Serampore Lok Sabha constituency

Serampore Lok Sabha constituency^[2] or Sreerampur Lok Sabha constituency (previously known as Serampore-26 and changed to Serampore-27 in the 2009 election) is one of the 543 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Serampore in West Bengal. Five assembly segments of the constituency are in Hooghly district and two are in Howrah district.

Serampore WB-27
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Srerampur Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Jagatballavpur Domjur Uttarpara Serampore Champdani Chanditala Jangipara
Established	1951
Total electors	1,624,038[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Kalyan Banerjee
Party	AITC
Alliance	INDIA
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

Srerampur is basically an industrial constituency with an agricultural hinterland. The Howrah-Hooghly industrial belt on the west bank of the Hooghly river covers the Howrah, Hooghly and Srerampur constituency.

According to The Hindu, Serampore and Howrah constituencies have more than 25% non-Bengali voters with their roots in Rajasthan, Bihar or Uttar Pradesh.^[3]

Assembly segments

As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in West Bengal, parliamentary constituency No. 27 Sreerampur is composed of the following segments:^[4]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
183	Jagatballavpur	Howrah	Sitanath Ghosh		Trinamool Congress		Trinamool Congress
184	Domjur		Kalyan Ghosh
185	Uttarpara	Hooghly	Kanchan Mullick
186	Serampore		Sudipto Roy
187	Champdani		Arindam Guin
194	Chanditala		Swati Khandoker
195	Jangipara		Snehasis Chakraborty

Members of Parliament

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	Tushar Kanti Chattopadhyaya		Communist Party of India	Sachindra Chaudhuri		Indian National Congress[5]
1957	Jitendra Nath Lahiri		Indian National Congress	Tushar Kanti Chattopadhyaya		Communist Party of India[6]
1962	Dinendra Nath Bhattacharya		Communist Party of India	Jitendra Nath Lahiri		Indian National Congress[7]
1967	Bimal Kanti Ghosh		Indian National Congress	Dinendra Nath Bhattacharya		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]
1971	Dinendra Nath Bhattacharya		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Jadu Gopal Sen		Communist Party of India[9][10]
1977
1980				Gopal Das Nag		Indian National Congress[11]
1981-by	Ajit Bag		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Bimal Kanti Ghosh
1984	Bimal Kanti Ghosh		Indian National Congress	Ajit Bag		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1989	Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Bimal Kanti Ghosh		Indian National Congress[13][14]
1991
1996	Pradip Bhattacharya		Indian National Congress	Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury		Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15][16][17]
1998	Akbar Ali Khondkar		Trinamool Congress
1999
2004	Santasri Chatterjee		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Akbar Ali Khandoker		Trinamool Congress[18]
2009	Kalyan Banerjee		Trinamool Congress	Santasri Chatterjee		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2014				Tirthankar Roy
2019				Debjit Sarkar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2024[19]				Kabir Shankar Bose

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Serampore^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Kalyan Banerjee	673,970	45.65	0.15
	BJP	Kabir Shankar Bose	4,99,140	33.80	4.67
	CPI(M)	Dipsita Dhar	2,39,160	16.20	5.40
	ISF	Shahriar Mullick	25,677	1.74	New
	NOTA	None of the above	15,034	1.02
Majority			1,74,830
Turnout			1,476,532	76.44	−2.10
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2019

2019 Indian general election: Serampore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Kalyan Banerjee	637,707	45.50	5.60
	BJP	Debjit Sarkar	539,171	38.47	16.08
	CPI(M)	Tirthankar Roy	152,281	10.80	17.22
	INC	Debabrata Biswas	32,509	2.32	4.35
Majority			98,536
Turnout			1,402,259	78.54
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Srerampur^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Kalyan Banerjee	514,933	39.90	−12.78
	CPI(M)	Tirthankar Roy	362,407	28.08	−11.91
	BJP	Bappi Lahiri	287,712	22.29	+18.74
	INC	Abdul Mannan	86,099	6.67	N/A
	Independent	Dr. Somnath Ghosh	6,613	0.51	N/A
	BSP	Raju Dey Sarkar	4,277	0.33	N/A
	Indian Unity Centre	Nasiruddin Mir	4,240	0.32	N/A
	WPOI	Manasa Sen	3,406	0.26	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Md. Shahnawaz	2,698	0.20	N/A
	Independent	Kailash Naskar	2,674	0.20	N/A
Majority			1,52,526	11.81	−0.87
Turnout			12,90,433	79.46	+1.97
	AITC hold		Swing	-12.78

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Srerampur^[22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Kalyan Banerjee	569,725	53.48	+17.14
	CPI(M)	Santasri Chatterjee	432,535	39.99	+2.63
	BJP	Debabrata Chowdhury	38,476	3.55	N/A
	Independent	Sekh Soleman	14,252	1.31	N/A
	AIUDF	Pradip Ghosh	11,803	1.09	N/A
	BSP	Rakesh Kumar Gautam	7,245	0.66	+0.08
	Independent	Amitava Bhattacharya	3,758	0.34	N/A
	Independent	Chiranjit Naskar	3,648	0.33	N/A
Majority			137,190	12.68
Turnout			10,81,442	77.51
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Serampore^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Santasri Chatterjee	404,082	37.36
	AITC	Akbar Ali Khandoker	384,395	35.54
	INC	Kesto Mukherjee	125,020	11.56
	Independent	Sukumar Malik	9,808	0.90
	BSP	Sabitri Das	6,370	0.58
	RPI(A)	Dilip Bhattacharya	5,400	0.49
	Independent	Avash Munshi	3,664	0.33
	Independent	Bidyut Raut	3,021	0.27
	SP	Indradeo Ray	2,845	0.26
	JD(S)	Suresh Nayek	1,640	0.15
Majority			19,687	1.84
Turnout			10,81,402	77.49
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing

General election 1999

General Election, 1999: Serampore^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Akbar Ali Khandoker	411,406	45.10
	CPI(M)	Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury	384,642	39.90
	INC	Pradip Bhattacharya	133,155	14.60
	Independent	Goutam Pyne	1,609	0.20
	Independent	Harun Rashid Mullick	1,494	0.20
Majority			27,764	5.2
Turnout			9,25,995	69.9
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 1998

General Election, 1998: Serampore^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Trinamool Congress	Akbar Ali Khandoker	439,269	44.70 %
	CPI(M)	Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury	394,658	40.10 %
	INC	Pradip Bhattacharya	143,999	14.70 %
	Lok Shakti	Ashoke Roy	4,064	0.40%
	Independent	Gopal Sarkar	1,252	0.10 %
Majority			44,611	4.5%
Turnout			9,98,052	76.3%
	Trinamool Congress gain from INC		Swing

General election 1996

General Election, 1996: Serampore^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Pradip Bhattacharya	449,205	45.30 %
	CPI(M)	Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury	443,745	44.80 %
	BJP	Debabrata Chowdhary	60,122	6.10 %
	AIIC(T)	Swaraj Gopal Mukherjee	9,600	1.00%
	BSP	Sharad Goutam	2,673	0.30%
	Independent	Gopal Sarkar	1,199	0.10 %
	Independent	Asit Kumar Mukhopadhyay	807	0.10 %
Majority			5,463	0.6 %
Turnout			9,90,773	79.3%
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

General election 1991

General Election, 1991: Serampore^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury	366,535	46.20 %
	INC	Bimal Kanti Ghosh	322,038	40.60 %
	BJP	Dwarka Prasad Thirani	91,289	11.50 %
	Independent	Prasantasankar Ghatak	3,285	0.40 %
	Independent	Gautam Banerjee	2,831	0.30 %
	BSP	Samir Kumar Mitra	2,795	0.30 %
	Independent	Milan Mookherjee	1,491	0.20 %
	Independent	Prem Nath Thakur	1,149	0.10 %
	Independent	Deb Kumar Dutta	1,024	0.10 %
	Independent	Indrajit Seal	801	0.10 %
Majority			44,497	5.5%
Turnout			8,10,618	72.3%
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General election 1989

General Election, 1989: Serampore^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Sudarsan Roy Chowdhury	426,994	52.69 %
	INC	Bimal Kanti Ghosh	360,536	44.80 %
	BJP	Dwarka Prasad Thirani	11,530	1.40%
	Independent	Kairi Bisarjan	2,967	0.40 %
	Independent	Amar Chowdhury	1,928	0.20 %
	Doordarshi Party	Bharshi Sharma	1,336	0.20 %
Majority			66,458	8.1%
Turnout			8,20,770	77.0%
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General election 1984

General Election, 1984: Serampore^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Bimal Kanti Ghosh	338,152	51.50 %
	CPI(M)	Ajit Bag	307,921	46.90 %
	Independent	Amar Chowdhury	2,960	0.40%
	Independent (politician)	Dwarka Thirani	2,936	0.40 %
	Independent	Bisarjan Prasad Koiri	2,689	0.40 %
	Independent	Prem Nath Thakur	1,906	0.30 %
Majority			30,231	4.5%
Turnout			6,71,287	76.7%
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

By-election 1981

A by-election was held in this constituency in 1981 which was necessitated by the Death of sitting MP Dinen Bhattacharya.In the by-election, Ajit Bag of CPIM defeated his nearest rival S.M Roy of Congress by 96,549 votes.

Indian Parliamentary bye election, 1981: Serampore constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Ajit Bag	265,372
	INC(I)	S.M.Roy	168,823
	Independent	A.N.Chowdhury	2,980
	Independent	S.C.Mahato	1,594
Majority			96,549	7.25
Turnout
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General election 1980

General Election, 1980: Serampore^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Dinen Bhattacharya	292,993	59.90 %
	INC(I)	Gopal Das Nag	186,886	38.20 %
	Independent	Amar Chowdhury	2,960	0.40%
	Independent	Partha Sarathi Ghosh	3,076	0.60 %
	Independent	Dwarka Prasad Thirani	2,254	0.40%
	Independent	Brajnandan Prasad	1,876	0.40 %
	Independent	Biswasnath Mondol	1,769	0.40 %
Majority			106,107	21.2%
Turnout			5,01,575	64.8%
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

See also

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