West Bengal Lok Sabha Elections 2024: After witnessing a drop in voter turnout in phase 2 from phase 1 in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal registered its highest voter turnout in phase 6 on Saturday, May 25. Phase 6 registered 80.05 per cent, which was a lot higher than phase 5's percentage of 78.45 per cent voter turnout. West Bengal's voter turnout in phase 6 was also significantly higher than the national average of 61.85 per cent. After six phases, West Bengal stands as one of the best states in voter turn, with 79.23 per cent. The remaining nine seats of the states will go for polling next in phase 7 on Saturday, June 1, as per their official schedule from ECI. One of the most important states during the Lok Sabha Elections, West Bengal, has always been home to the hardcore politics as the eastern state of India is one of those states who prefers to pick the candidates of their local parties, over those of the national parties. However, despite Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led TMC (Trinamool Congress), was able to finish as the biggest party in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections with 18 seats under their belt, they saw a dramatic drop of 12 seats from 2014 elections, while the ruling party in the centre, BJP made a dramatic jump to 18 seats in 2019, in comparison to just two in 2014. The Lok Sabha Elections of West Bengal, will once again be talk of the town as the current scenarios of alliance and opposition is taking a new turn at regular intervals, as despite being part of I.N.D.I.A bloc, the ruling state party of TMC have decided to fight the elections alone, while contesting on all the 42 seats. When are West Bengal Lok Sabha Elections 2024? The state of West Bengal will have their 18th Lok Sabha polls distributes during the entire electoral period, as it will begin with phase one on April 19 and end with phase seven on June 1. Phase 1: Date of polling- April 19 Coochbehar Alipurduars Jalpaiguri Phase 2: Date of polling- April 26 Darjeeling Raiganj Balurghat Phase 3: Date of polling- May 7 Maldaha Uttar Maldaha Dakshin Jangipur Murshidabad Phase 4: Date of polling- May 13 Baharampur Krishnanagar Ranaghat Bardhaman - Purba Bardhaman - Durgapur Asansol Bolpur Birbhum Phase 5: Date of polling- May 20 Bangaon Barrackpur Howrah Uluberia Sreerampur Hooghly Arambag Phase 6: Date of polling- May 25 Tamluk Kanthi Ghatal Jhargram Medinipur Purulia Bankura Bishnupur Phase 7: Date of polling- June 1 Dum Dum Barasat Basirhat Jaynagar Mathurapur Diamond Harbour Jadavpur Kolkata Dakshin Kolkata Uttar How many phases West Bengal will have? West Bengal was one of three states, whose General Elections were contested in all the seven phases in 2019. Once again, in the General Elections of 2024, the state will be having their Lok Sabha polls contested in all the seven phases along with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. How many Lok Sabha constituencies West Bengal has? West Bengal is the state with the third highest number of states with 42 Lok Sabha seats, only behind Uttar Pradesh with 80 and Maharashtra with 48, and all the seats are typically contested over different issues rather than one common mantra. Notably, out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, 30 seats are contested as unreserved seats, while ten seats are reserved for SC candidates and two seats are reserved for ST candidates. Check out the complete list of constituencies and elected members from West Bengal General Elections of 2024: No. Constituency Elected Candidate Party 1 Alipurduars John Barla BJP 2 Arambagh Aparupa Poddar (AFRIN ALI) TMC 3 Asansol Babul Supriyo BJP 4 Baharampur Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury INC 5 Balurghat Sukanta Majumdar BJP 6 Bangaon Shantanu Thakur BJP 7 Bankura Dr. Subhas Sarkar BJP 8 Barasat Dr. Kakoli Ghoshdastidar TMC 9 Bardhaman Purb Sunil Kumar Mondal TMC 10 Barrackpore Arjun Singh BJP 11 Basirhat Nusrat Jahan Ruhi TMC 12 Birbhum Satabdi Roy TMC 13 Bishnupur Khan Saumitra BJP 14 Bolpur Asit Kumar Mal TMC 15 Burdwan - Durg S.S Ahluwalia BJP 16 Cooch Behar Nisith Pramanik BJP 17 Darjeeling Raju Bista BJP 18 Diamond Harbou Abhishek Banerjee TMC 19 Dum Dum Sougata Ray TMC 20 Ghatal Adhikari Deepak (DEV) TMC 21 Hooghly Locket Chatterjee BJP 22 Howrah Prasun Banerjee TMC 23 Jadavpur Mimi Chakraborty TMC 24 Jalpaiguri Dr. Jayanta Kumar Roy BJP 25 Jangipur Khalilur Rahaman TMC 26 Jhargram Kunar Hembram BJP 27 Joynagar Pratima Mondal TMC 28 Kanthi Adhikari Sisir TMC 29 Kolkata Dakshi Mala Roy TMC 30 Kolkata Uttar Bandyopadhyay Sudip TMC 31 Krishnanagar Mahua Moitra TMC 32 Maldaha Dakshi Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury (DALU) INC 33 Maldaha Uttar Khagen Murmu BJP 34 Mathurapur Choudhury Mohan Jatua TMC 35 Medinipur Dilip Ghosh BJP 36 Murshidabad Abu Taher Khan TMC 37 Purulia Jyotirmay Singh Mahato BJP 38 Raiganj Debasree Chaudhuri BJP 39 Ranaghat Jagannath Sarkar BJP 40 Srerampur Kalyan Banerjee TMC 41 Tamluk Adhikari Dibyendu TMC 42 Uluberia Sajda Ahmed TMC Candidates list of 2024 Elections After the complete domination of the BJP-led NDA alliance in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, INC, TMC, RJD, SP and many other parties, decided to come under one banner of I.N.D.I.A bloc. However, despite being a part of the newly formed alliance, Mamata Banerjee-led TMC, has decided to contest the General Elections of 2024 alone, while contesting on all the 42 seats, making the West Bengal General Election of 2024, a three-way tussle between, NDA, I.N.D.I.A and TMC. Check out the complete list of all the candidates for West Bengal General Elections 2024: No. Constituency TMC N.D.A I.N.D.I.A 1 Alipurduars Prakash Chik Baraik Manoj Tigga (BJP) Mili Oraon (RSP) (CPI(M)) 2 Arambagh Mitali bagh Arup Kanti Digar (BJP) Biplab Kumar Moitra (CPI(M)) 3 Asansol Shatrughan Sinha SS Ahluwalia (BJP) Jahanara Khan (CPI(M)) 4 Baharampur Yusuf Pathaan Dr Nirmal Kumar Saha (BJP) Adhir Ranjan Choudhary (INC) (CPI(M)) 5 Balurghat Biplab Mitra Sukanta Majumdar (BJP) Jaydeb Siddhanta (RSP) (CPI(M)) 6 Bangaon Biswajit Das Shantanu Thakur (BJP) Pradip Biswas (INC) (CPI(M)) 7 Bankura Arup Chakraborty Dr Subhash Sarkar (BJP) Nilanjan Dasgupta (CPI(M)) 8 Barasat Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar Swapan Majumdar (BJP) Sanjib Chatterjee (AIFB) (CPI(M)) 9 Bardhaman Purb Dr. Sharmila Sarkar Asim Kumar Sarkar (BJP) Nirav Kha (CPI(M)) 10 Barrackpore Partha Bhowmik Arjun Singh (BJP) Debdut Ghosh (CPI(M)) 11 Basirhat Haji Nurul Islam Rekha Patra (BJP) Nirapada Sardar (CPI(M)) 12 Birbhum Shatabdi Roy Debashish Dhar (BJP) Milton Rashid (INC) (CPI(M)) 13 Bishnupur Sujata Khan Soumitra Khan (BJP) Shital Kaibartya (CPI(M)) 14 Bolpur Asit Kumar Mal Priya Saha (BJP) Shyamali Pradhan (CPI(M)) 15 Burdwan - Durg Kirti Azad Dilip Ghosh (BJP) Sukriti Ghosal (CPI(M)) 16 Cooch Behar Jagdish Chandra Basuniya Nisith Pramanik (BJP) Piya Roy Chowdhury (INC) 17 Darjeeling Gopal Lama Raju Bista (BJP) Munish Tamang (INC) 18 Diamond Harbour Abhishek Banerjee Abhijit Das Bobi (BJP) Pratik Ur Rahaman (CPI(M)) 19 Dum Dum Sougata Roy Silbhadra Dutta (BJP) Sujan Chakraborty (CPI(M)) 20 Ghatal Dipak Adhikari Dev Hiranmay Chattopadhyay (BJP) Papiya Chakraborty (INC) 21 Hooghly Rachana Banerjee Locket Chatterjee (BJP) Monodip Ghosh (CPI(M)) 22 Howrah Prasun Bandopadhyay Dr Rathin Chakraborty (BJP) Sabyasachi Chatterjee (CPI(M)) 23 Jadavpur Sayoni Ghosh Dr Anirban Ganguly (BJP) Srijan Bhattacharyya (CPI(M)) 24 Jalpaiguri Nirmal Chandra Roy Jayanta Roy (BJP) Debraj Barman (CPI(M)) 25 Jangipur Khalilur Rehman Dhananjay Ghosh (BJP) Md Murtoja Hossain (Bokul) (INC) 26 Jhargram Kalipada Soren Pranat Tudu (BJP) Sonamoni Murmu (Tudu) (CPI(M)) 27 Joynagar Pratima Mondal Dr Ashok Kandari (BJP) Samarendra Nath Mandal (RSP) 28 Kanthi Uttam Barik Soumendu Adhikari (BJP) Urbashi Bhattacharya (INC) 29 Kolkata South Mala Roy Debashree Chaudhary (BJP) Saira Shah Halim (CPI(M)) 30 Kolkata North Sudip Bandopadhyay Tapas Roy (BJP) Pradip Bhattacharya (INC) 31 Krishnanagar Mahua Moitra Rajmata Amrita Roy (BJP) S. M. Saadi (CPI(M)) 32 Maldaha Dakshin Shahnawaz Ali Raihan Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury (BJP) Isha Khan Chowdhary (INC) 33 Maldaha Uttar Prasun Banerjee Khagen Murmu (BJP) Mostaque Alam (INC) 34 Mathurapur Bapi Haldar Ashok Purkait (BJP) Sarat Chandra Haldar 35 Medinipur June Malia Agnimitra Paul (BJP) Biplab Bhatta (CPI) 36 Murshidabad Abu Taher Khan Gauri Shankar Ghosh (BJP) Mohammed Salim (CPI(M)) 37 Purulia Shantiram Mahato Jyotirmay Singh Mahato (BJP) Nepal Mahato (INC) 38 Raiganj Krishna Kalyani Kartick Paul (BJP) Ali Imran Ramz (Victor) (INC) 39 Ranaghat Mukutmani Adhikari Jagannath Sarkar (BJP) Alokesh Das (CPI(M)) 40 Srerampur Kalyan Banerjee Kabir Shankar Bose (BJP) Dipsita Dhar (CPI(M)) 41 Tamluk Debanhshu Bhattacharyya Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay (BJP) Sayan Banerjee (CPI(M)) 42 Uluberia Sajda Ahmed Arun Uday Paul Chaudhary (BJP) Azahar Mollick (INC)
