Constituency
504. Jalpaiguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-JALPAIGURI
CPM 45.5%won by 8.6%INC 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.3% to 8.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.5% of the vote between them, up from 75.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,52,142
Turnout
82.4%
Valid votes
10,31,290
Margin
88,371
8.57%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPM- 1MAHENDRA KUMAR ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,69,61345.5%
- 2BARMA SUKHBILASIndian National Congress · INC3,81,24237.0%
- 3DWIPENDRA NATH PRAMANIKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP94,3739.2%
- 4DR. DHIRENDRA NATH DASNationalist Congress Party · NCP25,3082.5%
- 5HARI BHAKTA SARDARIndependent · IND19,2951.9%
- 6SANTI KUMAR SARKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP14,8021.4%
- 7PRITHWIRAJ ROYIndependent · IND8,2710.8%
- 8SATYEN PRASAD ROYSWJP · SWJP6,4710.6%
- 9CHINMAY SARKARIndependent · IND6,2060.6%
- 10PABITRA MOITRAAMB · AMB5,7090.6%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −24.5%
- CPM share
- 47.7% → 45.5%
- INC share
- 14.6% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- 80.6% → 82.4%