Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency

Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 constituencies of the lower house of parliament in India. The constituency is based on Ghatal in West Bengal. While six assembly segments of No. 32 Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency are in Paschim Medinipur district, one segment is in Purba Medinipur district. As per the order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Panskura Lok Sabha constituency ceased to exist; and a new Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency came into being.^[2] The Ghatal constituency existed earlier from 1951 to 1977.

Ghatal WB-32
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Ghatal Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Panskura Paschim Sabang Pingla Debra Daspur Ghatal Keshpur
Established	1951-1977 2009-current
Total electors	19,39,945[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Deepak Adhikari
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, 40. Asansol, 41. Bolpur, 42. Birbhum

Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency (parliamentary constituency no. 32) is composed of the following assembly segments:^[3]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
205	Panskura Paschim	Paschim Medinipur	Firoja Bibi		Trinamool Congress		Bharatiya Janata Party
226	Sabang		Manas Bhunia				Trinamool Congress
227	Pingla		Ajit Maity
229	Debra		Humayun Kabir
230	Daspur		Mamata Bhunia
231	Ghatal (SC)		Sital Kapat		Bharatiya Janata Party
235	Keshpur (SC)		Seuli Saha		Trinamool Congress

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Constituency	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
First	1952-57	Ghatal	Nikunja Behari Chowdhury		Communist Party of India[4]
Second	1957-62		Nikunja Behari Maity		Indian National Congress[5]
Third	1962-67		Sachindra Chaudhuri[6]
Fourth	1967-71		Parimal Ghosh[7][8]
Fifth	1971-77		Jagadish Bhattachaya		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9][10]
Fifteenth	2009-14		Gurudas Dasgupta		Communist Party of India
Sixteenth	2014-19		Deepak Adhikari (Dev)		Trinamool Congress[11]
Seventeenth	2019-2024
Eighteenth	2024-Incumbent

For Members of Parliament from the area during the period 1977-2009 see Panskura Lok Sabha constituency

Election results

18th Lok Sabha: 2024 General Elections

2024 Indian general elections:Ghatal^[12][13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Deepak Adhikari (Dev)	837,990	52.36	4.14
	BJP	Hiranmoy Chatterjee (Hiran)	655,122	40.93	0.04
	CPI	Tapan Ganguly	74,908	4.68	1.88
	NOTA	None of the Above	12,966	0.81	0.12
	BSP	Soumen Madraji	7,941	0.50
	Independent	Gopal Mondal	4,244	0.27	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Dinesh Maikap	4,158	0.26	0.14
	Independent	Saheb Chowdhury	3,237	0.20	N/A
Majority			182,868	11.43	4.18
Turnout			1,600,556	82.51	0.23
	AITC hold		Swing

17th Lok Sabha: 2019 General Elections

2019 Indian general elections: Ghatal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Deepak Adhikari (Dev)	717,959	48.22	−2.48
	BJP	Bharati Ghosh	609,986	40.97	+34.04
	CPI	Tapan Ganguly	97,062	6.56	−24.88
	INC	Khandakar Mohammad Saifullah	32,793	2.21	−6.78
	NOTA	None of the Above	13,796	0.93	N/A
Majority			107,973	7.25	−11.85
Turnout			1,489,338	82.74
	AITC hold		Swing	-15.78

16th Lok Sabha : General election 2014

2014 Indian general election: Ghatal^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dipak Adhikari (Dev)	685,696	50.70	+9.78
	CPI	Santosh Rana	424,805	31.40	−22.16
	INC	Manas Bhunia	122,928	8.99
	BJP	Md. Alam	94,842	6.93	+3.94
	SUCI(C)	Anjan Jana	8,080
	AMB	Goutam Kouri	5,547
	Independent	Gopal Mondal	4,498
	Jharkhand Anushilan Party	Gopal Murmu	2,154
	RJSP	Gobardhan Ghosh	1,983
	PDS	Gangaram Sasmal	1,758
Majority			260,891	19.10
Turnout			1,366,909	84.88
	AITC gain from CPI		Swing

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Ghatal^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Gurudas Dasgupta	625,923	53.50	−8.42
	AITC	Noor Alam Chowdhury	478,739	40.92	+10.82
	BJP	Matilal Khatua	34,997	2.99
	BSP	Narayan Chandra Samat	12,064	1.03
	IJP	Liyakat Khan	9,355	0.80
	JMM	Arun Kumar Das	5,333	0.46
	RDMP	Ahitosh Maity	3,515	0.30
Majority			147,184	12.80
Turnout			11,69,934	86.35
	CPI hold		Swing

For Members of Parliament from the area during the period 1977-2009 see Panskura Lok Sabha constituency

General election 1971

General Election, 1971: Ghatal^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Jagadish Bhattacharyya	128,366	35.71
	INC	Parimal Ghosh	127,044	35.34
	CPI	Prabhat Kar	62,824	17.48
	BBC	Surendra Nath Ghorai	20,513	5.71
	NCO	Ramdas Ramanuj Das Mahanta	16,403	4.56
	Independent	Gobardhan Dey	4,306	1.20
Majority			1,322	0.4
Turnout			3,59,456	73.12%
	CPI gain from INC		Swing

General election 1967

General Election, 1967: Ghatal^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Parimal Ghosh	138,572	41.59%
	CPI	Prabhat Kar	109,662	32.91%
	CPI(M)	Nikunja Chowdhury	84,945	25.50%
Majority			28,910
Turnout			3,33,179	73.27%
	INC hold		Swing

General election 1962

General Election, 1962: Ghatal^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sachindra Nath Chowdhury	179,045	52.50%
	CPI	Manoranjan Roy	148,207	43.40%
	ABHM	Basanta kumar Chakraborty	7,049	2.10
Majority			30,838	(9.0%)
Turnout			3,34,301	(63.8%)
	INC hold		Swing

General election 1957

General Election, 1957: Ghatal^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Nikunja Behari Maity	165,597	59.65%
	CPI	Manoranjan Roy	112,025	40.35%
Majority			53,572	(9.0%)
Turnout			277,622	(62.6%)
	INC gain from CPI		Swing

General election 1952

General Election, 1952: Ghatal^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Nikunja Behari Chowdhury	73,435	40.70%
	INC	Maitayee Basu	68,916	38.20%
	Independent	Satcori Pati Roy	38,028	21.10
Majority			4,519
Turnout			1,80,379	(49.9%)
	CPI win (new seat)

General elections 1951-1971

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

Year	Winner	Party	Runner-up	Party
1951	Nikunja Behari Chowdhury	CPI	Maitreyee Basu	Indian National Congress[4]
1957	Nikunja Behari Maity	Indian National Congress	Nikunja Behari Chwdhury	Communist Party of India[5]
1962	Sachindra Chaudhuri	Indian National Congress	Manoranjan Roy	Communist Party of India[6]
1967	Parimal Ghosh	Indian National Congress	Prabhat Kar	Communist Party of India[7][8]
1971	Jagadish Bhattacharyya	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Parimal Ghosh	Indian National Congress[9]

See also

• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha