Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, this parliamentary constituency ceased to exist and assembly segments were part of either of the two new constituencies: Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency or Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency. Only Khandaghosh assembly segment will be part of Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency.^[1]

Prior to delimitation, Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments in 2004:^[2]

• Bhatar (assembly constituency no. 268)
• Bardhaman North (assembly constituency no. 270)
• Bardhaman South (assembly constituency no. 271)
• Khandaghosh (SC) (assembly constituency no. 272)
• Raina (assembly constituency no. 273)
• Jamalpur (SC) (assembly constituency no. 274)
• Memari (assembly constituency no. 275)

• For Members of Parliament from this area in subsequent years see Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency and Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency.

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2004

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General Election, 2004: Burdwan^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Nikhilananda Sar	673,091	67.70%
	BJP	Anindya Gopal Mitra	201,740	20.30%
	INC	Champak Garai	88,217	8.90%
	JDP	Shanti Murmu	21,560	2.20%
	BSP	Dinesh Chandra Sikdar	12,416	1.20
Majority			471,351	47.4%
Turnout			9,94,003	81.4%
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

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General elections 1977-2004

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

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Year	Voters	Voter turnout	Winner			Runners up
		%age	Candidate	%age	Party	Candidate	%age	Party
1951	512,219	35.45	Atulya Ghosh	23.42	Indian National Congress	Subiman Ghosh	17.62	Forward Bloc (Marxist)[3]
			Mono Mohan Das	20.02	Indian National Congress[3]
1957	213,290	50.15	Subiman Ghosh	50.48	Forward Bloc (Marxist)	Durgapade Chaudhuri	49.52	Indian National Congress[4]
1962	287,685	53.85	Gurucobinda Basu	55.83	Indian National Congress	Subiman Ghosh	44.17	All India Forward Bloc[5]
1963			N C Chaterjee (bye-poll)		Independent	N C Choudhry		Congress
1967	293,266	59.30	N.C.Chatterjee	51.27	Independent	C.Chittaranjan	38.34	Indian National Congress[6]
1971	372,040	64.42	Somnath Chatterjee	56.72	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Bholanath Sen	38.87	Indian National Congress[7]
1977	363,200	56.85	Raj Krishna Dawn	53.69	Janata Party	Shyama Prasad Kundu	33.66	Indian National Congress[8]
1980	558,710	74.03	Sushil Kumar Bhattacharya	58.97	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Narayan Choudhury	36.98	Indian National Congress (I)[9]
1984	697,710	83.01	Sudhir Ray	53.50	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Prodyut Guha	45.08	Indian National Congress[10]
1989	853,780	83.31	Sudhir Ray	61.28	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Prodyut Guha	38.02	Indian National Congress[11]
1991	855,130	80.57	Sudhir Ray	57.01	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Asit Baran Patra	30.64	Indian National Congress[12]
1996	983,520	85.96	Balai Ray	59.92	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Ritesh Kumar Dutta	32.70	Indian National Congress[13]
1998	997,280	83.78	Nikhilananda Sar	58.88	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Prof (Smt) Santi Roy	31.18	Bharatiya Janata Party[14]
1999	984,680	80.93	Nikhilananda Sar	61.56	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Anup Mukherjee	30.51	Bharatiya Janata Party[15]
2004	998,350	81.71	Nikhilananda Sar	67.51	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Anindya Gopal Mitra	20.23	Bharatiya Janata Party[16]

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• Bardhaman, formerly known as Burdwan
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