Howrah Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

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In 2009 Election Results the UPA won around 261 out of 543 seats, and in the second position was NDA with 158 seats, while 23 seats were won by Left parties.

In 2014 Election Results the BJP won 282 seats out of 543 seats. This took the NDA tally to 336 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. INC could only manage to win 44 seats and stayed in the second position while AIADMK party from Tamil Nadu came third with 37 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.

In 2019, the BJP is set to return to power at the Centre after a sweeping win in the 2019 Lok Sabha election , armed with a bigger mandate than in the 2014 General Election. The party - led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah duo has secured 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress, the main Opposition party, managed to increase its vote share from 2014 only by a handful of votes, with a final tally of 52 seats. There will be no Leader of Opposition in the upcoming Lower House for a second consecutive term.

Howrah Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

The Parliamentary Constituency of Howrah is one of West Bengal's 42 Lok Sabha constituencies and came into being prior to the 1951 elections. According to Election Commission of India 2009 data the total electorates in the Howrah Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 25) were 1,344,746 of which 612,728 are females and 732,018 are males. It comprises of seven legislative assembly segments, of which one is reserved for SC category and has 1,344,746 electors. It is one of the 16 constituencies representing the district of Howrah the headquarters of which lies in the city of Howrah and has a total area of 1, 467 sq km.

As per the 2011 census data, the total population of the Howrah District is 4,841,638 with a male majority. The population growth rate of Howrah District was 13.31% from 2001 to 2011 and it has a population density of 2,913 persons per sq km. About 9% of the population is under the age of six and the sex ratio is 935 females per 1000 males. With an average literacy rate of 83.85%, which is higher than the national average, the male and female literacy rates of the district are 81% and 73% respectively. Bengali is the official language here while English and Hindi are also widely spoken. The National Highway NH-6 passes through this area and connects it to a large road network to the major cities in and around the state.

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

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Howrah 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 Howrah constituency is Prasun Banerjee of AITC.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	winner/current MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	25	Howrah	GEN	Prasun Banerjee	M	AITC	488461	Sridip Bhattacharya	M	CPM	291505
2013	Bye Pol	Howrah	GEN	Prasun Banerjee	M	AITC	426387	Sridip Bhattacharya	M	CPI(M)	399422
2009	25	Howrah	GEN	Ambica Banerjee	M	AITC	477449	Swadesh Chakrabortty	M	CPM	440057
2004	24	Howrah	GEN	Swadesh Chakrabortty	M	CPM	489444	Dr. Bikram Sarkar	M	AITC	242507
1999	24	Howrah	GEN	Swadesh Chakraborty	M	CPM	490537	Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar	M	AITC	387088
1998	24	Howrah	GEN	Dr Bikram Sarkar	M	WBTC	437224	Swadesh Chakraborty	M	CPM	430689
1996	24	Howrah	GEN	Priya Ranjan Das Munsi	M	INC	459059	Susanta Chakraborty	M	CPM	425128
1991	24	Howrah	GEN	Susanta Chakraborty S/O Sudhir	M	CPM	351744	Priya Ranjan Das Munshi	M	INC	344364
1989	24	Howrah	GEN	Sushanta Chakarborty	M	CPM	397138	Priya Ranjan Das Munshi	M	INC	395706
1984	24	Howrah	GEN	Priya Ranjan Das Munshi	M	INC	381216	Samar Mukherjee	M	CPM	287174
1980	24	Howrah	GEN	Samar Mukherjee	M	CPM	263337	Nityananda Dey	M	INC(I)	205028
1977	24	Howrah	GEN	Samar Mukherjee 11Dharmatala Lane	M	CPM	236530	Nityananda Dey	M	INC	131799
1971	22	Howrah	GEN	Samar Mukherjee	M	CPM	150917	Mrityunjoy Banerjee	M	INC	125875
1967	22	Howrah	GEN	K. K. Chatterjee	M	INC	176469	S. Mukherjee	M	CPM	134175
1962	20	Howrah	GEN	Mohammad Elias	M	CPI	137812	Krishna Kumar Chatterji	M	INC	133876
1957	14	Howrah	GEN	Mohammed Elias	M	CPI	108238	Santosh Kr. Dutt	M	INC	67403
1951	13	Howrah	GEN	Santosh Kumar Dutta	M	INC	60929	Anil Kumar(Sarkar)	M	CPI	59163

*PC = Parliamentary Constituency

List of Assembly Constituencies in Howrah Parliamentary Constituency

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

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Bally	Howrah Uttar	Howrah Madhya
Shibpur	Howrah Dakshin	Sankrail (SC)
Panchla