# Bardhaman–Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency

Bardhaman–Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency is spread across Paschim Bardhaman district and Purba Bardhaman district in West Bengal. While five of the assembly seats of Bardhaman–Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency are in Purba Bardhaman district, two assembly segment is in Paschim Bardhaman district.
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency, Katwa Lok Sabha constituency and Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency ceased to exist from 2009 and new constituencies came into being: Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency and Bardhaman–Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency.

## Overview

Bardhaman–Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency is a new constituency that includes both the Bardhaman and Durgapur cities and the intermediate villages. In a pre-poll feature about the constituency, The Statesman wrote, "Shivnath Ghosh, a 55-year-old farmer of Belkash village, says, ‘I want the Left Front to be removed from power at the earliest as their sons and family members grab every facility, employment and trade all across the region.’ ... Shivnath's locality has witnessed a change in the guard after the Assembly and the panchayat polls, after the storm of ‘parivartan’ but still remains gasping for a ‘real wind of change’... 'Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, we have new zamindars in the villages, especially the ‘Red Trinamul’ cadres and they dictate the terms leaving us in absolute jeopardy.'
"The Lok Sabha constituency has 15.81 lakh voters, 72 per cent of which comprise rural voters and 7.61 lakh female voters - the highest in the district…The state’s rice bowl also houses uncountable ailing industries…Nearly 1.5 lakh persons have lost their jobs due to retrenchment caused by the collapse of industries."

## Assembly segments

Bardhaman–Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency (parliamentary constituency no. 39) is composed of the following assembly segments:
| No | Name | District | Member | Party | 2024 Lead |
| 260 | Bardhaman Dakshin | Purba Bardhaman | Khokan Das | Trinamool Congress | Trinamool Congress |
| 263 | Monteswar | Purba Bardhaman | Siddiqullah Chowdhury | Trinamool Congress | Trinamool Congress |
| 266 | Bardhaman Uttar (SC) | Purba Bardhaman | Nisith Kumar Malik | Trinamool Congress | Trinamool Congress |
| 267 | Bhatar | Purba Bardhaman | Mangobinda Adhikari | Trinamool Congress | Trinamool Congress |
| 274 | Galsi (SC) | Purba Bardhaman | Nepal Ghorui | Trinamool Congress | Trinamool Congress |
| 276 | Durgapur Purba | Purba Bardhaman | Pradip Mazumdar | Trinamool Congress | Trinamool Congress |
| 277 | Durgapur Paschim | Purba Bardhaman | Lakshman Chandra Ghorui | Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |

## Members of Parliament

| Year | Member | Party |
| 2009 | Saidul Haque | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 2014 | Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita | Trinamool Congress |
| 2019 | S. S. Ahluwalia | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2024 | Kirti Azad Jha | Trinamool Congress |
For Members of Parliament from this area in previous years see Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency, Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency and Katwa Lok Sabha constituency.

## Election results
### 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Bardhaman–Durgapur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Kirti Azad | 720,667 | 47.99 | 6.41 |
| | BJP | Dilip Ghosh | 582,686 | 38.80 | 2.95 |
| | CPI(M) | Sukriti Ghoshal | 153,829 | 10.24 | 1.02 |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 21,595 | 1.44 | 0.15 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,37,981 | 9.19 | 9.02 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 15,01,773 | 81.10 | 1.56 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 18,51,780 | | |
| | AITC gain from BJP | AITC gain from BJP | Swing | 4.68 | |

### 2019

2019 Indian general election: Bardhaman-Durgapur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | S. S. Ahluwalia | 598,376 | 41.75 | +23.95 |
| | AITC | Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita | 595,937 | 41.58 | −4.06 |
| | CPI(M) | Abhas Roy Chowdhury | 161,329 | 11.26 | −22.33 |
| | INC | Ranajit Mukherjee | 38,516 | 2.69 | −0.64 |
| | BSP | Ramkrishna Malik (Dev) | 13,766 | 0.96 | +0.07 |
| | SUCI(C) | Sucheta Kundu (Banerjee) | 6,543 | 0.46 | −0.10 |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 18,540 | 1.29 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 2,439 | 0.17 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 14,33,007 | 82.66 | −1.40 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 17,33,578 | | |
| | BJP gain from AITC | BJP gain from AITC | Swing | +12.01 | |

### General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Bardhaman-Durgapur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita | 5,54,521 | 41.65 | N/A |
| | CPI(M) | Saidul Haque | 4,47,190 | 33.59 | −16.92 |
| | BJP | Debasree Chaudhuri | 2,37,205 | 17.81 | +13.40 |
| | INC | Pradip Agasthi | 44,355 | 3.33 | −37.65 |
| | BSP | Md. Harun | 11,862 | 0.89 | +0.05 |
| | SUCI(C) | Sunil Kumar Purkait | 7,574 | 0.56 | N/A |
| | BMP | Dr. Dhanapati Das | 6,665 | 0.50 | N/A |
| | Independent | Saradamoni Samanta | 4,984 | 0.37 | N/A |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,07,331 | 8.06 | −1.47 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 13,31,242 | 84.07 | +0.20 |
| | AITC gain from CPI(M) | AITC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | +33.19 | |

### General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Bardhaman-Durgapur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | CPI(M) | Saidul Haque | 5,73,399 | 50.52 | |
| | INC | Nargis Begam | 4,65,162 | 40.98 | |
| | BJP | Syed Ali Afzal Chand | 50,081 | 4.41 | |
| | Independent | Shyamali Roy Chowdhury | 13,316 | 1.17 | |
| | AUDF | Madhu Sudan Shet | 13,018 | 1.14 | |
| | BSP | Shiba Pada Biswas | 9,627 | 0.84 | |
| | RDMP | Suman Sarkar | 5,826 | 0.46 | |
| | SP | Ashoke Taru Mallick | 5,099 | 0.44 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,08,237 | 9.53 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 11,35,028 | 83.87 | |
| | CPI(M) win (new seat) | CPI(M) win (new seat) | CPI(M) win (new seat) | CPI(M) win (new seat) | CPI(M) win (new seat) |