2019 Indian general election in West Bengal

2019 Indian general election in West Bengal
	11 April 2019 to 19 May 2019
All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
	Opinion polls
Turnout	81.76% ( 0.46 pp)
	West Bengal
Prime Minister before election; Narendra Modi; BJP	Prime Minister after election ; Narendra Modi; BJP

The 2019 Indian general election were held in India between April and May 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha.^[1]^[2]

Surveys and Polls

Vote share

Date published	Polling agency					Lead
Date published	Polling agency	AITC	Left Front	UPA	NDA	Lead
Jan 2019	Republic TV - C Voter	43.7%	14.4%	9.6%	31.8%	11.9%

Seat projections

Poll Type	Date published	Polling agency					Lead
Poll Type	Date published	Polling agency	AITC	UPA	Left Front	NDA	Lead
Exit poll ^[3]^[4]		ABP - Nielson	24	2	0	16	8
		Times Now - VMR	28	2	1	11	17
		Republic TV- Jan Ki Baat	29	2	0	11	18
		India Today - AxisMyIndia ^[5]	19-22	0-1	0	19-23	1
		NewsX - CNX	26	2	0	14	8
		News24 - Today's Chanakya	23	1	0	18	5
Opinion poll	06 Apr 2019	India TV - CNX^[6]	28	1	1	12	16
	05 Apr 2019	Republic TV - Jan ki Baat^[7]	25	3	1	13	12
	Mar 2019	ABP News- Nielsen^[8]	31	3	–	8	23
	Jan 2019	Spick Media^[9]	30	4	0	8	22
	Jan 2019	Republic TV - C Voter	34	1	0	7	27
	Nov 2018	Spick Media^[10]	32	4	1	5	27
	Nov 2018	ABP News - C Voter^[11]	32	1	–	9	23

Candidates

Trinamool Congress

On 12 March 2019, party president Mamata Banerjee announced the party candidates for the election.^[12] 41% of the candidates were women. Notable exclusions from the list were the party's general secretary Subrata Bakshi and Sugata Bose. Bose did not get permission from Harvard University, where he is a professor, to contest the election.^[13] Notable inclusions were Bengali actresses Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan.^[14]

List of candidates

#	Constituency	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	Candidates Name
#	Constituency	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	All India Trinamool Congress	Indian National Congress	Left Front	Bharatiya Janata Party
1	Cooch Behar	SC	Paresh Chandra Adhikary	Priya Roy Choudhury	Gobinda Chandra Roy (AIFB)	Nisith Pramanik
2	Alipurduars	ST	Dasrath Tirkey	Mohan Lal Basumuta	Mili Oraon (RSP)	John Barla
3	Jalpaiguri	SC	Bijoy Chandra Barman	Mani Kumar Darnal	Bhagirath Chandra Roy (CPI(M))	Jayanta Ray
4	Darjeeling	None	Amar Singh Rai	Shankar Malakar	Saman Pathak (CPI(M))	Raju Singh Bisht
5	Raiganj	None	Kanaia Lal Agarwal	Deepa Dasmunshi	Mohammed Salim (CPI(M))	Deboshree Chaudhary
6	Balurghat	None	Arpita Ghosh	Sadik Sarkar	Ranen Barman (RSP)	Sukanta Majumdar
7	Maldaha Uttar	None	Mausam Noor	Isha Khan Chowdhury	Biswanath Ghosh (CPI(M))	Khagen Murmu
8	Maldaha Dakshin	None	Moazzem Hossain	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury	CPI(M) supports INC	Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury
9	Jangipur	None	Khalilur Rehman	Abhijit Mukherjee	Md. Zulfikar Ali (CPI(M))	Mafuja Khatun
10	Baharampur	None	Apurba Sarkar	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	Saikh Id Mohammad (RSP)	Krishna Juardar Arya
11	Murshidabad	None	Abu Taher Khan	Abu Hena	Badaruddoza Khan (CPI(M))	Humayun Kabir
12	Krishnanagar	None	Mahua Moitra	Intaj Ali Shah	Dr. Shantanu Jha (CPI(M))	Kalyan Chaubey
13	Ranaghat	SC	Rupaali Biswas	Minati Biswas	CA Rama Biswas (CPI(M))	Jagannath Sarkar
14	Bangaon	SC	Mamata Bala Thakur	Sourav Prasad	Alakesh Das (CPI(M))	Shantanu Thakur
15	Barrackpur	None	Dinesh Trivedi	Mohammad Alam	Gargi Chatterjee (CPI(M))	Arjun Singh
16	Dum Dum	None	Sougata Roy	Saurav Saha	Nepaldev Bhattacharya (CPI(M))	Samik Bhattacharya
17	Barasat	None	Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar	Subrota (Rashu) Dutta	Haripada Biswas (AIFB)	Mrinal Kanthi Debnath
18	Basirhat	None	Nusrat Jahan	Quazi Abdur Rahim	Pallab Sengupta (CPI)	Sayantan Basu
19	Jaynagar	SC	Pratima Mondal	Tapan Mondal	Subhas Naskar (RSP)	Ashok Kandari
20	Mathurapur	SC	Choudhury Mohan Jatua	Krittibas Sardar	Dr. Sarat Chandra Haldar (CPI(M))	Shyamaprasad Halder
21	Diamond Harbour	None	Abhishek Banerjee	Soumya Aich Roy	Dr. Fuad Halim (CPI(M))	Nilanjan Roy
22	Jadavpur	None	Mimi Chakraborty	INC supports CPI(M)	Adv. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya (CPI(M))	Anupam Hazra
23	Kolkata Dakshin	None	Mala Roy	Mita Chakraborty	Dr. Nandini Mukherjee (CPI(M))	Chandra Kumar Bose
24	Kolkata Uttar	None	Sudip Bandyopadhyay	Syed Shahid Imam	Kaninika Bose (Ghosh) (CPI(M))	Rahul Sinha
25	Howrah	None	Prasun Banerjee	Suvra Ghosh	Adv. Sumitro Adhikary (CPI(M))	Rantideb Sen Gupta
26	Uluberia	None	Sajda Ahmed	Shoma Ranisree Roy	Dr. Maksuda Khatun (CPI(M))	Joy Banerjee
27	Serampore	None	Kalyan Banerjee	Debabrata Biswas	CA Tirthankar Ray (CPI(M))	Debajit Sarkar
28	Hooghly	None	Ratna De (Nag)	Pratul Saha	Pradip Saha (CPI(M))	Locket Chatterjee
29	Arambagh	SC	Aparupa Poddar	Jyoti Das	Sakti Mohan Malik (CPI(M))	Tapan Roy
30	Tamluk	None	Dibyendu Adhikari	Lakshman Chandra Seth	Sk. Ibrahim Ali (CPI(M))	Siddhartha Naskar
31	Contai	None	Sisir Adhikari	Dipak Kumar Das	Paritosh Pattanayak (CPI(M))	Debasish Samant
32	Ghatal	None	Dev	Khandakar Mohammad Saifullah	Tapan Ganguli (CPI)	Bharati Ghosh
33	Jhargram	ST	Birbaha Soren	Jagyeswar Hembram	Deblina Hembram (CPI(M))	Kunar Hembram
34	Medinipur	None	Manas Bhunia	Sambhunath Chatterjee	Biplab Bhatta (CPI)	Dilip Ghosh
35	Purulia	None	Mriganko Mahato	Nepal Mahato	Bir Singh Mahato (AIFB)	Jyotirmoy Mahto
36	Bankura	None	Subrata Mukherjee	Did Not Contest	Dr. Amiya Patra (CPI(M))	Subhash Sarkar
37	Bishnupur	SC	Shyamal Santra	Narayan Chandra Khan	Sunil Khan (CPI(M))	Saumitra Khan
38	Bardhaman Purba	SC	Sunil Kumar Mandal	Siddhartha Majumder	Iswar Chandra Das (CPI(M))	Paresh Chandra Das
39	Bardhaman-Durgapur	None	Mamtaz Sanghamita	Ranajit Mukherjee	Abhas Ray Chaudhuri (CPI(M))	S. S. Ahluwalia
40	Asansol	None	Moon Moon Sen	Biswarup Mondal	Gouranga Chatterjee (CPI(M))	Babul Supriyo
41	Bolpur	SC	Asit Kumar Mal	Abhijit Saha	Dr. Ram Chandra Dome (CPI(M))	Ram Prashad Das
42	Birbhum	None	Satabdi Roy	Imam Hossain	Dr. Md. Rezaul Karim (CPI(M))	Dudh Kumar Mondal

Party-wise Result

22	18	2
AITC	BJP	INC

Party	AITC	BJP	INC	CPI(M)
Party
Leader	Mamata Banerjee	Dilip Ghosh	Somen Mitra	Surya Kanta Mishra
Leader
Votes	43.69%, 2,47,57,345	40.64%, 2,30,28,517	5.67%, 32,10,491	6.34%, 35,94,283
Votes
Seats	22 (52.38%)	18 (42.86%)	2 (4.76%)	0 (0.00%)
Seats	22 / 42	18 / 42	2 / 42	0 / 42

Name of Party	Vote Share (%) in West Bengal (2019 India Lok Sabha Election)	Change (%)	Seats won	Change
All India Trinamool Congress	43.69%	4.64	22	12
Bharatiya Janata Party	40.64%	22.25	18	16
Indian National Congress	5.67%	4.09	2	2
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6.34%	16.72	0	2

Lok Sabha seats that flipped from Trinamool Congress to Bharatiya Janata Party

Lok Sabha seats that flipped from Indian National Congress to Trinamool Congress

Jangipur

Lok Sabha seats that flipped from Indian National Congress to Bharatiya Janata Party

Maldaha Uttar

Lok Sabha seats that flipped from Communist Party of India Marxist to Bharatiya Janata Party

Raiganj

Lok Sabha seats that flipped from Communist Party of India Marxist to Trinamool Congress

Murshidabad

Constituency-wise Results

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Alipurduars

2019 Indian general election: Alipurduars
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	John Barla	7,50,804	54.4	+26.9
	AITC	Dasrath Tirkey	5,06,815	36.7	+7.1
	RSP	Mili Oraon	54,010	3.9	-23.9
	INC	Mohanlal Basumata	27,427	2.0	-7.5
	NOTA	None of the Above	21,175	1.5	-0.1
	Other	n/a	19,986	1.4	{{{change}}}
Majority			2,43,989	14.8
Turnout			13,80,217	83.7
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+9.9

Arambagh

2019 Indian general election: Arambagh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Aparupa Poddar (Afrin Ali)	6,49,929	44.1	-10.8
	BJP	Tapan Kumar Ray	6,48,787	44.1	+32.4
	CPI(M)	Sakti Mohan Malik	1,00,520	6.8	-22.7
	INC	Jyoti Kumari Das	25,128	1.7	-0.3
	NOTA	None of the Above	20,495	1.4	+0.1
	Other	n/a	27,122	1.8	{{{change}}}
Majority			1,142	0.1
Turnout			14,71,981	83.4
	AITC hold		Swing	-21.6

Asansol

2019 Indian general election: Asansol
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Babul Supriyo	6,33,378	51.2	+14.4
	AITC	Moon Moon Sen	4,35,741	35.2	+4.6
	CPI(M)	Gouranga Chatterjee	87,608	7.1	-15.3
	INC	Biswarup Mondal	21,038	1.7	-2.5
	NOTA	None of the Above	14,447	1.2	+0.2
	BMP	Md. Zahir Alam	12,677	1.0	+0.7
	Other	n/a	33,246	2.7	{{{change}}}
Majority			1,97,637	12.2
Turnout			12,38,135	76.6
	BJP hold		Swing	+4.9

Baharampur

2019 Indian general election: Baharampur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	5,91,106	45.4	-5.1
	AITC	Apurba Sarkar	5,10,410	39.2	+19.6
	BJP	Krishna Joyardar	1,43,038	11.0	+3.9
	NOTA	None of the Above	14,086	1.1	+0.1
	Independent	Samir Biswas	13,682	1.1	new
	RSP	Id Mohammad	13,362	1.0	-18.5
	Other	n/a	14,313	1	{{{change}}}
Majority			80,696	4.9
Turnout			12,99,997	79.3
	INC hold		Swing	-12.3

Balurghat

2019 Indian general election: Balurghat
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sukanta Majumdar	5,39,317	45.0	+24.0
	AITC	Arpita Ghosh	5,06,024	42.2	+3.7
	RSP	Ranen Barman	72,990	6.1	-22.4
	INC	Abdus Sadek Sarkar	36,783	3.1	-4.5
	NOTA	None of the Above	13,414	1.1	+0.0
	Other	n/a	29,321	2.4	{{{change}}}
Majority			33,293	2.3
Turnout			11,97,849	83.7
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+10.2

Bangaon

2019 Indian general election: Bangaon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shantanu Thakur	6,87,622	48.8	+29.8
	AITC	Mamata Thakur	5,76,028	40.9	-2.0
	CPI(M)	Alakesh Das	90,122	6.4	-25.1
	INC	Sourav Prosad	22,618	1.6	-1.8
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,530	0.5	-0.2
	Other	n/a	23,838	1.6	{{{change}}}
Majority			1,11,594	6.5
Turnout			14,07,758	82.6
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+15.9

Bankura

2019 Indian general election: Bankura
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dr. Subhas Sarkar	6,75,319	49.2	+28.9
	AITC	Subrata Mukherjee	5,00,986	36.5	-2.6
	CPI(M)	Amiya Patra	1,00,282	7.3	-23.8
	Independent	Milan Mandi	14,942	1.1	new
	NOTA	None of the Above	14,019	1.0	-0.9
	Other	n/a	66,307	4.9	{{{change}}}
Majority			1,74,333	10.6
Turnout			13,71,855	83.2
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+15.7

Barasat

2019 Indian general election: Barasat
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar	6,48,444	46.4	+5.1
	BJP	Mrinal Kanti Debnath	5,38,275	38.6	+15.2
	AIFB	Haripada Biswas	1,24,068	8.9	-18.8
	INC	Subrata Dutta	37,277	2.7	-0.5
	NOTA	None of the Above	17,779	1.3	+0.3
	Other	n/a	29,586	2.1	{{{change}}}
Majority			1,10,169	6.4
Turnout			13,95,429	81.2
	AITC hold		Swing	-5.1

Bardhaman East

2019 Indian general election: Bardhaman Purba
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sunil Kumar Mondal	6,40,834	44.5	+1.0
	BJP	Paresh Chandra Das	5,51,523	38.3	+25.4
	CPI(M)	Iswar Chandra Das	1,75,920	12.2	-22.6
	INC	Siddhartha Majumdar	38,472	2.7	-2.5
	NOTA	None of the Above	10,760	0.7	-0.3
	Other	n/a	21,777	1.5	{{{change}}}
Majority			89,311	5.3
Turnout			14,39,286	84.8
	AITC hold		Swing	-12.2

Bardhaman-Durgapur

2019 Indian general election: Bardhaman-Durgapur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	S. S. Ahluwalia	5,98,376	41.8	+23.9
	AITC	Mamtaz Sanghamita	5,95,937	41.6	-0.1
	CPI(M)	Abhas Ray Chaudhuri	1,61,329	11.3	-22.3
	INC	Ranajit Mukherjee	38,516	2.7	-0.6
	NOTA	None of the Above	18,540	1.3	+0.0
	BSP	Ramkrishna Malik (Dev)	13,766	1.0	+0.1
	Other	n/a	6,543	0.5	{{{change}}}
Majority			2,439	0.1
Turnout			14,33,007	82.7
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+12.0

Barrackpore

2019 Indian general election: Barrackpore
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Arjun Singh	4,72,994	42.8	+20.9
	AITC	Dinesh Trivedi	4,58,137	41.5	-4.1
	CPI(M)	Gargi Chatterjee	1,17,456	10.6	-15.4
	INC	Md. Alam	15,816	1.4	-1.5
	NOTA	None of the Above	12,731	1.2	+0.1
	Other	n/a	27,383	2.5	{{{change}}}
Majority			14,857	1.0
Turnout			11,04,517	76.9
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+12.5

Basirhat

2019 Indian general election: Basirhat
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nusrat Jahan Ruhi	7,82,078	54.5	+15.9
	BJP	Sayantan Basu	4,31,709	30.1	+11.8
	INC	Quazi Abdur Rahim	1,04,183	7.3	-0.7
	CPI	Pallab Sengupta	68,316	4.8	-25.3
	NOTA	None of the Above	9,106	0.6	-0.1
	Other	n/a	37,947	2.7	{{{change}}}
Majority			3,50,369	20.9
Turnout			14,33,339	85.4
	AITC hold		Swing	+2.1

Birbhum

2019 Indian general election: Birbhum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Satabdi Roy	6,54,077	45.1	+9.0
	BJP	Dudh Kumar Mondal	5,65,153	39.0	+20.5
	CPI(M)	Karim Rezaul	96,763	6.7	-24.2
	INC	Imam Hossain	75,546	5.2	-5.1
	RJP	Ahamed Faruk	15,171	1.0	new
	NOTA	None of the Above	12,318	0.8	-0.3
	Other	n/a	30,395	2.1	{{{change}}}
Majority			88,924	5.2
Turnout			14,49,423	85.3
	AITC hold		Swing	-5.7

Bishnupur

2019 Indian general election: Bishnupur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Saumitra Khan	6,57,019	46.2	+32.1
	AITC	Shyamal Santra	5,78,972	40.7	-4.8
	CPI(M)	Sunil Khan	1,02,615	7.2	-26.5
	INC	Khan Narayan Chandra	17,932	1.3	-0.9
	NOTA	None of the Above	14,436	1.0	-0.6
	BMP	Basudeb Sikari	13,545	1.0	+0.3
	Other	n/a	36,129	2.6	{{{change}}}
Majority			78,047	4.8
Turnout			14,20,648	87.3
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+18.4

Bolpur

2019 Indian general election: Bolpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Asit Kumar Mal	6,99,171	47.8	-0.5
	BJP	Das Ramprasad	5,92,769	40.5	+25.4
	CPI(M)	Ram Chandra Dome	91,964	6.3	-23.9
	INC	Abhijit Saha	30,112	2.1	-1.5
	RJP	Simanta Mondal	17,013	1.2	new
	NOTA	None of the Above	12,278	0.8	-0.5
	Other	n/a	17,962	1.2	{{{change}}}
Majority			1,06,402	6.2
Turnout			14,61,269	85.7
	AITC hold		Swing	-13.0

Cooch Behar

2019 Indian general election: Cooch Behar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Nisith Pramanik	7,31,594	48.0	+31.6
	AITC	Paresh Chandra Adhikary	6,77,363	44.4	+4.9
	AIFB	Gobinda Chandra Roy	46,810	3.1	-29.9
	INC	Piya Roy Chowdhury	28,215	1.8	-3.7
	NOTA	None of the Above	14,490	0.9	+0.1
	Other	n/a	26,211	1.7	{{{change}}}
Majority			54,231	3.0
Turnout			15,24,683	84.0
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+13.4

Darjeeling

2019 Indian general election: Darjeeling
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Raju Bista	7,50,067	59.1	+16.3
	AITC	Amar Singh Rai	3,36,624	26.5	+1.0
	INC	Sankar Malakar	65,186	5.1	-2.7
	CPI(M)	Saman Pathak	50,524	4.0	-10.7
	Independent	Rajesh Singh	15,973	1.3	new
	NOTA	None of the Above	10,625	0.8	-0.7
	Other	n/a	38,271	2.9	{{{change}}}
Majority			4,13,443	25.7
Turnout			12,67,270	78.6
	BJP hold		Swing	+7.7

Diamond Harbour

2019 Indian general election: Diamond Harbour
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Abhishek Banerjee	7,91,127	56.1	+15.8
	BJP	Nilanjan Roy	4,70,533	33.4	+17.5
	CPI(M)	Dr. Fuad Halim	93,941	6.7	-28.0
	INC	Soumya Aich Roy	19,828	1.4	-3.6
	NOTA	None of the Above	16,247	1.2	+0.3
	Other	n/a	17,326	1.2	{{{change}}}
Majority			3,20,594	18.6
Turnout			14,09,002	82.0
	AITC hold		Swing	-0.8

Dum Dum

2019 Indian general election: Dum Dum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Saugata Roy	5,12,062	42.5	-0.1
	BJP	Samik Bhattacharya	4,59,060	38.1	+15.6
	CPI(M)	Nepaldeb Bhattacharya	1,67,590	13.9	-15.2
	INC	Saurav Saha	29,097	2.4	-0.6
	SHS	Indranil Banerjee	4.395	0.2	80
	NOTA	None of the Above	14,491	1.2	-0.3
	Other	n/a	22,360	1.8	{{{change}}}
Majority			53,002	3.4
Turnout			12,04,660	76.9
	AITC hold		Swing	-7.9

Ghatal

2019 Indian general election: Ghatal
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Adhikari Deepak (Dev)	7,17,959	48.2	-1.9
	BJP	Bharati Ghosh	6,09,986	41.0	+34.0
	CPI	Tapan Ganguli	97,060	6.5	-24.5
	INC	Khandakar Md. Saifullah (Saiful)	32,839	2.2	-6.8
	NOTA	None of the Above	13,810	0.9	-0.1
	Other	n/a	17,164	1.2	{{{change}}}
Majority			1,07,973	6.0
Turnout			14,88,818	82.7
	AITC hold		Swing	-18.0

Hooghly

2019 Indian general election: Hooghly
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Locket Chatterjee	6,71,448	46.0	+29.7
	AITC	Dr. Ratna De (Nag)	5,98,086	41.0	-4.5
	CPI(M)	Pradip Saha	1,21,588	8.3	-23.1
	INC	Pratul Chandra Saha	25,374	1.7	-1.4
	NOTA	None of the Above	13,525	0.9	-0.3
	Other	n/a	27,821	1.9	{{{change}}}
Majority			73,362	4.2
Turnout			14,57,842	82.5
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+17.1

Howrah

2019 Indian general election: Howrah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Prasun Banerjee	5,76,711	47.2	+3.8
	BJP	Rantidev Sengupta	4,73,016	38.7	+16.6
	CPI(M)	Sumitro Adhikary	1,05,547	8.6	-17.3
	INC	Suvra Ghosh	32,107	2.6	-3.0
	NOTA	None of the Above	6,337	0.5	-0.4
	Other	n/a	28,575	2.5	{{{change}}}
Majority			1,03,695	6.3
Turnout			12,22,293	74.8
	AITC hold		Swing	-6.4

Jadavpur

2019 Indian general election: Jadavpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mimi Chakraborty	6,88,472	47.9	+2.1
	BJP	Anupam Hazra	3,93,233	27.4	+15.2
	CPI(M)	Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya	3,02,264	21.0	-15.0
	NOTA	None of the Above	15,541	1.1	-0.1
	Other	n/a	37,384	2.7	{{{change}}}
Majority			2,95,239	16.2
Turnout			14,36,894	79.1
	AITC hold		Swing	-6.5

Jalpaiguri

2019 Indian general election: Jalpaiguri
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jayanta Kumar Roy	7,60,145	50.6	+33.6
	AITC	Bijoy Chandra Barman	5,76,141	38.4	+0.4
	CPI(M)	Bhagirath Chandra Roy	76,166	5.1	-27.5
	INC	Mani Kumar Darnal	28,562	1.9	-4.8
	NOTA	None of the Above	19,928	1.3	+0.1
	Other	n/a	39,980	2.5	{{{change}}}
Majority			1,84,004	10.6
Turnout			15,00,922	86.5
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+16.6

Jangipur

2019 Indian general election: Jangipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Khalilur Rahaman	5,62,838	43.1	+24.6
	BJP	Mafuja Khatun	3,17,056	24.3	+15.7
	INC	Abhijit Mukherjee	2,55,836	19.6	-14.2
	CPI(M)	Md. Zulfikar Ali	95,501	7.3	-25.7
	WPOI	Dr. S.Q.R. Ilyas	21,302	1.6	+0.8
	Independent	Prasad Halder	12,839	1.0	new
	NOTA	None of the Above	11,355	0.9	-0.1
	Other	n/a	27,777	2.1	{{{change}}}
Majority			2,45,782	15.2
Turnout			13,04,504	80.7
	AITC gain from INC		Swing	+4.5

Jaynagar

2019 Indian general election: Jaynagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Pratima Mondal	7,61,202	56.1	+14.5
	BJP	Dr. Ashok Kandary	4,44,427	32.8	+23.2
	RSP	Subhas Naskar	67,913	5.0	-27.5
	SUCI(C)	Jaykrishna Haldar	38,261	2.8	new
	INC	Tapan Mondal	18,758	1.4	-1.9
	NOTA	None of the Above	10,443	0.8	+0.0
	Other	n/a	15,098	1	{{{change}}}
Majority			3,16,775	19.2
Turnout			13,56,102	82.3
	AITC hold		Swing	-4.4

Jhargram

2019 Indian general election: Jhargram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kunar Hembram	6,26,583	44.5	+34.8
	AITC	Birbaha Soren	6,14,816	43.7	-9.9
	CPI(M)	Deblina Hembram	75,680	5.4	-20.6
	INC	Jageswar Hembram	20,754	1.5	-1.7
	NOTA	None of the Above	17,692	1.3	-0.6
	Other	n/a	50,689	3.6	{{{change}}}
Majority			11,767	0.7
Turnout			14,06,214	85.6
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+22.4

Kanthi

2019 Indian general election: Kanthi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sisir Adhikari	7,11,872	50.0	-2.4
	BJP	Dr. Debasis Samanta	6,00,204	42.1	+33.5
	CPI(M)	Paritosh Pattanayak	76,185	5.3	-29.3
	INC	Dipak Kumar Das	16,851	1.2	-0.9
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,687	0.6	-0.1
	Other	n/a	10,448	0.7	{{{change}}}
Majority			1,11,668	6.7
Turnout			14,24,247	85.8
	AITC hold		Swing	-18.0

Kolkata Dakshin

2019 Indian general election: Kolkata Dakshin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mala Roy	5,73,119	47.5	+10.5
	BJP	Chandra Kumar Bose	4,17,927	34.6	+9.3
	CPI(M)	Nandini Mukherjee	1,40,275	11.6	-12.3
	INC	Mita Chakraborty	42,618	3.5	-6.2
	NOTA	None of the Above	14,824	1.2	-0.4
	Other	n/a	17,882	1.5	{{{change}}}
Majority			1,55,192	9.0
Turnout			12,06,645	69.8
	AITC hold		Swing	+0.6

Kolkata Uttar

2019 Indian general election: Kolkata Uttar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sudip Bandyopadhyay	4,74,891	50.0	+14.0
	BJP	Rahul (Biswajit) Sinha	3,47,796	36.6	+10.7
	CPI(M)	Kaninika Bose (Ghosh)	71,080	7.5	-13.0
	INC	Syed Shahid Imam	26,093	2.7	-10.9
	NOTA	None of the Above	6,736	0.7	-0.2
	Other	n/a	24,017	2.6	{{{change}}}
Majority			1,27,095	8.8
Turnout			9,50,613	65.8
	AITC hold		Swing	+1.7

Krishnanagar

2019 Indian general election: Krishnanagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mahua Moitra	6,14,872	45.0	+9.9
	BJP	Kalyan Chaubey	5,51,654	40.4	+14.0
	CPI(M)	Jha Shantanu	1,20,222	8.8	-20.6
	INC	Intaj Ali Shah	38,305	2.8	-3.2
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,508	0.5	-0.1
	Other	n/a	33,882	2.6	{{{change}}}
Majority			63,218	3.9
Turnout			13,66,443	83.7
	AITC hold		Swing	-2.1

Maldaha Dakshin

2019 Indian general election: Maldaha Dakshin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury	4,44,270	34.7	-0.1
	BJP	Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury	4,36,048	34.1	+14.3
	AITC	Md. Moazzem Hossain	3,51,353	27.4	+9.8
	NOTA	None of the Above	12,062	0.9	+0.2
	Other	n/a	35,469	2.7	{{{change}}}
Majority			8,222	0.5
Turnout			12,79,202	81.2
	INC hold		Swing	-7.2

Maldaha Uttar

2019 Indian general election: Maldaha Uttar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Khagen Murmu	5,09,524	37.6	+22.2
	AITC	Mausam Noor	4,25,236	31.4	+14.4
	INC	Isha Khan Choudhury	3,05,270	22.5	-10.9
	CPI(M)	Biswanath Ghosh	50,401	3.7	-24.0
	Independent	Mohan Hasda	13,473	1.0	new
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,039	0.6	-0.3
	Other	n/a	42,763	3	{{{change}}}
Majority			84,288	5.0
Turnout			13,54,706	80.4
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	+3.9

Mathurapur

2019 Indian general election: Mathurapur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Choudhury Mohan Jatua	7,26,828	51.8	+2.3
	BJP	Shyamaprasad Halder	5,22,854	37.3	+32.1
	CPI(M)	Dr. Sarat Chandra Haldar	92,417	6.6	-32.1
	INC	Krittibas Sardar	32,324	2.3	-1.4
	NOTA	None of the Above	6,910	0.5	-0.2
	Other	n/a	20,620	1.4	{{{change}}}
Majority			2,03,974	12.3
Turnout			14,01,953	84.9
	AITC hold		Swing	-14.9

Medinipur

2019 Indian general election: Medinipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dilip Ghosh	6,85,433	48.6	+34.3
	AITC	Manas Ranjan Bhunia	5,96,481	42.3	-3.7
	CPI	Biplab Bhatta	62,319	4.4	-26.9
	INC	Sambhunath Chattapadhyay	20,807	1.5	-2.4
	NOTA	None of the Above	14,758	1.0	-0.0
	Other	n/a	30,017	2.1	{{{change}}}
Majority			88,952	5.3
Turnout			14,09,815	84.2
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+19.0

Murshidabad

2019 Indian general election: Murshidabad
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Abu Taher Khan	6,04,346	41.6	+19.1
	INC	Abu Hena	3,77,929	26.0	-5.7
	BJP	Humayun Kabir	2,47,809	17.0	+9.2
	CPI(M)	Badaruddoza Khan	1,80,793	12.4	-20.7
	NOTA	None of the Above	15,025	1.0	+0.2
	Other	n/a	27,853	2	{{{change}}}
Majority			2,26,417	13.1
Turnout			14,53,755	84.3
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+12.4

Purulia

2019 Indian general election: Purulia
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jyotirmay Singh Mahato	6,68,107	49.3	+42.1
	AITC	Dr. Mriganka Mahato	4,63,375	34.2	-4.6
	INC	Nepal Mahata	84,477	6.2	-15.1
	AIFB	Bir Singh Mahato	68,434	5.0	-21.0
	NOTA	None of the Above	11,322	0.8	-0.6
	Other	n/a	59,521	4.4	{{{change}}}
Majority			2,04,732	12.4
Turnout			13,55,236	82.3
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+23.4

Raiganj

2019 Indian general election: Raiganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Debasree Chaudhuri	5,11,652	40.0	+21.7
	AITC	Agarwal Kanaialal	4,51,078	35.3	+17.9
	CPI(M)	Md. Salim	1,82,035	14.2	-14.4
	INC	Deepa Dasmunsi	83,662	6.5	-22.0
	NOTA	None of the Above	13,749	1.1	+0.1
	Other	n/a	34,933	2.6	{{{change}}}
Majority			60,574	3.8
Turnout			12,77,109	79.8
	BJP gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+1.9

Ranaghat

2019 Indian general election: Ranaghat
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jagannath Sarkar	7,83,253	52.8	+35.5
	AITC	Rupali Biswas	5,49,825	37.0	-6.6
	CPI(M)	Rama Biswas	97,771	6.6	-22.1
	INC	Minati Biswas	23,297	1.6	-5.2
	NOTA	None of the Above	9,137	0.6	-0.5
	Other	n/a	20,752	1.4	{{{change}}}
Majority			2,33,428	13.2
Turnout			14,84,035	84.2
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+21.0

Sreerampur

2019 Indian general election: Sreerampur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Kalyan Banerjee	6,37,707	45.5	+5.6
	BJP	Debjit Sarkar	5,39,171	38.5	+16.2
	CPI(M)	Tirthankar Ray	1,52,281	10.9	-17.2
	INC	Debabrata Biswas	32,509	2.3	-4.4
	NOTA	None of the Above	20,501	1.5	+0.3
	Other	n/a	19,536	1.4	{{{change}}}
Majority			98,536	5.5
Turnout			14,01,705	78.5
	AITC hold		Swing	-5.3

Tamluk

2019 Indian general election: Tamluk
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dibyendu Adhikari	7,24,433	50.1	-3.5
	BJP	Sidharthashankar Naskar	5,34,268	36.9	+30.5
	CPI(M)	Sk Ibrahim Ali	1,36,129	9.4	-25.7
	INC	Lakshman Chandra Seth	16,001	1.1	-1.1
	NOTA	None of the Above	10,533	0.7	-0.1
	Other	n/a	25,135	1.7	{{{change}}}
Majority			1,90,165	11.2
Turnout			14,46,499	85.4
	AITC hold		Swing	-17.0

Uluberia

2019 Indian general election: Uluberia
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sajda Ahmed	6,94,945	53.0	+4.9
	BJP	Joy Banerjee	4,79,586	36.6	+25.0
	CPI(M)	Maksuda Khatun	81,314	6.2	-24.9
	INC	Shoma Ranisree Roy	27,568	2.1	-3.6
	NOTA	None of the Above	9,399	0.7	+0.0
	Other	n/a	18,287	1.3	{{{change}}}
Majority			2,15,359	13.3
Turnout			13,11,099	81.2
	AITC hold		Swing	-10.1

Impact

There has been a major political shift from the left to the right in the 2019 general elections in West Bengal. The Statesman says, “Making an aggressive penetration in Bengal for the first time since its inception in 1980, BJP alone has dramatically increased its vote share close to 40 percent this time. Thus, it has virtually made the CPI-M into a mere marginalised political party and at the same time the saffron party set a strong challenge before the Trinamool Congress hardly two years ahead of the Assembly elections scheduled in 2021 in the state.” This obviously is the most important impact of the general elections in the state visible in the voting pattern right across the state, irrespective of who won or lost a particular seat.^[16]^[17]

Analysis

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

2019 Lok Sabha in West Bengal by Assembly Segment

Party		2016 West Bengal Bidhan Sabha election	West Bengal Bidhan Sabha segments (as of 2019 India Lok Sabha election)^[18]^[19]	2021 West Bengal Bidhan Sabha election
	BJP	3	121	77
	INC	44	9	0
	TMC	211	164	215
	Left Front	32	0	0
	Others	1	0	2
Total		294

Postal Ballot wise lead of Parties

Party		No. of Constituencies
	All India Trinamool Congress	2
	Left Front	1
	Bharatiya Janata Party	39
	Indian National Congress	0
Total		42

TMC won 3 out of 3 assembly seats in the next assembly by-elections in November 2019. Even the seat of State BJP president Dilip Ghosh which fell vacant due to Dilip Ghosh's win in Loksabha election, Kharagpur Sadar was won by TMC by a lead of 22,000 votes. TMC was trailing in that seat by 158,000 votes in 2019 general elections.^[20]^[21]^[22]^[23]^[24]

Region-Wise Results

Region	Total seats	All India Trinamool Congress		Bharatiya Janata Party		Indian National Congress
Ganges Delta	10	7	3	3	3	0
North Bengal	8	3	1	3	3	2	2	2
Northern Hills	4	0	3	4	3	0
Rarh Bengal	10	3	7	7	4	0
South Bengal	10	9	1	1		0
Total	42	22	12	18	16	2	2	2

References

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↑ WB Election Result Highlights: BJP creates history in Bengal, livemint, 24 May 2019.
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↑ "West Bengal election results 2019: left veers into political oblivion". The Statesman, 24 May 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
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External links

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[BusinessLine-1] Election results 2019: Bengal votes for the BJP, breaks many stereotypes, The Hindu BusinessLine, 23 May 2019.

[livemint-2] WB Election Result Highlights: BJP creates history in Bengal, livemint, 24 May 2019.

[Live_Mint-3] "WB Exit Polls 2019 Highlights: Didi to rule but BJP set to make massive gains". Live Mint. 19 May 2019.

[Buisness_Insider-4] "West Bengal exit poll 2019 for Lok Sabha Elections". Business Insider. 19 May 2019.

[5] "India Today-Axis My India Exit Poll 2019: Data points to a clear gain for BJP in West Bengal". India Today. 19 May 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2021.

[auto8-6] IndiaTV (6 April 2019). "पूरे India का ओपिनियन पोल सभी 543 Lok Sabha Seats पर - IndiaTv-CNX Opinion Poll 2019" – via YouTube.

[7] "Jan Ki Baat (@jankibaat1) - Twitter". twitter.com.

[8] "BJP in West Bengal: BJP may win 8, Trinamool to shine in West Bengal: ABP-Nielsen". m.economictimes.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-13. Retrieved 2019-11-01.

[9] Network, Spick Media (21 February 2019). "#BJP shows improvement at #WestBengal. Ruling Trinamool Congress to stay as Single Largest Party in state. #LokSabhaElections2019 @AITCofficial : 30 (38.56%) @BJP4Bengal : 08 (19.44%) @INCWestBengal : 04 (15.39%) #Others : 00 (26.61%) : #FON #FOWB #AITC #BJP #CPIM #Congresspic.twitter.com/6IyDl0cvMZ". Twitter. Retrieved 26 February 2019.

[10] "Fate of West Bengal : Spick Media - IE Tech - Fate of Nation survey - Fate of west bengal (august - september, 2018)" (PDF). Img1.wsimg.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2019.

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[12] "Mamata releases TMC list for all 42 WB seats; alleges attempt to bribe voters". The Economic Times. 12 March 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2019.

[13] Rakshit, Avishek (12 March 2019). "Lok Sabha polls 2019: Trinamool Congress' election list out, 41% women". Business Standard. Retrieved 17 March 2019.

[14] Kumar, Sweety. "Lok Sabha polls: TMC's two new faces from Tollywood caught in middle of a social media storm". The Indian Express. Retrieved 17 March 2019.

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[17] "Analysis: In West Bengal, Left's vote-reduction will benefit BJP but to what extent?". The Hindu 23 May 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2019.

[18] Lok Sabha results: Numbers point to tough fight ahead in West Bengal assembly polls

[19] "PC and AC wise Result | Chief Electoral Officer - (CEO), West Bengal". Retrieved 4 September 2021.

[20] "আজ ৩ কেন্দ্রের ফল, আশা-আশঙ্কায় সব দল". Bartaman (in Bengali). 28 November 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2021.

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