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Raiganj | |
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Lok Sabha constituency | |
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Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | East India |
State | West Bengal |
Assembly constituencies | Islampur Goalpokhar Chakulia Karandighi Hemtabad Kaliaganj Raiganj |
Established | 1962-present |
Total electors | 1,387,526[1] |
Reservation | None |
Member of Parliament | |
17th Lok Sabha | |
Incumbent | |
Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Elected year | 2019 |
Raiganj Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Raiganj in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 5 Raiganj Lok Sabha constituency are in Uttar Dinajpur district.
Assembly segments
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As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 5 Raiganj is composed of the following segments from 2009:[2]
No | Name | District | Member | Party | Party leading (in 2019) | ||
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29 | Islampur | Uttar Dinajpur | Abdul Karim Chowdhury | TMC | TMC | ||
30 | Goalpokhar | Md. Ghulam Rabbani | TMC | TMC | |||
31 | Chakulia | Minhajul Arfin Azad | TMC | TMC | |||
32 | Karandighi | Goutam Pal | TMC | BJP | |||
33 | Hemtabad (SC) | Satyajit Burman | TMC | BJP | |||
34 | Kaliaganj (SC) | Soumen Roy | BJP | BJP | |||
35 | Raiganj | Krishna Kalyani | BJP | BJP |
Members of Parliament
Year | Name[3] | Party | |
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1962 | Chapala Kanta Bhattacharjee | Indian National Congress | |
1967 | |||
1971 | Siddharta Shankar Ray | ||
1972^ | Maya Ray | ||
1977 | Md. Hayat Ali | Janata Party | |
1980 | Golam Yazdani | Indian National Congress | |
1984 | |||
1989 | |||
1991 | Subrata Mukherjee | Communist Party of India | |
1996 | |||
1998 | |||
1999 | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | Indian National Congress | |
2004 | |||
2009 | Deepa Dasmunsi | ||
2014 | Mohammed Salim | Communist Party of India | |
2019 | Debasree Chaudhuri | Bharatiya Janata Party |
^ denotes by-elections
Election results
General election 2019
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Debasree Chaudhuri | 511,652 | 40.08 | +21.76 | |
AITC | Kanaia Lal Agarwal | 4,51,078 | 35.32 | +17.93 | |
CPI(M) | Mohammed Salim | 1,83,039 | 14.25 | -14.75 | |
INC | Deepa Dasmunshi | 83,662 | 6.55 | -21.95 | |
Majority | 60,574 | 4.74 | |||
Turnout | 12,78,076 | 79.82 | |||
BJP gain from CPI(M) | Swing | +18.26 |
General election 2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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CPI(M) | Mohammed Salim | 317,515 | 29.00 | -9.93 | |
INC | Deepa Dasmunshi | 3,15,881 | 28.50 | -21.79 | |
BJP | Nimu Bhowmik | 2,03,131 | 18.32 | +14.14 | |
AITC | Satya Ranjan Dasmunshi | 1,92,634 | 17.39 | +17.39 | |
SP | Sudip Ranjan Sen | 32,303 | 2.91 | ||
SUCI(C) | Dulal Rajbanshi | 8,592 | 0.78 | ||
BSP | Swapan Kumar Das | 5,629 | 0.51 | ||
Independent | Subrata Adhikary | 5,548 | 0.50 | ||
JDP | Bablu Soren | 5,544 | 0.50 | ||
AAP | Pasarul Alam | 3,614 | 0.33 | ||
AIUDF | Zameerul Hasan | 3,471 | 0.31 | ||
AMB | Nandakishor Singha | 3,338 | 0.30 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 10,929 | 0.99 | --- | |
Majority | 1,634 | 0.15 | -11.56 | ||
Turnout | 11,08,193 | 79.87 | |||
CPI(M) gain from INC | Swing | -20.82 |
General election 2009
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Deepa Dasmunsi | 451,776 | 50.29 | ||
CPI(M) | Bireswar Lahiri | 346,573 | 38.58 | ||
BJP | Gopesh Chandra Sarkar | 37,645 | 4.19 | ||
Independent | Abdul Karim Chowdhary | 18,427 | 2.05 | ||
Independent | Manas Jana | 10,426 | 1.16 | ||
BSP | Akhil Ranjan Mondal | 7,592 | 0.85 | ||
RDMP | Faiz Rahaman | 7,834 | 0.87 | ||
CPI(ML)L | Suleman Hafiji | 4,316 | 0.48 | ||
Independent | Upendra Nath Das | 4,157 | 0.46 | ||
Independent | Anil Biswas | 3,844 | 0.43 | ||
Independent | Nachhir Ali Pramanik | 3,212 | 0.36 |