Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency

Bardhaman Purba
WB-38
Bardhaman Purba ; WB-38
Lok Sabha constituency
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Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Raina ; Jamalpur ; Kalna ; Memari ; Purbasthali Dakshin ; Purbasthali Uttar ; Katwa
Established	2009
Total electors	18,01,333 (2024)
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Sharmila Sarkar
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2024

Last updated August 20, 2024

Bardhaman Purba is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency is based on Purba Bardhaman district in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency are in Purba Bardhaman district. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency, Katwa Lok Sabha constituency and Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency ceased to exist from 2009 and new constituencies came into being: Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency and Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency.^[2]

Assembly segments

Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency (parliamentary constituency no. 38) is composed of the following assembly segments:^[2]

Constituency number	Name	District	Party (as of 2021)
261	Raina (SC)	Purba Bardhaman	TMC
262	Jamalpur (SC)		TMC
264	Kalna (SC)		TMC
265	Memari		TMC
268	Purbasthali Dakshin		TMC
269	Purbasthali Uttar		TMC
270	Katwa		TMC

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Name of M.P.
Fifteenth	2009-14	Anup Kumar Saha	Communist Party of India (Marxist) ^[3]
Sixteenth ^[4]	2014-2019	Sunil Kumar Mandal	Trinamool Congress
Seventeenth	2019-2024	Sunil Kumar Mandal
Eighteenth	2024-Incumbent	Sharmila Sarkar

For Members of Parliament from this area in previous years see Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency and Katwa Lok Sabha constituency

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sharmila Sarkar	730,302	48.11	3.59
	BJP	Ashim Kumar Sarkar	5,59,730	37.38	0.94
	CPI(M)	Nirab Khan	1,76,899	11.81	0.41
	NOTA	None of the above	12,697	0.85	0.10
Majority			1,60,572	10.72	2.06
Turnout			14,97,310	83.12	1.66
	AITC hold		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sunil Kumar Mandal	640,834	44.52	+1.02
	BJP	Paresh Chandra Das	551,523	38.32	+25.39
	CPI(M)	Ishwar Chandra Das	175,920	12.22	−22.61
	INC	Sidhartha Majumdar	38,472	2.67	−3.54
	NOTA	None of the above	10,747	0.75	N/A
Majority			89,311	8.66	+3.38
Turnout			14,39,603	84.78
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sunil Kumar Mandal	5,74,660	43.50	+1.48
	CPI(M)	Ishwar Chandra Das	4,60,181	34.83	−12.48
	BJP	Santosh Roy	1,70,828	12.93	+6.56
	INC	Chandana Majhi	68,884	5.21	N/A
	JMM	Swapan Malik	9,666	0.73	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Kalicharan Sardar	7,981	0.60	N/A
	CPI(ML)L	Pejush Kumar Sahana	5,919	0.44	−0.30
	BSP	Mukul Biswas	5,442	0.41	−0.39
	JDP	Prosanta Bag	3,410	0.25
Majority			1,14,479	8.66	+3.38
Turnout			13,20,922	86.21	−1.00
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	-4.76

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Dr Anup Kumar Saha	5,31,987	47.31
	AITC	Ashoke Biswas	4,72,568	42.02
	BJP	Sankar Haldar	71,632	6.37
	AUDF	Rabindranath Bag	17,716	1.57
	JDP	Raju Malik	12,982	1.15
	BSP	Mukul Biswas	9,069	0.80
	CPI(ML)L	Pijush Kumar Sahana	8,419	0.74
Majority			59,419	5.28
Turnout			11,24,373	87.21
	CPI(M) win (new seat)

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References

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[delimitation-2] 1 2 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.

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[loksabha2014-4] 1 2 "General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 June 2016.

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