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.
Hooghly Lok Sabha Election Results 2019
Candidate | Party | EVM Votes | Migrant Votes | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % of Votes | Status |
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Locket Chatterjee | Bharatiya Janata Party | 670031 | 0 | 1417 | 671448 | 46.06 | Winner |
Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | All India Trinamool Congress | 597482 | 0 | 604 | 598086 | 41.03 | 1st Runner-up |
Pradip Saha | Communist Party Of India (Marxist) | 121329 | 0 | 259 | 121588 | 8.34 | 2nd Runner-up |
Pratul Chandra Saha | Indian National Congress | 25329 | 0 | 45 | 25374 | 1.74 | 3rd Runner-up |
NOTA | None Of The Above | 13498 | 0 | 27 | 13525 | 0.93 | 4th Runner-up |
Bhaskar Ghosh | Socialist Unity Centre Of India (Communist) | 8079 | 0 | 3 | 8082 | 0.55 | 5th Runner-up |
Sajal Adhikari | Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) | 8010 | 0 | 2 | 8012 | 0.55 | 6th Runner-up |
Vijay Kumar Mahato | Bahujan Samaj Party | 5125 | 0 | 13 | 5138 | 0.35 | 7th Runner-up |
Noor Hossain Mondal | Independent | 3507 | 0 | 2 | 3509 | 0.24 | 8th Runner-up |
Dulal Ch. Hembram | Independent | 3078 | 0 | 2 | 3080 | 0.21 | 9th Runner-up |
The Hooghly Parliamentary Constituency is one of West Bengal's 42 Lok Sabha constituencies and came into being in 1951 and has 1,405,684 voters. 1,405,684 is the total electorate count in the Hooghly Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 28). Out of these 726,412 number of electorates are males and the remaining 679,272 are belong to the female category as the Election commission of India 2009 reports suggest.It comprises of seven legislative assembly segments, of which two are reserved for the SC category. The headquarters of the Hooghly District lie in the city of Hooghly and it has a total area of 3,149 sq km. The district comprises of four sub divisions and has an average elevation of 200 m. The River Hoogly flows on the eastern border of the district. The district has enormous historical and cultural importance.
As per the 2011 India census data, the total population of the district is 5,530,000 of which 2,814,653 are males and 2,704,492 are females. The population growth rate of Hooghly District was 9.46% from 2001 to 2011 and it has a population density of 1,753 persons per sq km. About 9.66% of population is under the age of six and the sex ratio is 961 females per 1000 males. With an average literacy rate of 81.80, Hoogly has male and female literacy rates of 87.03 and 76.36% respectively. Bengali is the official language here while English and Hindi are also widely spoken. The National Highways NH-2 and NH-6 are connected to this district.
List of winner/current and runner up MPs Hooghly Parliamentary Constituency.
The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Hooghly 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 Hooghly constituency is Dr. Ratna De (Nag) of AITC.Year | PC No. | PC Name | Category | winner/current MP | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner Up MP | Gender | Party | Vote |
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2014 | 28 | Hooghly | GEN | Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | F | AITC | 614312 | Pradip Saha | M | CPM | 425228 |
2009 | 28 | Hooghly | GEN | Dr. Ratna De Nag | F | AITC | 574022 | Rupchand Pal | M | CPM | 492499 |
2004 | 27 | Hooghly | GEN | Rupchand Pal | M | CPM | 496890 | Indrani Mukherjee | M | AITC | 329924 |
1999 | 27 | Hooghly | GEN | Rupchand Pal | M | CPM | 440674 | Tapan Das Gupta | M | AITC | 428189 |
1998 | 27 | Hooghly | GEN | Rupchand Pal | M | CPM | 431229 | Tapan Dasgupta | M | WBTC | 425113 |
1996 | 27 | Hooghly | GEN | Rupchand Pal | M | CPM | 452353 | Gouri Sankar Banerjee | M | INC | 413856 |
1991 | 27 | Hooghly | GEN | Rupchand Pal | M | CPM | 383238 | Umasnkar Halder | M | INC | 327579 |
1989 | 27 | Hooghly | GEN | Rupchand Pal | M | CPM | 423701 | Umasankar Halder | M | INC | 354154 |
1984 | 27 | Hooghly | GEN | Indumati Bhattacharyya | F | INC | 320436 | Rup Chand Pal | M | CPM | 309469 |
1980 | 27 | Hooghly | GEN | Rup Chand Pal | M | CPM | 280605 | Santimohan Roy | M | INC(I) | 202212 |
1977 | 27 | Hooghly | GEN | Bijoy Krishna Modak | M | CPM | 223818 | Bishnu Charan Banerjee | M | INC | 117559 |
1971 | 25 | Hooghly | GEN | Bijoy Krishna Modak | M | CPM | 202672 | Phani Ghosh | M | INC | 171201 |
1967 | 25 | Hooghly | GEN | B. K. Modak | M | CPM | 198229 | P. K. Palit | M | INC | 188659 |
1962 | 23 | Hooghly | GEN | Provat Kar | M | CPI | 108359 | Nirmal Kumar Sen | M | INC | 105716 |
1957 | 12 | Hooghly | GEN | Provat Kar | M | CPI | 81329 | Sachindra Chowdhury | M | INC | 78356 |
1951 | 15 | Hooghly | GEN | N. C. Chatterjee | M | HMS | 71798 | Renuka Roy | M | INC | 66898 |
*PC = Parliamentary Constituency
List of Assembly Constituencies in Hooghly Parliamentary Constituency
The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Hooghly parliamentary constituency.Names of Assembly Constituencies | ||
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Singur | Chandannagar | Chunchura |
Balagarh (SC) | Pandua | Saptagram |
Dhanekhali (SC) |
Last Updated on June 28, 2019