Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency

For other uses, see Basirhat (disambiguation).

Basirhat WB-18
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Basirhat Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Baduria Haroa Minakhan Sandeshkhali Basirhat Dakshin Basirhat Uttar Hingalganj
Established	1951-present
Total electors	14,90,596 [1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Nusrat Jahan
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2019

Most Successful parties from Basirhat Lok Sabha

   Communist Party of India (10 times) (52.63%)

   Indian National Congress (4 times) (15.79%)

   All India Trinamool Congress(3 times) (15.79%)

   Bangla Congress (2 times) (10.53%)

   Janata Party (1 time) (5.26%)

Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Basirhat in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 18 Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency are in North 24 Parganas district.

Overview

Parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal - 1. Cooch Behar, 2. Alipurduars, 3. Jalpaiguri, 4. Darjeeling, 5. Raiganj, 6. Balurghat, 7. Maldaha Uttar, 8. Maldaha Dakshin, 9. Jangipur, 10. Baharampur, 11. Murshidabad, 12. Krishnanagar, 13. Ranaghat, 14. Bangaon, 15. Barrackpore, 16. Dum Dum, 17. Barasat, 18. Basirhat, 19. Jaynagar, 20. Mathurapur, 21. Diamond Harbour, 22. Jadavpur, 23. Kolkata Dakshin, 24. Kolkata Uttar, 25. Howrah, 26. Uluberia, 27. Serampore, 28. Hooghly, 29. Arambagh, 30. Tamluk, 31, Kanthi, 32. Ghatal, 33. Jhargram, 34. Medinipur, 35. Purulia, 36. Bankura, 37. Bishnupur, 38. Bardhaman Purba, 39. Bardhaman Durgapur, 40. Asansol, 41. Bolpur, 42. Birbhum

According to the Hindustan Times, Basirhat and Bangaon have the most porous stretch of West Bengal's 2,217 km border with Bangladesh. ^[2] The Indian Express estimates the proportion of Muslims in Basirhat's electorate at 54%. ^[3]

Assembly segments

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 18 Basirhat is composed of the following assembly segments from 2009: ^[4]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Party	MLA
99	Baduria	None	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Abdur Rahim Quazi
121	Haroa	None	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Haji Nurul Islam
122	Minakhan	SC	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Usha Rani Mondal
123	Sandeshkhali	ST	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Sukumar Mahata
124	Basirhat Dakshin	None	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Dr. Saptarshi Banerjee
125	Basirhat Uttar	None	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Rafikul Islam Mondal
126	Hingalganj	SC	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Debesh Mandal

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Constituency	Name of M.P.	Party
First	1952-57	Basirhat	Renu Chakravartty		Communist Party of India [5]
			Patiram Roy		Indian National Congress [5]
Second	1957-62		Renu Chakravartty		Communist Party of India [6]
			Pareshnath Kayal		Indian National Congress [6]
Third	1962-67		Humayun Kabir [7]
Fourth	1967-69		Humayun Kabir		Bangla Congress [8]
	1970-72		Sardar Amjad Ali [9]
Fifth	1971-77		A.K.M.Ishaque		Indian National Congress [10]
Sixth	1977-80		Alhaj M.A.Hannan		Janata Party [11]
Seventh	1980-84		Indrajit Gupta		Communist Party of India [12]
Eighth	1984-89		Indrajit Gupta [13]
Ninth	1989-91		Manoranjan Sur [14]
Tenth	1991-96		Manoranjan Sur [15]
Eleventh	1996-98		Ajay Chakraborty [16]
Twelfth	1998-99		Ajay Chakraborty [17]
Thirteenth	1999-04		Ajay Chakraborty [18]
Fourteenth	2004-09		Ajay Chakraborty [19]
Fifteenth	2009-14		Haji Nurul Islam		All India Trinamool Congress [20]
Sixteenth	2014-2019		Idris Ali [21]
Seventeenth	2019-Incumbent		Nusrat Jahan

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general election: Basirhat

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Nirapada Sardar
	AITC	Haji Nurul Islam
	BJP	Rekha Patra
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Basirhat ^[22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nusrat Jahan Ruhi	782,078	54.56	-2.91
	BJP	Sayantan Basu	4,31,709	30.12	+11.76
	INC	Quazi Abdur Rahim	1,04,183	7.27	-0.75
	CPI	Pallab Sengupta	68,316	4.77	-25.27
	NOTA	None of the Above	9,106	0.64	-0.14
Majority			3,50,369	24.4
Turnout			14,33,769	85.43	TBA
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Basirhat ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Idris Ali	4,92,326	38.65	-7.55
	CPI	Nurul Sekh	3,82,667	30.04	-10.34
	BJP	Samik Bhattacharya	2,33,887	18.36	+11.81
	INC	Abdur Rahim Kazi	1,02,137	8.02	N/A
	AIUDF	Siddiqullah Chowdhury	25,178	1.97	-2.01
	Independent	Ranjit Gayen	8,088	0.63	-0.70
	BSP	Gopal Das	7,016	0.55	-0.18
	SUCI(C)	Ajay Kumar Bain	6,532	0.51	N/A
	Independent	Md. Hafiz	5,976	0.46	N/A
	None of the Above	None of the Above	9,971	0.78	N/A
Majority			1,09,659	8.61	+2.89
Turnout			12,73,771	85.45	-1.17
	AITC hold		Swing	-7.55

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Basirhat ^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sk. Nurul Islam	4,79,747	45.92
	CPI	Ajay Chakraborty	4,19,368	40.20
	BJP	Swapan Kumar Das	67,690	6.51
	AIUDF	Siddiqullah Chowdhury	41,338	3.98
	Independent	Ranjit Gain	13,888	1.33
	BSP	Jiaul Haque	7,590	0.73
	LJP	Chhalauddin Molla	4,239	0.40
	IUML	Salim Makkar	4,023	0.38
Majority			59,379	5.72
Turnout			10,38,209	86.62
	AITC gain from CPI		Swing

2009 Indian general election
West Bengal summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage
Trinamool Congress	19	18	31.8
Indian National Congress	6	0	13.45
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	1	1	NA
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	9	17	33.1
Communist Party of India	2	1	3.6
Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	1	3.56
Forward bloc	2	1	3.04
Bharatiya Janata Party	1	1	6.14

General elections 1951-2004

Basirhat was double-member constituency in 1951 and 1957. Thereafter, it was a single seat constituency. Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

Year	Winner Candidate	Winner Party	Runner-up Candidate	Runner-up Party
1951	Renu Chakravartty	Communist Party of India
	Satya Hari Dutta	Indian National Congress	Patiram Roy	Indian National Congress [5]
1957	Paresh Nath Kayal	Indian National Congress
	Renu Chakravartty	Communist Party of India	Pratima Bose	Indian National Congress [6]
1962	Humayun Kabir	Indian National Congress	Abdur Razzak Khan	Communist Party of India [7]
1967	Humayun Kabir	Bangla Congress	A.K.M Ishaque	Indian National Congress [8]
1969 (Bye election)	Sardar Amjad Ali	Bangla Congress	K.A.Makkar	PML [9]
1971	A.K.M. Ishaque	Indian National Congress	Md. Abdulla Rasul	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1977	Alhaj M A Hannan	Janata Party	A.K.M.Ishaque	Indian National Congress [11]
1980	Indrajit Gupta	Communist Party of India	Abdul Gaffar Quazi	Indian National Congress (I) [12]
1984	Indrajit Gupta	Communist Party of India	Kamal Basu	Indian National Congress [13]
1989	Monoranjan Sur	Communist Party of India	Sardar Amjad Ali	Indian National Congress [14]
1991	Monoranjan Sur	Communist Party of India	Sardar Amjad Ali	Indian National Congress [15]
1996	Ajay Chakraborty	Communist Party of India	Dilip Majumder	Indian National Congress [16]
1998	Ajay Chakraborty	Communist Party of India	Sudipto Roy	Trinamool Congress [17]
1999	Ajay Chakraborty	Communist Party of India	M Nuruzzaman	All India Trinamool Congress [18]
2004	Ajay Chakraborty	Communist Party of India	Sujit Bose	All India Trinamool Congress [19]

See also

• Basirhat
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

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3. "In Basirhat, 3 Muslims vs BJP's "minority"". The Indian Express. 18 March 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
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22. "General Election 2019". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 22 October 2021.

External links

• Basirhat lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details

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