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| Cooch Behar WB-1 | |
|---|---|
| Lok Sabha constituency | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Cooch Behar Lok Sabha Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| Assembly constituencies | Mathabhanga Cooch Behar Uttar Cooch Behar Dakshin Sitalkuchi Sitai Dinhata Natabari |
| Established | 1957 |
| Total electors | 19,66,893 (2024)[1] |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Parliament | |
| 18th Lok Sabha | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2024 |
| Preceded by | Nisith Pramanik |
Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Cooch Behar in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 1 Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency are in Cooch Behar district. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.
Assembly segments
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 1 Coochbehar, reserved for Scheduled castes (SC), is composed of the following segments from 2009:[2]
| # | Name | District | Member | Party (as of 2024) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Mathabhanga (SC) | Cooch Behar | Sushil Barman | BJP | |
| 3 | Cooch Behar Uttar (SC) | Sukumar Roy | |||
| 4 | Cooch Behar Dakshin | Nikhil Ranjan Dey | |||
| 5 | Sitalkuchi (SC) | Baren Chandra Barman | |||
| 6 | Sitai (SC) | Vacant | |||
| 7 | Dinhata | Udayan Guha | AITC | ||
| 8 | Natabari | Mihir Goswami | BJP | ||
The area under the Mathabhanga subdivision of the Cooch Behar district will constitute the assembly constituencies of Mathabhanga and Sitalkuchi, whereas the area under the Dinhata subdivision will form the constituencies of Dinahata and Sitai.[2] The area under Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision will form Cooch Behar Uttar, Cooch Behar Dakshin and Natabari constituencies, though Natabari will contain gram panchayats from Tufanganj subdivision also.[2]
Members of Parliament
| Year | Member[3] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Upendra Nath Barman | Indian National Congress | |
| Birendra Nath Katham | |||
| Amiya Kanta Basu | |||
| 1957 | Upendra Nath Barman | ||
| Santosh Banerjee | |||
| 1962 | Debendra Nath Karjee | All India Forward Bloc | |
| 1963^ | P. C. Barman | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | Benoy Krishna Das Choudhury | All India Forward Bloc | |
| 1971 | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1977 | Amar Roy Pradhan | All India Forward Bloc | |
| 1980 | |||
| 1984 | |||
| 1989 | |||
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | |||
| 1998 | |||
| 1999 | |||
| 2004 | Hiten Barman | ||
| 2009 | Nripendra Nath Roy | ||
| 2014 | Renuka Sinha | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016^ | Partha Pratim Roy | ||
| 2019 | Nisith Pramanik | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2024 | Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia | Trinamool Congress | |
^ denotes by-polls
Election results
2024
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia | 788,375 | 48.57 |  4.24
| |
| BJP | Nisith Pramanik | 749125 | 46.16 |  1.82
| |
| AIFB | Nitish Chandra Roy | 30267 | 1.86 | 1.21
| |
| INC | Piya Roy Chowdhury | 10679 | 0.66 | 1.19
| |
| Independent | Harekrishna Sarkar | 9467 | 0.58 | New | |
| Independent | Kamalesh Barman | 2993 | 0.18 | New | |
| Independent | Nabi Barman | 2724 | 0.17 | New | |
| Independent | Subodh Barman | 2599 | 0.16 | New | |
| SUCI(C) | Dilip Chandra Barman | 2468 | 0.15 | New | |
| BSP | Purna Mohan Roy | 2097 | 0.13 | New | |
| Independent | Bidhan Das | 2072 | 0.13 | New | |
| Independent | Kishore Ray | 1606 | 0.1 | New | |
| Kamtapur People's Party | Pradip Kumar Roy | 1518 | 0.09 | New | |
| Independent | Amal Das | 1495 | 0.09 | New | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 15563 | 0.96 | 0.1
| |
| Majority | 39250 | 0.02 | 3.53
| ||
| Turnout | 1623048 | 82.16 | 1.92
| ||
| AITC gain from BJP | Swing | ||||
2019
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Nisith Pramanik | 731,594 | 47.98 | 31.64
| |
| AITC | Paresh Chandra Adhikary | 677,363 | 44.43 | 4.92
| |
| AIFB | Gobinda Chandra Roy | 46,648 | 3.07 | 29.91
| |
| INC | Piya Roy Chowdhury | 28,215 | 1.85 | 2.52
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 14,490 | 0.95 | ||
| Majority | 54,231 | 3.55 | |||
| Turnout | 1,525,446 | 84.08 | 1.27
| ||
| BJP gain from AITC | Swing | 13.36
|
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