Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency)

Bardhaman Purba
Bardhaman Purba
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Sunil Kumar Mandal
Parliamentary Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	2009-present
Reservation	SC
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,532,244
Assembly Constituencies	Raina; Jamalpur; Kalna ; Memari; Purbasthali Dakshin; Purbasthali Uttar; Katwa

Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency is based on Purba Bardhaman district in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Purba Bardhaman district. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born in village Subaldaha. The birthplace of great Rash Behari Bose is in this Lok sabha constituency.

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Burdwan (Lok Sabha constituency), Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency) and Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency) ceased to exist from 2009 and new constituencies came into being: Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency) and Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2]

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

Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency) (parliamentary constituency no. 38) is composed of the following assembly segments:^[2]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District
261	Raina	SC	Purba Bardhaman
262	Jamalpur	SC	Purba Bardhaman
264	Kalna	SC	Purba Bardhaman
265	Memari	None	Purba Bardhaman
268	Purbasthali Dakshin	None	Purba Bardhaman
269	Purbasthali Uttar	None	Purba Bardhaman
270	Katwa	None	Purba Bardhaman

Members of Parliament[]

Lok Sabha	Duration	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
Fifteenth	2009-14	Anup Kumar Saha	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[3]
Sixteenth	2014-2019	Sunil Kumar Mandal	All India Trinamool Congress^[4]
Seventeenth	2019-incumbent	Sunil Kumar Mandal	All India Trinamool Congress

For Members of Parliament from this area in previous years see Burdwan (Lok Sabha constituency) and Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency)

Election results[]

General election 2019[]

2019 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sunil Kumar Mandal	6,40,834	44.52	+1.02
	BJP	Paresh Chandra Das	5,51,523	38.32	+25.39
	CPI(M)	Ishwar Chandra Das	1,75,920	12.22	-22.61
	INC	Sidhartha Majumdar	38,472	2.67	-3.54
	None of the Above	None of the above	10,747	0.75	N/A
Majority			89,311	8.66	+3.38
Turnout			14,39,603	84.78
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2014[]

2014 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sunil Kumar Mandal	5,74,660	43.50	+1.48
	CPI(M)	Ishwar Chandra Das	4,60,181	34.83	-12.48
	BJP	Santosh Roy	1,70,828	12.93	+6.56
	INC	Chandana Majhi	68,884	5.21	N/A
	JMM	Swapan Malik	9,666	0.73	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Kalicharan Sardar	7,981	0.60	N/A
	CPI(ML)L	Pejush Kumar Sahana	5,919	0.44	-0.30
	BSP	Mukul Biswas	5,442	0.41	-0.39
	JDP	Prosanta Bag	3,410	0.25
Majority			1,14,479	8.66	+3.38
Turnout			13,20,922	86.21	-1.00
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	-4.76

General election 2009[]

2009 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Dr Anup Kumar Saha	5,31,987	47.31
	AITC	Ashoke Biswas	4,72,568	42.02
	BJP	Sankar Haldar	71,632	6.37
	AUDF	Rabindranath Bag	17,716	1.57
	JDP	Raju Malik	12,982	1.15
	BSP	Mukul Biswas	9,069	0.80
	CPI(ML)L	Pijush Kumar Sahana	8,419	0.74
Majority			59,419	5.28
Turnout			11,24,373	87.21
	CPI(M) win (new seat)

References[]

^ "Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Result" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
^ ^a ^b "General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
^ "General Elections 2019 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results". West Bengal. Election commission of India. Archived from the original on 22 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.

[turnout-1] "Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.

[delimitation-2] "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.

[loksabha2009-3] "General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Result" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 June 2014.

[loksabha2014-4] "General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 June 2016.

[loksabha2019-5] "General Elections 2019 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results". West Bengal. Election commission of India. Archived from the original on 22 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.

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