Srerampur (Lok Sabha constituency)
Sreerampur (Lok Sabha constituency)[2] (previously known as Serampore-26 and changed to Srerampur-27 in the 2009 election) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Serampore in West Bengal. Five assembly segments of the constituency are in Hooghly district and two are in Howrah district.
Serampore | |
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Lok Sabha Constituency | |
Incumbent | Kalyan Banerjee |
Parliamentary Party | Trinamool Congress |
Elected Year | 2019 |
Constituency Details | |
Established | 1951-present |
Reservation | None |
State | West Bengal |
Total Electors | 1,624,038[1] |
Assembly Constituencies | Jagatballavpur Domjur Uttarpara Sreerampur Champdani Chanditala Jangipara |
Overview
Srerampur is basically an industrial constituency with an agricultural hinterland. The Howrah-Hooghly industrial belt on the west bank of the Hooghly river covers the Howrah, Hooghly and Srerampur constituency.
According to The Hindu, Serampore and Howrah constituencies have more than 25% non-Bengali voters with their roots in Rajasthan, Bihar or Uttar Pradesh.[3]
Assembly segments
As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 27 Sreerampur is composed of the following segments:[4]
- Jagatballavpur (assembly constituency no. 183)
- Domjur (assembly constituency no. 184)
- Uttarpara (assembly constituency no. 185)
- Sreerampur (assembly constituency no. 186)
- Champdani (assembly constituency no. 187)
- Chanditala (assembly constituency no. 194)
- Jangipara (assembly constituency no. 195)
Prior to delimitation Serampore Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[5]Jagatballavpur (assembly constituency no. 167), Panchla (assembly constituency no. 168), Jangipara (assembly constituency no. 177), Chanditala (assembly constituency no. 178), Uttarpara (assembly constituency no. 179), Sreerampur(assembly constituency no. 180), Champdani (assembly constituency no. 181)
Members of Parliament
Lok Sabha | Duration | Constituency | Name of M.P. | Party Affiliation |
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First | 1952-57 | Serampore | Tushar Kanti Chattopadhyay | Communist Party of India [6] |
Second | 1957-62 | Serampore | Jitendra Nath Lahiri | Indian National Congress[7] |
Third | 1962-67 | Serampore | Dinendra Nath Bhattacharya | Communist Party of India [8] |
Fourth | 1967-71 | Serampore | Bimal Kanti Ghosh | Indian National Congress[9] |
Fifth | 1971-77 | Serampore | Dinendra Nath Bhattacharya | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10] |
Sixth | 1977-80 | Serampore | Dinendra Nath Bhattacharya | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11] |
Seventh | 1980-84 | Serampore | Dinendra Nath Bhattacharya | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12] |
Eighth | 1984-89 | Serampore | Bimal Kanti Ghosh | Indian National Congress[13] |
Ninth | 1989-91 | Serampore | Sudarsan Roy Choudhury | Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14] |
Tenth | 1991-96 | Serampore | Sudarsan Roy Choudhury | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15] |
Eleventh | 1996-98 | Serampore | Pradip Bhattacharya | Indian National Congress[16] |
Twelfth | 1998-99 | Serampore | Akbar Ali Khandokar | All India Trinamool Congress[17] |
Thirteenth | 1999-04 | Serampore | Akbar Ali Khandokar | All India Trinamool Congress[18] |
Fourteenth | 2004-09 | Serampore | Santasri Chatterjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[19] |
Fifteenth | 2009-14 | Serampore | Kalyan Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress[20] |
Sixteenth | 2014-19 | Serampore | Kalyan Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress[21] |
Seventeenth | 2019-Incumbent | Serampore | Kalyan Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress |
General elections 1951-2019
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
Year | Winner | Runner-up | ||
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Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | |
1951 | Tushar Kanti Chattopadhyaya | Communist Party of India | Sachindra Chaudhuri | Indian National Congress[6] |
1957 | Jitendra Nath Lahiri | Indian National Congress | Tushar Kanti Chattopadhyaya | Communist Party of India[7] |
1962 | Dinendra Nath Bhattacharya | Communist Party of India | Jitendra Nath Lahiri | Indian National Congress[8] |
1967 | B.Ghosh | Indian National Congress | Dinendra Nath Bhattacharya | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9] |
1971 | Dinendra Nath Bhattacharya | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Jadu Gopal Sen | Communist Party of India[10] |
1977 | Dinendra Nath Bhattacharya | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Jadu Gopal Sen | Communist Party of India[11] |
1980 | Dinendra Nath Bhattacharya | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Gopal Das Nag | Indian National Congress (I)[12] |
1984 | Bimal Kanti Ghosh | Indian National Congress | Ajit Bag | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13] |
1989 | Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Bimal Kanti Ghosh | Indian National Congress[14] |
1991 | Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Bimal Kanti Ghosh | Indian National Congress[15] |
1996 | Pradip Bhattacharya | Indian National Congress | Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[16] |
1998 | Akbar Ali Khandoker | All India Trinamool Congress | Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[17] |
1999 | Akbar Ali Khandoker | All India Trinamool Congress | Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[18] |
2004 | Santasri Chatterjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Akbar Ali Khandoker | All India Trinamool Congress[19] |
2009 | Kalyan Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress | Santasri Chatterjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
2014 | Kalyan Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress | Tirthankar Roy | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
2019 | Kalyan Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress | Debjit Sarkar | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Election results
General election 1980
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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CPI (M) | Dinen Bhattacharya | 292,993 | 59.90 % | ||
INC(I) | Gopal Das Nag | 186,886 | 38.20 % | ||
Independent | Amar Chowdhury | 2,960 | 0.40% | ||
Independent | Partha Sarathi Ghosh | 3,076 | 0.60 % | ||
Independent | Dwarka Prasad Thirani | 2,254 | 0.40% | ||
Independent | Brajnandan Prasad | 1,876 | 0.40 % | ||
Independent | Biswasnath Mondol | 1,769 | 0.40 % | ||
Majority | 106,107 | 21.2% | |||
Turnout | 5,01,575 | 64.8% | |||
CPI (M) hold | Swing |
By-election 1981
A by-election was held in this constituency in 1981 which was necessitated by the Death of sitting MP Dinen Bhattacharya.In the by-election, Ajit Bag of CPIM defeated his nearest rival S.M Roy of Congress by 96,549 votes.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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CPI (M) | Ajit Bag | 265,372 | |||
INC(I) | S.M.Roy | 168,823 | |||
Independent | A.N.Chowdhury | 2,980 | |||
Independent | S.C.Mahato | 1,594 | |||
Majority | 96,549 | 7.25 | |||
Turnout | |||||
CPI (M) hold | Swing |
General election 1984
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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INC | Bimal Kanti Ghosh | 338,152 | 51.50 % | ||
CPI (M) | Ajit Bag | 307,921 | 46.90 % | ||
Independent | Amar Chowdhury | 2,960 | 0.40% | ||
Independent (politician) | Dwarka Thirani | 2,936 | 0.40 % | ||
Independent | Bisarjan Prasad Koiri | 2,689 | 0.40 % | ||
Independent | Prem Nath Thakur | 1,906 | 0.30 % | ||
Majority | 30,231 | 4.5% | |||
Turnout | 6,71,287 | 76.7% | |||
INC gain from CPI (M) | Swing | ||||
General election 1989
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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CPI (M) | Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury | 426,994 | 52.69 % | ||
INC | Bimal Kanti Ghosh | 360,536 | 44.80 % | ||
BJP | Dwarka Prasad Thirani | 11,530 | 1.40% | ||
Independent | Kairi Bisarjan | 2,967 | 0.40 % | ||
Independent | Amar Chowdhury | 1,928 | 0.20 % | ||
Doordarshi Party | Bharshi Sharma | 1,336 | 0.20 % | ||
Majority | 66,458 | 8.1% | |||
Turnout | 8,20,770 | 77.0% | |||
CPI (M) hold | Swing |
General election 1991
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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CPI (M) | Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury | 366,535 | 46.20 % | ||
INC | Bimal Kanti Ghosh | 322,038 | 40.60 % | ||
BJP | Dwarka Prasad Thirani | 91,289 | 11.50 % | ||
Independent | Prasantasankar Ghatak | 3,285 | 0.40 % | ||
Independent | Gautam Banerjee | 2,831 | 0.30 % | ||
BSP | Samir Kumar Mitra | 2,795 | 0.30 % | ||
Independent | Milan Mookherjee | 1,491 | 0.20 % | ||
Independent | Prem Nath Thakur | 1,149 | 0.10 % | ||
Independent | Deb Kumar Dutta | 1,024 | 0.10 % | ||
Independent | Indrajit Seal | 801 | 0.10 % | ||
Majority | 44,497 | 5.5% | |||
Turnout | 8,10,618 | 72.3% | |||
CPI (M) hold | Swing |
General election 1996
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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INC | Pradip Bhattacharya | 449,205 | 45.30 % | ||
CPI (M) | Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury | 443,747 | 44.80 % | ||
BJP | Debabrata Chowdhary | 60,122 | 6.10 % | ||
AIIC(T) | Swaraj Gopal Mukherjee | 9,600 | 1.00% | ||
BSP | Sharad Goutam | 2,673 | 0.30% | ||
Independent | Gopal Sarkar | 1,199 | 0.10 % | ||
Independent | Asit Kumar Mukhopadhyay | 807 | 0.10 % | ||
Majority | 5,463 | 0.6 % | |||
Turnout | 9,90,773 | 79.3% | |||
INC gain from CPI (M) | Swing | ||||
General election 1998
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Trinamool Congress | Akbar Ali Khandoker | 439,269 | 44.70 % | ||
CPI (M) | Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury | 394,658 | 40.10 % | ||
INC | Pradip Bhattacharya | 143,999 | 14.70 % | ||
Lok Shakti | Ashoke Roy | 4,064 | 0.40% | ||
Independent | Gopal Sarkar | 1,252 | 0.10 % | ||
Majority | 44,611 | 4.5% | |||
Turnout | 9,98,052 | 76.3% | |||
Trinamool Congress gain from INC | Swing | ||||
General election 1999
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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AITC | Akbar Ali Khandoker | 411,406 | 45.10 % | ||
CPI (M) | Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury | 376,652 | 39.90 % | ||
INC | Pradip Bhattacharya | 133,155 | 14.60 % | ||
Independent | Goutam Pyne | 1,609 | 0.20% | ||
Independent | Harun Rashid Mullick | 1,494 | 0.20 % | ||
Majority | 34,764 | 5.2% | |||
Turnout | 9,25,995 | 69.9% | |||
AITC hold | Swing |
General election 2004
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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CPI (M) | Santasri Chatterjee | 404,082 | 37.36 | ||
AITC | Akbar Ali Khandoker | 384,395 | 35.54 | ||
INC | Kesto Mukherjee | 125,020 | 11.56 | ||
Independent | Sukumar Malik | 9,808 | 0.90 | ||
BSP | Sabitri Das | 6,370 | 0.58 | ||
RPI(A) | Dilip Bhattacharya | 5,400 | 0.49 | ||
Independent | Avash Munshi | 3,664 | 0.33 | ||
Independent | Bidyut Raut | 3,021 | 0.27 | ||
SP | Indradeo Ray | 2,845 | 0.26 | ||
JD(S) | Suresh Nayek | 1,640 | 0.15 | ||
Majority | 19,687 | 1.84 | |||
Turnout | 10,81,402 | 77.49 | |||
CPI (M) gain from AITC | Swing | ||||
General election 2009
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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AITC | Kalyan Banerjee | 569,725 | 53.48 | +17.14 | |
CPI (M) | Santasri Chatterjee | 432,535 | 39.99 | +2.63 | |
BJP | Debabrata Chowdhury | 38,476 | 3.55 | N/A | |
Independent | Sekh Soleman | 14,252 | 1.31 | N/A | |
AIUDF | Pradip Ghosh | 11,803 | 1.09 | N/A | |
BSP | Rakesh Kumar Gautam | 7,245 | 0.66 | +0.08 | |
Independent | Amitava Bhattacharya | 3,758 | 0.34 | N/A | |
Independent | Chiranjit Naskar | 3,648 | 0.33 | N/A | |
Majority | 137,190 | 12.68 | |||
Turnout | 10,81,442 | 77.51 | |||
AITC gain from CPI (M) | Swing | ||||
General election 2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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AITC | Kalyan Banerjee | 514,933 | 39.90 | -12.78 | |
CPI (M) | Tirthankar Roy | 362,407 | 28.08 | -11.91 | |
BJP | Bappi Lahiri | 287,712 | 22.29 | +18.74 | |
INC | Abdul Mannan | 86,099 | 6.67 | N/A | |
Independent | Dr. Somnath Ghosh | 6,613 | 0.51 | N/A | |
Independent | Raju Dey Sarkar | 4,277 | 0.33 | N/A | |
Indian Unity Centre | Nasiruddin Mir | 4,240 | 0.32 | N/A | |
WPOI | Manasa Sen | 3,406 | 0.26 | N/A | |
SUCI(C) | Md. Shahnawaz | 2,698 | 0.20 | N/A | |
Independent | Kailash Naskar | 2,674 | 0.20 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,52,526 | 11.81 | -0.87 | ||
Turnout | 12,90,433 | 79.46 | +1.97 | ||
AITC hold | Swing | -12.78 |
Party | Seats won | Seat change | Vote percentage |
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Trinamool Congress | 34 | 39.3 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 2 | 22.7 | |
Communist Party of India | 0 | 2.3 | |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 0 | 2.4 | |
Forward Bloc | 0 | 2.1 | |
Indian National Congress | 4 | 9.6 | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 2 | 16.8 | |
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 0 | 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 2019
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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AITC | Kalyan Banerjee | 6,37,707 | 45.50 | -10.62 | |
BJP | Debjit Sarkar | 5,39,173 | 38.47 | +16.08 | |
CPI (M) | Tirthankar Roy | 1,52,281 | 10.8 | -17.22 | |
INC | Debabrata Biswas | 32,509 | 2.32 | -4.35 | |
Majority | 98,536 | ||||
Turnout | 14,02,259 | 78.54 | |||
AITC hold | Swing |
Party | Seats won | Seat change | Vote percentage | Vote change % |
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Trinamool Congress | 22 | 43.00 | ||
Bharatiya Janata Party | 18 | 40.00 | ||
Indian National Congress | 2 | 6.29 | ||
Left Front | 0 | 7.57 |
Source: Election Results 2019 Note: The vote share may change marginally once the final data is released by Election Commission.
See also
- List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha
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