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TMC’s Yusuf Pathan stuns Congress and wins the Baharampur Lok Sabha elections 2024

Baharampur Election Results 2024: TMC's Pathan wins the Baharampur Lok Sabha elections, securing 5,24,516 votes, defeating Congress's Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who was able to secure 4,39,494 votes.

Baharampur Result 2024, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury vs Yusuf Pathan: Former Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. (File Photos)

By: Express Web Desk

2 min readJun 5, 2024 11:26 AM IST First published on: Jun 4, 2024 at 01:01 PM IST

Baharampur Election Results 2024: In a stunning shift, former cricketer and Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Yusuf Pathan has emerged victorious in the Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency of West Bengal.

Pathan secured a significant margin of 85,022 votes, defeating his immediate rivals. As per the ECI, Pathan garnered 5,24,516 votes, while Congress two-time MP Ranjan secured 4,39,494 votes, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, Dr Nirmal Kumar Saha, managed to secure 3,71,885 votes.

One of the parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal, Baharampur is traditionally a bastion of the Congress party. Current sitting MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who has been representing the constituency since 1999 till date, is contesting against TMC’s Yusuf Pathan.