2004 Indian general election in West Bengal

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The 2004 Indian general election were held in Indian state West Bengal in 2004 to elect all 42 seats of Lok Sabha in the state.[1][2] The election took place on 10 May 2004 and a turnout of 77.7% was recorded.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front had an overwhelming victory in the state by winning 35 seats.[3][4] On the national level, Indian National Congress became the single largest party and formed the new government with its allies and taking external support from Left Front and other parties.[5][6]

Schedule

The election schedule was declared by Election Commission of India on 29 February 2004.[7]

Poll event Date
Notification date 16 April
Last date for filing nomination 23 April
Scrutiny of nomination 24 April
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination 26 April
Date of poll 10 May
Date of counting of votes 13 May

Parties and alliances

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No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white" |1. Communist Party of India (Marxist) File:CPI-M-flag.svg File:CPI(M) election symbol - Hammer Sickle and Star.svg Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee 32
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white" |2. Revolutionary Socialist Party
File:RSP-flag.svg
File:Indian Election Symbol Spade and Stoker.png
 Manoj Bhattacharya 4
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white" |3. All India Forward Bloc File:All India Forward Bloc flag.svg
File:Indian Election Symbol Lion.svg
 Debabrata Biswas 3
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white" |4. Communist Party of India
File:CPI-banner.svg
File:CPI symbol.svg
 Swapan Banerjee 3

Other Left Front members that didn't fielded candidates in the election but supported the alliance were Biplobi Bangla Congress, Democratic Socialist Party, Marxist Forward Bloc, West Bengal Socialist Party, Revolutionary Communist Party of India and other left front parties.

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No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white" |1. Indian National Congress
File:Indian National Congress Flag.svg
 File:Hand INC.svg Pranab Mukherjee 37
2. Party of Democratic Socialism
File:Pds flag.jpg
 File:Blank.svg Samir Putatundu 2
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white" |3. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha File:Blank.svg
File:Indian Election Symbol Bow And Arrow.svg
 N/A 2
4. Independent — — N/A 1

Gorkha National Liberation Front supported the Congress candidate in Darjeeling constituency.

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No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested
style="text-align:center;background:Template:Party color;color:white" |1. All India Trinamool Congress
File:All India Trinamool Congress flag (2).svg
File:All India Trinamool Congress symbol 2021.svg
 Mamata Banerjee 29
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white" |2. Bharatiya Janata Party
File:BJP flag.svg
File:Lotus flower symbol.svg
 Tathagata Roy 13

List of Candidates

Constituency colspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color" |Left Front colspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color" |NDA colspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color" |UPA
No. Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate
1 Cooch Behar (SC) Template:Party name with colour Hiten Barman Template:Party name with colour Girindra Nath Barman Template:Party name with colour Sailen Barma
2 Alipurduars (ST) Template:Party name with colour Joachim Baxla Template:Party name with colour Manoj Tigga Template:Party name with colour Ratan Lal Baraik
3 Jalpaiguri Template:Party name with colour Minati Sen Template:Party name with colour Parash Dutta Template:Party name with colour Dipak Krishna Bhowmik
4 Darjeeling Template:Party name with colour Moni Thapa Template:Party name with colour Dr. G. S. Yonzone Template:Party name with colour Dawa Narbula
5 Raiganj Template:Party name with colour Minati Ghosh Template:Party name with colour Zainal Abedin Template:Party name with colour Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi
6 Balurghat (SC) Template:Party name with colour Ranen Barman Template:Party name with colour Manomohan Ray Template:Party name with colour Dipti Barman
7 Malda Template:Party name with colour Pranab Das Template:Party name with colour Badsha Alam Template:Party name with colour A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury
8 Jangipur Template:Party name with colour Abul Hasnat Khan Template:Party name with colour Shish Mohammad Template:Party name with colour Pranab Mukherjee
9 Murshidabad Template:Party name with colour Moinul Hassan Ahamed Template:Party name with colour Ali Mohammad Template:Party name with colour Abdul Mannan Hossain
10 Berhampore Template:Party name with colour Promothes Mukherjee Template:Party name with colour Tapas Kumar Chatterjee Template:Party name with colour Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
11 Krishnagar Template:Party name with colour Jyotirmoyee Sikdar Template:Party name with colour Satyabrata Mookherjee Template:Party name with colour Asim Kumar Saha
12 Nabadwip (SC) Template:Party name with colour Alokesh Das Template:Party name with colour Nilima Nag (Mallick) Template:Party name with colour Howladar Nripendra Nath
13 Barasat Template:Party name with colour Subrata Bose Template:Party name with colour Ranjit Kumar Panja Template:Party name with colour Prabir Banerjee
14 Basirhat Template:Party name with colour Ajay Chakraborty Template:Party name with colour Sujit Bose Template:Party name with colour Syed Md. Nizamuddin
15 Joynagar (SC) Template:Party name with colour Sanat Kumar Mandal Template:Party name with colour Asit Baran Thakur Template:Party name with colour Tarun Kanti Naskar
16 Mathurapur (SC) Template:Party name with colour Basudeb Barman Template:Party name with colour Radhika Ranjan Pramanik Template:Party name with colour Manoranjan Halder
17 Diamond Harbour Template:Party name with colour Samik Lahiri Template:Party name with colour Saugata Roy Template:Party name with colour Daulat Ali Sheikh
18 Jadavpur Template:Party name with colour Sujan Chakraborty Template:Party name with colour Krishna Bose Template:Party name with colour Prof. Omprakash Mishra
19 Barrackpore Template:Party name with colour Tarit Baran Topdar Template:Party name with colour Arjun Singh Template:Party name with colour Debi Ghosal
20 Dum Dum Template:Party name with colour Amitava Nandy Template:Party name with colour Tapan Sikdar Template:Party name with colour Tapas Majumder
21 Calcutta North West Template:Party name with colour Sudhangshu Seal Template:Party name with colour Subrata Mukherjee Template:Party name with colour Sudip Bandyopadhyay
22 Calcutta North East Template:Party name with colour Md. Salim Template:Party name with colour Ajit Kumar Panja Template:Party name with colour Moushumi Chatterjee
23 Calcutta South Template:Party name with colour Rabin Deb Template:Party name with colour Mamata Banerjee Template:Party name with colour Nafisa Ali
24 Howrah Template:Party name with colour Swadesh Chakraborty Template:Party name with colour Bikram Sarkar Template:Party name with colour Sultan Singh
25 Uluberia Template:Party name with colour Hannan Mollah Template:Party name with colour Rajib Banerjee Template:Party name with colour Kazi Abdul Rajjak
26 Serampore Template:Party name with colour Santasri Chatterjee Template:Party name with colour Akbar Ali Khondkar Template:Party name with colour Kesto Mukherjee
27 Hooghly Template:Party name with colour Rupchand Pal Template:Party name with colour Indrani Mukherjee Template:Party name with colour Asok Kumar Das
28 Arambagh Template:Party name with colour Anil Basu Template:Party name with colour Swapan Kumar Nandi Template:Party name with colour Datta Pradip
29 Panskura Template:Party name with colour Gurudas Dasgupta Template:Party name with colour Hema Choubey Template:Party name with colour Nazim Ahmed
30 Tamluk Template:Party name with colour Lakshman Chandra Seth Template:Party name with colour Suvendu Adhikari Template:Party name with colour Sudarsan Panja
31 Contai Template:Party name with colour Prasanta Pradhan Template:Party name with colour Nitish Sengupta Template:Party name with colour Kshitindra Mohan Sahoo
32 Midnapore Template:Party name with colour Prabodh Panda Template:Party name with colour Rahul (Biswajit) Sinha Template:Party name with colour Narayan Chandra Paria
33 Jhargram (ST) Template:Party name with colour Rupchand Murmu Template:Party name with colour Nityananda Hembram Template:Party name with colour Mongal Soren
34 Purulia Template:Party name with colour Bir Singh Mahato Template:Party name with colour Niyati Mahato Template:Party name with colour Santiram Mahato
35 Bankura Template:Party name with colour Basudeb Acharia Template:Party name with colour Deb Prasad Kundu (Tara) Template:Party name with colour Natabar Bagdi
36 Vishnupur (SC) Template:Party name with colour Susmita Bauri Template:Party name with colour Janardan Saha Template:Party name with colour Achintya Majhi
37 Durgapur (SC) Template:Party name with colour Sunil Khan Template:Party name with colour Shib Narayan Saha Template:Party name with colour Dhibar Shova
38 Asansol Template:Party name with colour Bikash Chowdhury Template:Party name with colour Moloy Ghatak Template:Party name with colour Tapas Banerjee
39 Burdwan Template:Party name with colour Nikhilananda Sar Template:Party name with colour Anindya Gopal Mitra Template:Party name with colour Champak Garai
40 Katwa Template:Party name with colour Mahboob Zahedi Template:Party name with colour Ahmed Sultan Template:Party name with colour Saifuddin Choudhury
41 Bolpur Template:Party name with colour Somnath Chatterjee Template:Party name with colour Dr. Nirmal Kumar Maji Template:Party name with colour Dhananjoy Ghosh
42 Birbhum (SC) Template:Party name with colour Ram Chandra Dome Template:Party name with colour Arjun Saha Template:Party name with colour Gopal Chandra Das

Results

Results by Party/Alliance

Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/−
rowspan="5" Template:Party color cell LF Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 1,42,71,042 38.57 Template:Increase 3.00 32 26 Template:Increase 5
Template:Party color cell RSP 16,58,787 4.48 Template:Increase 0.23 4 3 Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell CPI 14,84,152 4.01 Template:Increase 0.54 3 3 Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell AIFB 13,52,423 3.66 Template:Increase 0.21 3 3 Template:Increase 1
Total 1,87,66,404 50.72 Template:Increase 3.98 42 35 Template:Increase 6
rowspan="3" Template:Party color cell NDA Template:Party color cell AITC 77,86,178 21.04 Template:Decrease 5.00 29 1 Template:Decrease 7
Template:Party color cell BJP 29,83,950 8.06 Template:Decrease 3.07 13 0 Template:Decrease 2
Total 1,07,70,128 29.10 Template:Decrease 8.07 42 1 Template:Decrease 9
rowspan="5" Template:Party color cell UPA Template:Party color cell INC 53,85,754 14.56 Template:Increase 1.27 37 6 Template:Increase 3
Template:Party color cell PDS 81,999 0.22 Template:Steady 2 0 Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell JMM 56,429 0.15 Template:Increase 0.09 1 + 1 0 Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell IND 1,72,750 0.47 Template:Steady 2 0 Template:Steady
Total 56,96,932 15.40 Template:Steady 42 + 1 6 Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell Others 7,33,549 2.00 Template:Steady 84 0 Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell IND 10,33,220 2.79 Template:Increase 0.90 144 0 Template:Steady
Total 3,70,00,233 100% - 355 42 -

Results by constituency

Constituency Winner Runner-up Margin
Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes % Votes %
1 Cooch Behar (SC) Hiten Barman Template:Party color cell AIFB 490,982 51.54 Girindra Nath Barman Template:Party color cell AITC 264,413 27.76 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|226,569 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|23.79
2 Alipurduars (ST) Joachim Baxla Template:Party color cell RSP 384,252 45.70 Manoj Tigga Template:Party color cell BJP 239,128 28.44 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|145,124 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|17.26
3 Jalpaiguri Minati Sen Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 424,163 47.65 Parash Dutta Template:Party color cell AITC 243,558 27.36 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|180,605 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|20.29
4 Darjeeling Dawa Narbula Template:Party color cell INC 396,973 44.70 Moni Thapa Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 295,557 33.28 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|101,416 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|11.42
5 Raiganj Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi Template:Party color cell INC 421,904 45.98 Minati Ghosh Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 382,757 41.71 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|39,147 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|4.27
6 Balurghat (SC) Ranen Barman Template:Party color cell RSP 415,298 44.87 Manomohan Ray Template:Party color cell BJP 344,152 37.18 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|71,146 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|7.69
7 Malda A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury Template:Party color cell INC 412,913 48.63 Pranab Das Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 301,805 35.54 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|111,108 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|13.09
8 Jangipur Pranab Mukherjee Template:Party color cell INC 431,647 48.88 Abul Hasnat Khan Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 394,787 44.70 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|36,860 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|4.17
9 Murshidabad Abdul Mannan Hossain Template:Party color cell INC 461,895 45.86 Moinul Hassan Ahamed Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 446,415 44.32 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|15,480 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1.54
10 Berhampore Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Template:Party color cell INC 508,095 51.24 Promothes Mukherjee Template:Party color cell RSP 409,194 41.27 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|98,901 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|9.97
11 Krishnagar Jyotirmoyee Sikdar Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 397,561 42.73 Satyabrata Mookherjee Template:Party color cell BJP 377,174 40.54 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|20,387 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|2.19
12 Nabadwip (SC) Alokesh Das Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 560,176 47.56 Nilima Nag (Mallick) Template:Party color cell AITC 550,185 46.71 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|9,991 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|0.85
13 Barasat Subrata Bose Template:Party color cell AIFB 520,384 45.13 Ranjit Kumar Panja Template:Party color cell AITC 508,224 44.07 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|12,160 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1.05
14 Basirhat Ajay Chakraborty Template:Party color cell CPI 462,605 50.97 Sujit Bose Template:Party color cell AITC 280,521 30.91 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|182,084 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|20.06
15 Joynagar (SC) Sanat Kumar Mandal Template:Party color cell RSP 450,043 55.81 Asit Baran Thakur Template:Party color cell BJP 219,522 27.22 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|230,521 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|28.59
16 Mathurapur (SC) Basudeb Barman Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 440,862 48.56 Radhika Ranjan Pramanik Template:Party color cell AITC 358,834 39.53 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|82,028 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|9.04
17 Diamond Harbour Samik Lahiri Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 430,890 51.51 Saugata Roy Template:Party color cell AITC 277,106 33.13 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|153,784 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|18.38
18 Jadavpur Sujan Chakraborty Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 505,396 49.44 Krishna Bose Template:Party color cell AITC 415,728 40.67 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|89,668 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|8.77
19 Barrackpore Tarit Baran Topdar Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 443,048 55.77 Arjun Singh Template:Party color cell AITC 277,977 34.99 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|165,071 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|20.78
20 Dum Dum Amitava Nandy Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 619,325 49.61 Tapan Sikdar Template:Party color cell BJP 521,073 41.74 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|98,252 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|7.87
21 Calcutta North West Sudhangshu Seal Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 151,772 42.15 Subrata Mukherjee Template:Party color cell AITC 108,768 30.20 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|43,004 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|11.94
22 Calcutta North East Md. Salim Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 284,427 50.00 Ajit Kumar Panja Template:Party color cell AITC 210,647 37.03 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|73,780 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|12.97
23 Calcutta South Mamata Banerjee Template:Party color cell AITC 393,561 50.93 Rabin Deb Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 295,132 38.19 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|98,429 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|12.74
24 Howrah Swadesh Chakrabortty Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 489,444 53.69 Dr. Bikram Sarkar Template:Party color cell AITC 242,507 26.60 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|246,937 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|27.09
25 Uluberia Hannan Mollah Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 424,749 49.88 Rajib Banerjee Template:Party color cell AITC 272,634 32.02 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|152,115 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|17.86
26 Serampore Santasri Chatterjee Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 404,082 42.70 Akbar Ali Khandoker Template:Party color cell AITC 384,395 40.62 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|19,687 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|2.08
27 Hooghly Rupchand Pal Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 496,890 53.72 Indrani Mukherjee Template:Party color cell AITC 329,924 35.67 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|166,966 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|18.05
28 Arambagh Anil Basu Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 744,464 77.16 Swapan Kumar Nandi Template:Party color cell BJP 151,962 15.75 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|592,502 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|61.41
29 Panskura Gurudas Dasgupta Template:Party color cell CPI 541,513 61.92 Hema Choubey Template:Party color cell AITC 262,035 29.96 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|279,478 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|31.96
30 Tamluk Seth Lakshman Chandra Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 507,228 48.99 Adhikari Suvendu Template:Party color cell AITC 449,848 43.45 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|57,380 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|5.54
31 Contai Prasanta Pradhan Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 464,743 50.15 Nitish Sengupta Template:Party color cell AITC 405,553 43.76 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|59,190 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|6.39
32 Midnapore Prabodh Panda Template:Party color cell CPI 480,034 52.84 Rahul (Biswajit) Sinha Template:Party color cell BJP 319,274 35.14 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|160,760 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|17.70
33 Jhargram (ST) Rupchand Murmu Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 509,045 64.01 Nityananda Hembram Template:Party color cell AITC 157,702 19.83 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|351,343 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|44.18
34 Purulia Bir Singh Mahato Template:Party color cell AIFB 341,057 48.99 Shantiram Mahato Template:Party color cell INC 195,339 28.06 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|145,718 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|20.93
35 Bankura Acharia Basudeb Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 417,798 60.07 Deb Prasad Kundu (Tara) Template:Party color cell AITC 187,469 26.96 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|230,329 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|33.12
36 Vishnupur (SC) Susmita Bauri Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 518,507 64.28 Janardan Saha Template:Party color cell AITC 186,678 23.14 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|331,829 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|41.14
37 Durgapur (SC) Sunil Khan Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 505,250 59.61 Shib Narayan Saha Template:Party color cell BJP 227,742 26.87 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|277,508 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|32.74
38 Asansol Bikash Chowdhury Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 369,832 51.00 Ghatak Moloy Template:Party color cell AITC 245,514 33.85 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|124,318 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|17.14
39 Burdwan Nikhilananda Sar Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 673,091 67.51 Anindya Gopal Mitra Template:Party color cell BJP 201,740 20.23 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|471,351 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|47.28
40 Katwa Mahboob Zahedi Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 494,716 51.20 Ahmed Sultan Template:Party color cell AITC 351,367 36.36 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|143,349 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|14.84
41 Bolpur Chatterjee Somnath Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 504,836 65.56 Dr. Nirmal Kumar Maji Template:Party color cell AITC 194,531 25.26 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|310,305 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|40.30
42 Birbhum (SC) Ram Chandra Dome Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 372,294 51.42 Gopal Chandra Das Template:Party color cell INC 180,682 24.95 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|191,612 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|26.46

Bye-Elections Held

Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin
No. Name Date Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %
38 Asansol 5 September 2005 Bansa Gopal Chowdhury Template:Party name with colour 410,740 61.33 Moloy Ghatak Template:Party name with colour 180,799 27.00 style="background:Template:Party color;Color:white;"|229,941
The Asansol Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the death of the incumbent MP, Bikash Chowdhury.
40 Katwa 16 September 2006 Abu Ayesh Mondal Template:Party name with colour 541,496 60.32 Susanta Ghosh Template:Party name with colour 356,162 39.68 style="background:Template:Party color;Color:white;"|185,334
The Katwa Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the death of the incumbent MP, Mahboob Zahedi.
34 Purulia October 2006 Narahari Mahato Template:Party name with colour 378,501 53.03 Shantiram Mahato Template:Party name with colour 291,468 40.84 style="background:Template:Party color;Color:white;"|87,033
The Purulia Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the resignation of the incumbent MP, Birsingh Mahato.
7 Malda October 2006 Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury Template:Party name with colour 437,161 50.67 Sailen Sarkar Template:Party name with colour 353,770 41.00 style="background:Template:Party color;Color:white;"|83,391
The Malda Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the death of the incumbent MP.

Assembly Segment wise lead

Party Assembly segments Position in Assembly (as of 2006 election)
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Communist Party of India (Marxist) 168 176
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Indian National Congress 35 21
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Trinamool Congress 28 30
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Revolutionary Socialist Party 20 20
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Communist Party of India 20 8
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| All India Forward Bloc 15 23
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Bharatiya Janata Party 7 0
Others 1 16
Total 294

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from West Bengal

# Name Constituency Designation Department From To Party
1 Pranab Mukherjee Jangipur Cabinet Minister Ministry of Defence 23 May
2004 		24 Oct
2006 		Template:Party name with color
Ministry of External Affairs 24 Oct
2006 		22 May
2009
Ministry of Finance
(Additional Charge) 		24 Jan
2009 		22 May
2009
2 Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi Raiganj Cabinet Minister Ministry of Water Resources 23 May
2004 		18 Nov
2005
Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs 1 Nov
2005 		6 Apr
2008
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting 18 Nov
2005 		11 Nov
2008
Minister without portfolio 11 Nov
2008 		22 May
2009

See also

References

  1. ↑ 75 per cent polling in West Bengal | India News – Times of India. The Times of India(May 7, 2009). Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  2. ↑ Nandigram turns violent. Deccan Herald(2009-05-08). Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  3. ↑ Facts and figures: How West Bengal fared in 2004, 2009 & 2014 general elections. ABP Live. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
  4. ↑ Why did the NDA lose West Bengal?. Rediff. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  5. ↑ In Huge Upset, Gandhi's Party Wins Election in India. The New York Times(2004-05-13). Retrieved 2022-08-07.
  6. ↑ Left caught between need to safeguard its bastions and compulsion to support Congress, Kumar Jha, Ajit. India Today(May 31, 2004). Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  7. ↑ Election schedule for general elections 2004. eci.

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