2004 Indian general election in West Bengal

2004 Indian general election in West Bengal
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All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Registered	47,437,431
Turnout	77.7% ( 2.65 pp)
Prime minister before election; Atal Bihari Vajpayee; BJP	Prime minister after election ; Manmohan Singh; INC

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.

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	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	1
4.	Independent	—	—	N/A	2

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

List of Candidates

Constituency		Left Front			NDA			UPA
#	Name	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate
1	Cooch Behar (SC)		AIFB	Hiten Barman		AITC	Girindra Nath Barman		INC	Sailen Barma
2	Alipurduars (ST)		RSP	Joachim Baxla		BJP	Manoj Tigga		INC	Ratan Lal Baraik
3	Jalpaiguri		CPM	Minati Sen		AITC	Parash Dutta		INC	Dipak Krishna Bhowmik
4	Darjeeling		CPM	Moni Thapa		BJP	Dr. G. S. Yonzone		INC	Dawa Narbula
5	Raiganj		CPM	Minati Ghosh		AITC	Zainal Abedin		INC	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi
6	Balurghat (SC)		RSP	Ranen Barman		BJP	Manomohan Ray		INC	Dipti Barman
7	Malda		CPM	Pranab Das		BJP	Badsha Alam		INC	A. B. A. Ghani Khan
8	Jangipur		CPM	Abul Hasnat Khan		AITC	Mohammad Shish		INC	Pranab Mukherjee
9	Murshidabad		CPM	Moinul Hassan Ahamed		AITC	Mohammad Ali		INC	Abdul Mannan Hossain
10	Berhampore		RSP	Promothes Mukherjee		BJP	Tapas Kumar Chatterjee		INC	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
11	Krishnagar		CPM	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar		BJP	Satyabrata Mookherjee		INC	Asim Kumar Saha
12	Nabadwip (SC)		CPM	Alokesh Das		AITC	Nilima Nag (Mallick)		INC	Howladar Nripendra Nath
13	Barasat		AIFB	Subrata Bose		AITC	Ranjit Kumar Panja		INC	Prabir Banerjee
14	Basirhat		CPI	Ajay Chakraborty		AITC	Sujit Bose		INC	Syed Md. Nizamuddin
15	Joynagar (SC)		RSP	Sanat Kumar Mandal		BJP	Asit Baran Thakur		IND	Tarun Kanti Naskar
16	Mathurapur (SC)		CPM	Basudeb Barman		AITC	Radhika Pramanik		INC	Manoranjan Halder
17	Diamond Harbour		CPM	Samik Lahiri		AITC	Saugata Roy		INC	Daulat Ali Sheikh
18	Jadavpur		CPM	Sujan Chakraborty		AITC	Krishna Bose		INC	Prof. Omprakash Mishra
19	Barrackpore		CPM	Tarit Baran Topdar		AITC	Arjun Singh		INC	Debi Ghosal
20	Dum Dum		CPM	Amitava Nandy		BJP	Tapan Sikdar		INC	Tapas Majumder
21	Calcutta North West		CPM	Sudhangshu Seal		AITC	Subrata Mukherjee		IND	Sudip Bandyopadhyay
22	Calcutta North East		CPM	Md. Salim		AITC	Ajit Kumar Panja		INC	Moushumi Chatterjee
23	Calcutta South		CPM	Rabin Deb		AITC	Mamata Banerjee		INC	Nafisa Ali
24	Howrah		CPM	Swadesh Chakraborty		AITC	Bikram Sarkar		INC	Sultan Singh
25	Uluberia		CPM	Hannan Mollah		AITC	Rajib Banerjee		INC	Kazi Abdul Rajjak
26	Serampore		CPM	Santasri Chatterjee		AITC	Akbar Ali Khondkar		INC	Kesto Mukherjee
27	Hooghly		CPM	Rupchand Pal		AITC	Indrani Mukherjee		INC	Asok Kumar Das
28	Arambagh		CPM	Anil Basu		BJP	Swapan Kumar Nandi		INC	Datta Pradip
29	Panskura		CPI	Gurudas Dasgupta		AITC	Hema Choubey		INC	Nazim Ahmed
30	Tamluk		CPM	Lakshman Seth		AITC	Suvendu Adhikari		INC	Sudarsan Panja
31	Contai		CPM	Prasanta Pradhan		AITC	Nitish Sengupta		INC	Kshitindra Mohan Sahoo
32	Midnapore		CPI	Prabodh Panda		BJP	Rahul Sinha		INC	Narayan Chandra Paria
33	Jhargram (ST)		CPM	Rupchand Murmu		AITC	Nityananda Hembram		JMM	Mongal Soren
34	Purulia		AIFB	Bir Singh Mahato		AITC	Niyati Mahato		INC	Santiram Mahato
35	Bankura		CPM	Basudeb Acharia		AITC	Deb Prasad Kundu		PDS	Natabar Bagdi
36	Vishnupur (SC)		CPM	Susmita Bauri		AITC	Janardan Saha		INC	Achintya Majhi
37	Durgapur (SC)		CPM	Sunil Khan		BJP	Shib Narayan Saha		INC	Dhibar Shova
38	Asansol		CPM	Bikash Chowdhury		AITC	Moloy Ghatak		INC	Tapas Banerjee
39	Burdwan		CPM	Nikhilananda Sar		BJP	Anindya Gopal Mitra		INC	Champak Garai
40	Katwa		CPM	Mahboob Zahedi		AITC	Ahmed Sultan		PDS	Saifuddin Choudhury
41	Bolpur		CPM	Somnath Chatterjee		AITC	Dr. Nirmal Kumar Maji		INC	Dhananjoy Ghosh
42	Birbhum (SC)		CPM	Ram Chandra Dome		BJP	Arjun Saha		INC	Gopal Chandra Das

Results

Results by Party/Alliance

Alliance/ Party				Popular vote			Seats
Alliance/ Party				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	LF		CPI(M)	1,42,71,042	38.57	3.00	32	26	5
			RSP	16,58,787	4.48	0.23	4	3
			CPI	14,84,152	4.01	0.54	3	3
			AIFB	13,52,423	3.66	0.21	3	3	1
		Total		1,87,66,404	50.72	3.98	42	35	6
	NDA		AITC	77,86,178	21.04	5.00	29	1	7
			BJP	29,83,950	8.06	3.07	13	0	2
		Total		1,07,70,128	29.10	8.07	42	1	9
	UPA		INC	53,85,754	14.56	1.27	37	6	3
			PDS	81,999	0.22		2	0
			JMM	56,429	0.15	0.09	1 + 1	0
			IND	1,72,750	0.47		2	0
		Total		56,96,932	15.40		42 + 1	6
	Others			7,33,549	2.00		84	0
	IND			10,33,220	2.79	0.90	144	0
Total				3,70,00,233	100%	-	355	42	-

Results by constituency

Constituency		Winner					Runner Up					Margin	%
#	Name	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Margin	%
1	Cooch Behar (SC)	Hiten Barman		AIFB	490,982	51.54	Girindra Nath Barman		AITC	264,413	27.76	226,569	23.79
2	Alipurduars (ST)	Joachim Baxla		RSP	384,252	45.70	Manoj Tigga		BJP	239,128	28.44	145,124	17.26
3	Jalpaiguri	Minati Sen		CPM	424,163	47.65	Parash Dutta		AITC	243,558	27.36	180,605	20.29
4	Darjeeling	Dawa Narbula		INC	396,973	44.70	Moni Thapa		CPM	295,557	33.28	101,416	11.42
5	Raiganj	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi		INC	421,904	45.98	Minati Ghosh		CPM	382,757	41.71	39,147	4.27
6	Balurghat (SC)	Ranen Barman		RSP	415,298	44.87	Manomohan Ray		BJP	344,152	37.18	71,146	7.69
7	Malda	A. B. A. Ghani Khan Ch.		INC	412,913	48.63	Pranab Das		CPM	301,805	35.54	111,108	13.09
8	Jangipur	Pranab Mukherjee		INC	431,647	48.88	Abul Hasnat Khan		CPM	394,787	44.70	36,860	4.17
9	Murshidabad	Abdul Mannan Hossain		INC	461,895	45.86	Moinul Hassan Ahamed		CPM	446,415	44.32	15,480	1.54
10	Berhampore	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury		INC	508,095	51.24	Promothes Mukherjee		RSP	409,194	41.27	98,901	9.97
11	Krishnagar	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar		CPM	397,561	42.73	Satyabrata Mookherjee		BJP	377,174	40.54	20,387	2.19
12	Nabadwip (SC)	Alokesh Das		CPM	560,176	47.56	Nilima Nag (Mallick)		AITC	550,185	46.71	9,991	0.85
13	Barasat	Subrata Bose		AIFB	520,384	45.13	Ranjit Kumar Panja		AITC	508,224	44.07	12,160	1.05
14	Basirhat	Ajay Chakraborty		CPI	462,605	50.97	Sujit Bose		AITC	280,521	30.91	182,084	20.06
15	Joynagar (SC)	Sanat Kumar Mandal		RSP	450,043	55.81	Asit Baran Thakur		BJP	219,522	27.22	230,521	28.59
16	Mathurapur (SC)	Basudeb Barman		CPM	440,862	48.56	Radhika Ranjan Pramanik		AITC	358,834	39.53	82,028	9.04
17	Diamond Harbour	Samik Lahiri		CPM	430,890	51.51	Saugata Roy		AITC	277,106	33.13	153,784	18.38
18	Jadavpur	Sujan Chakraborty		CPM	505,396	49.44	Krishna Bose		AITC	415,728	40.67	89,668	8.77
19	Barrackpore	Tarit Baran Topdar		CPM	443,048	55.77	Arjun Singh		AITC	277,977	34.99	165,071	20.78
20	Dum Dum	Amitava Nandy		CPM	619,325	49.61	Tapan Sikdar		BJP	521,073	41.74	98,252	7.87
21	Calcutta North West	Sudhangshu Seal		CPM	151,772	42.15	Subrata Mukherjee		AITC	108,768	30.20	43,004	11.94
22	Calcutta North East	Md. Salim		CPM	284,427	50.00	Ajit Kumar Panja		AITC	210,647	37.03	73,780	12.97
23	Calcutta South	Mamata Banerjee		AITC	393,561	50.93	Rabin Deb		CPM	295,132	38.19	98,429	12.74
24	Howrah	Swadesh Chakrabortty		CPM	489,444	53.69	Dr. Bikram Sarkar		AITC	242,507	26.60	246,937	27.09
25	Uluberia	Hannan Mollah		CPM	424,749	49.88	Rajib Banerjee		AITC	272,634	32.02	152,115	17.86
26	Serampore	Santasri Chatterjee		CPM	404,082	42.70	Akbar Ali Khandoker		AITC	384,395	40.62	19,687	2.08
27	Hooghly	Rupchand Pal		CPM	496,890	53.72	Indrani Mukherjee		AITC	329,924	35.67	166,966	18.05
28	Arambagh	Anil Basu		CPM	744,464	77.16	Swapan Kumar Nandi		BJP	151,962	15.75	592,502	61.41
29	Panskura	Gurudas Dasgupta		CPI	541,513	61.92	Hema Choubey		AITC	262,035	29.96	279,478	31.96
30	Tamluk	Seth Lakshman Chandra		CPM	507,228	48.99	Adhikari Suvendu		AITC	449,848	43.45	57,380	5.54
31	Contai	Prasanta Pradhan		CPM	464,743	50.15	Nitish Sengupta		AITC	405,553	43.76	59,190	6.39
32	Midnapore	Prabodh Panda		CPI	480,034	52.84	Rahul (Biswajit) Sinha		BJP	319,274	35.14	160,760	17.70
33	Jhargram (ST)	Rupchand Murmu		CPM	509,045	64.01	Nityananda Hembram		AITC	157,702	19.83	351,343	44.18
34	Purulia	Bir Singh Mahato		AIFB	341,057	48.99	Shantiram Mahato		INC	195,339	28.06	145,718	20.93
35	Bankura	Acharia Basudeb		CPM	417,798	60.07	Deb Prasad Kundu (Tara)		AITC	187,469	26.96	230,329	33.12
36	Vishnupur (SC)	Susmita Bauri		CPM	518,507	64.28	Janardan Saha		AITC	186,678	23.14	331,829	41.14
37	Durgapur (SC)	Sunil Khan		CPM	505,250	59.61	Shib Narayan Saha		BJP	227,742	26.87	277,508	32.74
38	Asansol	Bikash Chowdhury		CPM	369,832	51.00	Ghatak Moloy		AITC	245,514	33.85	124,318	17.14
39	Burdwan	Nikhilananda Sar		CPM	673,091	67.51	Anindya Gopal Mitra		BJP	201,740	20.23	471,351	47.28
40	Katwa	Mahboob Zahedi		CPM	494,716	51.20	Ahmed Sultan		AITC	351,367	36.36	143,349	14.84
41	Bolpur	Chatterjee Somnath		CPM	504,836	65.56	Dr. Nirmal Kumar Maji		AITC	194,531	25.26	310,305	40.30
42	Birbhum (SC)	Ram Chandra Dome		CPM	372,294	51.42	Gopal Chandra Das		INC	180,682	24.95	191,612	26.46

Bye-Elections Held

Constituency			Winner					Runner Up					Margin
No.	Name	Date	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Margin
38	Asansol	5 September 2005	Bansa Gopal Chowdhury		CPI(M)	410,740	61.33	Moloy Ghatak		AITC	180,799	27.00	229,941
38	Asansol	5 September 2005	The Asansol Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the death of the incumbent MP, Bikash Chowdhury.
40	Katwa	16 September 2006	Abu Ayesh Mondal		CPI(M)	541,496	60.32	Susanta Ghosh		AITC	356,162	39.68	185,334
40	Katwa	16 September 2006	The Katwa Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the death of the incumbent MP, Mahboob Zahedi.
34	Purulia	October 2006	Narahari Mahato		AIFB	378,501	53.03	Shantiram Mahato		INC	291,468	40.84	87,033
34	Purulia	October 2006	The Purulia Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the resignation of the incumbent MP, Birsingh Mahato.
7	Malda	October 2006	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury		INC	437,161	50.67	Sailen Sarkar		CPI(M)	353,770	41.00	83,391
7	Malda	October 2006	The Malda Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the death of the incumbent MP.

Assembly Segment wise lead

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2006 election)
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	168	176
	Indian National Congress	35	21
	Trinamool Congress	28	30
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	20	20
	Communist Party of India	20	8
	All India Forward Bloc	15	23
	Bharatiya Janata Party	7	0
	Others	1	16
Total		294

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from West Bengal

#	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	To
1	Pranab Mukherjee	Jangipur	Cabinet Minister	Ministry of Defence	23 May 2004	24 Oct 2006	INC
				Ministry of External Affairs	24 Oct 2006	22 May 2009
				Ministry of Finance (Additional Charge)	24 Jan 2009	22 May 2009
2	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	Raiganj	Cabinet Minister	Ministry of Water Resources	23 May 2004	18 Nov 2005
				Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs	1 Nov 2005	6 Apr 2008
				Ministry of Information & Broadcasting	18 Nov 2005	11 Nov 2008
				Minister without portfolio	11 Nov 2008	22 May 2009

References

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↑ Kumar Jha, Ajit (May 31, 2004). "Left caught between need to safeguard its bastions and compulsion to support Congress". India Today. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
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