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Raiganj Lok Sabha constituency

Lok Sabha Constituency in West Bengal, India

Field	Value
type	LS
name	Raiganj WB-5
map_image
map_caption	Interactive Map Outlining Raiganj Lok Sabha Constituency
established	1962-present
reservation	None
mp	Kartick Chandra Paul
party
alliance
latest_election_year	2024
state	West Bengal
assembly_cons	Islampur
Goalpokhar
Chakulia
Karandighi
Hemtabad
Kaliaganj
Raiganj
electors	1,387,526

Goalpokhar Chakulia Karandighi Hemtabad Kaliaganj Raiganj

Raiganj Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Raiganj in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 5 Raiganj Lok Sabha constituency are in Uttar Dinajpur district.

Assembly segments

'''Parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal''' - 1. Cooch Behar, 2. Alipurduars, 3. Jalpaiguri, 4. Darjeeling, 5. '''Raiganj''', 6. Balurghat, 7. Maldaha Uttar, 8. Maldaha Dakshin, 9. Jangipur, 10. Baharampur, 11. Murshidabad, 12. Krishnanagar, 13. Ranaghat, 14. Bangaon, 15. Barrackpore, 16. Dum Dum, 17. Barasat, 18. Basirhat, 19. Jaynagar, 20. Mathurapur, 21. Diamond Harbour, 22. Jadavpur, 23. Kolkata Dakshin, 24. Kolkata Uttar, 25. Howrah, 26. Uluberia, 27. Serampore, 28. Hooghly, 29. Arambagh, 30. Tamluk, 31, Kanthi, 32. Ghatal, 33. Jhargram, 34. Medinipur, 35. Purulia, 36. Bankura, 37. Bishnupur, 38. Bardhaman Purba, 39. Bardhaman Durgapur, 40. Asansol, 41. Bolpur, 42. Birbhum

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 5 Raiganj is composed of the following segments from 2009:

No	Name	District	Member
29	Islampur	Uttar Dinajpur	Abdul Karim Chowdhury
30	Goalpokhar	Md. Ghulam Rabbani
31	Chakulia	Minhajul Arfin Azad
32	Karandighi	Goutam Paul
33	Hemtabad (SC)	Satyajit Barman
34	Kaliaganj (SC)	Soumen Roy
35	Raiganj	Krishna Kalyani

Members of Parliament

Year	Name	Party
1962	Chapala Kanta Bhattacharjee
1967
1971	Siddharta Shankar Ray
1972^	Maya Ray
1977	Md. Hayat Ali
1980	Golam Yazdani
1984
1989
1991	Subrata Mukherjee
1996
1998
1999	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi
2004
2009	Deepa Dasmunsi
2014	Mohammed Salim
2019	Debasree Chaudhuri
2024	Kartick Chandra Paul

^ denotes by-elections

Election results

General election 2024

General election 2019

General election 2014

General election 2009

Abdul Karim Chowdhary, contesting as an Independent candidate, was a rebel Trinamool Congress Leader.

General election 2004

By-election 1972

A by-election was held in this constituency in 1972 which was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MP Siddhartha Shankar Ray and his subsequent election to the State Assembly from the Maldaha Assembly constituency. In the by-election, Maya Ray of Congress defeated his nearest rival S.K. Niyogi, a United Front-supported Independent Candidate, by 143,624 votes, thus breaking the record of Siddhartha Shankar Ray who had won the seat in 1971 by 64,007 votes.

General election 1971

References

"Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014". Election Commission of India.
"Delimitation Commission Order No. 18". Government of West Bengal.
"Raiganj Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name".
(4 June 2024). "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Raiganj". Election Commission of India.
(4 June 2024). "Raiganj Constituency Lok Sabha Election Results 2014 - 2024". The Times of India.
"General Election 2019 - Election Commission of India".
"General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results". Election Commission of India.
"General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results". Election Commission of India.
"General Elections, 2004 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results". Election Commission of India.
"General Elections, India, 1971 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results". Election Commission.

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