Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency

Not to be confused with Berhampur Lok Sabha constituency.

Baharampur WB-10
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Berhampore Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Burwan Kandi Bharatpur Rejinagar Beldanga Baharampur Naoda
Established	1951
Total electors	1,453,783 [1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2019

Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency (earlier known as Berhampore) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Baharampur in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 10 Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency are in Murshidabad district.

Most Successful parties from Baharampur Lok Sabha

   Revolutionary Socialist Party (11times) (64.71%)

   Indian National Congress (6 times) (35.29%)

Assembly segments

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

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 10 Baharampur is composed of the following assembly segments from 2009: ^[2]

No	Name	District	Member	Party
67	Burwan (SC)	Murshidabad	Jiban Krishna Saha		Trinamool Congress
68	Kandi		Apurba Sarkar		Trinamool Congress
69	Bharatpur		Humayun Kabir		Trinamool Congress
70	Rejinagar		Rabiul Alam Chowdhury		Trinamool Congress
71	Beldanga		Hasanuzzaman Sk.		Trinamool Congress
72	Baharampur		Subrata Maitra		Bharatiya Janata Party
74	Naoda		Sahina Mamtaj Begum		Trinamool Congress

In 2004 Berhampore Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments: ^[3] Naoda (assembly constituency no. 61), Berhampore (assembly constituency no. 63), Beldanga (assembly constituency no. 64), Kandi (assembly constituency no. 65), Barwan (assembly constituency no. 67), Bharatpur (assembly constituency no. 68), Ketugram (SC) (assembly constituency no. 282)

Members of Parliament

Year	Name [4]	Party
1952	Tridib Chaudhuri		Revolutionary Socialist Party
1957
1962
1967
1971
1977
1980
1984	Atish Chandra Sinha		Indian National Congress
1989	Nani Bhattacharya		Revolutionary Socialist Party
1991
1996	Pramothes Mukherjee
1998
1999	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury		Indian National Congress
2004
2009
2014
2019

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Baharampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
	AITC	Yusuf Pathan
	BJP	Nirmal Kumar Saha
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout				77.54	1.87
			Swing

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Baharampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	591,147	45.47	-5.07
	AITC	Apurba Sarkar (David)	510,410	39.26	+19.61
	BJP	Krishna Juardar Arya	143,038	11.00	+3.93
	NOTA	None of the above	14,086	1.08
Majority			80,696	6.21	-24.64
Turnout			1,301,033	79.41	+0.02
Registered electors			1,638,378
	INC hold		Swing	-4.50

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Baharampur ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	583,549	50.54	-6.37
	AITC	Indranil Sen	226,982	19.69	N/A
	RSP	Pramothes Mukherjee	225,699	19.54	-17.73
	BJP	Debesh Kumar Adhikary	81,656	7.07	+5.07
	SDPI	Badrul Sekh	11,642	1.00
	Jamat-e-Seratul Mustakim	Md. Ezaruddin	4,869	4.21
	BSP	Kushadhwaj Bala	4,676	0.40
	IUML	Abdus Sukur	4,322	0.34
Majority			356,567	30.85	+11.22
Turnout			11,54,587	79.42	-1.28
	INC hold		Swing	-6.37

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Baharampur ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	541,920	56.91	+5.41
	RSP	Pramothes Mukherjee	354,943	37.27	-4.13
	BJP	Bidyut Kumar Halder	27,619	2.00
	Independent	Baidya Nath Mondal	9,195	0.96
	BSP	Kushadhwaj Bala	8,587	0.90
	RPI(A)	Ghosh Babu Saw	3,823	0.40
	SP	Ashoke Kumar Singha	3,076	0.32
	RDMP	Rabindra Nath Roy	3,050	0.32
Majority			186,977	19.63
Turnout			9,52,213	80.70
	INC hold		Swing

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Baharampur ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	508,095	51.50
	RSP	Pramothes Mukherjee	409,194	41.40
	BJP	Tapas Kumar Chatterjee	41,490	4.20
	Independent	Jyotirmoy Thakur	9,672	1.00
	JDP	Apurba Banerjee	6,818	0.70
	Independent	Sunil Kumar Mandal	5,643	0.60
	RPI(A)	Ashim Roy	3,798	0.40
	Independent	Krishna Prasad Biswas	3,428	0.30
	Samajwadi Party	Ashok Kumar Singha	3,377	0.30
Majority			98,901	10.0
Turnout			9,87,380	80.9%
	INC hold		Swing

General election 1999

1999 Indian general election: Behrampore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	434,073	46.86
	RSP	Pramothes Mukherjee	338,683	36.56
	BJP	Colonel (Retd.) Sabyasachi Bagchi	134,569	14.53
	Independent	Jyotirmoy Thakur	8,948	0.97
	IUML	Nurul Islam	3,618	0.39
	Independent	Siddhartha Chatterjee	2,679	0.29
	BSP	Sunil Kumar Mandal	1,066	0.12
	Independent	Kanan Kumar Saha	911	0.10
	Independent	Sadhan Roy	881	0.10
	Independent	Santosh Majhi	745	0.08
	Independent	Anarul Haque Malitha	203	0.02
Majority			95,391
Turnout			9,26,375	77.33
	INC gain from RSP		Swing

General election 1998

1998 Indian general election: Behrampore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RSP	Pramothes Mukherjee	385,979	44.46
	BJP	Colonel (Retd.) Sabyasachi Bagchi	262,610	30.25
	INC	Prodip Mazumdar	188,985	21.77
	MUL	Abdus Sukur	29,888	3.44
	Independent	Kanan Kumar Saha	784	0.09
Majority			1,23,369
Turnout			9,26,375	77.33
	RSP hold		Swing

General election 1996

1996 Indian general election: Behrampore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RSP	Pramothes Mukherjee	449,656	45.86
	INC	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	405,299	36.56
	BJP	Subhendu Biswas	56,073	26.96
	Independent	Naimul Haque	2,886	0.97
Majority			44,357
Turnout			9,26,375	77.33
	RSP hold		Swing

1994 By-election

In the Behrampore seat, the by-election was held due to the death of the sitting RSP-MP Nani Bhattacharya on 11 October 1993. The by-election was held on 12 March 1994. Pramothes Mukherjee of RSP defeated Siddhartha Shankar Ray of Congress.

Indian Parliamentary bye election, 1994: Behrampore constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RSP	Pramothes Mukherjee	387,549	52.39
	INC	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	292,262	39.84
	BJP	Mohasin Ali Mondal	128,570	19.85
	IUML	Abdul Hossain Sekh	93,912	12.93
	Independent	Arup Chakraborty	12,719	1.89
Majority			95,287	8.70
Turnout			96,650	47.69	-6.7
	RSP hold		Swing	+21.27

General elections 1951-2019

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

Year	Winner		Runner-up
	Candidate	Party	Candidate	Party
1951	Tridib Chaudhuri	RSP	A.K.M.Zakariah	Independent [8]
1957	Trdib Chaudhuri	RSP	Nazrul Haque Khandoker	Independent [9]
1962	Tridib Chaudhuri	RSP	Nazrul Haque Khandoker	INC [10]
1967	Tridib Chaudhuri	RSP	D.Sinha	INC [11]
1971	Tridib Chaudhuri	RSP	Rejaul Karim	INC [12]
1977	Tridib Chaudhuri	RSP	Sudip Bandyopadhyay	INC [13]
1980	Tridib Chaudhuri	RSP	Jagadish Sinha	INC [14]
1984	Atish Chandra Sinha	INC	Tridib Chaudhuri	RSP [15]
1989	Nani Bhattacharya	RSP	Sankar Das Paul	INC [16]
1991	Nani Bhattacharya	RSP	Kumar Dipti Sengupta	INC [17]
1996	Promothes Mukherjee	RSP	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	INC [18]
1998	Promothes Mukherjee	RSP	Sabyasachi Bagchi	BJP [19]
1999	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	INC	Pramothes Mukherjee	RSP [20]
2004	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	INC	Pramothes Mukherjee	RSP [7]
2009	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	INC	Pramothes Mukherjee	RSP
2014	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	INC	Indranil Sen	AITC
2019	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	INC	Apurbo Sarkar	AITC

See also

• Baharampur, also known as Berhampore
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

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