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

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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