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{{short description|Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal}}
{{Infobox Lok Sabha Constituency
|Name = Krishnanagar
|image = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=y|frame-width=300|frame-height=300|frame-align=center|type=shape|from=Lok Sabha constituencies/2019/West Bengal/Krishnanagar.map}}
|caption = Interactive Map Outlining Krishnanagar Lok Sabha Constituency
|Existence = 1967-present
|Reservation = None
|CurrentMPParty = [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|CurrentMP = [[Mahua Moitra]]
|ElectedByYear = [[2019 Indian general elections|2019]]
|State = [[West Bengal]]
|AssemblyConstituencies = [[Tehatta (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Tehatta]] [[Palashipara (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Palashipara]] [[Kaliganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kaliganj]] [[Nakashipara (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Nakashipara]] [[Chapra (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chapra]] [[Krishnanagar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Krishnanagar Uttar]] [[Krishnanagar Dakshin]]
|Electorate = 1,476,783<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/20140606003137/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/GE2014/PC_WISE_TURNOUT.htm |archive-date=June 6, 2014 }}</ref>
}}
'''Krishnanagar''' Lok Sabha constituency (occasionally referred as '''Krishnagar''') is one of the 42 [[Lok Sabha]] (parliamentary) constituencies in [[West Bengal]] state in eastern [[India]]. All the seven assembly segments of No. 12 Krishnanagar (Lok Sabha constituency) are in [[Nadia district]].

==Vidhan Sabha 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 [[boundary delimitation|delimitation of parliamentary constituencies]] in West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 12 Krishnanagar comprises the following 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}}</ref>
{|class="wikitable" width="500px"
!width="50px" style="font-size:75%"|Constituency number
!width="200px"|Name
!width="100px" style="font-size:75%"|Reserved for ([[Dalit|SC]]/[[Adivasi|ST]]/None)
!width="150px"|District
|-
|78
|[[Tehatta (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Tehatta]]
|None
|[[Nadia district|Nadia]]
|-
| 79
|[[Palashipara (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Palashipara]]
|None
|[[Nadia district|Nadia]]
|-
|80
|[[Kaliganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kaliganj]]
|None
|[[Nadia district|Nadia]]
|-
|81
|[[Nakashipara (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Nakashipara]]
|None
|[[Nadia district|Nadia]]
|-
|82
|[[Chapra (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chapra]]
|None
|[[Nadia district|Nadia]]
|-
|83
|[[Krishnanagar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Krishnanagar Uttar]]
|None
|[[Nadia district|Nadia]]
|-
|85
|[[Krishnanagar Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Krishnanagar Dakshin]]
|None
|[[Nadia district|Nadia]]
|-
|}
In 2004, Krishnagar 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>[[Palashipara (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Palashipara]] (assembly constituency no. 70), [[Nakashipara (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Nakshipara]] (assembly constituency no. 71), [[Kaliganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kaliganj]] (assembly constituency no. 72), [[Chapra (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chapra]] (assembly constituency no. 73), [[Krishnaganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Krishnaganj (SC)]] (assembly constituency no. 74), [[Krishnanagar Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Krishnanagar East]] (assembly constituency no. 75), [[Krishnanagar Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Krishnanagar West]] (assembly constituency no. 76)

==Members of Lok Sabha==
{| class="wikitable"ìÍĦĤĠč
|-
! Lok Sabha!!Duration!!Constituency!!Name of M.P.!!Party Affiliation
|-
| [[4th Lok Sabha|Fourth]]||1967-71||Krishnanagar||[[Haripada Chattopadhyay]]||Independent<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=25 May 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||||[[Renu Pada Das]]||bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |[[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=25 May 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||||Renu Pada Das||bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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=25 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>
|-
| [[7th Lok Sabha|Seventh]]||1980-84||||Renu Pada Das||bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |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=25 May 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||||[[Renu Pada Das]]||bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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=25 May 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||||Ajoy Mukhopadhyay||bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |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=25 May 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||||Ajoy Mukhopadhyay||bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |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=25 May 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||||Ajoy Mukhopadhyay||bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |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 = 25 May 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| [[12th Lok Sabha|Twelfth]]||1998-99||||[[Ajoy Mukhopadhyay]]||bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" | 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=25 May 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=July 18, 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| [[13th Lok Sabha|Thirteenth]]||1999-04||||[[Satyabrata Mookherjee]]||bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |[[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 |access-date=25 May 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=July 18, 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| [[14th Lok Sabha|Fourteenth]]||2004-09||||[[Jyotirmoyee Sikdar]]||bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" |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 = 25 May 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| [[15th Lok Sabha|Fifteenth]]||2009-14||||[[Tapas Paul]]||bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}" |[[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]<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=25 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811090059/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2009/Stats/VOLI/25_ConstituencyWiseDetailedResult.pdf |archive-date=11 August 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| [[16th Lok Sabha|Sixteenth]]||2014-19||||Tapas Paul||bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}" |Trinamool Congress<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>
|-
| [[17th Lok Sabha|Sixteenth]]||2019-[[incumbent]]||||[[Mahua Moitra]]||bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}" |Trinamool Congress
|}

==Election results==
===[[17th Lok Sabha]]: [[2019 Indian general election|2019 General Elections]]===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2019 Indian general elections]]: Krishnanagar}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=[[Mahua Moitra]] |votes=6,14,872|percentage=45.00|change=+10.14}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party= Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate= [[Kalyan Chaubey]]|votes=5,51,654|percentage=40.37|change=+13.99}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Dr. Santanu Jha|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|votes=1,20,222|percentage=8.80|change=-20.63}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Indian National Congress|candidate=Intaz Ali Shah|votes=38,305|percentage=2.8|change=-3.19}}
{{Election box majority||votes=63,218|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=13,66,601|percentage=83.75|change=TBA}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===General elections 2014===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2014 Indian general elections]]: Krishnanagar<ref name=loksabha2014/>}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=[[Tapas Paul]]|party=All India Trinamool Congress|votes=4,38,789|percentage=35.14|change=-7.29}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Dr. Santanu Jha|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|votes=3,67,534|percentage=29.43|change=-5.60}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=[[Satyabrata Mookherjee]]|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|votes=3,29,873|percentage=26.38|change=+9.62}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Razia Ahmed|party=Indian National Congress|votes=74,789|percentage=5.99|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Subimal Sengupta|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation|votes=7,777|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Kamal Datta|party=Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|votes=7,214|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Harashit Biswas|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|votes=6,168|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Molla Jafforolla|party=Bahujan Mukti Party|votes=4,865|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Ahamed Hossain|party=Indian Union Muslim League|votes=3,749|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=None of the Above|party=None of the Above|votes=7,642|percentage=0.61|change=---}}

{{Election box majority||votes=71,255|percentage=5.71|change=-1.69}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=1,247,914<ref name=turnout/>|percentage=84.50|change=}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===General election 2009===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2009 Indian general elections|General Election, 2009]]: [[Krishnanagar, Nadia|Krishnanagar]]<ref name=loksabha2009/>
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Tapas Paul]]
|votes = 443,679
|percentage = 42.43
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = [[Jyotirmoyee Sikdar]]
|votes = 366,293
|percentage = 35.03
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Satyabrata Mookherjee]]
|votes = 175,283
|percentage = 16.76
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Assam United Democratic Front
|candidate = Md. Niamatullah Mollick
|votes = 19,313
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
|candidate = Subimal Sengupta
|votes = 14,480
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Debabrata Majumder
|votes = 10,733
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian Union Muslim League
|candidate = Shahjahan Mallik
|votes = 6,592
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Samajwadi Party
|candidate = Jayasri Chakrabarty
|votes = 5,002
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Nationalist Congress Party
|candidate = Sk. Daulat Hossain
|votes = 4,336
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 77,386
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,045,711
|percentage = 85.50
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===General elections 1967-2004===
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
|-
|1967
|343,935
|74.00
|Haridas Chattopadhyay
|47.52
|Independent
|C.P.Mukherjee
|37.48
|[[Indian National Congress|Congress]]<ref name=loksabha1967/>
|-
|1971
|312,342
|62.05
|Renupada Das
|36.96
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
|Ila Pal Chaudhuri
|25.55
|Congress<ref name=loksabha1971/>
|-
|1977
|331,370
|61.96
|Renupada Das
|61.86
|CPI(M)
|Shibsankar Bandopadhyay
|33.43
|Congress<ref name=loksabha1977/>
|-
|1980
|515,990
|79.71
|Renupada Das
|50.81
|CPI(M)
|Sankar Das Banerji
|36.74
|Congress<ref name =loksabha1980/>
|-
|1984
|611,950
|83.74
|Renupada Das
|49.25
|CPI(M)
|Sankar Das Banerji
|48.45
|Congress<ref name=loksabha1984/>
|-
|1989
|761,990
|82.69
|Ajoy Mukherjee
|46.31
|CPI(M)
|Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya
|44.14
|Congress<ref name=loksabha1989/>
|-
|1991
|764,560
|82.34
|Ajoy Mukherjee
|43.33
|CPI(M)
|Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya
|35.37
|Congress<ref name=loksabha1991/>
|-
|1996
|911,620
|85.2
|Ajoy Mukherjee
|45.94
|CPI(M)
|Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya
|41.56
|Congress<ref name=loksabha1996/>
|-
|1998
|897,930
|84.07
|Ajoy Mukherjee
|42.03
|CPI(M)
|[[Satyabrata Mookherjee]]
|37.44
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]<ref name=loksabha1998/>
|-
|1999
|845,490
|77.96
|[[Satyabrata Mookherjee]]
|43.82
|BJP
|Dilip Chakraborty
|41.16
|CPI(M)<ref name=loksabha1999/>
|-
|2004
|930,290
|83.25
|[[Jyotirmoyee Sikdar]]
|42.73
|CPI(M)
|[[Satyabrata Mookherjee]]
|40.54
|BJP<ref name=loksabha2004/>
|-
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
* [[Krishnanagar, Nadia|Krishnagar]]
* [[List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha#West Bengal|List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha]]

{{Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}
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