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The 2019 Indian general election were held in India between April and May 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha. [1] [2]
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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All India Trinamool Congress | ![]() | ![]() | Mamata Banerjee | 42 | |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Bharatiya Janata Party | ![]() | ![]() | Dilip Ghosh | 42 | |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) | ![]() | ![]() | Biman Bose | 31 | |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | ![]() | ![]() | Manoj Bhattacharya | 4 | |
All India Forward Bloc | ![]() | ![]() | Debabrata Biswas | 3 | |
Communist Party of India | ![]() | ![]() | Swapan Banerjee | 3 |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Indian National Congress | ![]() | ![]() | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | 40 | |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | ![]() | ![]() | Provash Ghosh | 42 |
Date published | Polling agency | Lead | ||||
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AITC | Left Front | UPA | NDA | |||
Jan 2019 | Republic TV - C Voter | 43.7% | 14.4% | 9.6% | 31.8% | 11.9% |
Poll Type | Date published | Polling agency | Lead | ||||
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AITC | UPA | Left Front | NDA | ||||
Exit poll | ABP - Nielson | 24 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 8 | |
Times Now - VMR | 28 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 17 | ||
Republic TV- Jan Ki Baat | 29 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 18 | ||
India Today - AxisMyIndia [5] | 19–22 | 0–1 | 0 | 19-23 | 1 | ||
NewsX - CNX | 26 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 8 | ||
News24 - Today's Chanakya | 23 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 5 | ||
Opinion poll | 06 Apr 2019 | India TV - CNX [6] | 28 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 16 |
05 Apr 2019 | Republic TV - Jan ki Baat [7] | 25 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 12 | |
Mar 2019 | ABP News- Nielsen [8] | 31 | 3 | – | 8 | 23 | |
Jan 2019 | Spick Media [9] | 30 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 22 | |
Jan 2019 | Republic TV - C Voter | 34 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 27 | |
Nov 2018 | Spick Media [10] | 32 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 27 | |
Nov 2018 | ABP News - C Voter [11] | 32 | 1 | – | 9 | 23 |
On 12 March 2019, party president Mamata Banerjee announced the party candidates for the election. [12] 41% of the candidates were women. Notable exclusions from the list were the party's general secretary Subrata Bakshi and Sugata Bose. Bose did not get permission from Harvard University, where he is a professor, to contest the election. [13] Notable inclusions were Bengali actresses Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan. [14]
Constituency | |||||||||||||
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AITC | UPA | LF | NDA | ||||||||||
1 | Cooch Behar (SC) | AITC | Paresh Chandra Adhikary | INC | Priya Roy Choudhury | AIFB | Gobinda Chandra Roy | BJP | Nisith Pramanik | ||||
2 | Alipurduars (ST) | AITC | Dasrath Tirkey | INC | Mohan Lal Basumuta | RSP | Mili Oraon | BJP | John Barla | ||||
3 | Jalpaiguri (SC) | AITC | Bijoy Chandra Barman | INC | Mani Kumar Darnal | CPI(M) | Bhagirath Chandra Roy | BJP | Jayanta Ray | ||||
4 | Darjeeling | AITC | Amar Singh Rai | INC | Shankar Malakar | CPI(M) | Saman Pathak | BJP | Raju Singh Bisht | ||||
5 | Raiganj | AITC | Kanaia Lal Agarwal | INC | Deepa Dasmunshi | CPI(M) | Mohammed Salim | BJP | Deboshree Chaudhary | ||||
6 | Balurghat | AITC | Arpita Ghosh | INC | Sadik Sarkar | RSP | Ranen Barman | BJP | Sukanta Majumdar | ||||
7 | Maldaha Uttar | AITC | Mausam Noor | INC | Isha Khan Chowdhury | CPI(M) | Biswanath Ghosh | BJP | Khagen Murmu | ||||
8 | Maldaha Dakshin | AITC | Moazzem Hossain | INC | Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury | CPI(M) supports INC | BJP | Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury | |||||
9 | Jangipur | AITC | Khalilur Rehman | INC | Abhijit Mukherjee | CPI(M) | Md. Zulfikar Ali | BJP | Mafuja Khatun | ||||
10 | Baharampur | AITC | Apurba Sarkar | INC | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | RSP | Saikh Id Mohammad | BJP | Krishna Juardar Arya | ||||
11 | Murshidabad | AITC | Abu Taher Khan | INC | Abu Hena | CPI(M) | Badaruddoza Khan | BJP | Humayun Kabir | ||||
12 | Krishnanagar | AITC | Mahua Moitra | INC | Intaj Ali Shah | CPI(M) | Dr. Shantanu Jha | BJP | Kalyan Chaubey | ||||
13 | Ranaghat (SC) | AITC | Rupaali Biswas | INC | Minati Biswas | CPI(M) | CA Rama Biswas | BJP | Jagannath Sarkar | ||||
14 | Bangaon (SC) | AITC | Mamata Bala Thakur | INC | Sourav Prasad | CPI(M) | Alakesh Das | BJP | Shantanu Thakur | ||||
15 | Barrackpur | AITC | Dinesh Trivedi | INC | Mohammad Alam | CPI(M) | Gargi Chatterjee | BJP | Arjun Singh | ||||
16 | Dum Dum | AITC | Sougata Roy | INC | Saurav Saha | CPI(M) | Nepaldev Bhattacharya | BJP | Samik Bhattacharya | ||||
17 | Barasat | AITC | Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar | INC | Subrota (Rashu) Dutta | AIFB | Haripada Biswas | BJP | Mrinal Kanthi Debnath | ||||
18 | Basirhat | AITC | Nusrat Jahan | INC | Quazi Abdur Rahim | CPI | Pallab Sengupta | BJP | Sayantan Basu | ||||
19 | Jaynagar (SC) | AITC | Pratima Mondal | INC | Tapan Mondal | RSP | Subhas Naskar | BJP | Ashok Kandari | ||||
20 | Mathurapur (SC) | AITC | Choudhury Mohan Jatua | INC | Krittibas Sardar | CPI(M) | Dr. Sarat Chandra Haldar | BJP | Shyamaprasad Halder | ||||
21 | Diamond Harbour | AITC | Abhishek Banerjee | INC | Soumya Aich Roy | CPI(M) | Dr. Fuad Halim | BJP | Nilanjan Roy | ||||
22 | Jadavpur | AITC | Mimi Chakraborty | INC supports CPI(M) | CPI(M) | Adv. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya | BJP | Anupam Hazra | |||||
23 | Kolkata Dakshin | AITC | Mala Roy | INC | Mita Chakraborty | CPI(M) | Dr. Nandini Mukherjee | BJP | Chandra Kumar Bose | ||||
24 | Kolkata Uttar | AITC | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | INC | Syed Shahid Imam | CPI(M) | Kaninika Bose (Ghosh) | BJP | Rahul Sinha | ||||
25 | Howrah | AITC | Prasun Banerjee | INC | Suvra Ghosh | CPI(M) | Adv. Sumitro Adhikary | BJP | Rantideb Sen Gupta | ||||
26 | Uluberia | AITC | Sajda Ahmed | INC | Shoma Ranisree Roy | CPI(M) | Dr. Maksuda Khatun | BJP | Joy Banerjee | ||||
27 | Serampore | AITC | Kalyan Banerjee | INC | Debabrata Biswas | CPI(M) | CA Tirthankar Ray | BJP | Debajit Sarkar | ||||
28 | Hooghly | AITC | Ratna De (Nag) | INC | Pratul Saha | CPI(M) | Pradip Saha | BJP | Locket Chatterjee | ||||
29 | Arambagh (SC) | AITC | Aparupa Poddar | INC | Jyoti Das | CPI(M) | Sakti Mohan Malik | BJP | Tapan Roy | ||||
30 | Tamluk | AITC | Dibyendu Adhikari | INC | Lakshman Chandra Seth | CPI(M) | Sk. Ibrahim Ali | BJP | Siddhartha Naskar | ||||
31 | Contai | AITC | Sisir Adhikari | INC | Dipak Kumar Das | CPI(M) | Paritosh Pattanayak | BJP | Debasish Samant | ||||
32 | Ghatal | AITC | Dev | INC | Khandakar Mohammad Saifullah | CPI | Tapan Ganguli | BJP | Bharati Ghosh | ||||
33 | Jhargram (ST) | AITC | Birbaha Soren | INC | Jagyeswar Hembram | CPI(M) | Deblina Hembram | BJP | Kunar Hembram | ||||
34 | Medinipur | AITC | Manas Bhunia | INC | Sambhunath Chatterjee | CPI | Biplab Bhatta | BJP | Dilip Ghosh | ||||
35 | Purulia | AITC | Mriganko Mahato | INC | Nepal Mahato | AIFB | Bir Singh Mahato | BJP | Jyotirmoy Mahto | ||||
36 | Bankura | AITC | Subrata Mukherjee | INC | Did Not Contest | CPI(M) | Dr. Amiya Patra | BJP | Subhash Sarkar | ||||
37 | Bishnupur (SC) | AITC | Shyamal Santra | INC | Narayan Chandra Khan | CPI(M) | Sunil Khan | BJP | Saumitra Khan | ||||
38 | Bardhaman Purba (SC) | AITC | Sunil Kumar Mandal | INC | Siddhartha Majumder | CPI(M) | Iswar Chandra Das | BJP | Paresh Chandra Das | ||||
39 | Bardhaman-Durgapur | AITC | Mamtaz Sanghamita | INC | Ranajit Mukherjee | CPI(M) | Abhas Ray Chaudhuri | BJP | S. S. Ahluwalia | ||||
40 | Asansol | AITC | Moon Moon Sen | INC | Biswarup Mondal | CPI(M) | Gouranga Chatterjee | BJP | Babul Supriyo | ||||
41 | Bolpur (SC) | AITC | Asit Kumar Mal | INC | Abhijit Saha | CPI(M) | Dr. Ram Chandra Dome | BJP | Ram Prashad Das | ||||
42 | Birbhum | AITC | Satabdi Roy | INC | Imam Hossain | CPI(M) | Dr. Md. Rezaul Karim | BJP | Dudh Kumar Mondal | ||||
22 | 18 | 2 |
AITC | BJP | INC |
Parties/ Alliance | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
AITC | 24,756,985 | 43.27% | ![]() | 42 | 22 | ![]() | |||
BJP | 23,028,343 | 40.25% | ![]() | 42 | 18 | ![]() | |||
LF | |||||||||
CPI(M) | 3,594,283 | 6.28% | ![]() | 31 | 0 | ![]() | |||
AIFB | 239,218 | 0.41% | ![]() | 3 | 0 | ![]() | |||
CPI | 2,27,695 | 0.39% | ![]() | 3 | 0 | ![]() | |||
RSP | 2,08,275 | 0.36% | ![]() | 4 | 0 | ![]() | |||
Total | 4,269,471 | 7.44% | ![]() | 41 | 0 | ![]() | |||
INC | 3,210,485 | 5.61% | ![]() | 40 | 2 | ![]() | |||
Others | 1,941,029 | 2.5% | ![]() | ||||||
Total | 57,206,313 | 100% | |||||||
# | Constituency | TMC votes | NDA votes | UPA votes | LF votes | Win Margin |
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1 | Cooch Behar | 677,363 | 731,594 | 28,215 | 46,648 | 54,231 |
2 | Alipurduars | 506,815 | 750,804 | 27,427 | 54,010 | 243,989 |
3 | Jalpaiguri | 576,141 | 760,145 | 28,488 | 76,054 | 184,004 |
4 | Darjeeling | 336,624 | 750,067 | 65,186 | 50,524 | 413,443 |
5 | Raiganj | 451,078 | 511,652 | 83,662 | 183,039 | 60,574 |
6 | Balurghat | 506,024 | 539,317 | 36,783 | 72,990 | 33,293 |
7 | Maldaha Uttar | 425,236 | 509,524 | 305,270 | 50,401 | 84,288 |
8 | Maldaha Dakshin | 351,353 | 436,048 | 444,270 | - | 8,222 |
9 | Jangipur | 562,838 | 317,056 | 255,836 | 95,501 | 245,782 |
10 | Baharampur | 510,410 | 143,038 | 591,147 | 13,362 | 80,696 |
11 | Murshidabad | 604,346 | 247,809 | 377,929 | 180,793 | 226,417 |
12 | Krishnanagar | 614,872 | 551,654 | 38,305 | 120,222 | 63,218 |
13 | Ranaghat | 549,825 | 783,254 | 23,297 | 97,771 | 233,428 |
14 | Bangaon | 576,028 | 687,622 | 22,618 | 90,122 | 1,11,594 |
15 | Barrackpore | 458,137 | 472,994 | 15,746 | 117,456 | 14,857 |
16 | Dum Dum | 512,062 | 459,060 | 29,097 | 167,590 | 53,002 |
17 | Barasat | 648,444 | 538,275 | 37,277 | 124,068 | 109,983 |
18 | Basirhat | 782,078 | 431,709 | 104,183 | 68,316 | 350,369 |
19 | Jaynagar| | 761,206 | 444,427 | 18,758 | 67,913 | 316,775 |
20 | Mathurapur | 726,828 | 522,854 | 32,324 | 92,417 | 203,974 |
21 | Diamond Harbour | 791,127 | 470,533 | 19,828 | 93,941 | 320,594 |
22 | Jadavpur | 688,472 | 393,233 | - | 302,264 | 295,239 |
23 | Kolkata Dakshin | 573,119 | 417,927 | 42,618 | 140,275 | 155,192 |
24 | Kolkata Uttar | 474,891 | 347,796 | 26,093 | 71,080 | 127,095 |
25 | Howrah | 576,711 | 473,016 | 32,107 | 105,547 | 103,695 |
26 | Uluberia | 694,945 | 479,586 | 27,568 | 81,314 | 215,359 |
27 | Srerampore | 637,707 | 539,171 | 32,509 | 152,281 | 98,536 |
28 | Hooghly | 598,086 | 671,448 | 25,374 | 121,588 | 73,362 |
29 | Arambagh | 649,929 | 648,787 | 25,128 | 100,520 | 1,142 |
30 | Tamluk | 724,433 | 534,268 | 16,001 | 136,129 | 190,165 |
31 | Kanthi | 711,872 | 600,204 | 16,851 | 76,185 | 1,11,668 |
32 | Ghatal | 717,959 | 609,986 | 32,793 | 97,062 | 1,07,973 |
33 | Jhargram | 614,816 | 626,583 | 20,754 | 75,680 | 11,767 |
34 | Medinipur | 596,481 | 685,433 | 20,807 | 62,319 | 88,952 |
35 | Purulia | 463,375 | 668,107 | 84,477 | 68,464 | 204,732 |
36 | Bankura | 500,986 | 675,319 | 20,472 | 100,282 | 174,333 |
37 | Bishnupur | 578,972 | 657,019 | 17,932 | 102,615 | 78,047 |
38 | Bardhaman Purba | 640,834 | 551,523 | 38,472 | 175,920 | 89,311 |
39 | Bardhaman-Durgapur | 595,937 | 598,376 | 38,516 | 161,329 | 2,439 |
40 | Asansol | 435,741 | 633,378 | 21,038 | 87,608 | 197,637 |
41 | Bolpur | 699,172 | 592,769 | 30,112 | 91,964 | 106,402 |
42 | Birbhum | 654,070 | 565,153 | 75,451 | 96,763 | 88,924 |
There has been a major political shift from the left to the right in the 2019 general elections in West Bengal. The Statesman says, “Making an aggressive penetration in Bengal for the first time since its inception in 1980, BJP alone has dramatically increased its vote share close to 40 percent this time. Thus, it has virtually made the CPI-M into a mere marginalised political party and at the same time the saffron party set a strong challenge before the Trinamool Congress hardly two years ahead of the Assembly elections scheduled in 2021 in the state.” This obviously is the most important impact of the general elections in the state visible in the voting pattern right across the state, irrespective of who won or lost a particular seat. [17] [18]
Party | 2016 West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election | West Bengal Vidhan Sabha segments (as of 2019 India Lok Sabha election) [19] [20] | 2021 West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election | West Bengal Vidhan Sabha segments (as of 2024 India Lok Sabha election) | |
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BJP | 3 | 121 | 77 | 90 | |
INC | 44 | 9 | 0 | 10 | |
TMC | 211 | 164 | 215 | 193 | |
Left Front | 32 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Others | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
Total | 294 | 294 | 294 | 294 |
Party | No. of Constituencies | ||
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Trinamool Congress | 2 | ||
Left Front | 1 | ||
Bharatiya Janata Party | 39 | ||
Indian National Congress | 0 | ||
Total | 42 |
TMC won 3 out of 3 assembly seats in the next assembly by-elections in November 2019. Even the seat of State BJP president Dilip Ghosh which fell vacant due to Dilip Ghosh's win in Loksabha election, Kharagpur Sadar was won by TMC by a lead of 22,000 votes. TMC was trailing in that seat by 15,800 votes in 2019 general elections. [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]
Region | Total seats | All India Trinamool Congress | Bharatiya Janata Party | Indian National Congress | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Others | ||||
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East Bengal (Ganges Delta Region) | 10 | 7 | ![]() | 3 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | 0 |
North Bengal | 8 | 3 | ![]() | 3 | ![]() | 2 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | 0 |
Northern Hills | 4 | 0 | ![]() | 4 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | 0 |
West Bengal (Rarh Region) | 10 | 3 | ![]() | 7 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | 0 |
South Bengal | 10 | 9 | ![]() | 1 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | 0 |
Total | 42 | 22 | ![]() | 18 | ![]() | 2 | ![]() | 0 | ![]() | 0 |