2004 Indian general election in West Bengal

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.

2004 Indian general election in West Bengal
10 May 2004
42 out of 543 seats in Lok Sabha
Registered4,74,37,431
Turnout77.7%
  First party Second party Third party
 
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Leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Pranab Mukherjee Mamata Banerjee
Party CPI(M) INC TMC
Alliance Left Front UPA NDA
Leader since 2000 2000 1998
Leader's seat did not contest Jangipur Kolkata South
Seats won 26 6 1
Seat change 5 Increase 3 Increase 7 Decrease
Popular vote 1,42,71,042 53,85,754 77,86,178
Percentage 38.57% 14.56% 21.04%
Swing 3.01% Increase 1.27% Increase 5.01% Decrease
Prime minister before election

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
BJP

 Prime minister after election

Manmohan Singh
INC

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

  Left Front
No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Contested
1. Communist Party of India (Marxist) Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee 32
2. Revolutionary Socialist Party
Manoj Bhattacharya 4
3. All India Forward Bloc
Debabrata Biswas 3
4. Communist Party of India
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.

  United Progressive Alliance
No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Contested
1. Indian National Congress
Pranab Mukherjee 37
2. Party of Democratic Socialism
Samir Putatundu 2
3. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
N/A 2
4. Independent — — N/A 1

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

  National Democratic Alliance
No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Contested
1. All India Trinamool Congress
Mamata Banerjee 29
2. Bharatiya Janata Party
Tathagata Roy 13

Results

Alliance-wise result
LF SEATS % UPA SEATS % NDA SEATS %
CPI(M) 26 38.57 INC 6 14.56 AITC 1 21.04
RSP 3 4.48 PDS 0 0.22 BJP 0 8.06
CPI 3 4.02 JMM 0 0.15
AIFB 3 3.67 IND 0 0.14
TOTAL 35 50.74 TOTAL 6 15.07 TOTAL 1 29.10

Party-wise result
PartyVotes%Seats
Communist Party of India (Marxist)14,271,04238.7126
Trinamool Congress7,786,17821.121
Indian National Congress5,385,75414.616
Bharatiya Janata Party2,983,9508.090
Revolutionary Socialist Party1,658,7874.503
Communist Party of India1,484,1524.033
All India Forward Bloc1,352,4233.673
Bahujan Samaj Party331,3190.900
Samajwadi Party108,5140.290
Other parties302,8330.820
Independents1,205,9703.270
Total36,870,922100.0042

Constituency-wise result
No. Constituency Name of elected M.P. Party
1 Cooch Behar Hiten Barman All India Forward Bloc
2 Alipurduars Joachim Baxla Revolutionary Socialist Party
3 Jalpaiguri Minati Sen Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4 Darjeeling Dawa Narbula Indian National Congress
5 Raiganj Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi Indian National Congress
6 Balurghat Ranen Barman Revolutionary Socialist Party
7 Malda Abul Barkat Ataul G K Choudhury Indian National Congress
8 Jangipur Pranab Mukherjee Indian National Congress
9 Murshidabad Abdul Mannan Hossain Indian National Congress
10 Berhampur Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Indian National Congress
11 Krishnanagar Jyotirmoyee Sikdar Communist Party of India (Marxist)
12 Nabadwip Alakesh Das Communist Party of India (Marxist)
13 Barasat Subrata Bose Communist Party of India
14 Basirhat Ajay Chakraborty Communist Party of India
15 Joynagar Sanat Kumar Mandal Revolutionary Socialist Party
16 Mathurapur Basudeb Barman Communist Party of India (Marxist)
17 Diamond Harbour Samik Lahiri Communist Party of India (Marxist)
18 Jadavpur Sujan Chakraborty Communist Party of India (Marxist)
19 Barrackpore Tarit Baran Topdar Communist Party of India (Marxist)
20 Dumdum Amitava Nandy Communist Party of India (Marxist)
21 Calcutta North West Sudhangshu Seal Communist Party of India (Marxist)
22 Calcutta North East Md. Salim Communist Party of India (Marxist)
23 Calcutta South Mamata Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress
24 Howrah Swadesh Chakraborty Communist Party of India (Marxist)
25 Uluberia Hannan Mollah Communist Party of India (Marxist)
26 Serampore Santasri Chatterjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)
27 Hooghly Rupchand Pal Communist Party of India (Marxist)
28 Arambagh Anil Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist)
29 Panskura Gurudas Dasgupta Communist Party of India
30 Tamluk Seth Lakshman Chandra Communist Party of India (Marxist)
31 Contai Prasanta Pradhan Communist Party of India (Marxist)
32 Midnapore Prabodh Panda Communist Party of India (Marxist)
33 Jhargram Rupchand Murmu Communist Party of India (Marxist)
34 Purulia Bir Singh Mahato All India Forward Bloc
35 Bankura Basudeb Acharia Communist Party of India (Marxist)
36 Vishnupur Susmita Bauri Communist Party of India (Marxist)
37 Durgapur Sunil Khan Communist Party of India (Marxist)
38 Asansol Bikash Chowdhury Communist Party of India (Marxist)
39 Burdwan Nikhilananda Sar Communist Party of India (Marxist)
40 Katwa Mahboob Zahedi Communist Party of India (Marxist)
41 Bolpur Somnath Chatterjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)
42 Birbhum Ram Chandra Dome Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Source :- [8][9]

See also

References
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