The 2024 Indian general election was held in West Bengal in seven phases between 19 April and 1 June 2024 to elect 42 members of the 18th Lok Sabha. The result of the election was announced on 4 June 2024.
The 2024 Indian general election was held in West Bengal in seven phases between 19 April and 1 June 2024 to elect 42 members of the 18th Lok Sabha . The result of the election was announced on 4 June 2024.
The by-elections for Bhagabangola and Baranagar in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly was also scheduled with the general election and took place on 7 May and 1 June respectively.
West Bengal , along with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar , were the only states where the 2024 Indian general election was held in all 7 phases.
Phase wise schedule of 2024 Indian general election in West Bengal
On 16 March 2024, the Election Commission of India announced the schedule of the 2024 Indian general election , with West Bengal scheduled to vote during all the 7 phases starting from 19 April and concluding on 1 June.
Poll event Phase
I II III IV V VI VII 20 March 28 March 12 April 18 April 26 April 29 April 7 May 27 March 4 April 19 April 25 April 3 May 6 May 14 May 28 March 5 April 20 April 26 April 4 May 7 May 15 May 30 March 8 April 22 April 29 April 6 May 9 May 17 May 19 April 26 April 7 May 13 May 20 May 25 May 1 June 4 June 2024 3 3 4 8 7 8 9
Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested
All India Trinamool Congress Mamata Banerjee 42
Bharatiya Janata Party
Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested
Bharatiya Janata Party Sukanta Majumdar 42
Secular Democratic Alliance
Seat-sharing of Secular Democratic Alliance (SDA) in West Bengal
Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Mohammed Salim 23 Indian National Congress Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 12 Revolutionary Socialist Party Tapan Hor 3 Communist Party of India Swapan Banerjee 2 All India Forward Bloc Naren Chatterjee 2
Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) Provash Ghosh 42 Indian Secular Front Nawsad Siddique 17 Bahujan Samaj Party Manoj Hawladar 5 All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen - 4 Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation Dipankar Bhattacharya 1
Constituency AITC BJP SDA
Cooch Behar (SC) AITC Jagadish Chandra Basunia BJP Nisith Pramanik AIFB Nitish Chandra Roy Alipurduars (ST) AITC Prakash Chik Baraik BJP Manoj Tigga RSP Mili Oraon Jalpaiguri (SC) AITC Nirmal Chandra Roy BJP Jayanta Kumar Roy CPI(M) Debraj Barman Darjeeling AITC Gopal Lama BJP Raju Bista INC Munish Tamang Raiganj AITC Krishna Kalyani BJP Kartick Paul INC Ali Imran Ramz (Victor) Balurghat AITC Biplab Mitra BJP Sukanta Majumdar RSP Jaydeb Siddhanta Maldaha Uttar AITC Prasun Banerjee BJP Khagen Murmu INC Mostaque Alam Maldaha Dakshin AITC Shahnawaz Ali Raihan BJP Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury INC Isha Khan Choudhury Jangipur AITC Khalilur Rahaman BJP Dhananjay Ghosh INC Mortaza Hossain Bokul Baharampur AITC Yusuf Pathan BJP Nirmal Kumar Saha INC Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Murshidabad AITC Abu Taher Khan BJP Gouri Shankar Ghosh CPI(M) Mohammed Salim Krishnanagar AITC Mahua Moitra BJP Amrita Roy CPI(M) S. M. Saadi Ranaghat (SC) AITC Mukut Mani Adhikari BJP Jagannath Sarkar CPI(M) Alokesh Das Bongaon (SC) AITC Biswajit Das BJP Shantanu Thakur INC Pradip Biswas Barrackpore AITC Partha Bhowmick BJP Arjun Singh CPI(M) Debdut Ghosh Dum Dum AITC Saugata Roy BJP Shilbhadra Dutta CPI(M) Sujan Chakraborty Barasat AITC Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar BJP Swapan Majumder AIFB Sanjib Chatterjee Basirhat AITC Haji Nurul Islam BJP Rekha Patra CPI(M) Nirapada Sardar Jaynagar (SC) AITC Pratima Mondal BJP Ashok Kandari RSP Samarendra Nath Mandal Mathurapur (SC) AITC Bapi Halder BJP Ashok Purkait CPI(M) Sarat Chandra Haldar Diamond Harbour AITC Abhishek Banerjee BJP Abhijit Das (Bobby) CPI(M) Pratikur Rahaman Jadavpur AITC Saayoni Ghosh BJP Anirban Ganguly CPI(M) Srijan Bhattacharyya Kolkata Dakshin AITC Mala Roy BJP Debasree Chaudhuri CPI(M) Saira Shah Halim Kolkata Uttar AITC Sudip Bandyopadhyay BJP Tapas Roy INC Pradip Bhattacharya Howrah AITC Prasun Banerjee BJP Rathin Chakraborty CPI(M) Sabyasachi Chatterjee Uluberia AITC Sajda Ahmed BJP Arun Uday Paul Chowdhury INC Azahar Mallick Sreerampur AITC Kalyan Banerjee BJP Kabir Sankar Bose CPI(M) Dipsita Dhar Hooghly AITC Rachna Banerjee BJP Locket Chatterjee CPI(M) Monodip Ghosh Arambagh (SC) AITC Mitali Bag BJP Arup Kanti Digar CPI(M) Biplab Kumar Moitra Tamluk AITC Debangshu Bhattacharya BJP Abhijit Gangopadhyay CPI(M) Sayan Banerjee Kanthi AITC Uttam Barik BJP Soumendu Adhikari INC Urbashi Bhattacharya Ghatal AITC Deepak Adhikari (Dev) BJP Hiran Chatterjee CPI Tapan Ganguly Jhargram (ST) AITC Kalipada Soren BJP Pranat Tudu CPI(M) Sonamoni Murmu (Tudu) Medinipur AITC June Malia BJP Agnimitra Paul CPI Biplab Bhatta Purulia AITC Santiram Mahato BJP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato INC Nepal Mahato Bankura AITC Arup Chakraborty BJP Subhas Sarkar CPI(M) Nilanjan Dasgupta Bishnupur (SC) AITC Sujata Mondal BJP Saumitra Khan CPI(M) Shital Kaibartya Bardhaman Purba (SC) AITC Sharmila Sarkar BJP Ashim Kumar Sarkar CPI(M) Nirav Kha Bardhaman–Durgapur AITC Kirti Azad BJP Dilip Ghosh CPI(M) Sukriti Ghosal Asansol AITC Shatrughan Sinha BJP S. S. Ahluwalia CPI(M) Jahanara Khan Bolpur (SC) AITC Asit Kumar Mal BJP Priya Saha CPI(M) Shyamali Pradhan Birbhum AITC Satabdi Roy BJP Debtanu Bhattacharya INC Milton Rashid
Polling agency Date published Margin of error Lead
News18 March 2024 ±4% 17 25 0 0 NDA ABP News-CVoter March 2024 ±5% 23 19 0 0 AITC India TV-CNX March 2024 ±3% 21 20 1 0 AITC Zee News-Matrize February 2024 ±2% 24 17 1 0 AITC India Today-CVoter February 2024 ±3-5% 22 19 1 0 AITC Times Now-ETG February 2024 ±2% 26 15 1 0 AITC ABP News-CVoter December 2023 ±3-5% 23-25 16-18 0-2 0 AITC Times Now-ETG December 2023 ±3% 20-24 18-20 2-4 0 AITC India TV-CNX October 2023 ±3% 30 10 2 0 AITC Times Now-ETG August 2023 ±3% 22-24 16-18 0-3 0 AITC
Polling agency Date published Margin of error Lead
ABP News-CVoter March 2024 ±5% 42.5% 40.9% 17.6% 1.6
Polling agency Lead
ABP News-CVoter 23-27 13-17 1-3 0 NDA DB Live 11-12 26-28 2-4 0 AITC India Today- Axis My India 26-31 11-14 0-2 0 NDA India News-Dynamics 21 19 2 0 NDA India TV-CNX 22-26 14-18 1-2 0 NDA NDTV-Jan Ki Baat 21-26 18-16 0-3 0 NDA News 24-Today's Chanakya 24 17 1 0 NDA News 18-CNBC 21-24 18-21 0 0 NDA News Nation 19 22 1 0 AITC Republic TV-Matrize 21-25 16-21 0 0 NDA Republic TV-PMarq 22 20 0 0 NDA Times Now-ETG 21 20 1 0 NDA TV9 Bharatvarsh- People's Insight -Polstrat 21 20 1 0 NDA
Phase Poll date Constituencies Voter turnout (%)
I 19 April 2024 Cooch Behar, Alipurduars, Jalpaiguri 81.91% II 26 April 2024 Darjeeling, Raiganj, Balurghat 76.58% III 7 May 2024 Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, Jangipur, Murshidabad 77.53% IV 13 May 2024 Baharampur, Krishnanagar, Ranaghat, Bardhaman Purba, Bardhaman–Durgapur, Asansol, Bolpur, Birbhum 80.22% V 20 May 2024 Bongaon, Barrackpore, Howrah, Uluberia, Sreerampur, Hooghly, Arambagh 78.45% VI 25 May 2024 Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal, Jhargram, Medinipur, Purulia, Bankura, Bishnupur 82.71% VII 1 June 2024 Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin, Kolkata Uttar 69.89%
Constituency Poll date Turnout Swing
Cooch Behar (SC) 19 April 2024 82.16% 1.92 Alipurduars (ST) 79.76% 4.03 Jalpaiguri (SC) 83.66% 2.85 Darjeeling 26 April 2024 74.76% 4.04 Raiganj 76.18% 3.64 Balurghat 79.09% 4.60 Maldaha Uttar 7 May 2024 76.03% 1.20 Maldaha Dakshin 76.69% 4.55 Jangipur 75.72% 5.00 Baharampur 13 May 2024 77.54% 1.87 Murshidabad 7 May 2024 81.52% 2.77 Krishnanagar 13 May 2024 80.65% 3.10 Ranaghat (SC) 81.87% 2.39 Bangaon (SC) 20 May 2024 81.04% 1.60 Barrackpore 75.41% 1.50 Dum Dum 1 June 2024 73.81% 2.79 Barasat 80.17% 1.09 Basirhat 84.31% 1.12 Jaynagar (SC) 80.08% 2.21 Mathurapur (SC) 82.02% 2.84 Diamond Harbour 81.04% 0.94 Jadavpur 76.68% 2.41 Kolkata Dakshin 66.95% 2.87 Kolkata Uttar 63.59% 2.16 Howrah 20 May 2024 71.73% 3.10 Uluberia 79.78% 1.40 Sreerampur 76.44% 2.10 Hooghly 81.38% 1.14 Arambagh (SC) 82.62% 0.82 Tamluk 25 May 2024 84.79% 0.59 Kanthi 84.77% 0.52 Ghatal 82.17% 0.23 Jhargram (ST) 83.47% 1.95 Medinipur 81.56% 2.44 Purulia 78.39% 3.71 Bankura 80.75% 2.22 Bishnupur (SC) 85.91% 1.04 Bardhaman Purba (SC) 13 May 2024 82.85% 1.66 Bardhaman–Durgapur 80.72% 1.56 Asansol 73.27% 3.10 Bolpur (SC) 82.66% 3.08 Birbhum 81.91% 3.09
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
29 12 1 AITC BJP INC
Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats
AITC 27,674,133 46.20 2.98 42 29 7 BJP 23,431,081 39.10 1.15 42 12 6 CPI(M) 3,432,981 5.70 0.58 23 0 INC 2,827,055 4.70 0.91 12 1 1 AIFB 144,839 0.20 0.21 2 0 RSP 134,039 0.20 0.19 3 0 CPI 132,693 0.20 0.16 2 0 Total 6,671,207 11.00 2.05 42 1 1 Others 2,176,281 2.80 NOTA 530,985 0.90
Constituency Win Margin
Cooch Behar (SC) 7,88,375 30,267 10,679 7,49,125 Alipurduars (ST) 6,19,867 27,427 6,95,314 Jalpaiguri (SC) 6,79,875 74,092 7,66,568 Darjeeling 5,00,806 83,374 6,79,331 Raiganj 4,92,700 2,63,273 5,60,897 Balurghat 5,64,610 54,217 5,74,996 Maldaha Uttar 4,49,315 3,84,764 5,27,023 Maldaha Dakshin 3,01,026 5,72,395 4,44,027 Jangipur 5,44,427 4,27,790 3,40,814 Baharampur 5,24,516 4,39,494 3,71,885 Murshidabad 6,82,442 5,18,227 2,92,031 Krishnanagar 6,28,789 1,80,201 5,72,084 Ranaghat (SC) 5,95,497 1,23,810 7,82,396 Bongaon (SC) 6,45,812 65,176 7,19,505 Barrackpore 5,20,231 1,09,564 4,55,793 Dum Dum 5,28,579 2,40,784 4,57,919 Barasat 6,92,010 1,00,000 5,77,821 Basirhat 8,03,762 77,899 4,70,215 Joynagar (SC) 8,94,312 40,113 4,24,093 Mathurapur (SC) 7,55,731 61,100 5,54,674 Diamond Harbour 10,48,230 86,953 3,37,300 Jadavpur 7,17,899 2,58,712 4,59,698 Kolkata Dakshin 6,15,274 1,68,531 4,28,043 Kolkata Uttar 4,54,696 1,14,982 3,62,136 Howrah 6,26,493 1,52,005 4,57,051 Uluberia 7,24,622 78,589 5,05,949 Sreerampur 6,73,970 2,39,146 4,99,140 Hooghly 7,02,744 1,39,919 6,25,891 Arambagh (SC) 7,12,587 92,502 7,06,188 Tamluk 6,87,851 85,389 7,65,584 Kanthi 7,15,431 31,122 7,63,195 Ghatal 8,37,990 74,908 6,55,122 Jhargram (ST) 7,43,478 77,302 5,69,430 Medinipur 7,02,192 57,785 6,75,001 Purulia 5,61,410 14,572 1,29,157 5,78,489 Bankura 6,41,813 1,05,359 6,09,035 Bishnupur (SC) 6,74,563 1,05,411 6,80,130 Bardhaman Purba (SC) 7,20,302 1,76,899 5,59,730 Bardhaman-Durgapur 7,20,667 1,53,829 5,82,686 Asansol 6,05,645 1,05,964 5,46,081 Bolpur (SC) 8,55,633 99,383 5,28,380 Birbhum 7,17,961 2,26,260 5,20,311
2024 Lok Sabha in West Bengal by Assembly Segment
Party Assembly segments Position in assembly
192 226 Did Not Contest 1 90 65 11 0 1 0 0 1 0 1
2024 Lok Sabha West Bengal Postal Ballot Wise Leads Map
Party Leads in 2019 Leads in 2024 +/–
2 26 24 39 16 23 0 0 1 0 1
Region Trinamool Congress Bharatiya Janata Party Indian National Congress Communist Party of India (Marxist)
East Bengal (Ganges Delta Region) 54.5% 36.8% 0.53% 8.0% North Bengal 39.1% 34.4% 19.5% 6.9% Northern Hills 45.3% 50.6% 1.6% 2.3% West Bengal (Rarh Region) 49.4% 41.6% 2.5% 6.2% South Bengal 49.2% 42.1% 1.6% 6.9%
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