# 2019 Indian general election in West Bengal

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

## 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 | Exit poll | ABP - Nielson | 24 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 8 |
| Exit poll | Exit poll | Times Now - VMR | 28 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 17 |
| Exit poll | Exit poll | Republic TV- Jan Ki Baat | 29 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 18 |
| Exit poll | Exit poll | India Today - AxisMyIndia | 19–22 | 0–1 | 0 | 19-23 | 1 |
| Exit poll | Exit poll | NewsX - CNX | 26 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 8 |
| Exit poll | Exit poll | News24 - Today's Chanakya | 23 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 5 |
| Opinion poll | 06 Apr 2019 | India TV - CNX | 28 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 16 |
| Opinion poll | 05 Apr 2019 | Republic TV - Jan ki Baat | 25 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 12 |
| Opinion poll | Mar 2019 | ABP News- Nielsen | 31 | 3 | – | 8 | 23 |
| Opinion poll | Jan 2019 | Spick Media | 30 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 22 |
| Opinion poll | Jan 2019 | Republic TV - C Voter | 34 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 27 |
| Opinion poll | Nov 2018 | Spick Media | 32 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 27 |
| Opinion poll | Nov 2018 | ABP News - C Voter | 32 | 1 | – | 9 | 23 |

## Candidates
### Trinamool Congress

On 12 March 2019, party president Mamata Banerjee announced the party candidates for the election. 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. Notable inclusions were Bengali actresses Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan.

### List of candidates

| # | Constituency | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) | Candidates Name | Candidates Name | Candidates Name | 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 | Shatabdi Roy | Imam Hossain | Dr. Md. Rezaul Karim (CPI(M)) | Dudh Kumar Mondal |

## Results
### Results by alliance or party

| 22 | 18 | 2 |
| AITC | BJP | INC |
Vote Share (By alliance)
| Parties/ Alliance | Parties/ Alliance | Parties/ Alliance | Parties/ Alliance | Popular vote | Popular vote | Popular vote | Seats | Seats | Seats |
| Parties/ Alliance | Parties/ Alliance | Parties/ Alliance | Parties/ Alliance | Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− |
| | AITC | AITC | AITC | 24,756,985 | 43.27% | 4.64% | 42 | 22 | 12 |
| | BJP | BJP | BJP | 23,028,343 | 40.25% | 22.2% | 42 | 18 | 16 |
| | LF |
| | LF | | CPI(M) | 3,594,283 | 6.28% | | 31 | 0 | 2 |
| | LF | | AIFB | 239,218 | 0.41% | | 3 | 0 | |
| | LF | | CPI | 2,27,695 | 0.39% | | 3 | 0 | |
| | LF | | RSP | 2,08,275 | 0.36% | | 4 | 0 | |
| | LF | Total | Total | 4,269,471 | 7.44% | 16.72% | 41 | 0 | 2 |
| | INC | INC | INC | 3,210,485 | 5.61% | 4.09% | 40 | 2 | 2 |
| | Others | Others | Others | 1,941,029 | 2.5% | | | | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 57,206,313 | 100% | | | | |

### Constituency-wise Results

| # | Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Party | Margin |
| 1 | Cooch Behar | 84.08 | Nisith Pramanik | Bharatiya Janata Party | 54,231 |
| 2 | Alipurduars | 83.79 | John Barla | Bharatiya Janata Party | 2,43,989 |
| 3 | Jalpaiguri | 86.51 | Jayanta Kumar Roy | Bharatiya Janata Party | 1,84,004 |
| 4 | Darjeeling | 78.80 | Raju Singh Bisht | Bharatiya Janata Party | 4,13,443 |
| 5 | Raiganj | 79.82 | Debasree Chaudhuri | Bharatiya Janata Party | 60,574 |
| 6 | Balurghat | 83.69 | Sukanta Majumder | Bharatiya Janata Party | 33,293 |
| 7 | Maldaha Uttar | 80.39 | Khagen Murmu | Bharatiya Janata Party | 84,288 |
| 8 | Maldaha Dakshin | 81.24 | Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury | Indian National Congress | 8,222 |
| 9 | Jangipur | 80.72 | Khalilur Rahman | All India Trinamool Congress | 2,45,782 |
| 10 | Baharampur | 79.41 | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | Indian National Congress | 80,696 |
| 11 | Murshidabad | 84.29 | Abu Taher Khan | All India Trinamool Congress | 2,26,417 |
| 12 | Krishnanagar | 83.75 | Mahua Moitra | All India Trinamool Congress | 63,218 |
| 13 | Ranaghat | 84.26 | Jagannath Sarkar | Bharatiya Janata Party | 2,33,428 |
| 14 | Bangaon | 82.64 | Shantanu Thakur | Bharatiya Janata Party | 1,11,594 |
| 15 | Barrackpore | 76.91 | Arjun Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 14,857 |
| 16 | Dum Dum | 76.92 | Saugata Roy | All India Trinamool Congress | 53,002 |
| 17 | Barasat | 81.26 | Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,09,983 |
| 18 | Basirhat | 85.43 | Nusrat Jahan | All India Trinamool Congress | 3,50,369 |
| 19 | Jaynagar | 82.29 | Pratima Mondal | All India Trinamool Congress | 3,16,775 |
| 20 | Mathurapur | 84.86 | Choudhury Mohan Jatua | All India Trinamool Congress | 2,03,974 |
| 21 | Diamond Harbour | 81.98 | Abhishek Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress | 3,20,594 |
| 22 | Jadavpur | 79.11 | Mimi Chakraborty | All India Trinamool Congress | 2,95,239 |
| 23 | Kolkata Dakshin | 69.82 | Mala Roy | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,55,192 |
| 24 | Kolkata Uttar | 65.83 | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,27,095 |
| 25 | Howrah | 74.83 | Prasun Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,03,695 |
| 26 | Uluberia | 81.18 | Sajda Ahmed | All India Trinamool Congress | 2,15,359 |
| 27 | Srerampore | 78.54 | Kalyan Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress | 98,536 |
| 28 | Hooghly | 82.57 | Locket Chatterjee | Bharatiya Janata Party | 73,362 |
| 29 | Arambagh | 83.44 | Aparupa Poddar | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,142 |
| 30 | Tamluk | 85.38 | Dibyendu Adhikari | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,90,165 |
| 31 | Kanthi | 85.83 | Sisir Adhikari | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,11,668 |
| 32 | Ghatal | 82.74 | Deepak Adhikari (Dev) | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,07,973 |
| 33 | Jhargram | 85.71 | Kunar Hembram | Bharatiya Janata Party | 11,767 |
| 34 | Medinipur | 84.24 | Dilip Ghosh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 88,952 |
| 35 | Purulia | 82.38 | Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato | Bharatiya Janata Party | 2,04,732 |
| 36 | Bankura | 83.25 | Subhas Sarkar | Bharatiya Janata Party | 1,74,333 |
| 37 | Bishnupur | 87.34 | Saumitra Khan | Bharatiya Janata Party | 78,047 |
| 38 | Bardhaman Purba | 84.78 | Sunil Kumar Mondal | All India Trinamool Congress | 89,311 |
| 39 | Bardhaman-Durgapur | 82.67 | S. S. Ahluwalia | Bharatiya Janata Party | 2,439 |
| 40 | Asansol | 76.62 | Babul Supriyo | Bharatiya Janata Party | 1,97,637 |
| 41 | Bolpur | 85.74 | Asit Kumar Mal | All India Trinamool Congress | 1,06,402 |
| 42 | Birbhum | 85.34 | Shatabdi Roy | All India Trinamool Congress | 88,924 |

### Constituency wise alliance or party votes

| # | Constituency | TMC votes | NDA votes | UPA votes | LF votes | Win Margin |
| 1 | Cooch Behar | 677,363 | 731,594 | 28,215 | 46,648 | 54,231 |
| 2 | Alipurduars | 506,815 | 750,804 | 27,427 | 54,010 | 243,989 |
| 3 | Jalpaiguri | 576,141 | 760,145 | 28,488 | 76,054 | 184,004 |
| 4 | Darjeeling | 336,624 | 750,067 | 65,186 | 50,524 | 413,443 |
| 5 | Raiganj | 451,078 | 511,652 | 83,662 | 183,039 | 60,574 |
| 6 | Balurghat | 506,024 | 539,317 | 36,783 | 72,990 | 33,293 |
| 7 | Maldaha Uttar | 425,236 | 509,524 | 305,270 | 50,401 | 84,288 |
| 8 | Maldaha Dakshin | 351,353 | 436,048 | 444,270 | - | 8,222 |
| 9 | Jangipur | 562,838 | 317,056 | 255,836 | 95,501 | 245,782 |
| 10 | Baharampur | 510,410 | 143,038 | 591,147 | 13,362 | 80,696 |
| 11 | Murshidabad | 604,346 | 247,809 | 377,929 | 180,793 | 226,417 |
| 12 | Krishnanagar | 614,872 | 551,654 | 38,305 | 120,222 | 63,218 |
| 13 | Ranaghat | 549,825 | 783,254 | 23,297 | 97,771 | 233,428 |
| 14 | Bangaon | 576,028 | 687,622 | 22,618 | 90,122 | 1,11,594 |
| 15 | Barrackpore | 458,137 | 472,994 | 15,746 | 117,456 | 14,857 |
| 16 | Dum Dum | 512,062 | 459,060 | 29,097 | 167,590 | 53,002 |
| 17 | Barasat | 648,444 | 538,275 | 37,277 | 124,068 | 109,983 |
| 18 | Basirhat | 782,078 | 431,709 | 104,183 | 68,316 | 350,369 |
| 19 | Jaynagar| | 761,206 | 444,427 | 18,758 | 67,913 | 316,775 |
| 20 | Mathurapur | 726,828 | 522,854 | 32,324 | 92,417 | 203,974 |
| 21 | Diamond Harbour | 791,127 | 470,533 | 19,828 | 93,941 | 320,594 |
| 22 | Jadavpur | 688,472 | 393,233 | - | 302,264 | 295,239 |
| 23 | Kolkata Dakshin | 573,119 | 417,927 | 42,618 | 140,275 | 155,192 |
| 24 | Kolkata Uttar | 474,891 | 347,796 | 26,093 | 71,080 | 127,095 |
| 25 | Howrah | 576,711 | 473,016 | 32,107 | 105,547 | 103,695 |
| 26 | Uluberia | 694,945 | 479,586 | 27,568 | 81,314 | 215,359 |
| 27 | Srerampore | 637,707 | 539,171 | 32,509 | 152,281 | 98,536 |
| 28 | Hooghly | 598,086 | 671,448 | 25,374 | 121,588 | 73,362 |
| 29 | Arambagh | 649,929 | 648,787 | 25,128 | 100,520 | 1,142 |
| 30 | Tamluk | 724,433 | 534,268 | 16,001 | 136,129 | 190,165 |
| 31 | Kanthi | 711,872 | 600,204 | 16,851 | 76,185 | 1,11,668 |
| 32 | Ghatal | 717,959 | 609,986 | 32,793 | 97,062 | 1,07,973 |
| 33 | Jhargram | 614,816 | 626,583 | 20,754 | 75,680 | 11,767 |
| 34 | Medinipur | 596,481 | 685,433 | 20,807 | 62,319 | 88,952 |
| 35 | Purulia | 463,375 | 668,107 | 84,477 | 68,464 | 204,732 |
| 36 | Bankura | 500,986 | 675,319 | 20,472 | 100,282 | 174,333 |
| 37 | Bishnupur | 578,972 | 657,019 | 17,932 | 102,615 | 78,047 |
| 38 | Bardhaman Purba | 640,834 | 551,523 | 38,472 | 175,920 | 89,311 |
| 39 | Bardhaman-Durgapur | 595,937 | 598,376 | 38,516 | 161,329 | 2,439 |
| 40 | Asansol | 435,741 | 633,378 | 21,038 | 87,608 | 197,637 |
| 41 | Bolpur | 699,172 | 592,769 | 30,112 | 91,964 | 106,402 |
| 42 | Birbhum | 654,070 | 565,153 | 75,451 | 96,763 | 88,924 |

## 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.

## Analysis
### Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

| Party | Party | 2016 West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election | West Bengal Vidhan Sabha segments (as of 2019 India Lok Sabha election) | 2021 West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election | West Bengal Vidhan Sabha segments (as of 2024 India Lok Sabha election) |
| | BJP | 3 | 121 | 77 | 90 |
| | INC | 44 | 9 | 0 | 10 |
| | TMC | 211 | 164 | 215 | 193 |
| | Left Front | 32 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | Others | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 294 | 294 | 294 | 294 |

### Postal Ballot wise lead of Parties

| Party | Party | No. of Constituencies |
| | Trinamool Congress | 2 |
| | Left Front | 1 |
| | Bharatiya Janata Party | 39 |
| | Indian National Congress | 0 |
| Total | Total | 42 | 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 15,800 votes in 2019 general elections.

## Region-Wise Results

| Region | Total seats | All India Trinamool Congress | All India Trinamool Congress | Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Janata Party | Indian National Congress | Indian National Congress | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Others |
| East Bengal (Ganges Delta Region) | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | | 0 | | 0 |
| North Bengal | 8 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Northern Hills | 4 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | | 0 | | 0 |
| West Bengal (Rarh Region) | 10 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | | 0 | | 0 |
| South Bengal | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | | 0 | | 0 | | 0 |
| Total | 42 | 22 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |