Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency

Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Hugli-Chuchura in West Bengal. All seven assembly segments of No. 28 Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency are in Hooghly district.

Hooghly WB-28
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Hooghly Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Singur Chandannagar Chunchura Balagarh Pandua Saptagram Dhanekhali
Established	1951
Total electors	1,630,042[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Rachna Banerjee
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2024

Overview

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

Hoogly constituency, shares a large industrial area on the western bank of the Hooghly river in the district with Sreerampur and has a rich agricultural hinterland.

According to The Statesman, "The Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency had remained a Communist bastion till the Trinamul snatched their thunder in the 2009 General Election. The constituency has the distinction of having a rich colonial history with the Portuguese settlement at Bandel, the French colony at Chandannagore, the Danish settlement at Serampore… and Chinsurah, a former Dutch colony. Despite ruling West Bengal for 35 years, the Marxist government alienated its people by such historical blunders as the forcible acquisition of fertile agricultural land in Singur which forms part of the Hooghly constituency."^[2]

The Dunlop tyre plant at Sahaganj, in this constituency is closed. According to Hindustan Times, "The entire jute industry, with eight mills in Hooghly, is sick…From Tribeni in north to Hind Motor in south, by the bank of Hooghly exists the Hooghly industrial belt, now seeking oxygen. Two fertiliser units, one food processing unit, two cotton mills, one steel plant and many other small and medium scale units have closed down over the years."^[3]

Assembly segments

As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 28 Hooghly is composed of the following segments:^[4]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
188	Singur	Hooghly	Becharam Manna		Trinamool Congress		Trinamool Congress
189	Chandannagar		Indranil Sen
190	Chunchura		Asit Mazumdar				Bharatiya Janata Party
191	Balagarh (SC)		Manoranjan Byapari
192	Pandua		Ratna De Nag				Trinamool Congress
193	Saptagram		Tapan Dasgupta				Bharatiya Janata Party
197	Dhanekhali (SC)		Ashima Patra				Trinamool Congress

Prior to delimitation, Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:^[5]Chandernagore (assembly constituency no. 182), Singur (assembly constituency no. 183), Haripal (assembly constituency no. 184), Chinsurah (assembly constituency no. 186), Bansberia (assembly constituency no. 193), Polba (assembly constituency no. 190), Dhaniakhali (SC) (assembly constituency no. 191)

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Name of M.P.	Party
Hooghly
First	1952-57	Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee		Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha[6]
Second	1957-62	Provat Kar		Communist Party of India[7][8]
Third	1962-67
Fourth	1967-71	Bijoy Krishna Modak		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9][10][11][12]
Fifth	1971-77
Sixth	1977-80
Seventh	1980-84	Rupchand Pal
Eighth	1984-89	Indumati Bhattacharya		Indian National Congress[13]
Ninth	1989-91	Rupchand Pal		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14][15][16][17][18][19]
Tenth	1991-96
Eleventh	1996-98
Twelfth	1998-99
Thirteenth	1999-04
Fourteenth	2004-09
Fifteenth	2009-14	Dr. Ratna De (Nag)		Trinamool Congress[20][21]
Sixteenth	2014-19
Seventeenth	2019-24	Locket Chatterjee		Bharatiya Janata Party[22]
Eighteenth	2024-Incumbent	Rachna Banerjee		Trinamool Congress[23]

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Hooghly^[24][25]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rachna Banerjee	702,744	46.31	5.31
	BJP	Locket Chatterjee	625,891	41.24	4.79
	CPI(M)	Monodip Ghosh	139,919	9.22	0.88
	NOTA	None of the above	13,352	0.88	0.05
Majority			76,853	5.1
Turnout			15,17,511	81.38
	AITC gain from BJP		Swing	4.3

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Hooghly^[22][26]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Locket Chatterjee	671,448	46.03	+29.66
	AITC	Dr. Ratna De (Nag)	598,086	41.00	−4.51
	CPI(M)	Pradip Saha	121,588	8.34	−27.18
	INC	Pratul Chandra Saha	25,374	1.74	−1.39
	NOTA	None of the above	13,525	0.93	N/A
Majority			73,362	5.03
Turnout			1,457,842	82.52	−0.18
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+17.09

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Hooghly^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr. Ratna De (Nag)	614,312	45.54	−6.83
	CPI(M)	Pradip Saha	425,228	31.52	−10.84
	BJP	Chandan Mitra	221,271	16.40	+12.98
	INC	Pritam Ghosh	42,226	3.13	N/A
	CPI(ML)L	Sajal Adhikari	9,152	0.67	−0.36
	SUCI(C)	Paban Mazumder	7,682	0.56
	BSP	Vijay Kumar Mahato	5,519	0.40	−0.45
	RJP	Sanghamitra Mukherjee	3,766	0.27
	JDP	Shukchand Murmu	3,197	0.23	−0.83
Majority			1,89,084	14.02	+7.01
Turnout			13,48,870	82.75	+0.04
	AITC hold		Swing	-3.83

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Hooghly^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dr. Ratna De (Nag)	574,022	52.37	+16.47
	CPI(M)	Rupchand Pal	4,92,499	42.36	−11.64
	BJP	Dr. Chuni Lal Chakraborty	39,784	3.42
	JDP	Swapan Murmu	12,417	1.06
	CPI(ML)L	Sajal Adhikari	12,068	1.03
	Independent	Satya Gopal Dey	10,119	0.87
	BSP	Suryya Kanta Ray	9,933	0.85
	Independent	Alok Pathak	6,908	0.59
	SP	Arabinda Sen	4,894	0.42
Majority			81,523	7.01
Turnout			11,62,646	82.71
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Hooghly^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Rupchand Pal	496,890	54.00
	AITC	Indrani Mukherjee	3,29,924	35.90
	INC	Ashok Kumar Das	70,173	7.60
	JDP	Keshab Chandra Soren	16,931	1.80
	BSP	Matilal Mandal	11,101	1.20
Majority			166,966	18.2
Turnout			9,19,683	79.2
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General elections 1951-2024

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

Year	Winner			Runner-up
	Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party
1951	Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee		Hindu Mahasabha	Renuka Roy		Indian National Congress
1957	Provat Kar		Communist Party of India	Sachindra Chowdhury
1962				Nirmal Kumar Sen
1967	Bijoy Krishna Modak		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	P.K. Palit
1972				Phani Ghosh
1977				Bishnu Charan Banerjee
1980	Rupchand Pal			Santimohan Roy		Indian National Congress (I)
1984	Indumati Bhattacharya		Indian National Congress	Rupchand Pal		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1989	Rupchand Pal		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Umasankar Halder		Indian National Congress
1991
1996				Gouri Sankar Banerjee
1998				Tapan Dasgupta		Trinamool Congress
1999
2004				Indrani Mukherjee
2009	Ratna De Nag		Trinamool Congress	Rupchand Pal		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2014				Pradip Saha
2019	Locket Chatterjee		Bharatiya Janata Party	Ratna De Nag		Trinamool Congress
2024	Rachna Banerjee		Trinamool Congress	Locket Chatterjee		Bharatiya Janata Party

See also

• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha
• Election Commission of India
• Chandannagar Subdivision