Krishnanagar (Lok Sabha constituency)

Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency (formerly, Krishnagar Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 42 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in West Bengal state in eastern India. All the seven assembly segments of No. 12 Krishnanagar (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Nadia district.

Krishnanagar
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Mahua Moitra
Parliamentary Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1967-present
Reservation	None
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,476,783[1]
Assembly Constituencies	Tehatta Palashipara Kaliganj Nakshipara Chapra Krishnanagar Uttar Krishnanagar Dakshin

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

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 12 Krishnanagar comprises the following segments from 2009:[2]

• Tehatta (assembly constituency no. 78)
• Palashipara (assembly constituency no. 79)
• Kaliganj (assembly constituency no. 80)
• Nakshipara (assembly constituency no. 81)
• Chapra (assembly constituency no. 82)
• Krishnanagar Uttar (assembly constituency no. 83)
• Krishnanagar Dakshin (assembly constituency no. 85)

In 2004, Krishnagar Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[3]Palashipara (assembly constituency no. 70), Nakshipara (assembly constituency no. 71), Kaliganj (assembly constituency no. 72), Chapra (assembly constituency no. 73), Krishnaganj (SC) (assembly constituency no. 74), Krishnanagar East (assembly constituency no. 75), Krishnanagar West (assembly constituency no. 76)

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Constituency	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
Fourth	1967-71	Krishnanagar	Haripada Chattopadhyay	Independent[4]
Fifth	1971-77		Renu Pada Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
Sixth	1977-80		Renu Pada Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
Seventh	1980-84		Renu Pada Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
Eighth	1984-89		Renu Pada Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
Ninth	1989-91		Ajoy Mukhopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]
Tenth	1991-96		Ajoy Mukhopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
Eleventh	1996-98		Ajoy Mukhopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
Twelfth	1998-99		Ajoy Mukhopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
Thirteenth	1999-04		Satyabrata Mookherjee	Bharatiya Janata Party[13]
Fourteenth	2004-09		Jyotirmoyee Sikdar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
Fifteenth	2009-14		Tapas Paul	Trinamool Congress[15]
Sixteenth	2014-19		Tapas Paul	Trinamool Congress[16]
Sixteenth	2019-incumbent		Mahua Moitra	Trinamool Congress

Election results

17th Lok Sabha: 2019 General Elections

2019 Indian general elections: Krishnanagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Mahua Moitra	6,14,872	45.00	+10.14
	BJP	Kalyan Chaubey	5,51,654	40.37	+13.99
	CPI (M)	Dr. Santanu Jha	1,20,222	8.80	-20.63
	INC	Intaz Ali Shah	38,305	2.8	-3.19
Majority			63,218
Turnout			13,66,601	83.75	TBA
	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 elections 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Krishnanagar[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Tapas Paul	4,38,789	35.14	-7.29
	CPI (M)	Dr. Santanu Jha	3,67,534	29.43	-5.60
	BJP	Satyabrata Mookherjee	3,29,873	26.38	+9.62
	INC	Razia Ahmed	74,789	5.99
	CPI(ML)L	Subimal Sengupta	7,777
	SUCI(C)	Kamal Datta	7,214
	BSP	Harashit Biswas	6,168
	BMP	Molla Jafforolla	4,865
	IUML	Ahamed Hossain	3,749
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,642	0.61	---
Majority			71,255	5.71	-1.69
Turnout			1,247,914[1]	84.50
	AITC hold		Swing

 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: Krishnanagar[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Tapas Paul	443,679	42.43
	CPI (M)	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar	366,293	35.03
	BJP	Satyabrata Mookherjee	175,283	16.76
	AUDF	Md. Niamatullah Mollick	19,313
	CPI(ML)L	Subimal Sengupta	14,480
	BSP	Debabrata Majumder	10,733
	IUML	Shahjahan Mallik	6,592
	SP	Jayasri Chakrabarty	5,002
	NCP	Sk. Daulat Hossain	4,336
Turnout			1,045,711	85.50
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

General elections 1967-2004

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

Year	Voters	Voter Turnout	Winner			Runners up
		%age	Candidate	%age	Party	Candidate	%age	Party
1967	343,935	74.00	Haridas Chattopadhyay	47.52	Independent	C.P.Mukherjee	37.48	Congress[4]
1971	312,342	62.05	Renupada Das	36.96	CPI(M)	Ila Pal Chaudhuri	25.55	Congress[5]
1977	331,370	61.96	Renupada Das	61.86	CPI(M)	Shibsankar Bandopadhyay	33.43	Congress[6]
1980	515,990	79.71	Renupada Das	50.81	CPI(M)	Sankar Das Banerji	36.74	Congress[7]
1984	611,950	83.74	Renupada Das	49.25	CPI(M)	Sankar Das Banerji	48.45	Congress[8]
1989	761,990	82.69	Ajoy Mukherjee	46.31	CPI(M)	Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya	44.14	Congress[9]
1991	764,560	82.34	Ajoy Mukherjee	43.33	CPI(M)	Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya	35.37	Congress[10]
1996	911,620	85.2	Ajoy Mukherjee	45.94	CPI(M)	Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya	41.56	Congress[11]
1998	897,930	84.07	Ajoy Mukherjee	42.03	CPI(M)	Satyabrata Mookherjee	37.44	BJP[12]
1999	845,490	77.96	Satyabrata Mookherjee	43.82	BJP	Dilip Chakraborty	41.16	CPI(M)[13]
2004	930,290	83.25	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar	42.73	CPI(M)	Satyabrata Mookherjee	40.54	BJP[14]

References

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16. "General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 21 June 2016.

See also

• Krishnagar
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha