Medinipur (Lok Sabha constituency)

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Medinipur
Existence 1951-present
Reservation None
Current MP Sandhya Roy
Party Trinamool Congress
Elected Year 2014
State West Bengal
Total Electors 1,499,673[1]
Assembly Constituencies Egra
Dantan
Keshiary (ST)
Kharagpur Sadar
Narayangarh
Kharagpur
Medinipur

Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency (formerly, Midnapore Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Midnapore in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 34 Medinipur (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Paschim Medinipur district.

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. 34 Medinipur is composed of the following segments:[2]

Prior to delimitation, Midnapore Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[3]Patashpur (assembly constituency no. 215), Midnapore (assembly constituency no. 223), Kharagpur Town (assembly constituency no. 224), Kharagpur Rural (assembly constituency no. 225), Keshiari (ST) (assembly constituency no. 226), Narayangarh (assembly constituency no. 227) and Dantan (assembly constituency no. 228)

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha Duration Constituency Name of M.P. Party Affiliation
First 1952-57 Midnapore-Jhargram Bharat Lal Tudu Indian National Congress [4]
Durga Charan Banerjee Bharatiya Jana Sangh [4]
Second 1957-62 Midnapur Narasingha Malla Ugal Sanda Deb Indian National Congress[5]
Subodh Hansda Indian National Congress[5]
Third 1962-67 Gobinda Kumar Singhu Indian National Congress [6]
Fourth 1967-71 Midnapore S.N.Maity Bangla Congress[7]
Fifth 1971-77 Subodh Chandra Hansda Indian National Congress[8]
Sixth 1977-80 Sudhir Kumar Ghosal Bharatiya Lok Dal[9]
Seventh 1980-84 Narayan Choubey Communist Party of India[10]
Eighth 1984-89 Narayan Choubey Communist Party of India[11]
Ninth 1989-91 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India [12]
Tenth 1991-96 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India [13]
Eleventh 1996-98 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India [14]
Twelfth 1998-99 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India [15]
Thirteenth 1999-01 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India[16]
2001-04 Prabodh Panda Communist Party of India[17]
Fourteenth 2004-09 Prabodh Panda Communist Party of India[18]
Fifteenth 2009-14 Medinipur Prabodh Panda Communist Party of India[19]
Sixteenth 2014-incumbent Sandhya Roy All India Trinamool Congress[20]

Election results

General election 2014

Indian general elections, 2014: Medinipur[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Trinamool Congress Sandhya Roy 576,860 46.01 +3.33
CPI Prabodh Panda 395,194 31.36 -15.93
BJP Prabhakar Tiwari 180,112 14.29 +9.30
INC Dr. Bimal Raj 48,883 3.87 N/A
SUCI(C) Tushar Jana 9,783 0.77 N/A
BSP Kavita Rani 8,639 0.68 -0.49
Amra Bangalee Ashok Bera 7,883 0.62 N/A
PDS Soumen Samanta 6,062 0.48 N/A
JMM Mukim Khan 5,335 0.42 -0.57
Independent Ramkrishna Sarkar 4,655 0.36 N/A
Majority 184,666 14.65 +10.04
Turnout 1,260,032 84.02 +1.48
Trinamool Congress gain from CPI Swing -4.63


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West Bengal summary
Party Seats won Seat change Vote percentage
Trinamool Congress 34 Increase15 39.3
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 2 Decrease7 22.7
Communist Party of India 0 Decrease2 2.3
Revolutionary Socialist Party 0 Decrease2 2.4
Forward Bloc 0 Decrease2 2.1
Indian National Congress 4 Decrease2 9.6
Bharatiya Janata Party 2 Increase1 16.8
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) 0 Decrease1 0.7

Source: Party-wise trends in General Election to the Lok Sabha 2014
List of successful candidates in General Elections 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha


General election 2009

Indian general elections, 2009: Medinipur[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI Prabodh Panda 509,021 47.29 -5.54
Trinamool Congress Dipak Kumar Ghosh 445,004 42.68 N/A
BJP Pradip Patnaik 52,061 4.99 -30.15
BSP Asok Kumar Golder 12,216 1.17 +0.14
Independent Sanjay Kumar Mishra 11,092 1.06 N/A
JMM Nepal Das 10,324 0.99 N/A
Independent Partha Addhya 6,974 0.66 N/A
Independent Amit Moitra 4,290 0.41 N/A
RDMP Mukul Kumar Maiti 4,016 0.38 N/A
Independent Sukumar De 3,498 0.33 N/A
Majority 48,017 4.61 -13.08
Turnout 1,042,496 82.54
CPI hold Swing -5.54

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Medinipur[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI Prabodh Panda 480,034 52.83
BJP Rahul Bishwajit Sinha 319,274 35.14
INC Narayan Chandra Paria 68,338 7.52
Janata Party Panchanan Pradhan 10,243 1.12
NCP Madhumanti Sengupta 9,901 1.08
BSP Mrityunjoy Chakraborty 9,440 1.03
Independent Asit Kumar Khatua 7,249 0.79
Independent Lalit Kumar Jaiswal 4,020 0.44
Majority 160,760 17.69
Turnout 908,499
CPI hold Swing

By-election 2001

A by-election was held in this constituency in 2001 which was necessitated by the Death of sitting MP Indrajit Gupta. In the by-election, Prabodh Panda of Communist Party of India defeated his nearest rival Manorajnan Dutta of Trinamool Congress.

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Indian Parliamentary bye election, 2001: Midnapore constituency
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI Prabodh Panda 4,46,237
Trinamool Congress Manoranjan Dutta 3,30,044
BJP Debasish Chattopadhyay 1,57,543
NCP Amal Mazumder 87,983
JD(S) Bijoy Bandyopadhyay 25,114
Independent Rabikanta Santra 5,112
RJP Ashok Kumar Bera 3,871
Majority 1,18,193 88.92
Turnout 96,650 47.69 -6.7
CPI hold Swing +21.27

General elections 1951-2004

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

Year Winner Runner-up
Candidate Party Candidate Party
1951* Durga Charan Bandopahyay Bharatiya Jana Sangh Atul Chandra Basu Indian National Congress
Bishnupada Hazra Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party[4]
Bharat Lal Tudu Indian National Congress Subodh Hansda Kisan Mazoor Praja Party[4]
1957* Narasingha Malla Ugal Sanda Deb Indian National Congress Rabindra Nath Mitra Communist Party of India[5]
Subodh Hansda Indian National Congress Chandra Mohan Saren Praja Socialist Party[5]
1962 Gobinda Kumar Singhu Indian National Congress Saroj Roy Communist Party of India[6]
1967 S.N.Maity Bangla Congress G.K.Singha Indian National Congress[7]
1971 Subodh Chandra Hansda Indian National Congress Narayan Choubey Communist Party of India[8]
1977 Sudhir Kumar Ghosal Bharatiya Lok Dal Narayan Choubey Communist Party of India[9]
1980 Narayan Choubey Communist Party of India Sudhir Kumar Ghosal Indian National Congress (I)[10]
1984 Narayan Choubey Communist Party of India Ajit Kumar Khanra Indian National Congress[11]
1989 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India Gouri Choubey Indian National Congress[12]
1991 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India Birendra Bijoy Malladev Indian National Congress[13]
1996 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India D P Roy Indian National Congress[14]
1998 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India Manoranjon Dutta Bharatiya Janata Party[15]
1999 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India Manoranjon Dutta Bharatiya Janata Party[16]
2001 Prabodh Panda Communist Party of India Manoranjon Dutta All India Trinamool Congress[17]
2004 Prabodh Panda Communist Party of India Rahul (Biswajit) Sinha Bharatiya Janata Party[18]
  • In 1951 Midnapore-Jhargram constituency and in 1957 Midnapur constituency, both the constituencies had two seats, with one seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes. The results here are shown separately.

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