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There are 42 Lok Sabha Constituencies in West Bengal, India. Here is the list of candidates of all the major parties.
| Constituency No. | Constituency | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) | TMC Candidate [1] | Left Front Candidate [2] | BJP Candidate | Congress Candidate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cooch Behar | SC | Renuka Sinha | Dipak Kumar Roy | Hemchandra Burman | Keshab Chandra Ray |
| 2 | Alipurduars | ST | Dasarath Tirkey | Manohar Tirkey | Birendra Bora Oraon | Joseph Munda |
| 3 | Jalpaiguri | SC | Bijoy Bhusan Burman | Mahendra Kumar Roy | Satyalal Sarkar | Sukhbilas Barma |
| 4 | Darjeeling | None | Baichung Bhutia | Saman Pathak | S. S. Ahluwalia | Sujoy Ghatak |
| 5 | Raiganj | None | Satya Ranjan Dasmunshi | Md. Salim | Nimu Bhowmick | Deepa Dasmunshi |
| 6 | Balurghat | None | Arpita Ghosh | Bimal Sarkar | Biswapriya Roychowdhary | Om Prakash Mishra |
| 7 | Maldaha Uttar | None | Soumitra Roy | Khagen Murmu | Subashkrishna Goswami | Mausam Noor |
| 8 | Maldaha Dakshin | None | Dr Moazzen Hossen | Abul Hasnat Khan | Bishnu Pada Roy | Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury |
| 9 | Jangipur | None | Haji Nurul Islam | Muzaffar Hossain | Samrat Ghosh | Abhijit Mukherjee |
| 10 | Baharampur | None | Indranil Sen | Pramothes Mukherjee | Debesh Kumar Adhikari | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury |
| 11 | Murshidabad | None | Mohammed Ali | Badaruddoza Khan | Sujit Kumar Ghosh | Abdul Mannan Hossain |
| 12 | Krishnanagar | None | Tapas Paul | Santanu Jha | Satyabrata Mukherjee | Razia Ahmed |
| 13 | Ranaghat | SC | Tapas Mondal | Archna Biswas | Supravat Biswas | Pratap Roy |
| 14 | Bangaon | SC | Kapil Krishna Thakur | Debesh Das | K.D. Biswas | Ila Mandal |
| 15 | Barrackpur | None | Dinesh Trivedi | Subhashini Ali | R.K. Handa | Samrat Topedar |
| 16 | Dum Dum | None | Sougata Roy | Asim Dasgupta | Tapan Sikdar | Dhananjay Moitra |
| 17 | Barasat | None | Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar | Mortaza Hossain | P.C. Sarkar (Jr.) | Rizul Ghoshal |
| 18 | Basirhat | None | Idris Ali | Nurul Huda | Samik Bhattacharya | Abdur Rahim Quazi |
| 19 | Jaynagar | SC | Pratima Mondal | Subhas Naskar | Biplab Mondal | Arnab Roy |
| 20 | Mathurapur | None | C M Jatua | Rinku Naskar | Tapan Naskar | Manoranjan Halder |
| 21 | Diamond Harbour | None | Abhishek Banerjee | Dr. Abul Hasnat | Avijit Das | Mohmd Qumarhuzzan Qumar |
| 22 | Jadavpur | None | Sugata Bose | Sujan Chakraborty | Swarup Prashad Ghosh | Samir Aich |
| 23 | Kolkata Dakshin | None | Subrata Bakshi | Nandini Mukherjee | Tathagata Roy | Mala Roy |
| 24 | Kolkata Uttar | None | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | Rupa Bagchi | Rahul Sinha | Somendra Nath Mitra |
| 25 | Howrah | None | Prasun Banerjee | Sreedip Bhattacharya | George Baker | Manoj Kumar Pandey |
| 26 | Uluberia | None | Sultan Ahmed | Sabiruddin Mollah | R.K. Mahanti | Asit Mitra |
| 27 | Sreerampur | None | Kalyan Banerjee | Tirthankar Roy | Bappi Lahiri | Abdul Mannan |
| 28 | Hooghly | None | Ratna De Nag | Pradip Saha | Chandan Mitra | Pritam Ghosh |
| 29 | Arambag | SC | Aparupa Poddar ( Afrin Ali ) | Sakti Mohan Malik | Madhusudhan Bag | Sambhu Nath Malik |
| 30 | Tamluk | None | Suvendu Adhikari | Sk. Ibrahim Ali | Badsah Alam | Anwar Ali |
| 31 | Kanthi | None | Sisir Adhikari | Tapas Sinha | Kamalendu Pahari | Kunal Banerjee |
| 32 | Ghatal | None | Dipak Adhikari (Deb) | Santosh Rana | Md Alam | Manas Bhunia |
| 33 | Jhargram | ST | Dr Uma Soren | Pulin Bihari Baske | Bikash Mudi | Anita Hansdar |
| 34 | Medinipur | None | Sandhya Roy | Prabodh Panda | Prabhakar Tiwari | Bimal Raj |
| 35 | Purulia | None | Mriganko Mahato | Narahari Mahato | Bikash Banerjee | Nepal Mahato |
| 36 | Bankura | None | Munmun Sen | Basudeb Acharia | Subash Sarkar | Neel Madhava Gupta |
| 37 | Bishnupur | SC | Soumitra Khan | Susmita Bauri | Dr. Jayanta Mondal | Narayan Chander Khan |
| 38 | Bardhaman Purba | SC | Sunil Mandal | Iswar Chandra Das | Santosh Roy | Chandana Majhi |
| 39 | Bardhaman-Durgapur | None | Mamtaj Sanghamita | Sk. Saidul Haque | Deboshree Chowdhury | Pradip Agasty |
| 40 | Asansol | None | Dola Sen | Bansa Gopal Chowdhury | Babul Supriyo | Indrani Mishra |
| 41 | Bolpur | SC | Anupam Hazra | Dr.Ram Chandra Dome | Kamini Mohan Sarkar | Tapan Kumar Saha |
| 42 | Birbhum | None | Satabdi Roy | Dr. Mohammed Qamre Elahi | Joy Banerjee | Syed Siraj Jimmi |
| 2 | 4 | 2 | 34 |
| BJP | INC | CPI(M) | AITC |
| Name of Party | Vote Share % | Change | Seats won | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All India Trinamool Congress | 39.05% | +8.13 | 34 | +15 |
| Communist Party of India + | 29.71% | 2 | −13 | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 17.02% | +10.88 | 2 | +1 |
| Indian National Congress | 9.58% | −3.85 | 4 | −2 |
According to DNA newspaper's analysis: "BJP emerged as a potential force in West Bengal where it is traditionally considered weak.". While BJP won only 2 seats, BJP candidates for the first time, returned runner-up in 3 seats and it also got 16.8% vote share - BJP's best performance so far surpassing its previous best of 11.66% in 1991 elections. However. Trinamool Congress dominated the election winning 34 seats. The CPI-M led Left Front was decimated winning only 2 seats as the BJP made inroads in its vote share. It was also argued that, ""resurgence of the Left can never be ruled out" [3]
| Party | Assembly segments [4] | Constituencies | Position in Assembly (as of 2016 election) | Constituencies | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All India Trinamool Congress | 214 | 211 | |||||
| Left Front | 29 | 32 | |||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 23 | 3 | |||||
| Indian National Congress | 28 | 44 | |||||
| Others | 0 | 4 | |||||
| Total | 294 | ||||||
| Party | No. of Constituencies | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| All India Trinamool Congress | 16 | ||
| Left Front | 23 | ||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 2 | ||
| Indian National Congress | 1 | ||
| Total | 42 | ||
| Region | Total seats | All India Trinamool Congress | Bharatiya Janata Party | Indian National Congress | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ganges Delta | 10 | 10 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
| North Bengal | 8 | 01 | 01 | 04 | 02 | 00 |
| Northern Hills | 4 | 03 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
| Rarh Bengal | 10 | 10 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
| South Bengal | 10 | 10 | 01 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
| Total | 42 | 34 | 02 | 04 | 02 | 00 |
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