Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency

Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 42 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in West Bengal state in eastern India. All the seven assembly segments of No. 12 Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency are in Nadia district.

Krishnanagar WB-12
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Krishnanagar Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Tehatta Palashipara Kaliganj Nakashipara Chapra Krishnanagar Uttar Krishnanagar Dakshin
Established	1967
Total electors	17,55,631 (2024)[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Mahua Moitra
Party	Trinamool Congress
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^[2]

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 12 Krishnanagar comprises the following segments from 2009:^[2]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
78	Tehatta	Nadia	Vacant				Bharatiya Janata Party
79	Palashipara		Manik Bhattacharya		Trinamool Congress		Trinamool Congress
80	Kaliganj		Alifa Ahmed
81	Nakashipara		Kallol Khan
82	Chapra		Rukbanur Rahman
83	Krishnanagar Uttar		Mukul Roy				Bharatiya Janata Party
85	Krishnanagar Dakshin		Ujjal Biswas

In 2004, Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:^[3]Palashipara (assembly constituency no. 70), Nakshipara (assembly constituency no. 71), Kaliganj (assembly constituency no. 72), Chapra (assembly constituency no. 73), Krishnaganj (SC) (assembly constituency no. 74), Krishnanagar East (assembly constituency no. 75), Krishnanagar West (assembly constituency no. 76)^[4][5]

Members of Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha	Name of M.P.[6]	Party
4th	Haripada Chattopadhyay		Independent[7]
5th	Renu Pada Das		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8][9][10][11]
6th
7th
8th
9th	Ajoy Mukhopadhyay[12][13][14]
10th
11th
12th
13th	Satyabrata Mookherjee		Bharatiya Janata Party[15][16]
14th	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[17]
15th	Tapas Paul		Trinamool Congress[18][19]
16th
17th	Mahua Moitra
18th

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Krishnanagar^[20][21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mahua Moitra	628,789	44.10	0.90
	BJP	Amrita Roy	5,72,084	40.13	0.24
	CPI(M)	S. M. Saadi	1,80,201	12.64	3.84
	NOTA	None of the above	6,811	0.48
Majority			56,705	3.97	0.66
Turnout			14,25,712	80.65	3.10
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Krishnanagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mahua Moitra	614,872	45.00	10.14
	BJP	Kalyan Chaubey	551,654	40.37	13.99
	CPI(M)	Dr. Santanu Jha	120,222	8.80	20.63
	INC	Intaz Ali Shah	38,305	2.80	3.19
Majority			63,218	4.63	1.08
Turnout			13,66,601	83.75	0.75
	AITC hold		Swing	10.14

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Krishnanagar^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Tapas Paul	438,789	35.14	−7.29
	CPI(M)	Santanu Jha	3,67,534	29.43	−5.60
	BJP	Satyabrata Mookherjee	3,29,873	26.38	+9.62
	INC	Razia Ahmed	74,789	5.99
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,642	0.61	−−−
Majority			71,255	5.71	−1.69
Turnout			12,47,914[22]	84.50
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Krishnanagar^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Tapas Paul	443,679	42.43
	CPI(M)	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar	366,293	35.03
	BJP	Satyabrata Mookherjee	175,283	16.76
	AUDF	Md. Niamatullah Mollick	19,313
	CPI(ML)L	Subimal Sengupta	14,480
	BSP	Debabrata Majumder	10,733
	IUML	Shahjahan Mallik	6,592
	SP	Jayasri Chakrabarty	5,002
	NCP	Sk. Daulat Hossain	4,336
Majority			77,386
Turnout			10,45,711	85.50
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

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	343,935	74.00	Haridas Chattopadhyay	47.52	Independent	C.P.Mukherjee	37.48	Congress[7]
1971	312,342	62.05	Renupada Das	36.96	CPI(M)	Ila Pal Chaudhuri	25.55	Congress[8]
1977	331,370	61.96	Renupada Das	61.86	CPI(M)	Shibsankar Bandopadhyay	33.43	Congress[9]
1980	515,990	79.71	Renupada Das	50.81	CPI(M)	Sankar Das Banerji	36.74	Congress[10]
1984	611,950	83.74	Renupada Das	49.25	CPI(M)	Sankar Das Banerji	48.45	Congress[11]
1989	761,990	82.69	Ajoy Mukherjee	46.31	CPI(M)	Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya	44.14	Congress[12]
1991	764,560	82.34	Ajoy Mukherjee	43.33	CPI(M)	Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya	35.37	Congress[13]
1996	911,620	85.2	Ajoy Mukherjee	45.94	CPI(M)	Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya	41.56	Congress[14]
1998	897,930	84.07	Ajoy Mukherjee	42.03	CPI(M)	Satyabrata Mookherjee	37.44	BJP[16]
1999	845,490	77.96	Satyabrata Mookherjee	43.82	BJP	Dilip Chakraborty	41.16	CPI(M)[15]
2004	930,290	83.25	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar	42.73	CPI(M)	Satyabrata Mookherjee	40.54	BJP[17]

See also

• Krishnagar
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha