Howrah Lok Sabha constituency

Howrah Lok Sabha constituency (Bengali: হাওড়া লোকসভা কেন্দ্র) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Howrah in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 25 Howrah Lok Sabha constituency are in Howrah district.

Howrah WB-25
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Howrah Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Bally Howrah Uttar Howrah Madhya Shibpur Howrah Dakshin Sankrail Panchla
Established	1951
Total electors	1,505,099^[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Prasun Banerjee
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2019

Overview

 

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

The Hindustan Times reported, “Howrah is a 500-year old urban agglomeration on the western bank of the Hooghly River and is best known for unplanned, densely populated habitation, one of the country's biggest rail terminus and a rusty manufacturing sector, especially iron foundries.”^[2]

About the foundry industry The Times of India wrote, “Some have already downed their shutters. Others keep open for three days a week. A cut in wages has been accepted by the workers mostly without even a grumble. The foundry industry of Howrah, once known as the Sheffield of India and one of the largest employers in the state, is now gasping for breath.”^[3]

According to The Hindu, Howrah and Sreerampur constituencies have more than 25% non-Bengali voters with their roots in Rajasthan, Bihar or Uttar Pradesh.^[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. 25 Howrah is composed of the following segments:^[5]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District
169	Bally	None	Howrah
170	Howrah Uttar	None	Howrah
171	Howrah Madhya	None	Howrah
172	Shibpur	None	Howrah
173	Howrah Dakshin	None	Howrah
174	Sankrail	SC	Howrah
175	Panchla	None	Howrah

Prior to delimitation, the constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:^[6]

• Bally (AC 161)
• Howrah North(AC 162)
• Howrah Central (AC 163)
• Howrah South (AC 164)
• Shibpur (AC 165)
• Domjur (AC 166)
• Sankrail (SC) (AC 169)

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Name of M.P.	Party
First	1952-57	Santosh Kumar Dutta^[7]		Indian National Congress
Second	1957-62	Mohammed Elias^[8]^[9]		Communist Party of India
Third	1962-67
Fourth	1967-71	K.K.Chatterjee^[10]		Indian National Congress
Fifth	1971-77	Samar Mukherjee^[11]^[12]^[13]		Communist Party of India
Sixth	1977-80
Seventh	1980-84
Eighth	1984-89	Priyaranjan Dasmunsi^[14]		Indian National Congress
Ninth	1989-91	Susanta Chakraborty^[15]^[16]		Communist Party of India
Tenth	1991-96
Eleventh	1996-98	Priyaranjan Dasmunsi^[17]		Indian National Congress
Twelfth	1998-99	Bikram Sarkar^[18]		All India Trinamool Congress
Thirteenth	1999-04	Swadesh Chakraborty^[19]^[20]		Communist Party of India
Fourteenth	2004-09
Fifteenth	2009-13	Ambica Banerjee^[21]		All India Trinamool Congress
	2013-14	Prasun Banerjee^[22]^[23]^[24]
Sixteenth	2014-19
Seventeenth	2019-24
Eighteenth	2024-29

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Howrah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Prasun Banerjee
	BJP	Dr. Rathin Chakraborty
	CPI(M)	Adv. Sabyasachi Chatterjee
	SUCI(C)
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Howrah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Prasun Banerjee	576,711	47.18	4.53
	BJP	Rantidev Sengupta	4,73,016	38.73	25.42
	CPI(M)	Sumitro Adhikary	1,05,547	8.64	5.44
	INC	Suvra Ghosh	32,107	2.63	2.68
	IND	Sekhar Mondal	6,447	0.53
	NOTA	None of the above	6,337	0.52
Majority			1,03,695	8.48
Turnout			12,22,708	74.83	+0.04
	AITC hold		Swing

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Howrah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Prasun Banerjee	4,88,461	43.40
	CPI(M)	Sridip Bhattacharya	2,91,505	25.90
	BJP	George Baker	2,48,120	22.05
	INC	Manoj Kumar Pandey	63,254	5.62
	NOTA	None of the above	9,929	0.88	New
Majority			1,96,956	17.50
Turnout			11,25,728	74.79
	AITC hold		Swing

2013 bypoll

Bye-elections 2013: Howrah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Prasun Banerjee	4,26,387	44.68
	CPI(M)	Sridip Bhattacharya	3,99,422	41.85
	INC	Sanatan Mukherjee	96,743	10.14
	IND	Ranjan Paul	8,921	0.93
Majority			26,965	2.82
Turnout			9,54,850	65.99
	AITC hold		Swing

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Howrah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Ambica Banerjee	477,449	48.02
	CPI(M)	Swadesh Chakrabortty	4,40,057	44.26
	BJP	Polly Mukherjee	37,723	3.79
	SP	Bijoy Uppadhya	8,615	0.87
	IND	Subarna Chakraborty	8,180	0.82
Majority			37,392	3.76
Turnout			9,93,958	73.91
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

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External links

• Howrah lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details

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