Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency)

Raiganj
Raiganj
	Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Debasree Chaudhuri
Parliamentary Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1962-present
Reservation	None
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,387,526[1]
Assembly Constituencies	Islampur; Goalpokhar; Chakulia; Karandighi; Hemtabad (SC); Kaliaganj (SC); Raiganj

Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Raiganj in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 5 Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Uttar Dinajpur district.

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 constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 5 Raiganj is composed of the following segments from 2009:[2]

Islampur (assembly constituency no. 29)
Goalpokhar (assembly constituency no. 30)
Chakulia (assembly constituency no. 31)
Karandighi (assembly constituency no. 32)
Hemtabad (SC) (assembly constituency no. 33)
Kaliaganj (SC) (assembly constituency no. 34)
Raiganj (assembly constituency no. 35)

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
Third	1962-67	Chapala Kanta Bhattacharjee	Indian National Congress [3]
Fourth	1967-71	Chapala Kanta Bhattacharjee	Indian National Congress [4]
Fifth	1971-72	Siddharta Shankar Ray	Indian National Congress[5]
Bye Election, 1972	1972-77	Maya Ray	Indian National Congress[6]
Sixth	1977-80	Md. Hayat Ali	Bharatiya Lok Dal[7]
Seventh	1980-84	Golam Yazdani	Indian National Congress[8]
Eighth	1984-89	Golam Yazdani	Indian National Congress [9]
Ninth	1989-91	Golam Yazdani	Indian National Congress [10]
Tenth	1991-96	Subrata Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
Eleventh	1996-98	Subrata Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
Twelfth	1998-99	Subrata Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
Thirteenth	1999-04	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	Indian National Congress[14]
Fourteenth	2004-09	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	Indian National Congress [15]
Fifteenth	2009-14	Deepa Dasmunsi	Indian National Congress[16]
Sixteenth	2014-19	Mohammed Salim	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[17]
17th Lok Sabha	2019-Incumbent	Debasree Chaudhuri	Bharatiya Janata Party[18]

Election results

General election 2019

2019 Indian general election: Raiganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Debasree Chaudhuri	5,11,652	40.06	+21.76
	AITC	Kanaia Lal Agarwal	4,51,078	35.32	-7.93
	CPI (M)	Mohammed Salim	1,83,039	14.25	-14.75
	INC	Deepa Dasmunshi	83,662	6.55	-21.95
Majority			60,574	4.74
Turnout			12,78,076	79.82
	BJP gain from CPI (M)		Swing	+18.26

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

General Elections, 2014: Raiganj[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	CPI (M)	Mohammed Salim	3,17,515	29.00	-9.93
	INC	Deepa Dasmunshi	3,15,881	28.50	-21.79
	BJP	Nimu Bhowmik	2,03,131	18.32	+14.14
	AITC	Satya Ranjan Dasmunshi	1,92,634	17.39	+17.39
	SP	Sudip Ranjan Sen	32,303	2.91
	SUCI(C)	Dulal Rajbanshi	8,592	0.78
	BSP	Swapan Kumar Das	5,629	0.51
	Independent	Subrata Adhikary	5,548	0.50
	JDP	Bablu Soren	5,544	0.50
	AAP	Pasarul Alam	3,614	0.33
	AIUDF	Zameerul Hasan	3,471	0.31
	Amra Bangalee	Nandakishor Singha	3,338	0.30
	NOTA	None of the above	10,929	0.99	---
Majority			1,634	0.15	-11.56
Turnout			11,08,193	79.87
	CPI (M) gain from INC		Swing	-20.82

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: Raiganj[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Deepa Dasmunsi	451,776	50.29
	CPI (M)	Bireswar Lahiri	346,573	38.58
	BJP	Gopesh Chandra Sarkar	37,645	4.19
	Independent	Abdul Karim Chowdhary	18,427	2.05
	Independent	Manas Jana	10,426	1.16
	BSP	Akhil Ranjan Mondal	7,592	0.85
	RDMP	Faiz Rahaman	7,834	0.87
	CPI(ML)L	Suleman Hafiji	4,316	0.48
	Independent	Upendra Nath Das	4,157	0.46
	Independent	Anil Biswas	3,844	0.43
	Independent	Nachhir Ali Pramanik	3,212	0.36
	JD(U)	Matiur Rahman	2,597	0.29
Turnout			898,399	81.05
	INC hold		Swing

Abdul Karim Chowdhary,contesting as an Independent candidate,was a rebel Trinamool Congress Leader.

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Raiganj[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	421,904	46.20
	CPI (M)	Minati Ghosh	382,757	41.90
	AITC	Dr. Zainal Abedin	57,931	6.30
	BSP	Anil Biswas	11,205	1.20
	CPI(ML) (Liberation)	Ajit Das	11,154	1.20
	Independent	Subrata Adhikary	9,914	1.10
	Independent	Sukamal Biswas	9,624	1.10
	NCP	Achintya Tarafdar	7,037	0.80
	Independent	Ashis Saha	6,056	0.70
Turnout			9,13,637	79.6
	INC hold		Swing

By-election 1972

A by-election was held in this constituency in 1972 which was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MP Siddhartha Shankar Ray and his subsequent election to the State Assembly from the Chowranghee (Vidhan Sabha constituency). In the by-election, Maya Ray of Congress defeated his nearest rival S.K.NIyogi of United Front Supported Independent Candidate by 143,624 votes,thus breaking the record of Siddhartha Shankar Ray who had won the seat in 2009 by 64,007 votes.

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Indian Parliamentary bye election, 1972: Raiganj constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes
	INC	Maya Ray	149,375
	Independent	S.K.Niyogi	5,751
	Independent	Md. Salimuddin	4,979
Majority			143,624
Turnout			1,60,105
	INC hold		Swing

General election 1971

General Election, 1971: Raiganj[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	147,360	47.30
	CPI (M)	Subodh Sen	83,353	41.90
	Forward Bloc	Nirmal Kumar Basu	34,956	11.20
	NC(O)	Muzaffar Hussain	18,962	6.10
	PSP	Md. Salimuddin	12,786	4.10
Turnout			9,13,637	79.6
Majority			64,007	(20.5%)
	INC hold		Swing

General elections (1962-2019)

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

Year	Voter Turnout		Winner			Runners up
Year	Voters	%age	Candidate	%age	Party	Candidate	%age	Party
1962	200,085	43.89	Chapala Kanta Bhattacharjee	42.51	Indian National Congress	Asoke Nath Sen	27.23	Communist Party of India[3]
1967	276,115	56.67	Chapala Kanta Bhattacharjee	26.96	Indian National Congress	N.K.Bose	26.58	Forward Bloc[4]
1972	311,567	54.83	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	49.55	Indian National Congress	Subodh Sen	28.03	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1977	347,200	61.60	Md. Hayat Ali	56.08	Bharatiya Lok Dal	Abedin Anowarul	36.13	Indian National Congress
1980	482,480	69.61	Golam Yazdani	41.86	Indian National Congress	Abdul Hafiz	41.58	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1984	574,540	76.87	Golam Yazdani	48.39	Indian National Congress	Subrata Mukherjee	44.79	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1989	763,800	75.05	Golam Yazdani	NA	Indian National Congress	Subrata Mukherjee	45.25	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991	763,110	75.05	Subrata Mukherjee	41.85	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Golam Yazdani	37.80	Indian National Congress
1996	901,720	81.15	Subrata Mukherjee	43.79	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Golam Yazdani	42.54	Indian National Congress
1998	898,300	79.76	Subrata Mukherjee	39.76	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	39.05	Indian National Congress
1999	885.41	77.35	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	46.74	Indian National Congress	Subrata Mukherjee	38.15	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2004	917,760	79.99	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	45.98	Indian National Congress	Minati Ghosh	41.71	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2009	898,399	81.05	Deepa Dasmunsi	50.29	Indian National Congress	Bireswar Lahiri	38.58	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2014	1,108,193	79.77	Mohammad Salim	29.00	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Deepa Dasmunsi	28.50	Indian National Congress
2019	1,273,684	79.61

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