Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency)

Bardhaman Purba
Bardhaman Purba
	Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Sunil Kumar Mandal
Parliamentary Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected Year	2014
Constituency Details
Established	2009-present
Reservation	Reserved for SC
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,532,244[1]
Assembly Constituencies	Raina (SC); Jamalpur (SC); Kalna (SC); 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.

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]

Raina (SC) (assembly constituency no. 261)
Jamalpur (SC) (assembly constituency no. 262)
Kalna (SC) (assembly constituency no. 264)
Memari (assembly constituency no. 265)
Purbasthali Dakshin (assembly constituency no. 268)
Purbasthali Uttar (assembly constituency no. 269)
Katwa (assembly constituency no. 270)

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
	NOTA	NOTA	10,747	0.75	N/A
Majority			89,819	8.66	+3.38
Turnout			14,39,603	84.78
	AITC hold		Swing

2019 Indian general election
West Bengal summary
Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage	Vote change %
Trinamool Congress	22	12	43.00	4
Bharatiya Janata Party	18	16	40.00	23
Indian National Congress	2	2	6.29	4
Left Front	0	2	7.57	24

Source: Election Results 2019 Note: The vote share may change marginally once the final data is released by Election Commission.

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Sunil Kumar Mandal	574,660	43.50	+1.48
	CPI (M)	Ishwar Chandra Das	460,181	34.83	-12.48
	BJP	Santosh Roy	170,828	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

2014 Indian general election
West Bengal summary
Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage
Trinamool Congress	34	15	39.3
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2	7	22.7
Communist Party of India	0	2	2.3
Revolutionary Socialist Party	0	2	2.4
Forward Bloc	0	2	2.1
Indian National Congress	4	2	9.6
Bharatiya Janata Party	2	1	16.8
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	0	1	0.7

Source: General Election to the Lok Sabha 2014 - State wise seats won & valid votes polled by political parties
General Elections 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha - Party wise seats won and votes polled

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Bardhaman Purba[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI (M)	Dr Anup Kumar Saha	531,987	47.31
	AITC	Ashoke Biswas	472,568	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)

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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.
"Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
"General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Result" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
"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.