Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency
Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal
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Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Hugli-Chuchura in West Bengal. All seven assembly segments of No. 28 Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency are in Hooghly district.
Chandannagar
Chunchura
Balagarh
Pandua
Saptagram
Dhanekhali
| Hooghly WB-28 | |
|---|---|
| Lok Sabha constituency | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Hooghly Lok Sabha Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| Assembly constituencies | Singur Chandannagar Chunchura Balagarh Pandua Saptagram Dhanekhali |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 1,630,042[1] |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Parliament | |
| 18th Lok Sabha | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | NCPI |
| Alliance | NDA[2] |
| Elected year | 2024 |
Overview
Hoogly constituency, shares a large industrial area on the western bank of the Hooghly river in the district with Sreerampur and has a rich agricultural hinterland.
According to The Statesman, "The Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency had remained a Communist bastion till the Trinamul snatched their thunder in the 2009 General Election. The constituency has the distinction of having a rich colonial history with the Portuguese settlement at Bandel, the French colony at Chandannagore, the Danish settlement at Serampore… and Chinsurah, a former Dutch colony. Despite ruling West Bengal for 35 years, the Marxist government alienated its people by such historical blunders as the forcible acquisition of fertile agricultural land in Singur which forms part of the Hooghly constituency."[3]
The Dunlop tyre plant at Sahaganj, in this constituency is closed. According to Hindustan Times, "The entire jute industry, with eight mills in Hooghly, is sick…From Tribeni in north to Hind Motor in south, by the bank of Hooghly exists the Hooghly industrial belt, now seeking oxygen. Two fertiliser units, one food processing unit, two cotton mills, one steel plant and many other small and medium scale units have closed down over the years."[4]
Assembly segments
As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 28 Hooghly is composed of the following segments:[5]
| # | Name | District | Member | Party | 2024 Lead | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 188 | Singur | Hooghly | Arup Kumar Das | BJP | AITC | ||
| 189 | Chandannagar | Deepanjan Kumar Guha | |||||
| 190 | Chunchura | Subir Nag | BJP | ||||
| 191 | Balagarh (SC) | Sumana Sarkar | |||||
| 192 | Pandua | Tushar Kumar Majumdar | AITC | ||||
| 193 | Saptagram | Swaraj Ghosh | BJP | ||||
| 197 | Dhanekhali (SC) | Ashima Patra | AITC | AITC | |||
Prior to delimitation, Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[6]Chandernagore (assembly constituency no. 182), Singur (assembly constituency no. 183), Haripal (assembly constituency no. 184), Chinsurah (assembly constituency no. 186), Bansberia (assembly constituency no. 193), Polba (assembly constituency no. 190), Dhaniakhali (SC) (assembly constituency no. 191)
Members of Parliament
Election results
General election 2024
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Rachna Banerjee | 702,744 | 46.31 |  5.31 | |
| BJP | Locket Chatterjee | 625,891 | 41.24 |  4.79 | |
| CPI(M) | Monodip Ghosh | 139,919 | 9.22 | 0.88 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 13,352 | 0.88 | 0.05 | |
| Majority | 76,853 | 5.1 | |||
| Turnout | 1,517,511 | 81.38 | |||
| AITC gain from BJP | Swing | 4.3 | |||
General election 2019
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Locket Chatterjee | 671,448 | 46.03 | +29.66 | |
| AITC | Ratna De Nag | 598,086 | 41.00 | −4.51 | |
| CPI(M) | Pradip Saha | 121,588 | 8.34 | −27.18 | |
| INC | Pratul Chandra Saha | 25,374 | 1.74 | −1.39 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 13,525 | 0.93 | N/A | |
| Majority | 73,362 | 5.03 | |||
| Turnout | 1,457,842 | 82.52 | −0.18 | ||
| BJP gain from AITC | Swing | +17.09 | |||
General election 2014
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | 614,312 | 45.54 | −6.83 | |
| CPI(M) | Pradip Saha | 425,228 | 31.52 | −10.84 | |
| BJP | Chandan Mitra | 221,271 | 16.40 | +12.98 | |
| INC | Pritam Ghosh | 42,226 | 3.13 | N/A | |
| CPI(ML)L | Sajal Adhikari | 9,152 | 0.67 | −0.36 | |
| SUCI(C) | Paban Mazumder | 7,682 | 0.56 | ||
| BSP | Vijay Kumar Mahato | 5,519 | 0.40 | −0.45 | |
| RJP | Sanghamitra Mukherjee | 3,766 | 0.27 | ||
| JDP | Shukchand Murmu | 3,197 | 0.23 | −0.83 | |
| Majority | 189,084 | 14.02 | +7.01 | ||
| Turnout | 1,348,870 | 82.75 | +0.04 | ||
| AITC hold | Swing | -3.83 | |||
General election 2009
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | 574,022 | 52.37 | +16.47 | |
| CPI(M) | Rupchand Pal | 492,499 | 42.36 | −11.64 | |
| BJP | Dr. Chuni Lal Chakraborty | 39,784 | 3.42 | ||
| JDP | Swapan Murmu | 12,417 | 1.06 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Sajal Adhikari | 12,068 | 1.03 | ||
| Independent | Satya Gopal Dey | 10,119 | 0.87 | ||
| BSP | Suryya Kanta Ray | 9,933 | 0.85 | ||
| Independent | Alok Pathak | 6,908 | 0.59 | ||
| SP | Arabinda Sen | 4,894 | 0.42 | ||
| Majority | 81,523 | 7.01 | |||
| Turnout | 1,162,646 | 82.71 | |||
| AITC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | ||||
General election 2004
General elections 1951-2024
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 | Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee | Hindu Mahasabha | Renuka Roy | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1957 | Provat Kar | Communist Party of India | Sachindra Chowdhury | |||
| 1962 | Nirmal Kumar Sen | |||||
| 1967 | Bijoy Krishna Modak | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | P.K. Palit | |||
| 1972 | Phani Ghosh | |||||
| 1977 | Bishnu Charan Banerjee | |||||
| 1980 | Rupchand Pal | Santimohan Roy | Indian National Congress (I) | |||
| 1984 | Indumati Bhattacharya | Indian National Congress | Rupchand Pal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | ||
| 1989 | Rupchand Pal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Umasankar Halder | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1991 | ||||||
| 1996 | Gouri Sankar Banerjee | |||||
| 1998 | Tapan Dasgupta | Trinamool Congress | ||||
| 1999 | ||||||
| 2004 | Indrani Mukherjee | |||||
| 2009 | Ratna De Nag | Trinamool Congress | Rupchand Pal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | ||
| 2014 | Pradip Saha | |||||
| 2019 | Locket Chatterjee | Bharatiya Janata Party | Ratna De Nag | Trinamool Congress | ||
| 2024 | Rachna Banerjee | Trinamool Congress | Locket Chatterjee | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
See also
Notes
- Merged with NCPI in June 2026