In 2009 Election Results the UPA won around 261 out of 543 seats, and in the second position was NDA with 158 seats, while 23 seats were won by Left parties.
In 2014 Election Results the BJP won 282 seats out of 543 seats. This took the NDA tally to 336 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. INC could only manage to win 44 seats and stayed in the second position while AIADMK party from Tamil Nadu came third with 37 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.
In 2019, the BJP is set to return to power at the Centre after a sweeping win in the 2019 Lok Sabha election , armed with a bigger mandate than in the 2014 General Election. The party - led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah duo has secured 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress, the main Opposition party, managed to increase its vote share from 2014 only by a handful of votes, with a final tally of 52 seats. There will be no Leader of Opposition in the upcoming Lower House for a second consecutive term.
Baharampur Lok Sabha Election Results 2019
| Candidate | Party | EVM Votes | Migrant Votes | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % of Votes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | Indian National Congress | 589580 | 0 | 1526 | 591106 | 45.47 | Winner |
| Apurba Sarkar (David) | All India Trinamool Congress | 509886 | 0 | 524 | 510410 | 39.26 | 1st Runner-up |
| Krishna Joyardar | Bharatiya Janata Party | 141231 | 0 | 1807 | 143038 | 11 | 2nd Runner-up |
| NOTA | None Of The Above | 14072 | 0 | 14 | 14086 | 1.08 | 3rd Runner-up |
| Samir Biswas | Independent | 13681 | 0 | 1 | 13682 | 1.05 | 4th Runner-up |
| Id Mohammad | Revolutionary Socialist Party | 13342 | 0 | 20 | 13362 | 1.03 | 5th Runner-up |
| Md Ezaruddin | Jamat-E-Seratul Mustakim | 3040 | 0 | 6 | 3046 | 0.23 | 6th Runner-up |
| Kushadhaj Bala | Bahujan Samaj Party | 2892 | 0 | 22 | 2914 | 0.22 | 7th Runner-up |
| Durbadal Das | Independent | 2691 | 0 | 0 | 2691 | 0.21 | 8th Runner-up |
| Anisul Ambia | Socialist Unity Centre Of India (Communist) | 2634 | 0 | 8 | 2642 | 0.2 | 9th Runner-up |
| Kashinath Dutta | Republican Party Of India (A) | 1798 | 0 | 5 | 1803 | 0.14 | 10th Runner-up |
| Asish Singha | Shivsena | 1210 | 0 | 7 | 1217 | 0.09 | 11th Runner-up |
The Baharampur Parliamentary Constituency is one of West Bengal's 42 Lok Sabha constituencies which was formed in 1951 and has 1,180,000 electors. The total number of electorates in the Baharampur Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 10) according to Election Commission of India 2009 reports are 1,179,938 of which 615,127 are males and 564,811 are females. It has a total of seven legislative assembly segments, of which one is reserved for the SC category. The town of Baharampur is the district headquarters of the Murshidabad District and is located 200 km away from Kolkata at an elevation of 18 m. To its west, the River Bhagirath flows and the city is the sixth largest city of the state.
As per the 2011 India census data, the total population here is over 305,600 of which 157,000 are males and 150,000 are females. About 12% of the population is under the age of six and the sex ratio is 945 females per 1000 males. With an average literacy rate of 90.29%, which is much higher than the national average, Baharampur has male and female literacy rates are 92.36% and 88.09% respectively. Bengali, Hindi and English are widely spoken in the area. Silk trade, agriculture, cottage industries, handicraft, etc are the popular economic activities associated to this majorly agrarian area. The National Highway NH-34 which passes through the district places the town on an extensive road network connecting it to several towns and cities.
List of winner/current and runner up MPs Baharampur Parliamentary Constituency.
The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Baharampur parliamentary constituency of all the years from the starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Baharampur constituency is Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of INC.| Year | PC No. | PC Name | Category | Winner/Currentr MP | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner Up MP | Gender | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | Baharampur | GEN | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | M | INC | 583549 | Indranil Sen | M | AITC | 226982 |
| 2009 | 10 | Baharampur | GEN | Chowdhury,Shri Adhir Ranjan | M | INC | 541920 | Pramothes Mukherjee | M | RSP | 354943 |
| 2004 | 10 | Berhampore | GEN | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | M | INC | 508095 | Pramothes Mukherjee | M | RSP | 409194 |
| 1999 | 10 | Berhampore | GEN | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | M | INC | 434073 | Pramothes Mukherjee | M | RSP | 338682 |
| 1998 | 10 | Berhampore | GEN | Promothes Mukherjee | M | RSP | 385979 | Colonel (Retd) Sabyasachi Bagchi | M | BJP | 262610 |
| 1996 | 10 | Berhampore | GEN | Pramothes Mukherjee | M | RSP | 449656 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | M | INC | 405299 |
| 1991 | 10 | Berhampore | GEN | Nani Bhatacharyya | M | RSP | 345678 | Kumar Dipti Sengupta | M | INC | 266469 |
| 1989 | 10 | Berhampore | GEN | Mani Bhattacharya | M | RSP | 376064 | Sankar Das Paul | M | INC | 313268 |
| 1984 | 10 | Berhampore | GEN | Atish Chandra Sinha | M | INC | 317011 | Tridib Chaudhuri | M | RSP | 313964 |
| 1980 | 10 | Berhampore | GEN | Tridib Chaudhari | M | RSP | 307328 | Jagadish Sinha | M | INC(I) | 215059 |
| 1977 | 10 | Berhampore | GEN | Tridip Chaudhuri | M | RSP | 204809 | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | M | INC | 102629 |
| 1971 | 9 | Berhampore | GEN | Tridib Choudhuri | M | RSP | 75316 | Karim Rezaul | M | INC | 64559 |
| 1967 | 9 | Berhampore | GEN | T. Chaudhuri | M | IND | 155789 | D. Sinha | M | INC | 147161 |
| 1957 | 6 | Berhampore | GEN | Tridib Chowdhuri | M | IND | 133477 | Nazrul Haque Khandoker | M | IND | 118995 |
| 1951 | 6 | Berhampore | GEN | Tridib Chaudhuri | M | RSP | 82579 | A. K. M. Zakariah | M | IND | 54186 |
*PC = Parliamentary Constituency
List of Assembly Constituencies in Baharampur Parliamentary Constituency
The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Baharampur parliamentary constituency.| Names of Assembly Constituencies | ||
|---|---|---|
| Burwan (SC) | Kandi | Bharatpur |
| Rejinagar | Beldanga | Baharampur |
| Naoda | ||
Last Updated on June 26, 2019