Bolpur Lok Sabha constituency

Bolpur Lok Sabha constituency is in West Bengal, in India. While four assembly segments of No. 41 Bolpur Lok Sabha constituency are in Birbhum district, three are in Purba Bardhaman district. The seat was a free seat till 2004, but was declared reserved for scheduled castes from 2009 general elections.

Bolpur WB-41
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Bolpur Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Ausgram Bolpur Ketugram Labpur Mayureswar Mangalkot Nanoor
Established	1967
Total electors	18,39,234
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Asit Kumar Mal
Party	AITC
Alliance	INDIA
Elected year	2024

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

As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 41 Bolpur, reserved for Scheduled castes (SC), is composed of the following assembly segments:^[1]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
271	Ketugram	Purba Bardhaman	Sheikh Shahnawaz		Trinamool Congress		Trinamool Congress
272	Mangalkot		Apurba Chowdhury
273	Ausgram (SC)		Abhedananda Thander
286	Bolpur	Birbhum	Chandranath Sinha
287	Nanoor (SC)		Bidhan Chandra Majhi
288	Labpur		Abhijit Sinha
290	Mayureswar		Abhijit Roy

Prior to delimitation, Bolpur Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:^[2]Ausgram (SC) (assembly constituency no. 267), Mangalkot (assembly constituency no. 281), Nanoor (SC) (assembly constituency no. 283), Bolpur (assembly constituency no. 284), Labpur (assembly constituency no. 285), Dubrajpur (assembly constituency no. 286) and Mayureswar (SC) (assembly constituency no. 290)

Members of Parliament

Duration	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
1967	A.K.Chanda		Indian National Congress[3]
1971	Saradish Roy		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[4][5]
1977
1980
1984
1985^	Somnath Chatterjee
1989
1991
1996
1998
1999
2004
2009	Dr. Ram Chandra Dome
2014	Anupam Hazra		Trinamool Congress
2019	Asit Kumar Mal
2024

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Bolpur^[6][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Asit Kumar Mal	855,633	55.98	8.13
	BJP	Piya Saha	528,380	34.57	6.00
	CPI(M)	Shyamali Pradhan	99,383	6.50	0.21
	NOTA	None of the above	21,722	1.42	N/A
Majority			3,27,253	21.41	14.13
Turnout			1,528,470	82.66	3.08
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2019

2019 Indian general election: Bolpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Asit Kumar Mal	699,172	47.85	−0.48
	BJP	Ram Prasad Das	592,769	40.57	+25.44
	CPI(M)	Dr. Ram Chandra Dome	91,964	6.29	−23.95
	INC	Abhijit Saha	30,112	2.06	−1.53
	RJVP	Simanta Mondal	17,013	1.16	+1.16
Majority			1,06,403	7.28
Turnout			14,61,929	85.74
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Bolpur^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Anupam Hazra	630,693	48.33	N/A
	CPI(M)	Dr. Ram Chandra Dome	394,584	30.24	−19.66
	BJP	Kamini Mohan Sarkar	197,474	15.13	+8.64
	INC	Tapan Kumar Saha	46,953	3.59	−34.55
	NOTA	None of the above	17,322	1.32	N/A
Majority			236,109	18.09	+6.33
Turnout			1,304,756	84.81	+2.32
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+38.50

General elections 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Bolpur^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Ram Chandra Dome	508,383	49.90
	INC	Asit Kumar Mal	411,501	38.14
	BJP	Arjun Saha	70,084	6.49
	AUDF	Adara Bauri	21,325	1.97
	IND	Professor Bijay Dalui	14,581	1.35
	IND	Nihar Hazra	11,798	1.09
	BSP	Vidyasagar Mete	11,139	1.03
Majority			96,882	11.76
Turnout			1,078,811	82.49
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General elections 2004

General Election, 2004: Bolpur^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Somnath Chatterjee	504,836	65.80
	AITC	Dr. Nirmal Kumar Maji	194,531	25.30
	INC	Dhananjoy Saha	48,756	6.49
	Independent	Budhen Soren	9,860	1.30
	Independent	Bhabotosh Mandal	6,561	0.09
	Independent	Bijoy Dolui	5,515	0.07
Majority			310,305	40.40
Turnout			7,67,695	74.2
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General elections 1999

General Election, 1999: Bolpur^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Somnath Chatterjee	464,199	59.36
	AITC	Suniti Chattaraj	277,810	35.53
	INC	Dr. Sushil Banerjee	37,093	4.74
	JP	Nazma	2,852	0.36
Majority			186,389	23.50
Turnout			7,81,954	76.43
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General elections 1998

General Election, 1998: Bolpur^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Somnath Chatterjee	470,645	59.55
	AITC	Gour Hari Chanda	219,553	27.78
	INC	Suniti Chattaraj	110,091	12.67
Majority			251,092	31.30
Turnout			7,81,954	78.55
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General election 1996

General Election, 1996: Bolpur^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Somnath Chatterjee	471,549	58.80
	INC	Sunil Das	217,903	27.20
	BJP	Tara Prosanna Sinha	76,548	9.50
	Independent	Modassar Hossain	8,670	1.10
	Independent	Md. Sadakas	1,987	0.20
	Independent	Maharaj Mistry	1,482	0.20
	Independent	Abu Taher Mirza	669	0.10
Majority			253,646	31.6
Turnout			8,02,298	82.1
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General election 1991

General Election, 1991: Bolpur^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Somnath Chatterjee	394,496	55.30
	INC	Jivan Mukhopadhyay	167,872	23.50
	BJP	Tara Prosanna Sinha	117,394	16.40
	Independent	Aloke Mukherjee	7,577	1.10
	BSP	Sailendranath Majumder	2,654	0.40
	Jharkhand Party	Shyamali Ghosh	2,392	0.30
	Independent	Sunil Kumar Mitra	2,149	0.10
	Doordarshi Party	Maharaj Mistry	920	0.10
	Independent	Manohar Murmu	615	0.10
	Independent	Abu taher Mirza	428	0.10
Majority			226,624	31.7
Turnout			7,13,844	77.2
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General election 1989

General Election, 1989: Bolpur^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Somnath Chatterjee	421,483	59.30
	INC	Sachindranath Sahu	257,890	36.30
	Independent	Modassar Hossain	8,164	1.10
	JP(S)	Mahonmbd Saddu Kas	5,045	0.70
	Independent	Rabindranath Ghosh	2,587	0.40
	Independent	Abu Taher Mirza	1,437	0.20
	Independent	Sanat Kumar Datta	1,027	0.10
Majority			163,593	23.0
Turnout			7,11,128	79.2
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1984 Election

• Saradish Roy CPI(M) : 317,749 votes
• Nihar Dutta (Congress) : 256,818

By-election 1985

A by-election was held in this constituency in 1985 which was necessitated by the Sudden Death of sitting CPIM-MP Dr. Saradish Roy. In the by-election, Somnath Chatterjee of CPIM defeated his nearest rival Siddhartha Shankar Ray of Congress by 98,999 votes.

Indian Parliamentary bye election, 1985: Bolpur constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Somnath Chatterjee	339,078
	INC	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	240,079
	Independent	K.K Roy	10,087
	Independent	M.Hossain	4,182
	Independent	N.C.Mandal	2,245
Majority			98,999	7.92	+6.12
Turnout			5,95,671	62.82	−14.07
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1980 Election

• Saradish Roy CPI(M) : 264,798 votes^[16]
• Pranab mukherjee (Cong-Indira) : 196,169

General elections 1967–2004

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

Year	Voters	Voter Turnout	Winner			Runners up
		%age	Candidate	%age	Party	Candidate	%age	Party
1967	259,965	53.75	A.K.Chanda	52.73	Congress	Saradish Roy	47.27	CPI(M)[3]
1971	270,782	52.77	Saradish Roy	45.39	CPI(M)	Phulrenu Guha	31.01	Congress[4]
1977	255,130	48.36	Saradish Roy	50.19	CPI(M)	Durga Banerjee	36.20	CPI[17]
1980	493,810	74.04	Saradish Roy	54.97	CPI(M)	Pranab Mukherjee	40.72	INC(I)[18]
1984	589,190	78.26	Saradish Roy	55.09	CPI(M)	Nihar Dutta	44.53	INC[19]
Bye Polls 1985			Somnath Chatterjee		CPI(M)	Siddhartha Shankar Ray		CPI(M)<http://www.indiavotes.com/pc/byeDetail/279>
1989	711,130	79.20	Somnath Chatterjee	60.42	CPI(M)	Sachidanandan Sau	36.97	INC[15]
1991	713,840	77.17	Somnath Chatterjee	56.64	CPI(M)	Jivan Mukhopadhyay	24.10	Independent[14]
1996	802,300	82.10	Somnath Chatterjee	60.55	CPI(M)	Sunil Das	27.98	INC[13]
1998	803,380	78.55	Somnath Chatterjee	59.55	CPI(M)	Gour Hari Chandra	27.78	WBTC[12]
1999	792.87	76.43	Somnath Chatterjee	59.36	CPI(M)	Suniti Chattaraj	35.53	AITC[11]
2004	770.12	74.41	Somnath Chatterjee	65.56	CPI(M)	Dr. Nirmal Kumar Maji	25.26	AITC[10]

See also

• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha