Jalpaiguri Lok Sabha constituency

Jalpaiguri Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Jalpaiguri in West Bengal. While six assembly segments of No. 3 Jalpaiguri Lok Sabha constituency are in Jalpaiguri district, one assembly segment is in Cooch Behar district. The constituency has reserved for Scheduled castes (SC) since 2009.

Jalpaiguri WB-3
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Jalpaiguri Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Mekliganj Dhupguri Maynaguri Jalpaiguri Rajganj Dabgram-Phulbari Mal
Established	1962
Total electors	18,85,963 (2024)[1]
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Jayanta Kumar Roy
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
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

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 3 Jalpaiguri, reserved for Scheduled castes (SC), is composed of the following segments from 2009:^[2]

#	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 lead
1	Mekliganj (SC)	Cooch Behar	Paresh Chandra Adhikary		Trinamool Congress		Trinamool Congress
15	Dhupguri (SC)	Jalpaiguri	Nirmal Chandra Roy				Bharatiya Janata Party
16	Maynaguri (SC)		Kaushik Roy		Bharatiya Janata Party
17	Jalpaiguri (SC)		Pradip Kumar Barma		Trinamool Congress
18	Rajganj (SC)		Khageswar Roy				Trinamool Congress
19	Dabgram-Phulbari		Sikha Chatterjee		Bharatiya Janata Party		Bharatiya Janata Party
20	Mal (ST)		Bulu Chik Baraik		Trinamool Congress		Trinamool Congress

Members of Parliament

Year	Name[3][4]	Party
1962	Nalini Ranjan Ghosh		Indian National Congress
1967	B.N.Katham
1971	Tuna Oraon
1977	Khagendra Nath Dasgupta		Independent
1980	Subodh Sen		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1984	Manik Sanyal
1989
1991	Jitendra Nath Das
1996
1998	Minati Sen
1999
2004
2009	Mahendra Kumar Roy
2014	Bijoy Chandra Barman		Trinamool Congress
2019	Jayanta Kumar Roy		Bharatiya Janata Party
2024

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Jalpaiguri^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jayanta Kumar Roy	766,568	48.58	6.85
	AITC	Nirmal Chandra Roy	679,875	43.07	4.61
	CPI(M)	Debraj Barman	74,092	4.69	0.38
	NOTA	None of the above	16,848	1.07
	Independent	Shipra Roy Hakim	9,907	0.63
Majority			86,693
Turnout			15,78,389	83.66	2.85
	BJP hold		Swing

General election 2019

2019 Indian general election: Jalpaiguri

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jayanta Kumar Roy	760,145	50.65	+33.63
	AITC	Bijoy Chandra Barman	576,141	38.39	+0.39
	CPI(M)	Bhagirath Chandra Roy	76,054	5.07	−27.58
	INC	Mani Kumar Darnal	28,488	1.90	−4.83
	BSP	Jiban Krishna Majumder	8,134	0.54	−0.39
	AMB	Khushi Ranjan Mondal	2,205	0.15	−0.07
	Samajwadi Jan Parishad	Ranjit Kumar Roy	1,899	0.13
	Kamtapur People's Party (United)	Subal Chandra Roy	2,685	0.18
	SUCI(C)	Haribhakta Sardar	4,692	0.31
	Independent	Sachimohan Barman	3,413	0.23
	Independent	Subhash Biswas	10,857	0.72
	Independent	Harekrishna Sarkar	6,095	0.41
Majority			184,004	12.26
Turnout			1,501,379	86.51
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+16.62

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Jalpaiguri^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Bijoy Chandra Barman	494,773	38.00	+38.00
	CPI(M)	Mahendra Kumar Roy	425,167	32.65	−12.89
	BJP	Satyalal Sarkar	221,593	17.02	+7.87
	INC	Sukhbilas Barma	87,588	6.73	−30.24
	BSP	Kshitish Chandra Mandal	12,147	0.93
	SUCI(C)	Haribhakta Sardar	9,283	0.71
	Independent	Subhas Biswas	8,545	0.66
	RPI	Harekrishna Sarkar	7,636	0.59
	RJP	Haripada Barman	6,608	0.51
	BMP	Dilip Sarkar	4,900	0.38
	RJSP	Dhritiman Roy	4,501	0.35
	AMB	Dhirendra Nath Roy	2,835	0.22
	None of the Above	None of the Above	16,541	1.27	−−−
Majority			69,606	5.35	−3.22
Turnout			13,02,117	85.02
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Jalpaiguri^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Mahendra Kumar Roy	469,613	45.54
	INC	Sukhbilas Barma	381,242	36.97
	BJP	Dwipendra Nath Pramanik	94,373	9.15
	NCP	Dr. Dhirendra Nath Das	25,308	2.45
	Independent	Hari Bhakta Sardar	19,295	1.87
	BSP	Santi Kumar Sarkar	14,802	1.44
	Independent	Prithwiraj Roy	8,271	0.80
	SWJP	Satyen Prasad Roy	6,471	0.52
	Independent	Chinmay Sarkar	6,206	0.60
	AMB	Pabitra Moitra	5,709	0.55
Majority			88,371
Turnout			1,031,290	82.36
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General elections 1962-2004

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

Year	Winner		Runner-up
	Candidate	Party	Candidate	Party
1962	Nalini Ranjan Ghosh	Indian National Congress	Saroj Kumar Chakraborty	Revolutionary Socialist Party[9]
1967	B.N.Katham	Indian National Congress	A.H. Besterwitch	Independent[10]
1971	Tuna Oraon	Indian National Congress	Birsen Kujar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]
1977	Khagendra Nath Dasgupta	Independent	Maya Ray	Indian National Congress[12]
1980	Subodh Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Sriram Singh	Indian National Congress (I)[13]
1984	Manik Sanyal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Arun Moitra	Indian National Congress[14]
1989	Manik Sanyal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Sriram Singh	Indian National Congress[15]
1991	Jitendra Nath Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Tushar Kanti Choudhuri	Indian National Congress[16]
1996	Jitendra Nath Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Deb Prasad Roy	Indian National Congress[17]
1998	Minati Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Kalyan Chakraborty	Trinamool Congress[18]
1999	Minati Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Kalyan Chakraborty	All India Trinamool Congress[19]
2004	Minati Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Parash Datta	All India Trinamool Congress[20]
2009	Mahendra Kumar Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Sukhbilas Barma	Indian National Congress
2014	Bijoy Chandra Barman	All India Trinamool Congress	Mahendra Kumar Roy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2019	Jayanta Kumar Roy	Bharatiya Janata Party	Bijoy Chandra Barman	All India Trinamool Congress

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