2014 Indian general election in West Bengal

2014 Indian general election in West Bengal

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All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Turnout	82.2% ( 0.8 pp)
First party Second party   Leader Mamata Bannerjee Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Party AITC INC Alliance – UPA Leader's seat Did not contest Baharampur Last election 31.2%, 19 seats 13.5%, 6 seats Seats won 34 4 Seat change 15 2 Popular vote 20,313,280 4,946,581 Percentage 39.8% 9.7% Swing 8.1 pp 10.1 pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Surjya Kanta Mishra S. S. Ahluwalia Party CPI(M) BJP Alliance LF NDA Leader's seat Did not contest Darjeeling Last election 33.1%, 15 seats 6.1%, 1 seat Seats won 2 2 Seat change 13 1 Popular vote 11,720,997 8,691,765 Percentage 23% 17% Swing 3.9 pp 10.9 pp
Seatwise Result Map of the 2014 general election in West Bengal
Prime Minister before election Manmohan Singh INC Prime Minister after election Narendra Modi BJP

The 2014 Indian general election in West Bengal was held for 42 seats in the Lok Sabha.

Parties and alliances

   Trinamool Congress

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	All India Trinamool Congress			Mamata Banerjee	42

   Left Front

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			Biman Bose	32
	Revolutionary Socialist Party			Manoj Bhattacharya	4
	All India Forward Bloc			Debabrata Biswas	3
	Communist Party of India			Swapan Banerjee	3

   United Progressive Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Indian National Congress			Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	42

   National Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Bharatiya Janata Party			S. S. Ahluwalia	42

Others

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)			Provash Ghosh	37

List of major parties' candidates in West Bengal for 2014

Constituency
		AITC			LF			UPA			NDA
1	Cooch Behar (SC)		AITC	Renuka Sinha		AIFB	Dipak Kumar Roy		INC	Keshab Chandra Ray		BJP	Hem Chandra Barman
2	Alipurduars (ST)		AITC	Dasrath Tirkey		RSP	Manohar Tirkey		INC	Joseph Munda		BJP	Birendra Bara Oraon
3	Jalpaiguri (SC)		AITC	Bijoy Chandra Barman		CPI(M)	Mahendra Kumar Roy		INC	Sukhbilas Barma		BJP	Satyalal Sarkar
4	Darjeeling		AITC	Bhaichung Bhutia		CPI(M)	Saman Pathak		INC	Sujay Ghatak		BJP	S. S. Ahluwalia
5	Raiganj		AITC	Satya Ranjan Dasmunshi		CPI(M)	Mohammed Salim		INC	Deepa Dasmunsi		BJP	Nimu Bhowmik
6	Balurghat		AITC	Arpita Ghosh		RSP	Bimalendu Sarkar		INC	Om Prakash Mishra		BJP	Bishwapriya Roychowdhury
7	Maldaha Uttar		AITC	Soumitra Roy		CPI(M)	Khagen Murmu		INC	Mausam Noor		BJP	Subhaskrishna Goswami
8	Maldaha Dakshin		AITC	Md Moazzem Hossain		CPI(M)	Abul Hasnat Khan		INC	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury		BJP	Bishnupada Roy
9	Jangipur		AITC	Haji Nurul Islam		CPI(M)	Muzaffar Hussain		INC	Abhijit Mukherjee		BJP	Samrat Ghosh
10	Baharampur		AITC	Indranil Sen		RSP	Promothes Mukherjee		INC	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury		BJP	Debesh Kumar Adhikary
11	Murshidabad		AITC	Mohammad Ali		CPI(M)	Badaruddoza Khan		INC	Abdul Mannan Hossain		BJP	Sujit Kumar Ghosh
12	Krishnanagar		AITC	Tapas Paul		CPI(M)	Santanu Jha		INC	Razia Ahmed		BJP	Satyabrata Mookherjee
13	Ranaghat (SC)		AITC	Tapas Mandal		CPI(M)	Archana Biswas		INC	Pratap Kanti Ray		BJP	Dr. Suprabhat Biswas
14	Bangaon (SC)		AITC	Kapil Krishna Thakur		CPI(M)	Debesh Das		INC	Ila Mondal		BJP	K.D. Biswas
15	Barrackpur		AITC	Dinesh Trivedi		CPI(M)	Subhashini Ali		INC	Samrat Topadar		BJP	Rumesh Kumar Handa
16	Dum Dum		AITC	Sougata Roy		CPI(M)	Asim Dasgupta		INC	Dhananjoy Moitra		BJP	Tapan Sikdar
17	Barasat		AITC	Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar		AIFB	Mortaza Hossain		INC	Bratin Sengupta		BJP	P. C. Sorcar Jr.
18	Basirhat		AITC	Idris Ali		CPI	Nurul Sekh		INC	Abdur Rahim Kazi		BJP	Samik Bhattacharya
19	Jaynagar (SC)		AITC	Pratima Mondal		RSP	Subhas Naskar		INC	Arnab Roy		BJP	Krishnapada Majumdar
20	Mathurapur (SC)		AITC	Choudhury Mohan Jatua		CPI(M)	Rinku Naskar		INC	Manoranjan Halder		BJP	Tapan Naskar
21	Diamond Harbour		AITC	Abhishek Banerjee		CPI(M)	Dr. Abul Hasnat		INC	Md. Qamaruzzaman Qamar		BJP	Abhijit Das (Bobby)
22	Jadavpur		AITC	Sugata Bose		CPI(M)	Dr. Sujan Chakraborty		INC	Samir Aich		BJP	Dr. Sarup Prasad Ghosh
23	Kolkata Dakshin		AITC	Subrata Bakshi		CPI(M)	Nandini Mukherjee		INC	Mala Roy		BJP	Tathagata Roy
24	Kolkata Uttar		AITC	Sudip Bandyopadhyay		CPI(M)	Rupa Bagchi		INC	Somen Mitra		BJP	Rahul Sinha
25	Howrah		AITC	Prasun Banerjee		CPI(M)	Srideep Bhattacharya		INC	Manoj Kumar Pandey		BJP	George Baker
26	Uluberia		AITC	Sultan Ahmed		CPI(M)	Sabiruddin Molla		INC	Asit Mitra		BJP	Ranjit Kishore Mahanty
27	Srerampur		AITC	Kalyan Banerjee		CPI(M)	Tirthankar Roy		INC	Abdul Mannan		BJP	Bappi Lahiri
28	Hooghly		AITC	Dr. Ratna De (Nag)		CPI(M)	Pradip Saha		INC	Pritam Ghosh		BJP	Chandan Mitra
29	Arambagh (SC)		AITC	Aparupa Poddar (Afrin Ali)		CPI(M)	Sakti Mohan Malik		INC	Sambhu Nath Malik		BJP	Madhusudan Bag
30	Tamluk		AITC	Suvendu Adhikari		CPI(M)	Sk. Ibrahim Ali		INC	Sk. Anwar Ali		BJP	Badsha Alam
31	Kanthi		AITC	Sisir Kumar Adhikari		CPI(M)	Tapas Sinha		INC	Kunal Banerjee		BJP	Kamalendu Pahari
32	Ghatal		AITC	Dev Adhikari		CPI	Santosh Rana		INC	Manas Bhunia		BJP	Md. Alam
33	Jhargram (ST)		AITC	Uma Saren		CPI(M)	Dr. Pulin Bihari Baske		INC	Anita Hansda		BJP	Bikash Mudi
34	Medinipur		AITC	Sandhya Roy		CPI	Prabodh Panda		INC	Dr. Bimal Raj		BJP	Prabhakar Tiwari
35	Purulia		AITC	Mriganko Mahato		AIFB	Narahari Mahato		INC	Nepal Mahato		BJP	Bikash Banerjee
36	Bankura		AITC	Moon Moon Sen		CPI(M)	Basudeb Acharia		INC	Nilmadhab Gupta		BJP	Subhas Sarkar
37	Bishnupur (SC)		AITC	Saumitra Khan		CPI(M)	Susmita Bauri		INC	Narayan Chandra Khan		BJP	Dr. Jayanta Mondal
38	Bardhaman Purba (SC)		AITC	Sunil Kumar Mondal		CPI(M)	Ishwar Chandra Das		INC	Chandana Majhi		BJP	Santosh Roy
39	Bardhaman-Durgapur		AITC	Mamtaz Sanghamita		CPI(M)	Sheikh Saidul Haque		INC	Pradip Agasthi		BJP	Debasree Chaudhuri
40	Asansol		AITC	Dola Sen		CPI(M)	Bansa Gopal Chowdhury		INC	Indrani Mishra		BJP	Babul Supriyo
41	Bolpur (SC)		AITC	Anupam Hazra		CPI(M)	Ram Chandra Dome		INC	Tapan Kumar Saha		BJP	Kamini Mohan Sarkar
42	Birbhum		AITC	Satabdi Roy		CPI(M)	Dr. Mohammed Qamre Elahi		INC	Syed Siraj Jimmi		BJP	Joy Banerjee

Results

2	4	2	34
BJP	INC	CPI(M)	AITC

Results by alliance or party

Alliance/ Party				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	AITC			20,316,262	39.79%	8.61	42	34	15
	INC			4,946,911	9.69%	3.76	42	4	2
	BJP			8,692,297	17.02%	10.88	42	2	1
	LF		CPI(M)	11,723,166	22.96%	10.14	32	2	7
			RSP	1,255,794	2.46%	1.1	4	0	2
			CPI	1,202,785	2.36%	1.24	3	0	2
			AIFB	1,106,038	2.17%	0.87	3	0	2
		Total		15,287,783	29.95%	13.35	42	2	13
	IND			4,730,00	0.93%			0
Total					100%	–		42	–

Results by constituency

No.	Constituency	Turnout %	Winner	Party		Margin
1	Cooch Behar (SC)	82.62	Renuka Sinha		All India Trinamool Congress	87,107
2	Alipurduars (ST)	83.30	Dasrath Tirkey		All India Trinamool Congress	21,397
3	Jalpaiguri (SC)	85.17	Bijoy Chandra Barman		All India Trinamool Congress	69,606
4	Darjeeling	79.51	S.S.Ahluwalia		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,97,239
5	Raiganj	79.89	Md. Salim		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1,634
6	Balurghat	84.77	Arpita Ghosh		All India Trinamool Congress	1,06,964
7	Maldaha Uttar	81.60	Mausam Noor		Indian National Congress	65,705
8	Maldaha Dakshin	81.09	Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury		Indian National Congress	1,64,111
9	Jangipur	80.43	Abhijit Mukherjee		Indian National Congress	8,161
10	Baharampur	79.43	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury		Indian National Congress	3,56,567
11	Murshidabad	85.22	Badaruddoza Khan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	18,453
12	Krishnanagar	84.56	Tapas Paul		All India Trinamool Congress	71,255
13	Ranaghat (SC)	84.45	Tapas Mandal		All India Trinamool Congress	2,01,767
14	Bangaon (SC)	83.36	Mamata Thakur		All India Trinamool Congress	2,11,785
15	Barrackpore	81.77	Dinesh Trivedi		All India Trinamool Congress	2,06,773
16	Dum Dum	80.64	Saugata Roy		All India Trinamool Congress	1,54,934
17	Barasat	83.96	Dr. Kakali Ghoshdostidar		All India Trinamool Congress	1,73,141
18	Basirhat	85.47	Idris Ali		All India Trinamool Congress	1,09,659
19	Jaynagar (SC)	81.52	Pratima Mondal		All India Trinamool Congress	1,08,384
20	Mathurapur (SC)	85.39	Choudhury Mohan Jatua		All India Trinamool Congress	1,38,436
21	Diamond Harbour	81.07	Abhishek Banerjee		All India Trinamool Congress	71,298
22	Jadavpur	79.88	Sugata Bose		All India Trinamool Congress	1,25,203
23	Kolkata Dakshin	69.33	Subrata Bakshi		All India Trinamool Congress	1,36,339
24	Kolkata Uttar	66.68	Sudip Bandyopadhyay		All India Trinamool Congress	96,226
25	Howrah	74.79	Prasun Banerjee		All India Trinamool Congress	1,96,956
26	Uluberia	81.95	Sultan Ahmed		All India Trinamool Congress	2,01,222
27	Srerampur	79.50	Kalyan Banerjee		All India Trinamool Congress	1,52,526
28	Hooghly	82.88	Dr. Ratna De (Nag)		All India Trinamool Congress	1,89,084
29	Arambagh (SC)	85.16	Aparupa Poddar		All India Trinamool Congress	3,46,845
30	Tamluk	87.63	Adhikari Suvendu		All India Trinamool Congress	2,46,481
31	Kanthi	86.71	Adhikari Sisir Kumar		All India Trinamool Congress	2,29,490
32	Ghatal	84.92	Adhikari Deepak (Dev)		All India Trinamool Congress	2,60,891
33	Jhargram (ST)	85.26	Uma Saren		All India Trinamool Congress	3,47,883
34	Medinipur	84.22	Sandhya Roy		All India Trinamool Congress	1,84,666
35	Purulia	81.98	Dr. Mriganka Mahato		All India Trinamool Congress	1,53,877
36	Bankura	82.23	Moon Moon Sen		All India Trinamool Congress	98,506
37	Bishnupur (SC)	86.72	Khan Saumitra		All India Trinamool Congress	1,49,685
38	Bardhaman Purba (SC)	86.22	Sunil Kumar Mondal		All India Trinamool Congress	1,14,479
39	Bardhaman-Durgapur	84.10	Mamtaz Sanghamita		All India Trinamool Congress	1,07,331
40	Asansol	77.76	Babul Supriyo		Bharatiya Janata Party	70,480
41	Bolpur (SC)	84.83	Anupam Hazra		All India Trinamool Congress	2,36,112
42	Birbhum	85.34	Satabdi Roy (Banerjee)		All India Trinamool Congress	6,726

Party wise lead

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2016 election)
	Trinamool Congress	214	211
	Indian National Congress	28	44
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	22	26
	Bharatiya Janata Party	24	3
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	3	3
	Communist Party of India	2	2
	All India Forward Bloc	1	1
	Others	0	4
Total		294

Analysis

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" ^[1]

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Party		Assembly segments [2]	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

Postal Ballot wise lead of Parties

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

References

1. "The rise of BJP in West Bengal | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". dna. 17 May 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
2. Lok Sabha results: Numbers point to tough fight ahead in West Bengal assembly polls