Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency

Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency (formerly, Midnapore Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Midnapore in West Bengal. Six of the seven assembly segments of No. 34 Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency are in Paschim Medinipur district and one is in Purba Medinipur district.

Medinipur WB-34
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Medinipur Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Egra Dantan Keshiary Kharagpur Sadar Narayangarh Kharagpur Medinipur
Established	1951
Total electors	18,11,243[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent June Malia
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

As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 34 Medinipur is composed of the following segments:^[2]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
218	Egra	Purba Medinipur	Tarun Maity		Trinamool Congress		Bharatiya Janata Party
219	Dantan	Paschim Medinipur	Bikram Chandra Pradhan				Trinamool Congress
223	Keshiary (ST)		Paresh Murmu
224	Kharagpur Sadar		Hiran Chatterjee		Bharatiya Janata Party		Bharatiya Janata Party
225	Narayangarh		Surja Kanta Atta		Trinamool Congress		Trinamool Congress
228	Kharagpur		Dinen Roy
236	Medinipur		Sujoy Hazra

Prior to delimitation, Midnapore Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:^[3]Patashpur (assembly constituency no. 215), Midnapore (assembly constituency no. 223), Kharagpur Town (assembly constituency no. 224), Kharagpur Rural (assembly constituency no. 225), Keshiari (ST) (assembly constituency no. 226), Narayangarh (assembly constituency no. 227) and Dantan (assembly constituency no. 228)

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
First	1952-57	Tudu Bharat Lal		Indian National Congress[4]
		Durga Charan Banerjee		Bharatiya Jana Sangh[4]
	1952-57^	Subodh Chandra Hansda[5]		Indian National Congress
Constituency renamed from Midnapore-Jhargram to Midnapore
Second	1957-62	Narasingha Malla Ugal Sanda Deb[6]		Indian National Congress
		Subodh Hansda[6]
Third	1962-67	Gobinda Kumar Singhu[7]
Fourth	1967-69	Sachindra Nath Maity		Bangla Congress[8]
	1969-71^	V. K. Krishna Menon
Fifth	1971-77	Subodh Chandra Hansda		Indian National Congress[9]
Sixth	1977-80	Sudhir Kumar Ghosal		Janata Party[10]
Seventh	1980-84	Narayan Choubey		Communist Party of India[11][12]
Eighth	1984-89
Ninth	1989-91	Indrajit Gupta[13][14][15][16][17]
Tenth	1991-96
Eleventh	1996-98
Twelfth	1998-99
Thirteenth	1999-01
	2001-04^	Prabodh Panda[18][19]
Fourteenth	2004-09
Constituency renamed from Midnapore to Medinipur
Fifteenth	2009-14	Prabodh Panda[20]		Communist Party of India
Sixteenth	2014-2019	Sandhya Roy		Trinamool Congress[21]
Seventeenth	2019-2024	Dilip Ghosh		Bharatiya Janata Party[22]
Eighteenth	2024-Incumbent	June Malia		Trinamool Congress

^By poll

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Medinipur^[23][24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	June Malia	702,192	47.40	5.09
	BJP	Agnimitra Paul	675,001	45.56	3.06
	CPI	Biplab Bhatta	57,785	3.90	0.52
	NOTA	None of the above	12,424	0.84	0.21
Majority			27,191	1.84	4.47
Turnout			14,81,563	81.80	2.44
	AITC gain from BJP		Swing

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Medinipur^[22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dilip Ghosh	685,433	48.62	+34.36
	AITC	Manas Bhunia	596,481	42.31	−4.19
	CPI	Biplab Bhatta	62,319	4.42	−26.94
	INC	Sambhunath Chattopadhay	20,807	1.48	−2.39
	NOTA	None of the above	14,758	1.05
Majority			88,952	6.31
Turnout			1,410,321	84.24	+0.22
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+19.28

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Medinipur^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Sandhya Roy	581,860	46.50	+3.33
	CPI	Prabodh Panda	3,95,194	31.36	−15.93
	BJP	Prabhakar Tiwari	1,80,071	14.26	+9.30
	INC	Dr. Bimal Raj	48,914	3.87	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	13,616	1.08	N/A
Majority			1,86,666	14.70	+10.04
Turnout			12,60,748	84.02	+1.48
	AITC gain from CPI		Swing	-4.63

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Medinipur^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Prabodh Panda	493,021	47.29	−5.54
	AITC	Dipak Kumar Ghosh	4,45,004	42.68	N/A
	BJP	Pradip Patnaik	52,061	4.99	−30.15
	BSP	Asok Kumar Golder	12,216	1.17	+0.14
	IND	Sanjay Kumar Mishra	11,092	1.06	N/A
	JMM	Nepal Das	10,324	0.99	N/A
Majority			48,017	4.61	−13.08
Turnout			10,42,496	82.54
	CPI hold		Swing	-5.54

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Midnapore^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Prabodh Panda	480,034	53.56
	BJP	Rahul Bishwajit Sinha	319,274	35.14
	INC	Narayan Chandra Paria	68,338	7.52
	JP	Panchanan Pradhan	10,243	1.12
	NCP	Madhumanti Sengupta	9,901	1.08
	BSP	Mrityunjoy Chakraborty	9,440	1.03
	Independent	Asit Kumar Khatua	7,249	0.79
	Independent	Lalit Kumar Jaiswal	4,020	0.44
Majority			160,760	17.69
Turnout			908,499
	CPI hold		Swing

General election 1999

General Election, 1999: Midnapore^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Indrajit Gupta	446,545	48.60	−4.90
	BJP	Manoranjan Dutta	385,772	45.30
	INC	Samir Roy	47,013	7.52
	Independent	Akshay Kumar Khan	4,512	0.05
	Independent	Mritunjoy Chakraborty	650	0.01
Majority			60,773	3.3%
Turnout			8,62,567	78.5%
	CPI hold		Swing

By-election 2001

A by-election was held in this constituency in 2001 which was necessitated by the death of sitting MP Indrajit Gupta. In the by-election, Prabodh Panda of Communist Party of India defeated his nearest rival Manorajnan Dutta of Trinamool Congress.

Indian Parliamentary bye election, 2001: Midnapore constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Prabodh Panda	436,237
	AITC	Manoranjan Dutta	349,044
	BJP	Debasish Chattopadhyay	157,543
	NCP	Amal Mazumder	87,983
	JD(S)	Bijoy Bandyopadhyay	25,114
	Independent	Rabikanta Santra	5,112
	RJP	Ashok Kumar Bera	3,871
Majority			87,193
Turnout			8,77,213	77.1	−6.7
	CPI hold		Swing	+21.27

General election 1998

General Election, 1998: Midnapore^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Indrajit Gupta	452,671	53.50	−2.80
	BJP	Manoranjan Dutta	177,152	20.60
	Trinamool Congress	Dr. Nitish Sengupta	131,352	15.32
	INC	Satish Chandra Jana	90,737	10.60
	Independent	Sheikh Abu Bakar	3,448	0.40
	Jharkhand Party	Kalipada Tudu	1,702	0.40
	Independent	Gajen Nayak	1,148	0.10
Majority			2,75,519	31.5
Turnout			8,74,531	80.8
	CPI hold		Swing

General election 1996

General Election, 1996: Midnapore^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Indrajit Gupta	488,569	56.30
	INC	Debaprasad Roy	277,920	32.00
	BJP	Manoranjan Dutta	58,751	6.80
	Independent	Sudeb Banprasthi	9,290	1.00
	AMB	Naba Kumar Shaw	7,828	0.90
	Independent	Dilip Maiti	7,286	0.80
	Jharkhand Party (Naren)	Jatin Pratihar	7,008	0.80
	Independent	Debashish Konar	2,313	0.30
	JP	Shachin Mahato	2,305	0.30
	IUML	Sarif Mollick	1,831	0.20
	Jharkhand Party	Prabhakar Mahato	1,721	0.20
	Samata Party	Padma Lochan Roy	1,046	0.10
	Independent	Ajit Kumar Maity	772	0.10
	Independent	Vivek Kumar Baderia	742	0.10
	Independent	Sushil Kumar	294	0.00
	Independent	Satyanarayan Kothoyala	260	0.00
Majority			210,649	23.7
Turnout			8,89,188	84.5
	CPI hold		Swing

General election 1991

General Election, 1991: Midnapore^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Indrajit Gupta	396,281	54.82
	INC	Birendra Bijoy Malladev	232,758	31.70
	BJP	Manoranjan Dutta	68,772	9.40
	Independent	Dilip Maity	6,372	0.90
	Jharkhand Party	Mirza Ohidur Rahaman	5,550	0.80
	Independent	Padma Lochan Roy	4,717	0.60
	Jharkhand Party (Naren)	Chandra Mohan Hansda	4,526	0.60
	BSP	Satish Chandra Biswas	1,852	0.30
	Doordarshi Party	Satya Naraiyan Kotwala	1,335	0.20
	Independent	Sushil Kumar	678	0.20
Majority			163,523	22.3
Turnout			7,34,499	76.5
	CPI hold		Swing

General elections 1951-2004

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

Year	Winner		Runner-up
	Candidate	Party	Candidate	Party
1951*	Durga Charan Bandopahyay	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	Atul Chandra Basu	Indian National Congress
			Bishnupada Hazra	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party[4]
	Bharat Lal Tudu	Indian National Congress	Subodh Hansda	Kisan Mazoor Praja Party[4]
1957*	Narasingha Malla Ugal Sanda Deb	Indian National Congress	Rabindra Nath Mitra	Communist Party of India[6]
	Subodh Hansda	Indian National Congress	Chandra Mohan Saren	Praja Socialist Party[6]
1962	Gobinda Kumar Singha	Indian National Congress	Saroj Roy	Communist Party of India[7]
1967	Sachindra Nath Maity	Bangla Congress	G.K.Singha	Indian National Congress[8]
1969	V. K. Krishna Menon	Bangla Congress (supported by Communist-led United Front)	Krishnadas Roy	Indian National Congress[25][26]
1971	Subodh Chandra Hansda	Indian National Congress	Narayan Choubey	Communist Party of India[9]
1977	Sudhir Kumar Ghosal	Janata Party	Narayan Choubey	Communist Party of India[10]
1980	Narayan Choubey	Communist Party of India	Sudhir Kumar Ghosal	Indian National Congress (I)[11]
1984	Narayan Choubey	Communist Party of India	Ajit Kumar Khanra	Indian National Congress[12]
1989	Indrajit Gupta	Communist Party of India	Gouri Choubey	Indian National Congress[13]
1991	Indrajit Gupta	Communist Party of India	Birendra Bijoy Malladev	Indian National Congress[14]
1996	Indrajit Gupta	Communist Party of India	D P Roy	Indian National Congress[15]
1998	Indrajit Gupta	Communist Party of India	Manoranjon Dutta	Bharatiya Janata Party[16]
1999	Indrajit Gupta	Communist Party of India	Manoranjon Dutta	Bharatiya Janata Party[17]
2001	Prabodh Panda	Communist Party of India	Manoranjon Dutta	All India Trinamool Congress[18]
2004	Prabodh Panda	Communist Party of India	Rahul (Biswajit) Sinha	Bharatiya Janata Party[19]

• In 1951 Midnapore-Jhargram constituency and in 1957 Midnapur constituency, both the constituencies had two seats, with one seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes. The results here are shown separately.

See also

• Paschim Medinipur district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha