2004 Indian general election in West Bengal

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2004 Indian general election in West Bengal
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  1999 10 May 2004 2009  

All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Registered47,437,431
Turnout77.7% (Increase2.svg 2.65 pp)
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
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Pranab Mukherjee Portrait.jpg
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Leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Pranab Mukherjee Mamata Banerjee
Party CPI(M) INC AITC
Alliance LF UPA NDA
Leader since200020001998
Leader's seatDid not contest Jangipur Kolkata South
Last election35.57%, 21 seats13.29%, 3 seats26.04%, 8 seats
Seats won2661
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 5Increase2.svg 3Decrease2.svg 7
Popular vote14,271,0425,385,7547,786,178
Percentage38.57%14.56%21.04%
SwingIncrease2.svg 3.01 pp Increase2.svg 1.27 pp Decrease2.svg 5.01 pp
Alliance seats3561

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Results by constituencies

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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.

Contents

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 eventDate
Notification Date16 April
Last Date for filing nomination23 April
Scrutiny of nomination24 April
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination26 April
Date of poll10 May
Date of counting of votes13 May

Parties and alliances

   Left Front

No.PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats Contested
1. Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI-M-flag.svg CPI(M) election symbol - Hammer Sickle and Star.svg Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee 32
2. Revolutionary Socialist Party
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Manoj Bhattacharya4
3. All India Forward Bloc
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Debabrata Biswas 3
4. Communist Party of India
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CPI symbol.svg
Swapan Banerjee3

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.PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats Contested
1. Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress Flag.svg
Hand INC.svg Pranab Mukherjee 37
2. Party of Democratic Socialism
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No image available.svg Samir Putatundu 2
3. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha No image available.svg
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N/A2
4. Independent N/A1

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

   National Democratic Alliance

No.PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats Contested
1. All India Trinamool Congress
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Mamata Banerjee 29
2. Bharatiya Janata Party
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Tathagata Roy 13

Results

Alliance-wise result

LFSEATS%UPASEATS%NDASEATS%
CPI(M) 2638.57 INC 614.56 AITC 121.04
RSP 34.48 PDS 00.22 BJP 08.06
CPI 34.02 JMM 00.15
AIFB 33.67 IND 00.14
TOTAL3550.74TOTAL615.07TOTAL129.10

Party-wise result

PartyVotes%Seats
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 14,271,04238.7126
Trinamool Congress 7,786,17821.121
Indian National Congress 5,385,75414.616
Bharatiya Janata Party 2,983,9508.090
Revolutionary Socialist Party 1,658,7874.503
Communist Party of India 1,484,1524.033
All India Forward Bloc 1,352,4233.673
Bahujan Samaj Party 331,3190.900
Samajwadi Party 108,5140.290
Other parties302,8330.820
Independents1,205,9703.270
Total36,870,922100.0042

Constituency-wise result

No.ConstituencyName 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 Communist Party of India
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 (Marxist)
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]

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