Calcutta North West (Lok Sabha constituency)

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Calcutta North West
Existence 1951-2009
Reservation None
State West Bengal
Assembly Constituencies As of 2004:
Cossipur
Shyampukur
Jorabagan
Jorasanko
Bara Bazar
Bowbazar
Taltola (SC)

Calcutta North West (Lok Sabha constituency) was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on the north-western part of Calcutta in West Bengal. As a consequence of the order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, this parliamentary constituency ceased to exist from 2009.[1]

Assembly segments

In 2004, Calcutta North West Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[2]

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha Duration Constituency Name of M.P. Party Affiliation
First 1952-57 Calcutta North West Meghnath Shah Revolutionary Socialist Party[3]
Second 1957-62 Ashoke Kumar Sen Indian National Congress[4]
Third 1962-67 Ashoke Kumar Sen Indian National Congress [5]
Fourth 1967-71 Ashoke Kumar Sen Indian National Congress[6]
Fifth 1971-77 Ashoke Kumar Sen Indian National Congress[7]
Sixth 1977-80 Bijoy Singh Nahar Bharatiya Lok Dal[8]
Seventh 1980-84 Ashoke Kumar Sen Indian National Congress[9]
Eighth 1984-89 Ashoke Kumar Sen Indian National Congress[10]
Ninth 1989-91 Debi Prasad Pal Indian National Congress [11]
Tenth 1991-96 Debi Prasad Pal Indian National Congress[12]
Eleventh 1996-98 Debi Prasad Pal Indian National Congress[13]
Twelfth 1998-99 Sudip Bandyopadhyay All India Trinamool Congress[14]
Thirteenth 1999-04 Sudip Bandyopadhyay All India Trinamool Congress[15]
Fourteenth 2004-09 Sudhangshu Seal Communist Party of India (Marxist)[16]

For MPs from northern parts of Kolkata in subsequent years see Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency)

Election results

General election 2004

Indian general election, 2004: Calcutta North West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Sudhangshu Seal 1,51,772
Trinamool Congress Subrata Mukherjee 1,08,768
INC Sudip Bandyopadhyay 81,952
Independent Sudip Bandyopadhyay 3,450
Independent Prof. Vijay Kumar Arora 2,666
Independent Sudhir kr. Bishram 2,201
Independent Ashim Das 2,172
BSP Rizwan Ahmad Siddiqui 2,127
Independent Subrata Banerjee 1,185
Independent Biplab Mukherjee 1,079
Independent Ramendra Pandey 969
Independent Gopal Chandra Saha 697
Independent Lok Nath Saraff 640
Independent Kamalesh Ojha 439
Margin of victory 43,004
Turnout 3,60,117
CPI(M) gain from Trinamool Congress Swing


e • d Indian general election, 2004
West Bengal summary
Party Seats won Seat change Vote percentage
Trinamool Congress 1 Decrease7 31.8
Indian National Congress 6 Increase3 13.45
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) 0 Steady0 NA
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 26 Increase3 33.1
Communist Party of India 3 Increase1 3.6
Revolutionary Socialist Party 3 Steady0 3.56
All India Forward Bloc 3 Increase1 3.04
Bharatiya Janata Party 0 Decrease1 6.14

General election 1999

Indian general election, 1999: Calcutta North West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Trinamool Congress Sudip Bandyopadhyay 2,06,684 46.60%
CPI(M) Rajdeo Goala 1,12,514 25.37%
INC Siddhartha Shankar Ray 1,06,430 24.00%
Independent Sasanka Saha 3,888 0.88%
JD(S) Masarrat Begum 3,076 0.69%
RJD Asiruddin 2,602 0.59%
Independent Purna Chandra Ghosh 1,914 0.43%
BSP Narayan Saha 1,857 0.42%
Independent Pradyut Saha 1,173 0.26%
Independent Indranil Kumar 1,141 0.26%
Janata Party Parimal Biswas 1,017 0.23%
Independent Imtiaz Alam (Fahim) 626 0.14%
Independent Bihari Lal Thalia 564 0.13%
Margin of victory 43,004
Turnout 4,62,269 67.47
Trinamool Congress hold Swing

General election 1998

Indian general election, 1998: Calcutta North West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Trinamool Congress Sudip Bandyopadhyay 2,26,832 49.07%
CPI(M) Sarala Maheswari 1,53,349 33.17%
INC Dr. Debi Prasad Pal 75,047 16.23%
Shiv Sena Kana Ram 1,421 0.31%
JD(S) Ramen Pandey 1,393 0.30%
RJD Abdul Samad Sardar 845 0.18%
Independent Ashoke Dutta 777 0.17%
BSP Gholam Mohammed 698 0.15%
Independent Narayan Saha 597 0.13%
Independent Ashok Pandey 480 0.10%
Janata Party Bihari Lal Thalia 3,23 0.07%
Independent Sultan Ahmed Tarafdar 206 0.04%
Independent Amar Nath Sen 153 0.03%
Independent Indranil Kumar 148 0.03%
Margin of victory 43,004
Turnout 4,43,486 63.07
Trinamool Congress gain from INC Swing

General elections 1951-2004

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
1951 139,731 36.52 Meghnath Shah 53.05 RSP Prabhu Dayal Himatsingka 36.62 Congress[3]
1957 205,994 49.73 Ashoke Kumar Sen 49.91 Congress Mohit Maitra 47.03 Independent[4]
1962 268,078 64.58 Ashoke Kumar Sen 54.54 Congress Snehansu Kanta Acharyya 41.87 CPI[5]
1967 347,334 58.70 Ashoke Kumar Sen 45.66 Congress S.P.Roy 26.52 Independent[6]
1972 257,684 40.96 Ashoke Kumar Sen 57.27 Congress Prasanta Kumar Sur 28.14 CPI(M)[7]
1977 321,740 54 Bijoy Singh Nahar 57.25 BLD Ashoke Kumar Sen 35.06 Congress[8]
1980 319,810 51.89 Ashoke Kumar Sen 47.9 Congress Shyam Sundar Gupta 33.94 Forward Bloc[9]
1984 387,150 64.73 Ashoke Kumar Sen 64.24 Congress Amiya Nath Bose 29.23 Forward Bloc[10]
1989 439,770 63.32 Debi Prasad Pal 50.95 Congress Ashoke Kumar Sen 38.25 JD[11]
1991 409,560 58.14 Debi Prasad Pal 41.39 Congress Dilip Chakravarti 33.47 JD[12]
1996 452,760 65.24 Debi Prasad Pal 48.31 Congress Shyamal Bhattacharjee 33.56 JD[13]
1998 469,380 67.47 Sudip Bandyopadhyay 49.07 Trinamool Congress Sarala Maheswari 33.17 CPI(M)[14]
1999 444,040 63.07 Sudip Bandopadhyay 46.6 Trinamool Congress Rajdeo Goala 25.37 CPI(M)[15]
2004 360,120 59.11 Sudhangsu Seal 42.15 CPI(M) Subrata Mukherjee 30.2 Trinamool Congress[16]

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See also

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