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{{Short description|Former Lok Sabha constituency in India}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox Lok Sabha Constituency
|image =
|caption =
|Existence = 1962
|Abolished = 2009
|Reservation = None
|CurrentMP =
|ElectedByYear =
|State = [[West Bengal]]
|AssemblyConstituencies = As of 2004: [[Balagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Balagarh (SC)]] [[Pandua (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Pandua]] [[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]] [[Nadanghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Nadanghat]] [[Manteswar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Manteswar]] [[Purbasthali (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Purbasthali]] [[Katwa (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Katwa]]
|Electorate =
}}

'''Katwa Lok Sabha constituency''' was one of the 543 [[Lok Sabha|parliamentary]] constituencies in [[India]]. The constituency centred on [[Katwa]] in [[West Bengal]], which was abolished following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008.

==Overview==
As per order o the [[Delimitation Commission]] issued in respect of the [[delimitation of constituencies]] in the West Bengal, this parliamentary constituency ceased to exist and constituent assembly segments are now part of either of the two new constituencies: [[Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency)]] or [[Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web|url=http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |title=Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 |access-date=2009-05-27 |work=Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies |publisher=Government of West Bengal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918130255/http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |archive-date=2010-09-18 }}</ref>

==Assembly segments==
Katwa Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:<ref>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/LS_2004/Vol_III_LS_2004.pdf | title = Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha | access-date = 2010-10-01 | work = Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies | publisher = Election Commission of India }}</ref>
* [[Balagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Balagarh (SC)]] (assembly constituency no. 188)
* [[Pandua (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Pandua]] (assembly constituency no. 189)
* [[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]] (assembly constituency no. 276)
* [[Nadanghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Nadanghat]] (assembly constituency no. 277)
* [[Manteswar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Manteswar]] (assembly constituency no. 278)
* [[Purbasthali (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Purbasthali]] (assembly constituency no. 279)
* [[Katwa (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Katwa]] (assembly constituency no. 280)

==Members of Parliament==
{| class="wikitable"ìÍĦĤĠč
|-
! Lok Sabha!!Duration!!Constituency!!Name of M.P.!!Party Affiliation
|-
|[[1st Lok Sabha|First]]||1952-57||Kalna-Katwa||Janab Abdus Sattar||[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name=loksabha1952>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1951/VOL_1_51_LS.PDF |title=General Elections, India, 1951- Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission |access-date=2 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008191615/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1951/VOL_1_51_LS.PDF |archive-date= 8 October 2014 }}</ref>
|-
|[[2nd Lok Sabha|Second]]||1957-62||No seat<ref name=loksabha1957>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1957/Vol_I_57_LS.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1957- Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work = West Bengal | publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 2 June 2014}}</ref>||||
|-
|[[3rd Lok Sabha|Third]]||1962-67||Katwa||[[Saradish Roy]]||[[Communist Party of India]]<ref name=loksabha1962>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1962/Vol_I_LS_62.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962- Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work = West Bengal | publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 2 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[4th Lok Sabha|Fourth]]||1967-71||||D.Sen||Indian National Congress<ref name=loksabha1967>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf |title=General Elections, India, 1967 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission |access-date=2 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404203524/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf |archive-date= 4 April 2014 }}</ref>
|-
|[[5th Lok Sabha|Fifth]] ||1971-77||||[[Saroj Mukherjee]]||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<ref name=loksabha1971>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1971/Vol_I_LS71.pdf |title=General Elections, India, 1971 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission |access-date=2 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404195218/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1971/Vol_I_LS71.pdf |archive-date= 4 April 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| [[6th Lok Sabha|Sixth]]||1977-80||||[[Dhirendranath Basu]]||Indian National Congress<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=2 June 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>
|-
| [[7th Lok Sabha|Seventh]]||1980-84||||[[Saifuddin Choudhury]]||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 |access-date=2 June 2014 |url-status=dead |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 }}</ref>
|-
|[[8th Lok Sabha|Eighth]]||1984-89||||Saifuddin Choudhury||Communist Party of India (Marist)<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 |access-date=2 June 2014 |url-status=dead |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 }}</ref>
|-
| [[9th Lok Sabha|Ninth]]||1989-91||||Saifuddin Choudhury||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 |access-date=2 June 2014 |url-status=dead |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 }}</ref>
|-
| [[10th Lok Sabha|Tenth]]||1991-96||||Saifuddin Choudhury||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 |access-date=2 June 2014 |url-status=dead |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 }}</ref>
|-
| [[11th Lok Sabha|Eleventh]]||1996-98||||[[Mahboob Zahedi]]||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 = 2 June 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| [[12th Lok Sabha|Twelfth]]||1998-99||||Mahboob Zahedi||Communist Party of India (Marxist) <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 |access-date=2 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718181833/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1998/Vol_I_LS_98.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| [[13th Lok Sabha|Thirteenth]]||1999-04||||Mahboob Zahedi||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 |access-date=2 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718183222/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1999/Vol_I_LS_99.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2014 }}</ref>
|-
|[[14th Lok Sabha|Fourteenth]]||2004-06||||Mahboob Zahedi||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 = 2 June 2014 }}</ref>
|-
|||2006-09||||[[Abu Ayesh Mondal]]||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=2006byeelction>{{cite web | url = http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/sep/19wb.htm | title = Left retains two seats in W Bengal bypolls | access-date = 2007-09-20 | publisher =rediff.com.}}</ref>
|}
For Members of Parliament from this area in subsequent years see [[Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency)]] and [[Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency)]].

==Election results==

===2006 Bye-election===
A bye-election was held on 16 September 2006 following the death of the sitting MP, Mahboob Zahedi on 8 April 2006.
{{Election box begin | title=Indian Parliamentary bye election, 2006: Katwa constituency}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Abu Ayesh Mondal
|votes = 541.496
|percentage = 60.32
|change = +8.82
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Susanta Ghosh
|votes = 356,162
|percentage = 39.68
|change = +3.18
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 185,334
|percentage = 19.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 8,97,684
|percentage = 75.8
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|loser = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
***Congress Did not Contest In 2006 Bye Polls In Katwa Lok Sabha Constituency.They Supported Trinamool Congress Candidate.***

===General election 2004===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2004 Indian general elections]]: Katwa<ref>CEO West Bengal. ''[http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/Form_7A/Phase%205/Form_7A_19_Jaynagar.pdf Form 7A - 19 Jaynagar]''</ref>}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Mahboob Zahedi]]
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|votes = 494,716
|percentage = 51.50
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Sultan Ahmed (Indian politician)|Sultan Ahmed]]
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|votes = 351,367
|percentage = 36.50
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Saifuddin Choudhury]]
|party = Party of Democratic Socialism (India)
|votes = 60,693
|percentage = 6.30
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)|Independent
|candidate = Hossain Amjad
|votes = 14,685
|percentage = 9.54
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Susul Sarkar
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|votes = 10,323
|percentage = 3.25
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Shyam Sundar Das
|party = Independent (politician)|Independent
|votes = 8,857
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Salil Dutta
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
|votes = 6,290
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Swapan Bhattacharya
|party = Shiv Sena
|votes = 5,442
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)|Independent
|candidate = Rina Mondal
|votes = 3,907
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Kailash Sharma
|party = Samajwadi Party
|votes = 3,541
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Mohammad Zakaria
|party = Independent (politician)|Independent
|votes = 3,362
|percentage = 0.49
|change = ---
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = None of the above
|party = Independent (politician)|Independent
|votes = 3,080
|percentage = 0.49
|change = ---
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 9,66,263
|percentage = 81.31
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 1,43,349
|percentage = 14.9
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|loser = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===General elections 1951-2004===
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Year
!Voters
!Voter Turnout
!Winner
|
|
!Runners up
|
|
|-
|
|
!%age
!Candidate
!%age
!Party
!Candidate
!%age
!Party
|-
|1951
|185,672
|49.22
|Janab Abdus Sattar
|39.15
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|Asutosh Lahiri
|27.36
|[[Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha|Hindu Mahasabha]]<ref name=loksabha1952/>
|-
|1957
|
|
|No seat
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|1962
|277,329
|53.40
|Saraish Roy
|56.57
|[[Communist Party of India|CPI]]
|Anil Kumar Chanda
|43.43
|INC<ref name=loksabha1957/>
|-
|1967
|334,989
|68.94
|D.Sen
|49.82
|INC
|S.K.Mukherjee
|46.44
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]<ref name=loksabha1962/>
|-
|1971
|382,733
|72.16
|Saroj Mukherjee
|56.91
|CPI(M)
|Dwaipayan Sen
|38.39
|INC<ref name=loksabha1971/>
|-
|1977
|369, 900
|64.30
|Dhirendra Nath Basu
|49.84
|INC
|[[Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah]]
|46.64
|CPI (M)<ref name=loksabha1977/>
|-
|1980
|549,370
|77.00
|[[Saifuddin Choudhury]]
|59.37
|CPI (M)
|Dhirendra Nath Basu
|37.41
|INC (I)<ref name =loksabha1980/>
|-
|1984
|662, 480
|82.75
|Saifuddin Choudhury
|53.75
|CPI (M)
|Chowdhury Siddiquallah
|46.55
|INC<ref name=loksabha1984/>
|-
|1989
|811, 640
|83.68
|Saifuddin Choudhury
|52.41
|CPI (M)
|Nurul Islam
|38.76
|INC<ref name=loksabha1989/>
|-
|1991
|819.630
|81.15
|Saifuddin Choudhury
|50.24
|CPI (M)
|Nurul Islam
|31.02
|INC<ref name=loksabha1991/>
|-
|1996
|960,920
|86.20
|[[Mahboob Zahedi]]
|50.46
|CPI (M)
|Nurul Islam
|39.19
|INC<ref name=loksabha1996/>
|-
|1998
|965,240
|83.46
|Mahboob Zahedi
|49.47
|CPI (M)
|[[Swapan Debnath]]
|34.89
|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]<ref name=loksabha1998/>
|-
|1999
|933,090
|78.83
|Mehboob Zahedi
|50.25
|CPI (M)
|Amal Kumar Dutta
|38.45
|AITC<ref name=loksabha1999/>
|-
|2004
|967,460
|82.72
|Mahboob Zahedi
|51.20
|CPI (M)
|Sultan Ahmed
|36.36
|AITC<ref name=loksabha2004/>
|-
|2006 Bye Election
| 897,684
| 75.80
|Abu Ayesh Mondal
|60.32
|CPI(M)
|Susanta Ghosh
|39.68
|AITC<ref name=2006byeelction/>
|}

==See also==
*[[Bardhaman district]]
*[[List of former constituencies of the Lok Sabha]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}
{{Bardhaman topics}}

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