Tamluk (Lok Sabha constituency)

Tamluk (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Tamluk in West Bengal. All the seven segments of No. 30 Tamluk (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Purba Medinipur district.

Tamluk
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Dibyendu Adhikari
Parliamentary Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1951-present
Reservation	None
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,527,273[1]
Assembly Constituencies	Tamluk Panskura Purba Moyna Nandakumar Mahisadal Haldia (SC) Nandigram

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 issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 30 Tamluk is composed of the following segments:[2]

• Tamluk (assembly constituency no. 203)
• Panskura Purba (assembly constituency no. 204)
• Moyna (assembly constituency no. 206)
• Nandakumar (assembly constituency no. 207)
• Mahisadal (assembly constituency no. 208)
• Haldia (SC) (assembly constituency no. 209)
• Nandigram (assembly constituency no. 210)

Prior to delimitation Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[3] Panskura East (assembly constituency no. 201), Tamluk (assembly constituency no. 202), Moyna (assembly constituency no. 203), Mahisadal (assembly constituency no. 204), Sutahata (SC) (assembly constituency no. 205), Nandigram (assembly constituency no. 206) and Narghat (assembly constituency no. 207).

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Constituency	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
First	1952-57	Tamluk	Satish Chandra Samanta	Indian National Congress [4]
Second	1957-62		Satish Chandra Samanta	Indian National Congress[5]
Third	1962-67		Satish Chandra Samanta	Indian National Congress [6]
Fourth	1967-71		Satish Chandra Samanta	Bangla Congress[7]
Fifth	1971-77		Satish Chandra Samanta	Bangla Congress[8]
Sixth	1977-80		Sushil Kumar Dhara	Bharatiya Lok Dal[9]
Seventh	1980-84		Satyagopal Mishra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
Eighth	1984-89		Satyagopal Mishra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
Ninth	1989-91		Satyagopal Mishra	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
Tenth	1991-96		Satyagopal Mishra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
Eleventh	1996-98		Jayanta Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress[14]
Twelfth	1998-99		Lakshman Chandra Seth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
Thirteenth	1999-04		Lakhsman Chandra Seth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[16]
Fourteenth	2004-09		Lakhsman Chandra Seth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[17]
Fifteenth	2009-14		Suvendu Adhikari	All India Trinamool Congress[18]
Sixteenth	2014-16		Suvendu Adhikari	All India Trinamool Congress[19]
By Poll	2016-2019		Dibyendu Adhikari	All India Trinamool Congress
Seventeenth	2019-Incumbent		Dibyendu Adhikari	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Tamluk

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Dibyendu Adhikari	7,24,433	50.08	-3.52
	BJP	Siddharth Naskar	5,34,268	36.94	+30.54
	CPI (M)	Sk. Ibrahim Ali	1,36,129	9.41	-25.79
	INC	Lakshman Chandra Seth	16,001	1.11	-1.09
Majority			1,90,165
Turnout			14,46,940	85.38
	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.

2016 by-election

By-election 2016 : Tamluk

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Dibyendu Adhikari	7,79,594	59.76	+6.16
	CPI (M)	Mandira Panda	2,82,066	21.62	-13.58
	BJP	Prof. Ambujaksha Mahanti	1,96,450	15.06	+8.66
	INC	Batabyal Partha	19,851	1.52	-0.68
	SUCI(C)	Dilip Maiti	10,179	0.78	-0.02
	Independent	Dhananjoy Dalai	3,859	0.30	N/A
	PDS	Subhrajit Bhaduri	2,718	0.21	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	9,801	0.75	-0.12
Majority			497,528	38.14	+19.74
Turnout			13,04,518	82.04	-5.56
Registered electors			1,590,004
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Tamluk [19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Suvendu Adhikari	7,16,928	53.60	-1.44
	CPI (M)	Sk. Ibrahim Ali	4,70,447	35.20	-5.30
	BJP	Badsha Alam	86,265	6.40	+4.61
	INC	Sk. Anwar Ali	29,645	2.20
	SUCI(C)	Vivekananda Roy	10,197	0.80
	Independent	Rajyasree Chaudhuri	3,609	0.30
	BSP	Kamal Bag	3,110	0.20
	Independent	Kalisankar Jana	2,658	0.20
	Independent	Abdur Rezak Sk	1,682	0.10
	IUML	Manick Chandra Mondal	1,500	0.10
	NOTA	None of the above	11,643	0.87
Majority			246,481	18.40
Turnout			13,37,684	87.60
	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

2009 Indian general elections: Tamluk[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AITC	Suvendu Adhikari	6,37,664	55.54	+11.94
	CPI (M)	Lakshman Chandra Seth	4,64,706	40.50	- 8.90
	BJP	Rajyashree Chaudhuri	20,573	1.79
	AUDF	Jahed Sek	8,486
	BSP	Manoranjan Mandal	5,891
	Independent	Sheikh Nurul Islam	5,401
	LJP	Manik Chandra Mondal	2,044
	Independent	Bhakti Adhikary	1,985
	Independent	Abdur Rejak Seikh	1,456
Majority			172,958	15.90
Turnout			11,48,206	90.32
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Tamluk[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	CPI (M)	Lakshman Chandra Seth	507,228	49.20	-0,84
	AITC	Suvendu Adhikari	449,848	43.60	+0.10
	INC	Sudarsan Panja	34,794	3.40
	BSP	Ajit Das	14,087	1.40
	NCP	Manab Bera	13,339	1.30
	Independent	Hossain Mahmud Sheikh	6,239	0.60
	SP	Trilochan Kuila	6,082	0.60
	Independent	Bhakti Adhikary	3,652	0.40
Majority			57,380	5.60
Turnout			10,30,848	86.9
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

General election 1999

General Election, 1999: Tamluk[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	CPI (M)	Lakshman Chandra Seth	455,168	50.04
	AITC	Nirmalendu Bhattacharjee	400,342	43.50
	INC	Manik Bhowmik	44,622	4.90
	NCP	Srikesh Pramanik	7,623	0.80
	RJD	Buddhadeb Jana	1,105	0.10
	Independent	Bhakti Adhikari	822	0.10
Majority			54,826	6.00
Turnout			9,19,886	83.8%
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

General election 1998

General Election, 1998: Tamluk[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	CPI (M)	Lakshman Chandra Seth	477,516	51.10%
	Trinamool Congress	Nirmalendu Bhattacharjee	389,564	41.30%
	INC	Jayanta Bhattacharya	56,538	6.00%
	Independent	Ashutosh Samanta	7,542	0.80%
	Independent	Ananata Kumar Paul	837	0.10%
Majority			87,952	9.30%
Turnout			9,42,965	86.6%
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

General election 1996

General Election, 1996: Tamluk[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	Jayanta Bhattacharya	450,473	48.67%
	CPI (M)	Lakshman Chandra Seth	442,563	47.82%
	BJP	Saswati Bag	19,475	2.10%
	Independent	Ashutosh Samanta	10,330	1.12%
	Independent	Ananta Kumar Das	1,029	0.11%
	Independent	Muktinath Bag	976	0.11%
	Independent	Shishir Kumar Panda	669	0.07%
Majority			7,910	3.31%
Turnout			9,25,515	89.80%
	INC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

General elections 1951-2004

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	Satish Chandra Samanta	Indian National Congress	Tripati Hrishikesh	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party[4][20]
1957	Satish Chandra Samanta	Indian National Congress	Gobinda Chandra. Bhowmick	All India Forward Bloc[5]
1962	Satish Chandra Samanta	Indian National Congress	Govinda Chandra. Bhowmick	All India Forward Bloc[6]
1967	Satish Chandra Samanta	Bangla Congress	G. Bhowmick	Indian National Congress[7]
1971	Satish Chandra Samanta	Bangla Congress	Aruna Asaf Ali	Communist Party of India[8]
1977	Sushil Kumar Dhara	Bharatiya Lok Dal	Satish Chandra Samanta	Indian National Congress[9]
1980	Satyagopal Mishra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Shyam Das Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress[10]
1984	Satyagopal Mishra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Saradindu Samanta	Indian National Congress[11]
1989	Satyagopal Mishra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Jayanta Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress[12]
1991	Satyagopal Mishra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Jayanta Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress[13]
1996	Jayanta Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress	Lakshman Chandra Seth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
1998	Lakshman Chandra Seth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nirmalendu Bhattacharjee	All India Trinamool Congress[15]
1999	Lakshman Chandra Seth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nirmalendu Bhattacharjee	All India Trinamool Congress[16]
2004	Lakshman Chandra Seth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Suvendu Adhikari	All India Trinamool Congress[17]

References

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20. "Election results for Tamluk". Retrieved 22 August 2009.

See also

• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha