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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.

Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	All India Trinamool Congress			Mamata Banerjee	42

Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Bharatiya Janata Party			Dilip Ghosh	42

Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Indian National Congress			Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	40

Flag	Seats contested
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Biman Bose	31
Revolutionary Socialist Party	Manoj Bhattacharya	4
All India Forward Bloc	Debabrata Biswas	3
Communist Party of India	Swapan Banerjee	3

Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)			Provash Ghosh	42

Date published	Polling agency					Lead
Jan 2019	Republic TV - C Voter	43.7%	14.4%	9.6%	31.8%	11.9%

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

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.

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
22	18	2
AITC	BJP	INC

Popular vote	Seats
AITC	24,757,345	43.28	3.93	42	22
BJP	23,028,517	40.25	23.41	42	18
INC	3,210,491	5.61	3.97	40	2

CPI(M)	3,594,283	6.28	16.43	31	0	2
AIFB	239,312	0.42	1.72	3	0
CPI	227,695	0.40	1.93	3	0
RSP	208,275	0.36	2.07	4	0
Others	836,107	1.46		184	0
IND	541,801	0.95		112	0
NOTA	546,788	0.96

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

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.

#	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	Party
Babul Supriyo	Asansol	MoS	Ministry of Environment,Forest and Climate Change	31 May2019	7 July2021	BJP
Debasree Chaudhuri	Raiganj	Ministry of Womenand Child Development
Subhas Sarkar	Bankura	Ministry of Education	7 July2021	9 June2024
John Barla	Alipurduars	Ministry of Minority Affairs
Shantanu Thakur	Bangaon	Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Nisith Pramanik	Cooch Behar	Ministry of Home Affairs;Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

2019 Lok Sabha in West Bengal by Assembly Segment

Assembly segments	Position in assembly
	164	226
	121	3
Did Not Contest	3
	9	44
	0	26
0	3
0	2
0	1
0	1

Party	Leads in 2019
		2
		39
		1

Politics of West Bengal
2014 Indian general election in West Bengal
2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
2024 Indian general election in West Bengal
2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

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