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{{Infobox Lok Sabha Constituency
|Name = Alipurduars
|image = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=y|frame-width=300|frame-height=300|frame-align=center|type=shape|from=Lok Sabha constituencies/2021/West Bengal/Alipurduars.map}}
|caption = Interactive Map Outlining Alipurduars Lok Sabha Constituency
|Existence = 1977-present
|Reservation = [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|ST]]
|CurrentMPParty = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|CurrentMP = [[John Barla]]
|ElectedByYear = [[2019 Indian general elections|2019]]
|State = [[West Bengal]]
|AssemblyConstituencies = [[Tufanganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Tufanganj]] [[Kumargram (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kumargram]] [[Kalchini (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalchini]] [[Alipurduars (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Alipurduars]] [[Falakata (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Falakata]] [[Madarihat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Madarihat]] [[Nagrakata (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Nagrakata]]
|Electorate = 1,470,911<ref name=turnout>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/GE2014/PC_WISE_TURNOUT.htm |title=Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014 |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=17 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702210941/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/GE2014/PC_WISE_TURNOUT.htm |archive-date=July 2, 2014 }}</ref>
}}
'''Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency)''' is one of the 543 [[Lok Sabha|parliamentary]] constituencies in [[India]]. The constituency centres on [[Alipurduar]] in [[West Bengal]]. While six assembly segments of No. 2 Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency) are in [[Alipurduar district]], one segment is in [[Cooch Behar district]]. The seat is reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|scheduled tribes]].

==Assembly segments==
[[File:Westbengalen Wahlkreise Lok Sabha.svg|thumb|350 px|right|'''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. 2 Alipurduars, reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|Scheduled tribes (ST)]], is composed of the following [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] segments from 2009:<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/WestBengal/FINAL%20ORDER%20NOTIFICATION_English.pdf |title=Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 |access-date=2009-05-27 |work=Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies |publisher=Government of West Bengal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619064327/http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |archive-date=19 June 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{|class="wikitable sortable"
!width="50px" style="font-size:75%"|Constituency number
!Name
!style="font-size:75%"|Reserved for [[Dalit|SC]]/[[Adivasi|ST]]/None)
!District
!colspan=2|Party
!MLA
|-
|9
|[[Tufanganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Tufanganj]]
|None
|[[Cooch Behar District|Cooch Behar]]
|rowspan=7 bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"| ||[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|Malati Rava Roy
|-
|10
|[[Kumargram (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kumargram]]
|ST
|[[Alipurduar district|Alipurduar]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|Manoj Kumar Oraon
|-
|11
|[[Kalchini (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalchini]]
|ST
|[[Alipurduar district|Alipurduar]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|Bishal Lama
|-
|12
|[[Alipurduars (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Alipurduars]]
|None
|[[Alipurduar district|Alipurduar]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|Suman Kanjilal
|-
|13
|[[Falakata (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Falakata]]
|SC
|[[Alipurduar district|Alipurduar]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|Dipak Barman
|-
|14
|[[Madarihat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Madarihat]]
|ST
|[[Alipurduar district|Alipurduar]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|Manoj Tigga
|-
|21
|[[Nagrakata (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Nagrakata]]
|ST
|[[Jalpaiguri district|Jalpaiguri]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|Puna Bhengra
|-
|}

==Members of the Parliament==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Lok Sabha!!Duration!!Name of M.P.!! colspan="2" |Party Affiliation
|-
|[[6th Lok Sabha|Sixth]]||1977-80|| rowspan="5" |[[Pius Tirkey]]<ref name=loksabha1977>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1977/Vol_I_LS_77.pdf |title=General Elections, 1977 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=22 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718185438/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1977/Vol_I_LS_77.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2014 }}</ref>|| rowspan="10" style="background-color: {{party color|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}}" |
| rowspan="10" |[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
|-
|[[7th Lok Sabha|Seventh]]||1980-84
|-
|[[8th Lok Sabha|Eighth]]||1984-89
|-
|[[9th Lok Sabha|Ninth]]||1989-91
|-
|[[10th Lok Sabha|Tenth]]||1991-96
|-
|[[11th Lok Sabha|Eleventh]]||1996-98|| rowspan="4" |[[Joachim Baxla]]
|-
|[[12th Lok Sabha|Twelfth]]||1998-99
|-
|[[13th Lok Sabha|Thirteenth]]||1999-04
|-
|[[14th Lok Sabha|Fourteenth]]||2004-09
|-
|[[15th Lok Sabha|Fifteenth]]||2009-14||[[Manohar Tirkey]]
|-
|[[16th Lok Sabha|Sixteenth]]||2014-19||[[Dasrath Tirkey]]<ref name=loksabha2014>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2014/33%20-%20Constituency%20wise%20detailed%20result.pdf |title = General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work = West Bengal | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 21 June 2016 }}</ref>||style="background-color: {{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}" |
||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|-
| [[17th Lok Sabha|Seventeenth]]||2019-[[incumbent]]||[[John Barla]]<ref name=loksabha2019>{{cite web |url = http://results.eci.gov.in/pc/en/constituencywise/ConstituencywiseS2534.htm?ac=34 |title = General Elections 2019 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work = West Bengal |publisher = Election Commission of India |access-date = 26 May 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190622134503/http://results.eci.gov.in/pc/en/constituencywise/ConstituencywiseS2534.htm?ac=34 |archive-date = 22 June 2019 |url-status = dead }}</ref>||style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
||[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|}

==General election results==
===General election 2019===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2019 Indian general election]]: [[Alipurduar]]s}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = [[John Barla]]
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes = 7,50,804
|percentage = 54.40
|change = +27.10
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = [[Dasrath Tirkey]]
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|votes = 5,06,815
|percentage = 36.72
|change = +7.26
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = Mili Oraon
|party = Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
|votes = 54,010
|percentage = 3.91
|change = -23.81
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = Mohanlal Basumata
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = 27,427
|percentage = 1.99
|change = -7.50
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 21,175
|percentage = 1.53
|change = -0.09
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 2,43,989
|percentage = 17.68
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 13,81,176
|percentage = 83.79
|change = +0.61
}}
{{Election box Registered electors
|reg. electors = 16,48,383
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing = +9.92
}}
{{Election box end}}

===General election 2014===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2014 Indian general elections]]: Alipurduars <ref name=loksabha2014/>}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = [[Dasrath Tirkey]]
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|votes = 3,62,453
|percentage = 29.46
|change = +0.32
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = [[Manohar Tirkey]]
|party = Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
|votes = 3,41,056
|percentage = 27.72
|change = -13.50
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Birendra Bara Oraon
|votes = 3,35,857
|percentage = 27.30
|change = +5.90
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = [[Joseph Munda]]
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = 1,16,718
|percentage = 9.49
|change = +9.49
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = Eliash Narjinary
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|votes = 11,039
|percentage = 0.90
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = Paul Dexion Khariya
|party = Independent (politician)
|votes = 10,450
|percentage = 0.85
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = Kapin Ch. Boro
|party = Independent (politician)
|votes = 7,676
|percentage = 0.63
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = Subash Chik Baraik
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|votes = 7,131
|percentage = 0.58
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = Ishabela Kujur
|party = Rashtriya Janadhikar Suraksha Party
|votes = 5,961
|percentage = 0.49
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = Bilkan Bara
|party = Samajwadi Jan Parishad
|votes = 5,340
|percentage = 0.44
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = None of the Above
|party = None of the Above
|votes = 19,885
|percentage = 1.62
|change = ---
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 21,397
|percentage = 1.74
|change = -10.34
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 13,32,409
|percentage = 83.18
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
|swing = -6.43
}}
{{Election box end}}

===General election 2009===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2009 Indian general elections|General Election, 2009]]: [[Alipurduar]]s<ref name=loksabha2009>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2009/Stats/VOLI/25_ConstituencyWiseDetailedResult.pdf |title = General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work = West Bengal | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 22 May 2014 }}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
|candidate = [[Manohar Tirkey]]
|votes = 384,890
|percentage = 41.22
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Paban Kumar Lakra
|votes = 272,068
|percentage = 29.14
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Manoj Tigga]]
|votes = 199,843
|percentage = 21.40
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|candidate = [[Joachim Baxla]]
|votes = 18,855
|percentage = 2.02
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|candidate = Pauldexion Khariya
|votes = 16,856
|percentage = 1.81
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Elias Narjinary
|votes = 14,155
|percentage = 1.52
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = SWJP
|candidate = Bilkan Bara
|votes = 9,659
|percentage = 1.03
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|candidate = Thaddeus Lakra
|votes = 8,750
|percentage = 0.94
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|candidate = Kamal Lama
|votes = 8,658
|percentage = 0.93
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 933,734
|percentage = 75.96
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===General elections 1977-2004===
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2" |Year
! colspan="2" |Winner
! colspan="2" |Runner-up
|-
!Candidate
!Party
!Candidate
!Party
|-
|1977
|[[Pius Tirkey]]
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
|Tuna Oraon
|[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name=loksabha1977/>
|-
|1980
|[[Pius Tirkey]]
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
|Tuna Oraon
|[[Indian National Congress (I)]]<ref name="loksabha1980">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf|title=General Elections, 1980 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results|work=West Bengal|publisher=Election Commission of India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718175926/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf|archive-date=18 July 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=22 May 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1984
|[[Pius Tirkey]]
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
|Philip Minj
|[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name="loksabha1984">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1984/Vol_I_LS_84.pdf|title=General Elections, 1984 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results|work=West Bengal|publisher=Election Commission of India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718184911/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1984/Vol_I_LS_84.pdf|archive-date=18 July 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=22 May 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1989
|[[Pius Tirkey]]
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
|Denis Lakra
|[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name="loksabha1989">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1989/Vol_I_LS_89.pdf|title=General Elections, 1989 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results|work=West Bengal|publisher=Election Commission of India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718183934/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1989/Vol_I_LS_89.pdf|archive-date=18 July 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=22 May 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1991
|[[Pius Tirkey]]
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
|Philip Minj
|[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name="loksabha1991">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1991/VOL_I_91.pdf|title=General Elections, 1991 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results|work=West Bengal|publisher=Election Commission of India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718183558/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1991/VOL_I_91.pdf|archive-date=18 July 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=22 May 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1996
|[[Joachim Baxla]]
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
|[[Pius Tirkey]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name="loksabha1996">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1996/Vol_I_LS_96.pdf|title=General Elections, 1996 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results|work=West Bengal|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=22 May 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1998
|[[Joachim Baxla]]
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
|Dhirendra Narjinarai
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]<ref name="loksabha1998">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1998/Vol_I_LS_98.pdf|title=General Elections, 1998 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results|work=West Bengal|publisher=Election Commission of India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718181833/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1998/Vol_I_LS_98.pdf|archive-date=July 18, 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=22 May 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1999
|[[Joachim Baxla]]
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
|Dhirendra Narjinarai
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]<ref name="loksabha1999">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1999/Vol_I_LS_99.pdf|title=General Elections, 1999 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results|work=West Bengal|publisher=Election Commission of India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718183222/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1999/Vol_I_LS_99.pdf|archive-date=July 18, 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=22 May 2014}}</ref>
|-
|2004
|[[Joachim Baxla]]
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
|Manoj Tigga
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]<ref name="loksabha2004">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_2004/Vol_I_LS_2004.pdf|title=General Elections, 2004 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results|work=West Bengal|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=22 May 2014}}</ref>
|-
|2009
|[[Manohar Tirkey]]
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
|Paban Kumar Lakra
|[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|-
|2014
|[[Dasrath Tirkey]]
|[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|[[Manohar Tirkey]]
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
|-
|2019
|[[John Barla]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|[[Dasrath Tirkey]]
|[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[Alipurduar]]
* [[List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha#West Bengal|List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.indiaelections2014.info/parliament/2019/states/west_bengal/alipurduars/lok_sabha_parliamentary_election_2019_dates.html Alipurduarsr lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule]

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