2024 Indian general election in West Bengal

2024 Indian general election in West Bengal

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All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Opinion polls
Leader Mamata Banerjee Sukanta Majumdar Party AITC BJP Leader since 1998 2021 Leader's seat Did not contest Balurghat Last election 43.3%, 22 seats 40.7%, 18 seats   Leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Mohammed Salim Party INC CPI(M) Alliance SDA SDA Leader since 2020 2022 Leader's seat Baharampur Murshidabad Last election 5.67%, 2 seats 6.33%, 0 seats
Constituencies in the state. Constituencies in yellow and in pink represent seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes respectively.
Incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi BJP

The 2024 Indian general election in West Bengal will be held in all 7 phases from 19 April to 1 June to elect 42 members of the 18th Lok Sabha, with the results declared on 4 June. ^{[1] [2]} The by-elections for Bhagabangola and Baranagar in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly are also scheduled with the general election and will take place on 7 May and 1 June respectively. ^[3]

West Bengal, along with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, will be the only states where the 2024 Indian general election will be held in all 7 phases.

Election schedule

Phase wise schedule of 2024 Indian general election in West Bengal

On 16 March 2024, the Election Commission of India announced the schedule of the 2024 Indian general election, with West Bengal scheduled to vote during all the 7 phases starting from 19 April and concluding on 1 June. ^{[4] [5]}

Poll event	Phase
	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII
Notification Date	20 March	28 March	12 April	18 April	26 April	29 April	7 May
Last Date for filing nomination	27 March	4 April	19 April	25 April	3 May	6 May	14 May
Scrutiny of nomination	28 March	5 April	20 April	26 April	4 May	7 May	15 May
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination	30 March	8 April	22 April	29 April	6 May	9 May	17 May
Date of poll	19 April	26 April	7 May	13 May	20 May	25 May	1 June
Date of counting of votes/Result	4 June 2024
No. of constituencies	3	3	4	8	7	8	9

Constituencies in phases

Phase	Poll Date	Constituencies [6]	Voter Turnout (%)
I	19 April	Cooch Behar, Alipurduars, Jalpaiguri
II	26 April	Darjeeling, Raiganj, Balurghat
III	7 May	Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, Jangipur, Murshidabad
IV	13 May	Baharampur, Krishnanagar, Ranaghat, Bardhaman Purba, Bardhaman–Durgapur, Asansol, Bolpur, Birbhum
V	20 May	Bongaon, Barrackpore, Howrah, Uluberia, Serampore, Hooghly, Arambagh
VI	25 May	Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal, Jhargram, Medinipur, Purulia, Bankura, Bishnupur
VII	1 June	Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin, Kolkata Uttar

Parties and alliances

   All India Trinamool Congress

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

   Bharatiya Janata Party

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Bharatiya Janata Party			Sukanta Majumdar	42

   Secular Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			Mohammed Salim	23	42 [lower-alpha 1]
	Indian National Congress			Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	12 [lower-alpha 2]
	Revolutionary Socialist Party			Tapan Hor	3
	Communist Party of India			Swapan Banerjee	2
	All India Forward Bloc			Naren Chatterjee	2 [lower-alpha 3]

Others

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)			Provash Ghosh	42
	Indian Secular Front			Nawsad Siddique	17
	Bahujan Samaj Party			Manoj Hawladar	5
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen			-	4
	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation			Dipankar Bhattacharya	1

Candidates

Constituency
		AITC			BJP			SDA
1	Cooch Behar (SC)		AITC	Jagadish Chandra Basunia		BJP	Nisith Pramanik		AIFB	Nitish Chandra Roy [lower-alpha 4]
2	Alipurduars (ST)		AITC	Prakash Chik Baraik		BJP	Manoj Tigga		RSP	Mili Oraon
3	Jalpaiguri (SC)		AITC	Nirmal Chandra Roy		BJP	Jayanta Kumar Roy		CPI(M)	Debraj Barman
4	Darjeeling		AITC	Gopal Lama		BJP	Raju Bista		INC	Munish Tamang
5	Raiganj		AITC	Krishna Kalyani		BJP	Kartick Paul		INC	Ali Imran Ramz (Victor)
6	Balurghat		AITC	Biplab Mitra		BJP	Sukanta Majumdar		RSP	Jaydeb Siddhanta
7	Maldaha Uttar		AITC	Prasun Banerjee		BJP	Khagen Murmu		INC	Mostaque Alam
8	Maldaha Dakshin		AITC	Shahnawaz Ali Raihan		BJP	Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury		INC	Isha Khan Choudhury
9	Jangipur		AITC	Khalilur Rahaman		BJP	Dhananjay Ghosh		INC	Mortaza Hossain Bokul
10	Baharampur		AITC	Yusuf Pathan		BJP	Nirmal Kumar Saha		INC	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
11	Murshidabad		AITC	Abu Taher Khan		BJP	Gouri Shankar Ghosh		CPI(M)	Mohammed Salim
12	Krishnanagar		AITC	Mahua Moitra		BJP	Amrita Roy		CPI(M)	S. M. Saadi
13	Ranaghat (SC)		AITC	Mukut Mani Adhikari		BJP	Jagannath Sarkar		CPI(M)	Alokesh Das
14	Bongaon (SC)		AITC	Biswajit Das		BJP	Shantanu Thakur		INC	Pradip Biswas
15	Barrackpore		AITC	Partha Bhowmick		BJP	Arjun Singh		CPI(M)	Debdut Ghosh
16	Dum Dum		AITC	Saugata Roy		BJP	Shilbhadra Dutta		CPI(M)	Sujan Chakraborty
17	Barasat		AITC	Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar		BJP	Swapan Majumder		AIFB	Sanjib Chatterjee
18	Basirhat		AITC	Haji Nurul Islam		BJP	Rekha Patra		CPI(M)	Nirapada Sardar
19	Jaynagar (SC)		AITC	Pratima Mondal		BJP	Ashok Kandari		RSP	Samarendra Nath Mandal
20	Mathurapur (SC)		AITC	Bapi Halder		BJP	Ashok Purkait		CPI(M)	Sarat Chandra Haldar
21	Diamond Harbour		AITC	Abhishek Banerjee		BJP	Abhijit Das (Bobby)		CPI(M)	Pratik Ur Rahaman
22	Jadavpur		AITC	Saayoni Ghosh		BJP	Anirban Ganguly		CPI(M)	Srijan Bhattacharyya
23	Kolkata Dakshin		AITC	Mala Roy		BJP	Debasree Chaudhuri		CPI(M)	Saira Shah Halim
24	Kolkata Uttar		AITC	Sudip Bandyopadhyay		BJP	Tapas Roy		INC	Pradip Bhattacharya
25	Howrah		AITC	Prasun Banerjee		BJP	Rathin Chakraborty		CPI(M)	Sabyasachi Chatterjee
26	Uluberia		AITC	Sajda Ahmed		BJP	Arun Uday Paul Chowdhury		INC	Azahar Mallick
27	Serampore		AITC	Kalyan Banerjee		BJP	Kabir Sankar Bose		CPI(M)	Dipsita Dhar
28	Hooghly		AITC	Rachna Banerjee		BJP	Locket Chatterjee		CPI(M)	Monodip Ghosh
29	Arambagh (SC)		AITC	Mitali Bag		BJP	Arup Kanti Digar		CPI(M)	Biplab Kumar Moitra
30	Tamluk		AITC	Debangshu Bhattacharya		BJP	Abhijit Gangopadhyay		CPI(M)	Sayan Banerjee
31	Kanthi		AITC	Uttam Barik		BJP	Soumendu Adhikari		INC	Urbashi Bhattacharya
32	Ghatal		AITC	Deepak Adhikari (Dev)		BJP	Hiran Chatterjee		CPI	Tapan Ganguly
33	Jhargram (ST)		AITC	Kalipada Soren		BJP	Pranat Tudu		CPI(M)	Sonamoni Murmu (Tudu)
34	Medinipur		AITC	June Malia		BJP	Agnimitra Paul		CPI	Biplab Bhatta
35	Purulia		AITC	Santiram Mahato		BJP	Jyotirmay Singh Mahato		INC	Nepal Mahato [lower-alpha 5]
36	Bankura		AITC	Arup Chakraborty		BJP	Subhas Sarkar		CPI(M)	Nilanjan Dasgupta
37	Bishnupur (SC)		AITC	Sujata Mondal		BJP	Saumitra Khan		CPI(M)	Shital Kaibartya
38	Bardhaman Purba (SC)		AITC	Sharmila Sarkar		BJP	Ashim Kumar Sarkar		CPI(M)	Nirav Kha
39	Bardhaman–Durgapur		AITC	Kirti Azad		BJP	Dilip Ghosh		CPI(M)	Sukriti Ghosal
40	Asansol		AITC	Shatrughan Sinha		BJP	S. S. Ahluwalia		CPI(M)	Jahanara Khan
41	Bolpur (SC)		AITC	Asit Kumar Mal		BJP	Priya Saha		CPI(M)	Shyamali Pradhan
42	Birbhum		AITC	Satabdi Roy		BJP	Debashish Dhar		INC	Milton Rashid

Surveys and polls

Opinion polls

Polling agency	Date published	Margin of Error					Lead
			AITC	BJP	SDA	Others
India TV-CNX	April 2024 [7]	-	19	22	1	0	BJP
News18	March 2024 [8]	±4%	17	25	0	0	BJP
ABP News-CVoter	March 2024 [9]	±5%	23	19	0	0	AITC
India TV-CNX	March 2024 [10]	±3%	21	20	1	0	AITC
Zee News-Matrize	February 2024 [11]	±2%	24	17	1	0	AITC
India Today-CVoter	February 2024 [12]	±3-5%	22	19	1	0	AITC
Times Now-ETG	February 2024 [13]	±2%	26	15	1	0	AITC
Puthiya Thalaimurai-Apt	February 2024 [14]	-	13	29	0	0	BJP
ABP News-CVoter	December 2023 [15]	±3-5%	23-25	16-18	0-2	0	AITC
Times Now-ETG	December 2023 [16]	±3%	20-24	18-20	2-4	0	AITC
India TV-CNX	October 2023 [17]	±3%	30	10	2	0	AITC
Times Now-ETG	August 2023 [18]	±3%	22-24	16-18	0-3	0	AITC
	July 2023 [19]	-	20-22	18-20	0-2	0	AITC
India TV-Matrize	July 2022 [20]	-	26	14	2	0	AITC
India Today-CVoter	January 2022 [21]	-	35	7	0	0	AITC

Polling agency	Date published	Margin of Error					Lead
			AITC	BJP	SDA	Others
ABP News-CVoter	March 2024 [22]	±5%	42%	41%	16%	1%	AITC

Results

Results by party or alliance

Alliance/Parties				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	AITC						42
	NDA		BJP				42
	SDA		CPI(M)				23
			INC				12
			RSP				3
			CPI				2
			AIFB				2
		Total					42
	Others
	IND
	NOTA
Total					100%	-		42	-

Results by constituency

Constituency		Winner							Runner Up							Margin
		Party		Alliance		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Alliance		Candidate	Votes	%
1	Cooch Behar (SC)
2	Alipurduars (ST)
3	Jalpaiguri (SC)
4	Darjeeling
5	Raiganj
6	Balurghat
7	Maldaha Uttar
8	Maldaha Dakshin
9	Jangipur
10	Baharampur
11	Murshidabad
12	Krishnanagar
13	Ranaghat (SC)
14	Bongaon (SC)
15	Barrackpore
16	Dum Dum
17	Barasat
18	Basirhat
19	Jaynagar (SC)
20	Mathurapur (SC)
21	Diamond Harbour
22	Jadavpur
23	Kolkata Dakshin
24	Kolkata Uttar
25	Howrah
26	Uluberia
27	Serampore
28	Hooghly
29	Arambagh (SC)
30	Tamluk
31	Kanthi
32	Ghatal
33	Jhargram (ST)
34	Medinipur
35	Purulia
36	Bankura
37	Bishnupur (SC)
38	Bardhaman Purba (SC)
39	Bardhaman–Durgapur
40	Asansol
41	Bolpur (SC)
42	Birbhum

See also

• Politics of West Bengal
• 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
• Next West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

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1. INC and AIFB are contesting 1 seat each (Cooch Behar and Purulia Lok Sabha constituencies respectively) independently outside of alliance.
2. INC is contesting 12 seats under the alliance and 1 seat (Cooch Behar) independently.
3. AIFB is contesting 2 seats under the alliance and 1 seat (Purulia) independently.
4. INC's Piya Roy Chowdhury is also contesting the seat independently outside of alliance.
5. AIFB's Dhirendra Nath Mahato is also contesting the seat independently outside of alliance.