Balurghat General Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

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Balurghat Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

One of the 42 parliamentary constituencies of the state of West Bengal, Balurghat city represents Dakshin Dinajpur district of the State. 1,010,224 is the total electorate count in the Balurghat Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 6). Out of these 530,001 number of electorates are males and the remaining 480,223 are belong to the female category as the Election commission of India 2009 reports suggest. It was formed before the 1962 elections and has a total number of 1,010,000 voters. This constituency comprises of seven assembly segments of which six lie in Dakshin Dinajpur District and one is in Uttar Dinajpur District. Out of these segments, one is reserved for ST and one for SC categories. Prior to 2009 elections, this seat was reserved for SC category.

The city of Balurghat is the headquarters of the Dakshin Dinajpur District and it is located on the banks of River Atreyee which runs through the city. It is very near to the Bangladesh border and is at a distance of 80 km from Eklakhi and around 430 km away from the Kolkata. It stands at an average elevation of 25 m and covers an area of over 363 sq km. The total population is over 164,000 with a child population of about 10,500. The sex ratio is around 990 females for every 1000 males. The average literacy rate of Balurghat is around 91% and it is home to various colleges and schools. Balurghat is considered to be the trading hub of North West Bengal and it deals in rice, jute, oil seeds and sugarcane trade.

List of winner/current and runner up MPs Balurghat Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Balurghat parliamentary constituency of all the years from the starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Balurghat constituency is Shri Arpita Ghosh of AITC.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	winner/current MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	6	Balurghat	GEN	Arpita Ghosh	F	AITC	409641	Bimalendu Sarkar (Bimal)	M	RSP	302677
2009	6	Balurghat	GEN	Majumdar,Shri Prasanta Kumar	M	RSP	388444	Biplab Mitra	M	AITC	383339
2004	6	Balurghat	(SC)	Ranen Barman	M	RSP	415298	Manomohan Ray	M	BJP	344152
1999	6	Balurghat	(SC)	Barman Ranen	M	RSP	375669	Subhash Ch. Barman	M	BJP	312748
1998	6	Balurghat	(SC)	Ranen Barman	M	RSP	428710	Nani Gopal Roy	M	WBTC	256535
1996	6	Balurghat	(SC)	Barman Ranen	M	RSP	440283	Satyendra Nath Roy	M	INC	296576
1991	6	Balurghat	(SC)	Palas Barman	M	RSP	353159	Rasendra Nath Barman	M	INC	267078
1989	6	Balurghat	(SC)	Palas Barman	M	RSP	388103	Satyendra Nath Roy	M	INC	354577
1984	6	Balurghat	(SC)	Palas Barman	M	RSP	317141	Satyendra Nath Ray	M	INC	294924
1980	6	Balurghat	(SC)	Barman Palas	M	RSP	284766	Ranajit Sarkar	M	INC(I)	204438
1977	6	Balurghat	(SC)	Palas Barman	M	RSP	206112	Rasendra Nath Burman	M	INC	151549
1971	5	Balurghat	(SC)	Rasendra Nath Barman	M	INC	159896	Pijush Kanti Das	M	CPM	74618
1967	5	Balurghat	(SC)	J.N.Pramanik	M	INC	130379	D. P. Kanti	M	CPM	106930
1962	5	Balurghat	(ST)	Sarkar Murmu	M	CPI	137290	Shelku Mardi	M	INC	127470

*PC = Parliamentary Constituency

List of Assembly Constituencies in Balurghat Parliamentary Constituency

The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Balurghat parliamentary constituency.

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Itahar	Kushmandi (SC)	Kumarganj
Balurghat	Tapan (ST)	Gangarampur (SC)
Harirampur