Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Baharampur (Lok Sabha constituency) (earlier known as Berhampore) (Bengali: বহরমপুর লোকসভা কেন্দ্র) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Baharampur in West Bengal.

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Assembly segments

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 10 Baharampur is composed of the following assembly segments from 2009:[1]

In 2004 Berhampore Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[2]

Election results

General Election, 2009: Baharampur[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Congress Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 541,920
RSP Pramothes Mukherjee 354,943
BJP Bidyut Kumar Halder 27,619
Independent Baidya Nath Mondal 9,195
BSP Kushadhwaj Bala 8,587
RPI(A) Ghosh Babu Saw 3,823
Samajwadi Party Ashoke Kumar Singha 3,076
RDMP Rabindra Nath Roy 3,050
Turnout 950,618
Congress hold Swing

Results prior to 2009

Results of elections held prior to 2009 are summarised below:

1951-1971

The winners are shown below. [4]

Year Winner Party
1951 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP
1957 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP
1962 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP
1967 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP
1971 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP

1977-2004

Year Winner Runner-up
Candidate Party Candidate Party
1977[5] Tridib Chaudhuri RSP Sudip Bandyopadhyay Congress
1980 Tridib Chaudhuri RSP Jagadish Sinha Congress
1984 Atish Chandra Sinha Congress Tridib Chaudhuri RSP
1989 Nani Bhattacharya RSP Sankar Das Paul Congress
1991 Nani Bhattacharya RSP Kumar Dipti Sengupta Congress
1996 Promothes Mukherjee RSP Siddhartha Shankar Ray Congress
1998 Promothes Mukherjee RSP Sabyasachi Bagchi BJP
1999 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Congress Pramothes Mukherjee RSP
2004 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Congress Pramothes Mukherjee RSP

References

  1. ^ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18". Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf. Retrieved 2009-05-27. 
  2. ^ "Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha". Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies. Election Commission of India. http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/LS_2004/Vol_III_LS_2004.pdf. Retrieved 2010-10-01. 
  3. ^ "General Elections, 2009 (15th Lok Sabha) Constituency Wise Detailed Results". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/archiveofge2009/Stats/VOLI/25_ConstituencyWiseDetailedResult.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-25. 
  4. ^ "Statistical Reports of Elections". General Election Results and Statistics. Election Commission of India. http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/electionstatistics.asp. Retrieved 2010-11-15. 
  5. ^ "10 - BERHAMPORE Parliamentary Constituency". Partywise Comparison since 1977. Election Commission of India. http://www.eci.nic.in/eci_main/electionanalysis/GE/PartyCompWinner/S25/partycomp10.htm. Retrieved 2010-10-01. 

See also

Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal
Before Delimitation
After Delimitation
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