2014 Indian general election in West Bengal

2014 Indian general election in West Bengal

17 April, 24 April, 30 April, 7 May, 12 May
All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Turnout	82.2% ( 0.8 pp)
First party Second party   Leader Mamata Bannerjee Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Party AITC INC Alliance – UPA Leader's seat Did not contest Baharampur Last election 31.2%, 19 seats 13.5%, 6 seats Seats won 34 4 Seat change 15 2 Popular vote 20,313,280 4,946,581 Percentage 39.8% 9.7% Swing 8.1 pp 10.1 pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Surjya Kanta Mishra S. S. Ahluwalia Party CPI(M) BJP Alliance LF NDA Leader's seat Did not contest Darjeeling Last election 33.1%, 15 seats 6.1%, 1 seat Seats won 2 2 Seat change 13 1 Popular vote 11,720,997 8,691,765 Percentage 23% 17% Swing 3.9 pp 10.9 pp
Seatwise Result Map of the 2014 general election in West Bengal
Prime Minister before election Manmohan Singh INC Prime Minister after election Narendra Modi BJP

The 2014 Indian general election in West Bengal was held for 42 seats in the Lok Sabha.

List of major parties' candidates in West Bengal for 2014

Constituency No.	Constituency	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	TMC Candidate	Left Front Candidate	BJP Candidate	Congress Candidate
1	Cooch Behar	SC	Renuka Sinha	Dipak Kumar Roy	Hemchandra Burman	Keshab Chandra Ray
2	Alipurduars	ST	Dasarath Tirkey	Manohar Tirkey	Birendra Bora Oraon	Joseph Munda
3	Jalpaiguri	SC	Bijoy Bhusan Burman	Mahendra Kumar Roy	Satyalal Sarkar	Sukhbilas Barma
4	Darjeeling	None	Baichung Bhutia	Saman Pathak	S. S. Ahluwalia	Sujoy Ghatak
5	Raiganj	None	Satya Ranjan Dasmunshi	Md. Salim	Nimu Bhowmick	Deepa Dasmunshi
6	Balurghat	None	Arpita Ghosh	Bimal Sarkar	Biswapriya Roychowdhary	Om Prakash Mishra
7	Maldaha Uttar	None	Soumitra Roy	Khagen Murmu	Subashkrishna Goswami	Mausam Noor
8	Maldaha Dakshin	None	Dr Moazzen Hossen	Abul Hasnat Khan	Bishnu Pada Roy	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury
9	Jangipur	None	Haji Nurul Islam	Muzaffar Hossain	Samrat Ghosh	Abhijit Mukherjee
10	Baharampur	None	Indranil Sen	Pramothes Mukherjee	Debesh Kumar Adhikari	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
11	Murshidabad	None	Mohammed Ali	Badaruddoza Khan	Sujit Kumar Ghosh	Abdul Mannan Hossain
12	Krishnanagar	None	Tapas Paul	Santanu Jha	Satyabrata Mukherjee	Razia Ahmed
13	Ranaghat	SC	Tapas Mondal	Archna Biswas	Supravat Biswas	Pratap Roy
14	Bangaon	SC	Kapil Krishna Thakur	Debesh Das	K.D. Biswas	Ila Mandal
15	Barrackpur	None	Dinesh Trivedi	Subhashini Ali	R.K. Handa	Samrat Topedar
16	Dum Dum	None	Sougata Roy	Asim Dasgupta	Tapan Sikdar	Dhananjay Moitra
17	Barasat	None	Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar	Mortaza Hossain	P.C. Sarkar (Jr.)	Rizul Ghoshal
18	Basirhat	None	Idris Ali	Nurul Huda	Samik Bhattacharya	Abdur Rahim Quazi
19	Jaynagar	SC	Pratima Mondal	Subhas Naskar	Biplab Mondal	Arnab Roy
20	Mathurapur	None	C M Jatua	Rinku Naskar	Tapan Naskar	Manoranjan Halder
21	Diamond Harbour	None	Abhishek Banerjee	Dr. Abul Hasnat	Avijit Das	Mohmd Qumarhuzzan Qumar
22	Jadavpur	None	Sugata Bose	Sujan Chakraborty	Swarup Prashad Ghosh	Samir Aich
23	Kolkata Dakshin	None	Subrata Bakshi	Nandini Mukherjee	Tathagata Roy	Mala Roy
24	Kolkata Uttar	None	Sudip Bandyopadhyay	Rupa Bagchi	Rahul Sinha	Somendra Nath Mitra
25	Howrah	None	Prasun Banerjee	Sreedip Bhattacharya	George Baker	Manoj Kumar Pandey
26	Uluberia	None	Sultan Ahmed	Sabiruddin Mollah	R.K. Mahanti	Asit Mitra
27	Sreerampur	None	Kalyan Banerjee	Tirthankar Roy	Bappi Lahiri	Abdul Mannan
28	Hooghly	None	Ratna De Nag	Pradip Saha	Chandan Mitra	Pritam Ghosh
29	Arambag	SC	Aparupa Poddar ( Afrin Ali )	Sakti Mohan Malik	Madhusudhan Bag	Sambhu Nath Malik
30	Tamluk	None	Suvendu Adhikari	Sk. Ibrahim Ali	Badsah Alam	Anwar Ali
31	Kanthi	None	Sisir Adhikari	Tapas Sinha	Kamalendu Pahari	Kunal Banerjee
32	Ghatal	None	Dipak Adhikari (Deb)	Santosh Rana	Md Alam	Manas Bhunia
33	Jhargram	ST	Dr Uma Soren	Pulin Bihari Baske	Bikash Mudi	Anita Hansdar
34	Medinipur	None	Sandhya Roy	Prabodh Panda	Prabhakar Tiwari	Bimal Raj
35	Purulia	None	Mriganko Mahato	Narahari Mahato	Bikash Banerjee	Nepal Mahato
36	Bankura	None	Munmun Sen	Basudeb Acharia	Subash Sarkar	Neel Madhava Gupta
37	Bishnupur	SC	Soumitra Khan	Susmita Bauri	Dr. Jayanta Mondal	Narayan Chander Khan
38	Bardhaman Purba	SC	Sunil Mandal	Iswar Chandra Das	Santosh Roy	Chandana Majhi
39	Bardhaman-Durgapur	None	Mamtaj Sanghamita	Sk. Saidul Haque	Deboshree Chowdhury	Pradip Agasty
40	Asansol	None	Dola Sen	Bansa Gopal Chowdhury	Babul Supriyo	Indrani Mishra
41	Bolpur	SC	Anupam Hazra	Dr.Ram Chandra Dome	Kamini Mohan Sarkar	Tapan Kumar Saha
42	Birbhum	None	Satabdi Roy	Dr. Mohammed Qamre Elahi	Joy Banerjee	Syed Siraj Jimmi

Results

2	4	2	34
BJP	INC	CPI(M)	AITC

Name of Party	Vote Share %	Change	Seats won	Changes
All India Trinamool Congress	39.05%	+8.13	34	+15
Communist Party of India (Marxist) +	29.71%		2	−13
Bharatiya Janata Party	17.02%	+10.88	2	+1
Indian National Congress	9.58%	−3.85	4	−2

Results by constituency

No.	Constituency	Turnout %	Winner	Party		Margin
1	Cooch Behar (SC)	82.62	Renuka Sinha		All India Trinamool Congress	87,107
2	Alipurduars (ST)	83.30	Dasrath Tirkey		All India Trinamool Congress	21,397
3	Jalpaiguri (SC)	85.17	Bijoy Chandra Barman		All India Trinamool Congress	69,606
4	Darjeeling	79.51	S.S.Ahluwalia		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,97,239
5	Raiganj	79.89	Md. Salim		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1,634
6	Balurghat	84.77	Arpita Ghosh		All India Trinamool Congress	1,06,964
7	Maldaha Uttar	81.60	Mausam Noor		Indian National Congress	65,705
8	Maldaha Dakshin	81.09	Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury		Indian National Congress	1,64,111
9	Jangipur	80.43	Abhijit Mukherjee		Indian National Congress	8,161
10	Baharampur	79.43	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury		Indian National Congress	3,56,567
11	Murshidabad	85.22	Badaruddoza Khan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	18,453
12	Krishnanagar	84.56	Tapas Paul		All India Trinamool Congress	71,255
13	Ranaghat (SC)	84.45	Tapas Mandal		All India Trinamool Congress	2,01,767
14	Bangaon (SC)	83.36	Mamata Thakur		All India Trinamool Congress	2,11,785
15	Barrackpore	81.77	Dinesh Trivedi		All India Trinamool Congress	2,06,773
16	Dum Dum	80.64	Saugata Roy		All India Trinamool Congress	1,54,934
17	Barasat	83.96	Dr. Kakali Ghoshdostidar		All India Trinamool Congress	1,73,141
18	Basirhat	85.47	Idris Ali		All India Trinamool Congress	1,09,659
19	Jaynagar (SC)	81.52	Pratima Mondal		All India Trinamool Congress	1,08,384
20	Mathurapur (SC)	85.39	Choudhury Mohan Jatua		All India Trinamool Congress	1,38,436
21	Diamond Harbour	81.07	Abhishek Banerjee		All India Trinamool Congress	71,298
22	Jadavpur	79.88	Sugata Bose		All India Trinamool Congress	1,25,203
23	Kolkata Dakshin	69.33	Subrata Bakshi		All India Trinamool Congress	1,36,339
24	Kolkata Uttar	66.68	Sudip Bandyopadhyay		All India Trinamool Congress	96,226
25	Howrah	74.79	Prasun Banerjee		All India Trinamool Congress	1,96,956
26	Uluberia	81.95	Sultan Ahmed		All India Trinamool Congress	2,01,222
27	Srerampur	79.50	Kalyan Banerjee		All India Trinamool Congress	1,52,526
28	Hooghly	82.88	Dr. Ratna De (Nag)		All India Trinamool Congress	1,89,084
29	Arambagh (SC)	85.16	Aparupa Poddar		All India Trinamool Congress	3,46,845
30	Tamluk	87.63	Adhikari Suvendu		All India Trinamool Congress	2,46,481
31	Kanthi	86.71	Adhikari Sisir Kumar		All India Trinamool Congress	2,29,490
32	Ghatal	84.92	Adhikari Deepak (Dev)		All India Trinamool Congress	2,60,891
33	Jhargram (ST)	85.26	Uma Saren		All India Trinamool Congress	3,47,883
34	Medinipur	84.22	Sandhya Roy		All India Trinamool Congress	1,84,666
35	Purulia	81.98	Dr. Mriganka Mahato		All India Trinamool Congress	1,53,877
36	Bankura	82.23	Moon Moon Sen		All India Trinamool Congress	98,506
37	Bishnupur (SC)	86.72	Khan Saumitra		All India Trinamool Congress	1,49,685
38	Bardhaman Purba (SC)	86.22	Sunil Kumar Mondal		All India Trinamool Congress	1,14,479
39	Bardhaman-Durgapur	84.10	Mamtaz Sanghamita		All India Trinamool Congress	1,07,331
40	Asansol	77.76	Babul Supriyo		Bharatiya Janata Party	70,480
41	Bolpur (SC)	84.83	Anupam Hazra		All India Trinamool Congress	2,36,112
42	Birbhum	85.34	Satabdi Roy (Banerjee)		All India Trinamool Congress	6,726

Analysis

According to DNA newspaper's analysis: "BJP emerged as a potential force in West Bengal where it is traditionally considered weak.". While BJP won only 2 seats, BJP candidates for the first time, returned runner-up in 3 seats and it also got 16.8% vote share - BJP's best performance so far surpassing its previous best of 11.66% in 1991 elections. However. Trinamool Congress dominated the election winning 34 seats. The CPI-M led Left Front was decimated winning only 2 seats as the BJP made inroads in its vote share. It was also argued that, ""resurgence of the Left can never be ruled out"

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Party		Assembly segments	Constituencies	Position in Assembly (as of 2016 election)	Constituencies
	All India Trinamool Congress	214		211
	Left Front	29		32
	Bharatiya Janata Party	23		3
	Indian National Congress	28		44
	Others	0		4
Total				294

Postal Ballot wise lead of Parties

Party		No. of Constituencies
	All India Trinamool Congress	16
	Left Front	23
	Bharatiya Janata Party	2
	Indian National Congress	1
Total		42

Region	Total seats	All India Trinamool Congress	Bharatiya Janata Party	Indian National Congress	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Others
Ganges Delta	10	10	00	00	00	00
North Bengal	8	01	01	04	02	00
Northern Hills	4	03	00	00	00	00
Rarh Bengal	10	10	00	00	00	00
South Bengal	10	10	01	00	00	00
Total	42	34	02	04	02	00