West Bengal Lok Sabha elections 2024: Schedule, dates, phase, seats, candidates – All you need to know
West Bengal Lok Sabha elections 2024: The Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is up against Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party’s election juggernaut. While Banerjee has halted its route in Bengal during last two elections, the BJP’s inroads in West Bengal have ambitiously expanded. The state will go to polls in all seven phases of polling.
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.
West Bengal Lok Sabha Elections: Date of polling across seven phases
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
West Bengal Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Full List of Constituencies
– Coochbehar
– Alipurduars
– Jalpaiguri
– Darjeeling
– Raiganj
– Balurghat
– Maldaha Uttar
– Maldaha Dakshin
– Jangipur
– Murshidabad
– Baharampur
– Krishnanagar
– Ranaghat
– Bardhaman
– Purba
– Bardhaman-Durgapur
– Asansol
– Bolpur
– Birbhum
– Bangaon
– Barrackpur
– Howrah
– Uluberia
– Sreerampur
– Hooghly
– Arambag
– Tamluk
– Kanthi
– Ghatal
– Jhargram
– Medinipur
– Purulia
– Bankura
– Bishnupur
– Dum Dum
– Barasat
– Basirhat
– Jaynagar
– Mathurapur
– Diamond Harbour
– Jadavpur
– Kolkata Dakshin
– Kolkata Uttar
West Bengal Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Full List of Candidates
| Sl. no. | Constituency | Trinamool Congress | Bharatiya Janata Party | Communist Party of India (Maoist) |
| 1. | Alipurduars | |||
| 2. | Arambagh | |||
| 3. | Asansol | |||
| 4. | Baharampur | |||
| 5. | Balurghat | |||
| 6. | Bongaon | |||
| 7. | Bankura | |||
| 8. | Barasat | |||
| 9. | Bardhaman Purba | |||
| 10. | Bardhaman-Durgapur | |||
| 11. | Barrackpore | |||
| 12. | Basirhat | |||
| 13. | Bishnupur | |||
| 14. | Bolpur | |||
| 15. | Cooch Behar | |||
| 16. | Darjeeling | |||
| 17. | Diamond Harbour | |||
| 18. | Dum Dum | |||
| 19. | Ghatal | |||
| 20. | Hooghly | |||
| 21. | Howrah | |||
| 22. | Jadavpur | |||
| 23. | Jalpaiguri | |||
| 24. | Jangipur | |||
| 25. | Jaynagar | |||
| 26. | Jhargram | |||
| 27. | Kanthi | |||
| 28. | Kolkata Dakshin | |||
| 29. | Kolkata Uttar | |||
| 30. | Krishnanagar | |||
| 31. | Maldaha Dakshin | |||
| 32. | Maldaha Uttar | |||
| 33. | Mathurapur | |||
| 34. | Medinipur | |||
| 35. | Murshidabad | |||
| 36. | Purulia | |||
| 37. | Raiganj | |||
| 38. | Raniganj | |||
| 39. | Ranaghat | |||
| 40. | Serampore | |||
| 41. | Tamluk | |||
| 42. | Uluberia |
The counting of votes is scheduled to take place on June 4.
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