Raiganj Lok Sabha Constituency
Most Successful parties from Raiganj Lok Sabha
Assembly segments
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As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 5 Raiganj is composed of the following segments from 2009:
No | Name | District | Member | Party | Party leading (in 2024 General Elections) | ||
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29 | Islampur | Uttar Dinajpur | Abdul Karim Chowdhury | TMC | TMC | ||
30 | Goalpokhar | Md. Ghulam Rabbani | TMC | TMC | |||
31 | Chakulia | Minhajul Arfin Azad | TMC | INC | |||
32 | Karandighi | Goutam Pal | TMC | BJP | |||
33 | Hemtabad (SC) | Satyajit Burman | TMC | BJP | |||
34 | Kaliaganj (SC) | Soumen Roy | BJP | BJP | |||
35 | Raiganj | Vacant | BJP |
Members of Parliament
Year | Name | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1962 | Chapala Kanta Bhattacharjee | Indian National Congress | |
1967 | |||
1971 | Siddharta Shankar Ray | ||
1972^ | Maya Ray | ||
1977 | Md. Hayat Ali | Janata Party | |
1980 | Golam Yazdani | Indian National Congress | |
1984 | |||
1989 | |||
1991 | Subrata Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
1996 | |||
1998 | |||
1999 | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | Indian National Congress | |
2004 | |||
2009 | Deepa Dasmunsi | ||
2014 | Mohammed Salim | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
2019 | Debasree Chaudhuri | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2024 | Kartick Paul |
^ denotes by-elections
Election results
General election 2024
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Kartick Paul | 560,897 | 40.99 | ![]() | |
AITC | Krishna Kalyani | 4,92,700 | 36 | ![]() | |
INC | Ali Imran Ramz (Victor) | 2,63,273 | 19.24 | ![]() | |
NOTA | None of the above | 1,940 | 0.14 | ||
Majority | 68,197 | 4.99 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 1,368,471 | 76.18 | ![]() | ||
BJP hold | Swing |
General election 2019
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Debasree Chaudhuri | 511,652 | 40.08 | +21.76 | |
AITC | Kanaia Lal Agarwal | 451,078 | 35.32 | +17.93 | |
CPI(M) | Mohammed Salim | 183,039 | 14.25 | -14.75 | |
INC | Deepa Dasmunshi | 83,662 | 6.55 | -21.95 | |
Majority | 60,574 | 4.74 | |||
Turnout | 1,278,076 | 79.82 | |||
BJP gain from CPI(M) | Swing | +18.26 |
General election 2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI(M) | Mohammed Salim | 317,515 | 29.00 | -9.93 | |
INC | Deepa Dasmunshi | 3,15,881 | 28.50 | -21.79 | |
BJP | Nimu Bhowmik | 2,03,131 | 18.32 | +14.14 | |
AITC | Satya Ranjan Dasmunshi | 1,92,634 | 17.39 | +17.39 | |
SP | Sudip Ranjan Sen | 32,303 | 2.91 | ||
SUCI(C) | Dulal Rajbanshi | 8,592 | 0.78 | ||
BSP | Swapan Kumar Das | 5,629 | 0.51 | ||
Independent | Subrata Adhikary | 5,548 | 0.50 | ||
JDP | Bablu Soren | 5,544 | 0.50 | ||
AAP | Pasarul Alam | 3,614 | 0.33 | ||
AIUDF | Zameerul Hasan | 3,471 | 0.31 | ||
AMB | Nandakishor Singha | 3,338 | 0.30 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 10,929 | 0.99 | --- | |
Majority | 1,634 | 0.15 | -11.56 | ||
Turnout | 11,08,193 | 79.87 | |||
CPI(M) gain from INC | Swing | -20.82 |
General election 2009
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Deepa Dasmunsi | 451,776 | 50.29 | ||
CPI(M) | Bireswar Lahiri | 346,573 | 38.58 | ||
BJP | Gopesh Chandra Sarkar | 37,645 | 4.19 | ||
Independent | Abdul Karim Chowdhary | 18,427 | 2.05 | ||
Independent | Manas Jana | 10,426 | 1.16 | ||
BSP | Akhil Ranjan Mondal | 7,592 | 0.85 | ||
RDMP | Faiz Rahaman | 7,834 | 0.87 | ||
CPI(ML)L | Suleman Hafiji | 4,316 | 0.48 | ||
Independent | Upendra Nath Das | 4,157 | 0.46 | ||
Independent | Anil Biswas | 3,844 | 0.43 | ||
Independent | Nachhir Ali Pramanik | 3,212 | 0.36 | ||
JD(U) | Matiur Rahman | 2,597 | 0.29 | ||
Majority | 1,05,203 | ||||
Turnout | 8,98,399 | 81.05 | |||
INC hold | Swing |
Abdul Karim Chowdhary, contesting as an Independent candidate, was a rebel Trinamool Congress Leader.
General election 2004
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | 421,904 | 46.20 | ||
CPI(M) | Minati Ghosh | 382,757 | 41.90 | ||
AITC | Dr. Zainal Abedin | 57,931 | 6.30 | ||
BSP | Anil Biswas | 11,205 | 1.20 | ||
CPI(ML)L | Ajit Das | 11,154 | 1.20 | ||
Independent | Subrata Adhikary | 9,914 | 1.10 | ||
Independent | Sukamal Biswas | 9,624 | 1.10 | ||
NCP | Achintya Tarafdar | 7,037 | 0.80 | ||
Independent | Ashis Saha | 6,056 | 0.70 | ||
Turnout | 9,13,637 | 79.6 | |||
INC hold | Swing |
By-election 1972
A by-election was held in this constituency in 1972 which was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MP Siddhartha Shankar Ray and his subsequent election to the State Assembly from the Maldaha Assembly constituency. In the by-election, Maya Ray of Congress defeated his nearest rival S.K.Niyogi of United Front Supported Independent Candidate by 143,624 votes, thus breaking the record of Siddhartha Shankar Ray who had won the seat in 1971 by 64,007 votes.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Maya Ray | 149,375 | 93.3 | ||
Independent | S.K.Niyogi | 5,751 | 3.59 | ||
Independent | Md. Salimuddin | 4,979 | 3.11 | ||
Majority | 143,624 | 89.71 | |||
Turnout | 1,60,105 | ||||
INC hold | Swing |
General election 1971
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | 147,360 | 47.30 | ||
CPI(M) | Subodh Sen | 83,353 | 41.90 | ||
AIFB | Nirmal Kumar Basu | 34,956 | 11.20 | ||
NC(O) | Muzaffar Hussain | 18,962 | 6.10 | ||
PSP | Md. Salimuddin | 12,786 | 4.10 | ||
Turnout | 9,13,637 | 79.6 | |||
Majority | 64,007 | (20.5%) | |||
INC hold | Swing |