# 2014 Indian general election in West Bengal

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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 | 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 | Total | Total | Total | 294 | 294 | 294 | 294 |

### Postal Ballot wise lead of Parties

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