Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency

Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency is based on Purba Bardhaman district in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency are in Purba Bardhaman district. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.

Bardhaman Purba WB-38
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Raina Jamalpur Kalna Memari Purbasthali Dakshin Purbasthali Uttar Katwa
Established	2009
Total electors	18,01,333 (2024)[1]
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Sharmila Sarkar
Party	AITC
Alliance	INDIA
Elected year	2024

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency, Katwa Lok Sabha constituency and Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency ceased to exist from 2009 and new constituencies came into being: Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency and Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency.^[2]

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

Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency (parliamentary constituency no. 38) is composed of the following assembly segments:^[2]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
261	Raina (SC)	Purba Bardhaman	Shampa Dhara		Trinamool Congress		Trinamool Congress
262	Jamalpur (SC)		Alok Kumar Majhi
264	Kalna (SC)		Deboprasad Bag
265	Memari		Madhusudan Bhattacharya
268	Purbasthali Dakshin		Swapan Debnath
269	Purbasthali Uttar		Tapan Chatterjee
270	Katwa		Rabindranath Chatterjee

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
Fifteenth	2009-14	Anup Kumar Saha		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[3]
Sixteenth[4]	2014-2019	Sunil Kumar Mandal		Trinamool Congress
Seventeenth	2019-2024
Eighteenth	2024-Incumbent	Sharmila Sarkar

For Members of Parliament from this area in previous years see Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency and Katwa Lok Sabha constituency

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sharmila Sarkar	720,302	48.11	3.59
	BJP	Ashim Kumar Sarkar	559,730	37.38	0.94
	CPI(M)	Nirab Khan	176,899	11.81	0.41
	NOTA	None of the above	12,697	0.85	0.10
Majority			160,572	24.09	15.43
Turnout			14,97,310	83.12	1.66
	AITC hold		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sunil Kumar Mondal	640,834	44.52	+1.02
	BJP	Paresh Chandra Das	551,523	38.32	+25.39
	CPI(M)	Ishwar Chandra Das	175,920	12.22	−22.61
	INC	Siddharth Majumdar	38,472	2.67	−3.54
	NOTA	None of the above	10,747	0.75	N/A
Majority			89,311	8.66	+3.38
Turnout			14,39,603	84.78
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sunil Kumar Mandal	5,74,660	43.50	+1.48
	CPI(M)	Ishwar Chandra Das	4,60,181	34.83	−12.48
	BJP	Santosh Roy	1,70,828	12.93	+6.56
	INC	Chandana Majhi	68,884	5.21	N/A
	JMM	Swapan Malik	9,666	0.73	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Kalicharan Sardar	7,981	0.60	N/A
	CPI(ML)L	Pejush Kumar Sahana	5,919	0.44	−0.30
	BSP	Mukul Biswas	5,442	0.41	−0.39
	JDP	Prosanta Bag	3,410	0.25
Majority			1,14,479	8.66	+3.38
Turnout			13,20,922	86.21	−1.00
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	-4.76

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Bardhaman Purba^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Dr Anup Kumar Saha	5,39,987	47.31
	AITC	Ashoke Biswas	4,72,568	42.02
	BJP	Sankar Haldar	71,632	6.37
	AUDF	Rabindranath Bag	17,716	1.57
	JDP	Raju Malik	12,982	1.15
	BSP	Mukul Biswas	9,069	0.80
	CPI(ML)L	Pijush Kumar Sahana	8,419	0.74
Majority			67,419	5.28
Turnout			11,24,373	87.21
	CPI(M) win (new seat)

See also

• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha