Jangipur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Jangipur
Jangipur
	Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Khalilur Rahaman
Parliamentary Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1967-present
Reservation	None
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,391,656[1]
Assembly Constituencies	Suti; Jangipur; Raghunathganj; Sagardighi; Lalgola; Nabagram (SC); Khargram (SC)

Jangipur (Lok Sabha constituency) is a parliamentary constituency in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, India. All the seven assembly segments of No.9 Jangipur (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Murshidabad district.

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. 9 Jangipur is composed of the following segments from 2009:[2]

Suti (assembly constituency no. 57)
Jangipur (assembly constituency no. 58)
Raghunathganj (assembly constituency no. 59)
Sagardighi (assembly constituency no. 60)
Lalgola (assembly constituency no. 61)
Nabagram (SC) (assembly constituency no. 65)
Khargram (SC) (assembly constituency no. 66)

In 2004 Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[3]Farakka (assembly constituency no. 50), Aurangabad (assembly constituency no. 51), Suti (assembly constituency no. 52), Sagardighi (SC) (assembly constituency no. 53), Jangipur (assembly constituency no. 54), Nabagram (assembly constituency no. 57), Khargram (SC) (assembly constituency no. 66)

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Constituency	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
Fourth	1967-71	Jangipur	Lutfal Haque	Indian National Congress [4]
Fifth	1971-77		Lutfal Haque	Indian National Congress[5]
Sixth	1977-80		Sasanka Sekhar Sanyal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]
Seventh	1980-84		Zainal Abedin	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
Eighth	1984-89		Zainal Abedin	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
Ninth	1989-91		Zainal Abedin	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
Tenth	1991-96		Zainal Abedin	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
Eleventh	1996-98		Mohammad Idris Ali	Indian National Congress [11]
Twelfth	1998-99		Abul Hasnat Khan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
Thirteenth	1999-04		Abul Hasnat Khan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[13]
Fourteenth	2004-09		Pranab Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[14]
Fifteenth	2009-12		Pranab Mukherjee	Indian National Congress [15]
Fifteenth	2012-14		Abhijit Mukherjee	Indian National Congress [16]
Sixteenth	2014-19		Abhijit Mukherjee	Indian National Congress[17]
seventeenth	2019-incumbent		Khalilur Rahaman	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

17th Lok Sabha: 2019 General Elections

2019 Indian general elections: Jangipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Khalilur Rahaman	5,62,838	43.15	+24.61
	BJP	Mafuja Khatun	3,17,056	24.3	+15.65
	INC	Abhijit Mukherjee	2,55,836	19.61	-14.19
	CPI (M)	Zulfiqar Ali	95,501	7.32	-25.75
	WPOI	Dr. S.Q.R Ilyas	21,302	1.63
	SDPI	Taheedul Islam	11,696	0.9
	NOTA	None of the Above	11,355	0.87	N/A
Majority			245,782
Turnout			13,04,629	80.72	TBA
	AITC gain from INC		Swing	TBA

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: Jangipur[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Abhijit Mukherjee	378,201	33.80	-20.44
	CPI (M)	Muzaffar Hussain	370,040	33.07	-7.45
	AITC	Sk Nurul Islam	207,455	18.54	+18.54
	BJP	Samrat Ghosh	96,751	8.65	+6.32
	SDPI	Md. Sahabuddin	17,257
	Independent	Abhijit Sarkar	10,055
	WPOI	Monirul Islam	9,476
	SUCI(C)	Abdus Sayeed	7,926
	BSP	Sanjit Singh	5,507
	Amra Bangalee	Dhananjay Banerjee	3,019
	Jamat-E-Sheratul Mustakim	Md. Ginnatulla Sk	2,318
	NOTA	None of the above	11,079	0.99	---
Majority			8,161	0.73	-12.99
Turnout			11,19,084	80.41	-5.54
	INC hold		Swing	-20.44

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

By election 2012

Bye-election, 2012: Jangipur [16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Abhijit Mukherjee	332,919	39.01	-15.23
	CPI (M)	Muzaffar Hussain	330,383	38.71	-1.81
	BJP	Sudhansu Biswas	85,887	10.06	+7.73
	WPOI	Raisuddin Baidya	41,620	4.90	+4.90
	SDPI	Tayedul Islam	24,691	2.90	+2.90
Majority			2,536	0.30	-13.42
Turnout			8,53,413	68.73	-17.22
	INC hold		Swing

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General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Jangipur [15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Pranab Mukherjee	506,749	54.24	+5.36
	CPI (M)	Mriganka Sekhar Bhattacharya	378,600	40.52	-4.18
	BJP	Debashish Majumdar	21,791	2.33	+2.33
	AUDF	Zamirul Hassan	19,000	2.03	+2.03
	Independent	Tapas Saha	8,141	0.87	+0.87
Majority			128,149	13.72	+9.54
Turnout			9,34,281	85.95	+4.34
	INC hold		Swing	+5.36

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Jangipur [14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Pranab Mukherjee	431,647	48.88
	CPI (M)	Abul Hasnat Khan	394,787	44.70
	AITC	Shish Mohammad	19,725	2.23
	Independent	Palash De	9,959	1.13
	BSP	Gourpada Biswas Mallick	8,499	0.96
	Independent	Abdus Sayeed	7,132	0.81
	Independent	Tojibur Rahaman	3,997	0.45
	SP	Mohammad Abdur Rahaman	3,934	0.45
	Independent	Abu Asim Siddique	3,448	0.39
Majority			36,860	4.18
Turnout			8,83,128	81.61
	INC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

General election 1999

General Election, 1999: Jangipur [13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI (M)	Abul Hasnat Khan	352,580	44.90
	INC	Mainul Haque	291,263	37.10
	AITC	Syed Mushtaque Murshed	120,770	15.43
	Independent	Dwarka Nath Das	6,074	1.13
	NCP	Utpal Majumder	2,339	0.30
	BSP	Alam Khairul	1,857	0.20
	Independent	Mihir Kumar Das	610	0.10
Majority			61,317	(7.8%)
Turnout			7,85,797	(72.3%)
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

General election 1998

General Election, 1998: Jangipur [13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI (M)	Abul Hasnat Khan	396,761	48.00
	INC	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury	324,260	38.60
	Trinamool Congress	Sk Fukran	99,028	11.80
	MUL	Mosharaf Hossain	6,013	0.70
	Independent	Rafique Sk	1,563	0.20
Majority			72,501	(8.6%)
Turnout			8,40,406	(78.5%)
	CPI (M) gain from INC		Swing

General elections 1967-2004

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

Year	Winner		Runner-up
	Candidate	Party	Candidate	Party
1967	Lutfal Haque	Indian National Congress	J.Gupta	Independent[4]
1972	Lutfal Haque	Indian National Congress	Barun Roy	Revolutionary Socialist Party[5]
1977	Sasankasekher Sanyal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Lutfal Haque	Indian National Congress[6]
1980	Zainal Abedin	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Lutfal Haque	Indian National Congress (I)[7]
1984	Zainal Abedin	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Md. Sohrab	Indian National Congress[8]
1989	Zainal Abedin	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Md. Sohrab	Indian National Congress[9]
1991	Zainal Abedin	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Mannan Hossain	Indian National Congress[10]
1996	Mohammad Idris Ali	Indian National Congress	Zainal Abedin	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1998	Abul Hasnat Khan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury	Indian National Congress[12]
1999	Abul Hasnat Khan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Mainul Haque	Indian National Congress[13]
2004	Pranab Mukherjee	Indian National Congress	Abul Hasnat Khan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]

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