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Hooghly WB-28 | |
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Lok Sabha constituency | |
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Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | East India |
State | West Bengal |
Assembly constituencies | Singur Chandannagar Chunchura Balagarh Pandua Saptagram Dhanekhali |
Established | 1951 |
Total electors | 1,630,042[1] |
Reservation | None |
Member of Parliament | |
18th Lok Sabha | |
Incumbent | |
Party | Trinamool Congress |
Alliance | INDIA |
Elected year | 2024 |
Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Hugli-Chuchura in West Bengal. All seven assembly segments of No. 28 Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency are in Hooghly district.
Overview
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Hoogly constituency, shares a large industrial area on the western bank of the Hooghly river in the district with Sreerampur and has a rich agricultural hinterland.
According to The Statesman, "The Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency had remained a Communist bastion till the Trinamul snatched their thunder in the 2009 General Election. The constituency has the distinction of having a rich colonial history with the Portuguese settlement at Bandel, the French colony at Chandannagore, the Danish settlement at Serampore… and Chinsurah, a former Dutch colony. Despite ruling West Bengal for 35 years, the Marxist government alienated its people by such historical blunders as the forcible acquisition of fertile agricultural land in Singur which forms part of the Hooghly constituency."[2]
The Dunlop tyre plant at Sahaganj, in this constituency is closed. According to Hindustan Times, "The entire jute industry, with eight mills in Hooghly, is sick…From Tribeni in north to Hind Motor in south, by the bank of Hooghly exists the Hooghly industrial belt, now seeking oxygen. Two fertiliser units, one food processing unit, two cotton mills, one steel plant and many other small and medium scale units have closed down over the years."[3]
Assembly segments
As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 28 Hooghly is composed of the following segments:[4]
Constituency number | Name | District | Party (as of 2021) |
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188 | Singur | Hooghly | TMC |
189 | Chandannagar | TMC | |
190 | Chunchura | TMC | |
191 | Balagarh (SC) | TMC | |
192 | Pandua | TMC | |
193 | Saptagram | TMC | |
197 | Dhanekhali (SC) | TMC |
Prior to delimitation, Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[5]Chandernagore (assembly constituency no. 182), Singur (assembly constituency no. 183), Haripal (assembly constituency no. 184), Chinsurah (assembly constituency no. 186), Bansberia (assembly constituency no. 193), Polba (assembly constituency no. 190), Dhaniakhali (SC) (assembly constituency no. 191)
Members of Parliament
Lok Sabha | Duration | Constituency | Name of M.P. | Party | |
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First | 1952-57 | Hooghly | Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee | Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha[6] | |
Second | 1957-62 | Provat Kar | Communist Party of India[7][8] | ||
Third | 1962-67 | ||||
Fourth | 1967-71 | Bijoy Krishna Modak | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9][10][11][12] | ||
Fifth | 1971-77 | ||||
Sixth | 1977-80 | ||||
Seventh | 1980-84 | Rupchand Pal | |||
Eighth | 1984-89 | Indumati Bhattacharya | Indian National Congress[13] | ||
Ninth | 1989-91 | Rupchand Pal | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14][15][16][17][18][19] | ||
Tenth | 1991-96 | ||||
Eleventh | 1996-98 | ||||
Twelfth | 1998-99 | ||||
Thirteenth | 1999-04 | ||||
Fourteenth | 2004-09 | ||||
Fifteenth | 2009-14 | Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | Trinamool Congress[20][21] | ||
Sixteenth | 2014-19 | ||||
Seventeenth | 2019-24 | Locket Chatterjee | Bharatiya Janata Party[22] | ||
Eighteenth | 2024-Incumbent | Rachna Banerjee | Trinamool Congress[23] |
Election results
General election 2024
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Rachna Banerjee | 702,744 | 46.31 | ![]() | |
BJP | Locket Chatterjee | 625,891 | 41.24 | ![]() | |
CPI(M) | Monodip Ghosh | 139,919 | 9.22 | ![]() | |
NOTA | None of the above | 13,352 | 0.88 | ![]() | |
Majority | 76,853 | 5.1 | |||
Turnout | 15,17,511 | 81.38 | |||
AITC gain from BJP | Swing | 4.3 |
General election 2019
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Locket Chatterjee | 671,448 | 46.03 | +29.66 | |
AITC | Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | 598,086 | 41.00 | −4.51 | |
CPI(M) | Pradip Saha | 121,588 | 8.34 | −27.18 | |
INC | Pratul Chandra Saha | 25,374 | 1.74 | −1.39 | |
NOTA | None of the above | 13,525 | 0.93 | N/A | |
Majority | 73,362 | 5.03 | |||
Turnout | 1,457,842 | 82.52 | −0.18 | ||
BJP gain from AITC | Swing | +17.09 |
General election 2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | 614,312 | 45.54 | −6.83 | |
CPI(M) | Pradip Saha | 425,228 | 31.52 | −10.84 | |
BJP | Chandan Mitra | 221,271 | 16.40 | +12.98 | |
INC | Pritam Ghosh | 42,226 | 3.13 | N/A | |
CPI(ML)L | Sajal Adhikari | 9,152 | 0.67 | −0.36 | |
SUCI(C) | Paban Mazumder | 7,682 | 0.56 | ||
BSP | Vijay Kumar Mahato | 5,519 | 0.40 | −0.45 | |
RJP | Sanghamitra Mukherjee | 3,766 | 0.27 | ||
JDP | Shukchand Murmu | 3,197 | 0.23 | −0.83 | |
Majority | 1,89,084 | 14.02 | +7.01 | ||
Turnout | 13,48,870 | 82.75 | +0.04 | ||
AITC hold | Swing | -3.83 |