Calcutta North East (Lok Sabha constituency)
Calcutta North East (Lok Sabha constituency) was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on North East area of Kolkata in West Bengal. As a consequence of the order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, this parliamentary constituency ceased to exist from 2009.[1]
Calcutta North East | |
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Former Lok Sabha Constituency | |
Constituency Details | |
Established | 1951 |
Abolished | 2009 |
Reservation | None |
State | West Bengal |
Assembly Constituencies | As of 2004: Entally Beliaghata Sealdah Vidyasagar Burtola Maniktola Belgachia West |
Assembly segments
Calcutta North East Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[2]
- Entally (assembly constituency no. 153)
- Beliaghata (assembly constituency no. 155)
- Sealdah (assembly constituency no. 156)
- Vidyasagar (assembly constituency no. 157)
- Burtola (assembly constituency no. 158)
- Maniktola (assembly constituency no. 159)
- Belgachia West (assembly constituency no. 160)
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | Refs | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1952 | Meghnad Saha | Communist Party of India (support) | [3][4] | ||
1956 | Mohit Mitra | Communist Party of India | [4] | ||
1957 | Hirendranath Mukherjee | [5] | Constituency merged with Calcutta Central | ||
1962 | [6] | Calcutta Central (Lok Sabha) constituency | |||
1967 | [7] | Reestablishment of Calcutta North East | |||
1971 | [8] | ||||
1977 | Pratap Chandra Chunder | Bharatiya Lok Dal | [9] | ||
1980 | Sunil Maitra | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | [10] | ||
1984 | Ajit Kumar Panja | Indian National Congress | [11] | ||
1989 | [12] | ||||
1991 | [13] | ||||
1996 | [14] | ||||
1998 | Ajit Kumar Panja | West Bengal Trinamool Congress | [15] | ||
1999 | All India Trinamool Congress | [16] | |||
2004 | Mohammed Salim | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | [17] | ||
Election results
General election 2004
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI (M) | Mohammed Salim | 284,427 | 49.90 | ||
AITC | Ajit Kumar Panja | 210,647 | 37.10 | ||
INC | Moushumi Mukherjee | 56,449 | 9.09 | ||
Independent | Ajit Kumar Panja | 4,792 | 3.05 | ||
Independent | Pintu Kundu | 4,180 | 7.09 | ||
Independent | Debojyoti Basu | 2,625 | 7.09 | ||
BSP | Chandra Prakash Dubey | 2,226 | 7.09 | ||
Independent | Mahua Roy | 1,311 | 7.09 | ||
Independent | Angshuman Paul | 1,308 | 7.09 | ||
Independent | Imtiaz Ahmed | 918 | 7.09 | ||
Margin of victory | 73,780 | (10.0%) | |||
Turnout | 5,68,885 | 81.24 | |||
CPI (M) gain from Trinamool Congress | Swing | ||||
Party | Seats won | Seat change | Vote percentage |
---|---|---|---|
Trinamool Congress | 1 | ![]() |
21.40 |
Indian National Congress | 6 | ![]() |
14.56 |
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 0 | ![]() |
NA |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 26 | ![]() |
38.57 |
Communist Party of India | 3 | ![]() |
4.01 |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 3 | ![]() |
4.48 |
All India Forward Bloc | 3 | ![]() |
3.66 |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 0 | ![]() |
8.06 |
General election 1999
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AITC | Ajit Kumar Panja | 297,491 | 45.17 | ||
CPI (M) | Mohammed Salim | 255,917 | 38.86 | ||
INC | Tapas Roy | 84,516 | 12.83 | ||
Independent | Sukhen Dolui | 5,282 | 0.80 | ||
BSP | Bali Karan Kori | 4,448 | 7.09 | 0.68 | |
Independent | Mohammed Salim | 3,893 | 0.59 | ||
SP | Md. Ghaus Ali | 3,267 | 0.50 | ||
Independent | Ashim Kumar Saha | 2,143 | 0.33 | ||
Independent | Samar Das | 1,674 | 0.25 | ||
Margin of victory | 41,574 | (6.3%) | |||
Turnout | 8,05,121 | 66.96 | |||
Trinamool Congress hold | Swing |
General election 1998
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Trinamool Congress | Ajit Kumar Panja | 310,361 | 47.10% | ||
CPI (M) | Prasanta Chatterjee | 245,489 | 37.26% | ||
INC | Sadhan Pandey | 94,024 | 14.27% | ||
Independent | Ajit Das | 1,986 | 0.30% | ||
Independent | Sharad Kumar Singh | 1,725 | 0.26% | 0.68 | |
Independent | Feroz Ahmed | 1,368 | 0.21% | ||
Independent | Swapan Sarkar | 1,278 | 0.19% | ||
Independent | Brij Bhusan Sharma | 925 | 0.14% | ||
Independent | Anjali Rakshit | 769 | 0.12% | ||
Independent | Tarapada Halder | 572 | 0.09% | ||
Independent | Md. Shahid Iqbal | 435 | 0.07% | ||
Margin of victory | 64,872 | (9.7%) | |||
Turnout | 6,58,932 | 73.45% | |||
Swing to Trinamool Congress from INC | Swing |
General election 1996
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Ajit Kumar Panja | 335,855 | 51.98% | ||
CPI (M) | Dipen Ghosh | 270,870 | 41.93% | ||
BJP | Subhas Maitra | 33,246 | 5.15% | ||
Independent | Tapan Kumar Sarkar | 2,094 | 0.32% | ||
Independent | Hari Narayan Ray | 998 | 0.15% | ||
AIIC(T) | Salil Kumar Tiwari | 616 | 0.10% | ||
Independent | Uday Pratap Singh | 611 | 0.09% | ||
Independent | Subhas Dhar | 541 | 0.08% | ||
Independent | Radheshyam Yadav | 429 | 0.07% | ||
Independent | Jayanta Bhowmick | 292 | 0.05% | ||
Independent | Mohanlal Agarwal | 278 | 0.04% | ||
Independent | Achintya Jana | 235 | 0.04% | ||
Margin of victory | 64,985 | (9.8%) | |||
Turnout | 6,46,065 | 72.79% | |||
INC hold | Swing |
General election 1991
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Ajit Kumar Panja | 276,399 | 49.52% | ||
JD | Pratap Chandra Chunder | 204,943 | 36.72% | ||
BJP | Dibakar Kundu | 55,064 | 9.87% | ||
JP | Hrishikesh Dubey | 7,360 | 1.32% | ||
Independent | Sukumar Biswas | 5,074 | 0.91% | ||
BJS | Anima Basu | 3,624 | 0.65% | ||
Independent | Anath Baran Bhowal | 1,792 | 0.32% | ||
Independent | Ajit Chowdhury | 1,050 | 0.19% | ||
Independent | Madhav Upadhyay | 653 | 0.12% | ||
Independent | Barun Goswami | 489 | 0.09% | ||
Independent | Gopichand Prasad | 487 | 0.09% | ||
SHS | Hijal Prakash Chatterjee | 455 | 0.08% | ||
Doordarshi Party | Chhedi Lal Jalan | 274 | 0.05% | ||
Independent | Tapan Kumar Sarkar | 269 | 0.05% | ||
Independent | Achintya Jana | 188 | 0.03% | ||
Margin of victory | 71,456 | (12.5%) | |||
Turnout | 5,58,121 | 66.82% | |||
INC hold | Swing |
General election 1989
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Ajit Kumar Panja | 305,237 | 51.59% | ||
CPI (M) | Satyasadhan Chakraborty | 277,608 | 46.92% | ||
BJP | Sibu Chakraborty | 2,572 | 0.43% | ||
JP | Pradip Guha Roy | 1,220 | 0.21% | ||
Independent | Sudhindra Chandra | 1,154 | 0.20% | ||
BJS | Sukumar Biswas | 1,076 | 0.18% | ||
Independent | Harizan Santal | 930 | 0.16% | ||
Independent | Ajit Ghosh | 909 | 0.15% | ||
Independent | Tapan Kumar Sarkar | 529 | 0.09% | ||
Independent | Achinta Jana | 421 | 0.07% | ||
Margin of victory | 27,629 | (4.6%) | |||
Turnout | 5,91,656 | 72.71% | |||
INC hold | Swing |
General election 1984
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Ajit Kumar Panja | 284,324 | 57.11% | ||
CPI (M) | Sunil Maitra | 195,748 | 39.32% | ||
JP | Nirmalendu Dey | 5,488 | 1.10% | ||
IUML | Mohammed Samsuddin | 3,591 | 0.72% | ||
Independent | Kanailal Choudhury | 2,085 | 0.42% | ||
BJS | Amalendu Roy | 1,623 | 0.33% | ||
Independent | Rajesh Gupta | 1,155 | 0.23% | ||
Independent | Rabindranath Dasgupta | 1,088 | 0.22% | ||
Independent | Kanailal Bose | 760 | 0.15% | ||
Independent | Nilima Nandy | 738 | 0.15% | ||
Independent | Dhirendranath Chatterjee | 690 | 0.14% | ||
Independent | Rabin Mukherjee | 586 | 0.12% | ||
Margin of victory | 88,576 | (17.4%) | |||
Turnout | 4,97,876 | 71.75% | |||
INC gain from CPI (M) | Swing | ||||
General election 1980
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI (M) | Sunil Maitra | 187,952 | 47.95% | ||
INC(I) | Ajit Kumar Panja | 160,882 | 41.05% | ||
JP | Pratap Chandra Chunder | 32,832 | 8.38% | ||
INC(U) | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | 5,142 | 1.31% | ||
Independent | Mubarak Mazdoor | 879 | 0.22% | ||
BJS | Ritendra Nath Ghosh | 856 | 0.22% | ||
Independent | Md. Nasim Ali Azad | 817 | 0.21% | ||
Independent | Sk. Noyimuddin | 745 | 0.19% | ||
Independent | Rameshwar Agarwal | 728 | 0.19% | ||
Independent | Panchanan Mondal | 615 | 0.16% | ||
Independent | Karuna Nidhan Roy | 518 | 0.13% | ||
Margin of victory | 27,069 | (6.8%) | |||
Turnout | 3,91,964 | 55.04% | |||
CPI (M) gain from BLD | Swing | ||||
General election 1977
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BLD | Pratap Chandra Chunder | 237,787 | 67.53% | ||
CPI | Hirendranath Mukherjee | 108,028 | 30.68% | ||
Independent | Rizawan Ahmed | 4,392 | 1.25% | ||
Independent | Arun Kumar De | 1,934 | 0.55% | ||
Margin of victory | 1,29,759 | ||||
Turnout | 3,52,141 | 56.29% | |||
BLD gain from CPI | Swing | ||||
General election 1971
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI | Hirendranath Mukherjee | 113,230 | 40.34 | ||
CPI (M) | Piyus Kanti Dasgupta | 110,939 | 39.53 | ||
INC (O) | Balai Chandra Paul | 56,490 | 20.13 | ||
Margin of victory | 2,309 | ||||
Turnout | 2,80,659 | 54.27% | |||
CPI hold | Swing |
General election 1967
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI | Hirendranath Mukherjee | 130,600 | 37.83 | ||
INC | Balai Chandra Pal | 116,457 | 33.73 | ||
CPI (M) | Amalendu Bhushan Chakraborty | 98,193 | 28.44 | ||
Margin of victory | 14,153 | ||||
Turnout | 3,45,250 | 64.53 | |||
CPI hold | Swing |
General election 1962
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI | Hirendranath Mukherjee | 154,772 | 58.22 | ||
INC | Balai Chandra Paul | 111,082 | 41.78 | ||
Margin of victory | 43,692 | ||||
Turnout | 2,65,854 | 66.84% | |||
CPI hold | Swing |
General election 1957
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI | Hirendranath Mukherjee | 135,308 | 65.04 | ||
INC | Nalinikrishna Sanyal | 68,403 | 32.88 | ||
Independent | Satish Chandra Roy | 4,227 | 2.08 | ||
Margin of victory | 76,905 | ||||
Turnout | 2,08,047 | 52.57 | |||
CPI hold | Swing |
General election 1952
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI | Hirendranath Mukherjee | 71,970 | 50.28% | ||
INC | Bejoy Bihari Mukherjee | 36,180 | 25.28% | ||
ABHM | Debendra Nath Mukherjee | 14,505 | 10.13% | ||
RSP | Tarapada Lahiri | 5,801 | 4.05% | ||
Independent | Pramatha Nath Banerjee | 4,809 | 3.36% | ||
Independent | Jiban Lal Chatterjee | 3,625 | 2.53% | ||
Independent | Paresh Chandra Chatterjee | 2,519 | 1.76% | ||
Independent | Kedar Nath Chatterjee | 2,403 | 1.68% | ||
Independent | Manmohan Bhattacharjee | 1,320 | 0.92% | ||
Margin of victory | 35,790 | ||||
Turnout | 1,43,132 | 38.12 | |||
CPI win (new seat) |
General elections 1977-2004
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 | Hirendra Nath Mukherjee | Communist Party of India | Bejoy Behari Mukherjee | Indian National Congress |
1957 | Hirendranath Mukherjee | Communist Party of India | Nalinakshya Sanyal | Indian National Congress |
1962 | Hirendra Nath Mukherjee | Communist Party of India | Balai Chandra Pal | Indian National Congress |
1967 | Hirendra Nath Mukherjee | Communist Party of India | Balai Chandra Pal | Indian National Congress |
1971 | Hirendra Nath Mukherjee | Communist Party of India | Piyus Kanti Dasgupta | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
1977 | Pratap Chandra Chunder | Bharatiya Lok Dal | Hirendranath Mukerjee | Communist Party of India |
1980 | Sunil Maitra | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Ajit Kumar Panja | Indian National Congress (I) |
1984 | Ajit Kumar Panja | Indian National Congress | Sunil Maitra | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
1989 | Ajit Kumar Panja | Indian National Congress | Satyasadhan Chakraborty | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
1991 | Ajit Kumar Panja | Indian National Congress | Pratap Chandra Chunder | Janata Dal |
1996 | Ajit Kumar Panja | Indian National Congress | Dipen Ghosh | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
1998 | Ajit Kumar Panja | Trinamool Congress | Prasanta Chatterjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
1999 | Ajit Kumar Panja | All India Trinamool Congress | Mohammad Salim | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
2004 | Mohammad Salim | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Ajit Kumar Panja | All India Trinamool Congress |
In 1957 and 1962 the constituency was Calcutta Central
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See also
- Kolkata
- List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha
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