Jalpaiguri Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

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.

Jalpaiguri Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

The Jalpaiguri Parliamentary Constituency is one of West Bengal's 42 Lok Sabha parliamentary constituencies and came into being in the year 1962 and currently has 1,252,142 voters. The Jalpaiguri Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 3) consists of 1,252,142 number of electorates in totality, of these 662,777 are males and 589,365 are females as the Election commission of India 2009 data suggests. It consists of seven legislative assembly segments, of which one is reserved for the SC category. The headquarters of the Jalpaiguri District lies in the city of Jalpaiguri which has a total area of 70.29 sq km. The district has a total area of 6,245 sq km.

As per the 2011 census data, the total population of the district is 3,869,675 of which 1,983,064 are males and 1,889,782 are females. The population growth rate of Jalpaiguri was about 14% from 2001 to 2011 and it has a population density of 621 persons per sq km. About 12% of the population is under the age of six and the sex ratio of Jalpaiguri is 954 females per 1000 males. With an average literacy rate of 73.79%, which is higher than the national average, the male and female literacy rates are 79.95% and 66.23% respectively. Bengali is the official language here while Hindi, Urdu, Marwari and English are also widely spoken by the locals. Various major roads are connected to this area. The National Highway NH-31 and its extensions are connected to the Jalpaiguri District.

List of winner/current and runner up MPs Jalpaiguri Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Jalpaiguri 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 Jalpaiguri constituency is Shri Bijoy Chandra Barman of AITC.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	winner/current MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	3	Jalpaiguri	(SC)	Bijoy Chandra Barman	M	AITC	494773	Mahendra Kumar Roy	M	CPM	425167
2009	3	Jalpaiguri	(SC)	Roy,Shri Mahendra Kumar	M	CPM	469613	Barma Sukhbilas	M	INC	381242
2004	3	Jalpaiguri	GEN	Minati Sen	F	CPM	424163	Parash Dutta	M	AITC	243558
1999	3	Jalpaiguri	GEN	Minati Sen	F	CPM	405785	Kalyan Chakraborty	M	AITC	296848
1998	3	Jalpaiguri	GEN	Minati Sen	F	CPM	426672	Kalyan Chakraborty	M	WBTC	251697
1996	3	Jalpaiguri	GEN	Jitendra Nath Das	M	CPM	434577	Deb Prasad Roy	M	INC	322115
1991	3	Jalpaiguri	GEN	Jitendra Nath Das	M	CPM	364285	Tushar Kanti Choudhuri	M	INC	249929
1989	3	Jalpaiguri	GEN	Manik Sanyal	M	CPM	387805	Sriram Singh	M	INC	275677
1984	3	Jalpaiguri	GEN	Manik Sanyal	M	CPM	285619	Arun Moitra	M	INC	252447
1980	3	Jalpaiguri	GEN	Subodh Sen	M	CPM	232751	Sriram Singh	M	INC(I)	142355
1977	3	Jalpaiguri	GEN	Khagendra Nath Dasgupta	M	IND	173484	Maya Ray	F	INC	115786
1971	2	Jalpaiguri	(ST)	Tuna Oraon	M	INC	113104	Birsen Kujar	M	CPM	60137
1967	2	Jalpaiguri	(ST)	B. N. Katham	M	INC	121613	A. H. Besterwitch	M	IND	104725
1962	2	Jalpaiguri	GEN	Nalini Ranjan Ghosh	M	INC	117814	Saroj Kumar Chakrabarty	M	RSP	93221

*PC = Parliamentary Constituency

List of Assembly Constituencies in Jalpaiguri Parliamentary Constituency

The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Jalpaiguri parliamentary constituency.

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Mekliganj (SC)	Dhupguri (SC)	Maynaguri (SC)
Jalpaiguri (SC)	Rajganj (SC)	Dabgram-Phulbari
Mal (ST)