2004 Indian general election in West Bengal

Indian political election in West Bengal

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All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha

Registered

47,437,431

Turnout

77.7% (

2.65 pp)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee	Pranab Mukherjee	Mamata Banerjee
Party	CPI(M)	INC	AITC
Alliance	LF	UPA	NDA
Leader since	2000	2000	1998
Leader's seat	Did not contest	Jangipur	Kolkata South
Last election	35.57%, 21 seats	13.29%, 3 seats	26.04%, 8 seats
Seats won	26	6	1
Seat change	5	3	7
Popular vote	14,271,042	5,385,754	7,786,178
Percentage	38.57%	14.56%	21.04%
Swing	3.01 pp	1.27 pp	5.01 pp
Alliance seats	35	6	1

Results by constituencies

Prime minister before election

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
BJP

Prime minister after election

Manmohan Singh
INC

The 2004 Indian general election were held in Indian state West Bengal in 2004 to elect all 42 seats of Lok Sabha in the state. The election took place on 10 May 2004 and a turnout of 77.7% was recorded.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front had an overwhelming victory in the state by winning 35 seats. On the national level, Indian National Congress became the single largest party and formed the new government with its allies and taking external support from Left Front and other parties.

Schedule

The election schedule was declared by Election Commission of India on 29 February 2004.

Poll event	Date
Notification Date	16 April
Last Date for filing nomination	23 April
Scrutiny of nomination	24 April
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination	26 April
Date of poll	10 May
Date of counting of votes	13 May

Parties and alliances

Left Front


No.	Party	Leader	Seats Contested
1.	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee	32
2.	Revolutionary Socialist Party	Manoj Bhattacharya	4
3.	All India Forward Bloc	Debabrata Biswas	3
4.	Communist Party of India	Swapan Banerjee	3

Other Left Front members that didn't fielded candidates in the election but supported the alliance were Biplobi Bangla Congress, Democratic Socialist Party, Marxist Forward Bloc, West Bengal Socialist Party, Revolutionary Communist Party of India and other left front parties.

United Progressive Alliance


No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats Contested
1.	Indian National Congress			Pranab Mukherjee	37
2.	Party of Democratic Socialism			Samir Putatundu	2
3.	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha			N/A	2
4.	Independent	—	—	N/A	1

Gorkha National Liberation Front supported the Congress candidate in Darjeeling constituency.

National Democratic Alliance


No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats Contested
1.	All India Trinamool Congress			Mamata Banerjee	29
2.	Bharatiya Janata Party			Tathagata Roy	13

Results

Results by alliance

LF	SEATS	%	UPA	SEATS	%	NDA	SEATS	%
CPI(M)	26	38.57	INC	6	14.56	AITC	1	21.04
RSP	3	4.48	PDS	0	0.22	BJP	0	8.06
CPI	3	4.02	JMM	0	0.15
AIFB	3	3.67	IND	0	0.14
TOTAL	35	50.74	TOTAL	6	15.07	TOTAL	1	29.10

Results by party


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	14,271,042	38.71	26
	Trinamool Congress	7,786,178	21.12	1
	Indian National Congress	5,385,754	14.61	6
	Bharatiya Janata Party	2,983,950	8.09	0
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	1,658,787	4.50	3
	Communist Party of India	1,484,152	4.03	3
	All India Forward Bloc	1,352,423	3.67	3
	Bahujan Samaj Party	331,319	0.90	0
	Samajwadi Party	108,514	0.29	0
	Other parties	302,833	0.82	0
	Independents	1,205,970	3.27	0
Total		36,870,922	100.00	42

Results by constituency

No.	Constituency	Name of elected M.P.
1	Cooch Behar	Hiten Barman	All India Forward Bloc
2	Alipurduars	Joachim Baxla	Revolutionary Socialist Party
3	Jalpaiguri	Minati Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4	Darjeeling	Dawa Narbula	Indian National Congress
5	Raiganj	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	Indian National Congress
6	Balurghat	Ranen Barman	Revolutionary Socialist Party
7	Malda	A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury	Indian National Congress
8	Jangipur	Pranab Mukherjee	Indian National Congress
9	Murshidabad	Abdul Mannan Hossain	Indian National Congress
10	Berhampur	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	Indian National Congress
11	Krishnanagar	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
12	Nabadwip	Alakesh Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
13	Barasat	Subrata Bose	Communist Party of India
14	Basirhat	Ajay Chakraborty	Communist Party of India
15	Joynagar	Sanat Kumar Mandal	Revolutionary Socialist Party
16	Mathurapur	Basudeb Barman	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
17	Diamond Harbour	Samik Lahiri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
18	Jadavpur	Sujan Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
19	Barrackpore	Tarit Baran Topdar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
20	Dumdum	Amitava Nandy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
21	Calcutta North West	Sudhangshu Seal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
22	Calcutta North East	Md. Salim	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
23	Calcutta South	Mamata Banerjee	All India Trinamool Congress
24	Howrah	Swadesh Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
25	Uluberia	Hannan Mollah	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
26	Serampore	Santasri Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
27	Hooghly	Rupchand Pal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
28	Arambagh	Anil Basu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
29	Panskura	Gurudas Dasgupta	Communist Party of India
30	Tamluk	Seth Lakshman Chandra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
31	Contai	Prasanta Pradhan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
32	Midnapore	Prabodh Panda	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
33	Jhargram	Rupchand Murmu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
34	Purulia	Bir Singh Mahato	All India Forward Bloc
35	Bankura	Basudeb Acharia	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
36	Vishnupur	Susmita Bauri	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
37	Durgapur	Sunil Khan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
38	Asansol	Bikash Chowdhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
39	Burdwan	Nikhilananda Sar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
40	Katwa	Mahboob Zahedi	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
41	Bolpur	Somnath Chatterjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
42	Birbhum	Ram Chandra Dome	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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