Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency

Krishnanagar
WB-12
Krishnanagar ; WB-12
Lok Sabha constituency
	Interactive Map Outlining Krishnanagar Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Tehatta ; Palashipara ; Kaliganj ; Nakashipara ; Chapra ; Krishnanagar Uttar ; Krishnanagar Dakshin
Established	1967
Total electors	1,476,783
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	17th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Vacant
Party	none

Last updated April 25, 2024

Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 42 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in West Bengal state in eastern India. All the seven assembly segments of No. 12 Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency are in Nadia district.

Vidhan Sabha segments

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 12 Krishnanagar comprises the following segments from 2009:^[2]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Party (as of 2024)
78	Tehatta	None	Nadia	TMC
79	Palashipara	None	Nadia	TMC
80	Kaliganj	None	Nadia	TMC
81	Nakashipara	None	Nadia	TMC
82	Chapra	None	Nadia	TMC
83	Krishnanagar City North	None	Nadia	TMC
85	Krishnanagar City South	None	Nadia	TMC

In 2004, Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:^[3] Palashipara (assembly constituency no. 70), Nakshipara (assembly constituency no. 71), Kaliganj (assembly constituency no. 72), Chapra (assembly constituency no. 73), Krishnaganj (SC) (assembly constituency no. 74), Krishnanagar East (assembly constituency no. 75), Krishnanagar West (assembly constituency no. 76)^[4]

Members of Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha	Duration	Constituency	Name of M.P.
Fourth	1967-71	Krishnanagar	Haripada Chattopadhyay	Independent ^[5]
Fifth	1971-77		Renu Pada Das	Communist Party of India ^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]
Sixth	1977-80
Seventh	1980-84
Eighth	1984-89
Ninth	1989-91		Ajoy Mukhopadhyay ^[10]^[11]^[12]
Tenth	1991-96
Eleventh	1996-98
Twelfth	1998-99
Thirteenth	1999-04		Satyabrata Mookherjee	Bharatiya Janata Party ^[13]^[14]
Fourteenth	2004-09		Jyotirmoyee Sikdar	Communist Party of India ^[15]
Fifteenth	2009-14		Tapas Paul	All India Trinamool Congress ^[16]^[17]
Sixteenth	2014-19		Tapas Paul
Sixteenth	2019-23		Mahua Moitra

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Krishnanagar
Party		Candidate	Votes
	AITC	Mahua Moitra
	CPI(M)	S. M. Saadi
	BJP	Amrita Roy
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Krishnanagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mahua Moitra	614,872	45.00	+10.14
	BJP	Kalyan Chaubey	551,654	40.37	+13.99
	CPI(M)	Dr. Santanu Jha	120,222	8.80	-20.63
	INC	Intaz Ali Shah	38,305	2.8	-3.19
Majority			63,218
Turnout			1,366,601	83.75	TBA
	AITC hold		Swing

General elections 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Krishnanagar^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Tapas Paul	438,789	35.14	-7.29
	CPI(M)	Dr. Santanu Jha	367,534	29.43	-5.60
	BJP	Satyabrata Mookherjee	329,873	26.38	+9.62
	INC	Razia Ahmed	74,789	5.99
	CPI(ML)L	Subimal Sengupta	7,777
	SUCI(C)	Kamal Datta	7,214
	BSP	Harashit Biswas	6,168
	BMP	Molla Jafforolla	4,865
	IUML	Ahamed Hossain	3,749
	None of the Above	None of the Above	7,642	0.61	---
Majority			71,255	5.71	-1.69
Turnout			1,247,914^[1]	84.50
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Krishnanagar ^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Tapas Paul	443,679	42.43
	CPI(M)	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar	366,293	35.03
	BJP	Satyabrata Mookherjee	175,283	16.76
	AUDF	Md. Niamatullah Mollick	19,313
	CPI(ML)L	Subimal Sengupta	14,480
	BSP	Debabrata Majumder	10,733
	IUML	Shahjahan Mallik	6,592
	SP	Jayasri Chakrabarty	5,002
	NCP	Sk. Daulat Hossain	4,336
Majority			77,386
Turnout			1,045,711	85.50
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

General elections 1967-2004

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

Year	Voters	Voter Turnout	Winner			Runners up
		%age	Candidate	%age	Party	Candidate	%age	Party
1967	343,935	74.00	Haridas Chattopadhyay	47.52	Independent	C.P.Mukherjee	37.48	Congress ^[5]
1971	312,342	62.05	Renupada Das	36.96	CPI(M)	Ila Pal Chaudhuri	25.55	Congress^[6]
1977	331,370	61.96	Renupada Das	61.86	CPI(M)	Shibsankar Bandopadhyay	33.43	Congress^[7]
1980	515,990	79.71	Renupada Das	50.81	CPI(M)	Sankar Das Banerji	36.74	Congress^[8]
1984	611,950	83.74	Renupada Das	49.25	CPI(M)	Sankar Das Banerji	48.45	Congress^[9]
1989	761,990	82.69	Ajoy Mukherjee	46.31	CPI(M)	Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya	44.14	Congress^[10]
1991	764,560	82.34	Ajoy Mukherjee	43.33	CPI(M)	Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya	35.37	Congress^[11]
1996	911,620	85.2	Ajoy Mukherjee	45.94	CPI(M)	Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya	41.56	Congress^[12]
1998	897,930	84.07	Ajoy Mukherjee	42.03	CPI(M)	Satyabrata Mookherjee	37.44	BJP ^[14]
1999	845,490	77.96	Satyabrata Mookherjee	43.82	BJP	Dilip Chakraborty	41.16	CPI(M)^[13]
2004	930,290	83.25	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar	42.73	CPI(M)	Satyabrata Mookherjee	40.54	BJP^[15]

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