
1	Cooch Behar	Hiten Barman		All India Forward Bloc
2	Alipurduars	Joachim Baxla		Revolutionary Socialist Party
3	Jalpaiguri	Minati Sen		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4	Darjeeling	Dawa Narbula		Indian National Congress
5	Raiganj	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi		Indian National Congress
6	Balurghat	Ranen Barman		Revolutionary Socialist Party
7	Malda	A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury		Indian National Congress
8	Jangipur	Pranab Mukherjee		Indian National Congress
9	Murshidabad	Abdul Mannan Hossain		Indian National Congress
10	Berhampur	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury		Indian National Congress
11	Krishnanagar	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
12	Nabadwip	Alakesh Das		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
13	Barasat	Subrata Bose		All India Forward Bloc
14	Basirhat	Ajay Chakraborty		Communist Party of India
15	Joynagar	Sanat Kumar Mandal		Revolutionary Socialist Party
16	Mathurapur	Basudeb Barman		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
17	Diamond Harbour	Samik Lahiri		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
18	Jadavpur	Sujan Chakraborty		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
19	Barrackpore	Tarit Baran Topdar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
20	Dumdum	Amitava Nandy		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
21	Calcutta North West	Sudhangshu Seal		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
22	Calcutta North East	Md. Salim		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
23	Calcutta South	Mamata Banerjee		All India Trinamool Congress
24	Howrah	Swadesh Chakraborty		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
25	Uluberia	Hannan Mollah		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
26	Serampore	Santasri Chatterjee		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
27	Hooghly	Rupchand Pal		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
28	Arambagh	Anil Basu		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
29	Panskura	Gurudas Dasgupta		Communist Party of India
30	Tamluk	Seth Lakshman Chandra		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
31	Contai	Prasanta Pradhan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
32	Midnapore	Prabodh Panda		Communist Party of India
33	Jhargram	Rupchand Murmu		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
34	Purulia	Bir Singh Mahato		All India Forward Bloc
35	Bankura	Basudeb Acharia		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
36	Vishnupur	Susmita Bauri		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
37	Durgapur	Sunil Khan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
38	Asansol	Bikash Chowdhury		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
39	Burdwan	Nikhilananda Sar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
40	Katwa	Mahboob Zahedi		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
41	Bolpur	Somnath Chatterjee		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
42	Birbhum	Ram Chandra Dome		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Source :- [8] [9]

Assembly Segment wise lead

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2006 election)
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	168	176
	Indian National Congress	35	21
	Trinamool Congress	28	30
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	20	20
	Communist Party of India	20	8
	All India Forward Bloc	15	23
	Bharatiya Janata Party	7	0
	Others	1	16
Total		294

See also

• 2004 Indian general election
• 2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
• 2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

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