Jalpaiguri (Lok Sabha constituency)

Jalpaiguri
Jalpaiguri
	Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Jayanta Kumar Roy
Parliamentary Party	BJP
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1962-present
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,351,469[1]
Assembly Constituencies	Mekliganj (SC); Dhupguri (SC); Maynaguri (SC); Jalpaiguri (SC); Rajganj (SC); Dabgram-Phulbari; Mal (ST)

Jalpaiguri Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Jalpaiguri in West Bengal. While six assembly segments of No. 3 Jalpaiguri (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Jalpaiguri district, one assembly segment is in Cooch Behar district. The constituency is reserved for Scheduled castes (SC).

Assembly segments

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 delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 3 Jalpaiguri, reserved for Scheduled castes (SC), is composed of the following segments from 2009:[2]

Mekliganj (SC) (assembly constituency no. 1)
Dhupguri (SC) (assembly constituency no. 15)
Maynaguri (SC) (assembly constituency no. 16)
Jalpaiguri (SC) (assembly constituency no. 17)
Rajganj (SC) (assembly constituency no. 18)
Dabgram-Phulbari (assembly constituency no. 19)
Mal (ST) (assembly constituency no. 20)

Members of the Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Constituency	Name of M.P.
Third	1962-67	Jalpaiguri	Nalini Ranjan Ghosh	Indian National Congress [3]
Fourth	1967-71		B.N.Katham	Indian National Congress [4]
Fifth	1971-77		Tuna Oraon	Indian National Congress[5]
Sixth	1977-80		Khagendra Nath Dasgupta	Independent[6]
Seventh	1980-84		Subodh Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
Eighth	1984-89		Manik Sanyal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
Ninth	1989-91		Manik Sanyal	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
Tenth	1991-96		Jitendra Nath Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
Eleventh	1996-98		Jitendra Nath Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
Twelfth	1998-99		Minati Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
Thirteenth	1999-04			Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
Fourteenth	2004-09			Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
Fifteenth	2009-14		Mahendra Kumar Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
Sixteenth	2014-19		Bijoy Chandra Barman	All India Trinamool Congress[16]
Seventeenth	2019-incumbent		Jayanta Kumar Roy	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

General election 2019

2019 Indian general election: Jalpaiguri
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jayanta Kumar Roy	7,60,145	50.65	+33.63
	AITC	Bijoy Chandra Barman	5,76,141	38.39	+0.39
	CPI (M)	Bhagirath Chandra Roy	76,054	5.07	-27.58
	INC	Mani Kumar Darnal	28,488	1.90	-4.83
	BSP	Jiban Krishna Majumder	8,134	0.54	-0.39
	Amra Bangalee	Khishi Ranjan Mondal	2,205	0.15	-0.07
	Samajwadi Jan Parishad	Ranjit Kumar Roy	1,899	0.13
	Kamtapur People's Party (United)	Subal Chandra Roy	2,685	0.18
	SUCI(C)	Haribhakta Sardar	4,692	0.31
	Independent	Sachimohan Barman	3,413	0.23
	Independent	Subhash Biswas	10,857	0.72
	Independent	Harekrishna Sarkar	6,095	0.41
Majority			1,84,004	12.26
Turnout			15,01,379	86.51
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+16.62

2019 Indian general election
West Bengal summary
	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage	Vote change %
AITC	22	12	43.00	4
BJP	18	16	40.00	23
INC	2	2	6.29	4
Left	0	2	7.57	24

Source: Election Results 2019

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Jalpaiguri [16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Bijoy Chandra Barman	494,773	38.00	+38.00
	CPI (M)	Mahendra Kumar Roy	425,167	32.65	-12.89
	BJP	Satyalal Sarkar	221,593	17.02	+7.87
	INC	Sukhbilas Barma	87,588	6.73	-30.24
	BSP	Kshitish Chandra Mandal	12,147	0.93
	SUCI(C)	Haribhakta Sardar	9,283	0.71
	Independent	Subhas Biswas	8,545	0.66
	RPI	Harekrishna Sarkar	7,636	0.59
	RJP	Haripada Barman	6,608	0.51
	BMP	Dilip Sarkar	4,900	0.38
	RJSP	Dhritiman Roy	4,501	0.35
	Amra Bangalee	Dhirendra Nath Roy	2,835	0.22
	None of the Above	None of the Above	16,541	1.27	---
Majority			69,606	5.35	-3.22
Turnout			13,02,117	85.02
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

2014 Indian general election
West Bengal summary
Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage
Trinamool Congress	34	15	39.3
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2	7	22.7
Communist Party of India	0	2	2.3
Revolutionary Socialist Party	0	2	2.4
Forward Bloc	0	2	2.1
Indian National Congress	4	2	9.6
Bharatiya Janata Party	2	1	16.8
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	0	1	0.7

Source: General Election to the Lok Sabha 2014 - State wise seats won & valid votes polled by political parties
General Elections 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha - Party wise seats won and votes polled

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Jalpaiguri[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI (M)	Mahendra Kumar Roy	469,613	45.54
	INC	Sukhbilas Barma	381,242	36.97
	BJP	Dwipendra Nath Pramanik	94,373	9.15
	NCP	Dr. Dhirendra Nath Das	25,308	2.45
	Independent	Hari Bhakta Sardar	19,295	1.87
	BSP	Santi Kumar Sarkar	14,802	1.44
	Independent	Prithwiraj Roy	8,271	0.80
	SWJP	Satyen Prasad Roy	6,471	0.52
	Independent	Chinmay Sarkar	6,206	0.60
	AMB	Pabitra Moitra	5,709	0.55
Majority			88,371
Turnout			1,031,290	82.36
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

General elections 1962-2004

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

Year	Winner		Runner-up
Year	Candidate	Party	Candidate	Party
1962	Nalini Ranjan Ghosh	Indian National Congress	Saroj Kumar Chakraborty	Revolutionary Socialist Party[3]
1967	B.N.Katham	Indian National Congress	A.H. Besterwitch	Independent[4]
1971	Tuna Oraon	Indian National Congress	Birsen Kujar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
1977	Khagendra Nath Dasgupta	Independent	Maya Ray	Indian National Congress[6]
1980	Subodh Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Sriram Singh	Indian National Congress (I)[7]
1984	Manik Sanyal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Arun Moitra	Indian National Congress[8]
1989	Manik Sanyal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Sriram Singh	Indian National Congress[9]
1991	Jitendra Nath Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Tushar Kanti Choudhuri	Indian National Congress[10]
1996	Jitendra Nath Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Deb Prasad Roy	Indian National Congress[11]
1998	Minati Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Kalyan Chakraborty	Trinamool Congress[12]
1999	Minati Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Kalyan Chakraborty	All India Trinamool Congress[13]
2004	Minati Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Parash Datta	All India Trinamool Congress[14]
2009	Mahendra Kumar Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Sukhbilas Barma	Indian National Congress
2014	Bijoy Chandra Barman	All India Trinamool Congress	Mahendra Kumar Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2019	Jayanta Kumar Roy	Bharatiya Janata Party	Bijoy Chandra Barman	All India Trinamool Congress

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