Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency)

Bangaon
Bangaon
Lok Sabha Constituency
	Interactive Map Outlining Bangaon Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Shantanu Thakur
Parliamentary Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	2009-present
Reservation	SC
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,540,713
Most Successful Party	AITC (3 TIMES)
Assembly Constituencies	Kalyani; Haringhata; Bagda; Bangaon Uttar; Bangaon Dakshin; Gaighata; Swarupnagar

Bangaon Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency is in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal and is centered on Bangaon. 5 of the 7 assembly segments of No.14 Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency) are in North 24 Parganas district and the Kalyani and Haringhata assemblies are of Nadia District (formerly Nabadwip loksabha constituency). As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency) came into being in 2009.^[2]

History[]

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

In 2009 Bangaon Lok Sabha constituency was formed. Until then Bagdah, Bongaon Uttar, Bongaon Dakshin, Gaighata all these assembly constituencies were the part of Barasat Lok Sabha constituency. Gobinda Chandra Naskar was the first elected MP of this constituency.^[3] He was also a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly in four different terms.

Vidhan Sabha segments[]

Bangaon (SC) (Lok Sabha constituency) (parliamentary constituency no. 14) is composed of the following assembly segments

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Party	MLA
92	Kalyani	SC	Nadia	BJP	Ambika Roy
93	Haringhata	SC	Nadia	BJP	Asim Kumar Sarkar
94	Bagda	SC	North 24 Parganas	BJP	Biswajit Das
95	Bangaon Uttar	SC	North 24 Parganas	BJP	Ashok Kirtania
96	Bangaon Dakshin	SC	North 24 Parganas	BJP	Swapan Majumder
97	Gaighata	SC	North 24 Parganas	BJP	Subrata Thakur
98	Swarupnagar	SC	North 24 Parganas	AITC	Bina Mondal

Members of Lok Sabha[]

Election	Member		Refs
until 2008	Constituency did not exist.
2009	Gobinda Chandra Naskar	All India Trinamool Congress	^[4]
2014	Kapil Krishna Thakur (Died in 2014)		^[5]
2015 by-election	Mamata Thakur		^[6]
2019	Shantanu Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results[]

General election 2019[]

In 2019 Election BJP won for the first time in this constituency since its delimitation.^[7]

2019 Indian general election: Bangaon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shantanu Thakur	6,87,622	48.85	+24.68
	AITC	Mamata Thakur	5,76,028	40.92	-2.35
	CPI(M)	Alakesh Das	90,122	6.40	-19.9
	INC	Sourav Prasad	22,618	1.61	-0.72
	Independent	Animesh Chandra Halder	9,522	0.68
	BSP	Chandan Mallick	4,707	0.33
	SUCI(C)	Swapan Mondal	4,544	0.32
	PDS	Samaresh Biswas	1,913	0.14
	Independent	Swapan Kumar Roy	1,859	0.13
	BMP	Subrata Biswas	1,291	0.09
	NOTA	None of the above	7,512	0.53
Majority			1,11,594	11.42
Turnout			14,08,653	82.64
Registered electors			17,04,632
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

Bye-poll 2015[]

The bye election occurred on 13 February 2015 due to the death of sitting MP Kapil Krishna Thakur on 13 October 2014. Mamata Thakur of Trinamool Congress defeated Debesh Das of CPIM.^[6]

Bye election, 2015: Bangaon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mamata Thakur	5,39,999	43.27	+0.33
	CPI(M)	Debesh Das	3,28,214	26.30	-5.22
	BJP	Subrata Thakur	314,214	24.17	+5.10
	INC	Kuntal Mandal	29,149	2.33	-1.09
Majority			2,11,785	22.9
Turnout			12,48,359	79.75
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2014[]

2014 Indian general elections: Bangaon^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Kapil Krishna Thakur	551,213	42.94	-7.75
	CPI(M)	Debesh Das	404,612	31.52	-10.56
	BJP	K.D. Biswas	244,783	19.07	+15.12
	INC	Ila Mondal	43,866	3.42	+3.42
	BSP	Chandan Mullick	9,207
	Independent	Pranita Mandal	8,738
	SUCI(C)	Swapan Mondal	3,589
	AMB	Tarapada Biswas	2,848
	PDS	Shyam Prasad Mondal	2,624
	Rashtriya Ahinsa Manch	Sarat Chandra Mandal	1,172
	The Religion of Man Revolving Political Party of India	Pinaki Ranjan Bharati	1,071
	None of the Above	None of the Above	9,965	0.78	---
Majority			1,46,601	11.42	-2.81
Turnout			12,83,688	83.32
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2009[]

General Election, 2009: Bangaon^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Gobinda Chandra Naskar	546,596	50.69
	CPI(M)	Dr. Asim Bala	453,770	42.08
	BJP	Krishnapada Majumder	42,610	3.95
	BSP	Pranita Roy	17,178	1.59
	LJP	Probir Kumar Sarkar	4,557	0.42
	RPI(A)	Sukriti Ranjan Biswas	5974	0.55
	Independent	Nishikanta Biswas	7,550	0.70
Majority			92,826
Turnout			1,078,235	86.47
	AITC win (new seat)

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