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.
Asansol Lok Sabha Election Results 2019
| Candidate | Party | EVM Votes | Migrant Votes | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % of Votes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babul Supriyo | Bharatiya Janata Party | 632727 | 0 | 651 | 633378 | 51.16 | Winner |
| Moon Moon Sen | All India Trinamool Congress | 435584 | 0 | 157 | 435741 | 35.19 | 1st Runner-up |
| Gouranga Chatterjee | Communist Party Of India (Marxist) | 87553 | 0 | 55 | 87608 | 7.08 | 2nd Runner-up |
| Biswarup Mondal | Indian National Congress | 21019 | 0 | 19 | 21038 | 1.7 | 3rd Runner-up |
| NOTA | None Of The Above | 14432 | 0 | 15 | 14447 | 1.17 | 4th Runner-up |
| Md. Zahir Alam | Bahujan Mukti Party | 12677 | 0 | 0 | 12677 | 1.02 | 5th Runner-up |
| Swaraj Das (Bapi) | Independent | 10065 | 0 | 1 | 10066 | 0.81 | 6th Runner-up |
| Sandip Sarkar | Bahujan Samaj Party | 7859 | 0 | 1 | 7860 | 0.63 | 7th Runner-up |
| Abhishekh Kumar Singh | Shivsena | 5757 | 0 | 4 | 5761 | 0.47 | 8th Runner-up |
| Kajal Banerjee | Independent | 5176 | 0 | 0 | 5176 | 0.42 | 9th Runner-up |
| Amarnath Chowdhury | Socialist Unity Centre Of India (Communist) | 4383 | 0 | 0 | 4383 | 0.35 | 10th Runner-up |
One of the 42 parliamentary constituencies of West Bengal, Asansol is a constituency representing the Burdwan District. The Asansol Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 40) consists of 1,250,052 number of electorates in totality, of these 689,404 are males and 560,648 are females as the Election commission of India 2009 data suggests. It was formed prior to the 1957 elections and has a total of 1,251,000 voters. This constituency has seven assembly segments all of which lie in Burdwan District. Asansol is the second largest city of the state and is the 11th fastest growing city of the country. It lies on the Chota Nagpur Plateau between the rivers of Damodar and Ajay covering a total area of 128 sq km at an average elevation of 97 m.
As per 2011 census, the urban agglomeration of Asansol has a population of about 1,243,000 of which 133,000 are under the age of six. About 52% of the population is male and the sex ratio is 919 females for every 1000 males. The average literacy rate of Asansol is around 80%. Economic activities of the area include steel manufacturing, coal mining and trade. Asansol has several premier schools like St. Patrick's and Loreto Convent. One of the state's top engineering colleges is located here. Bengali, English, Hindi and Urdu are the common languages here. The Grand Trunk Road or National Highways NH-2 and NH-60 pass through here.
List of winner/current and runner up MPs Asansol Parliamentary Constituency.
The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Asansol 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 Asansol constituency is Shri Babul Supriya Baral (Babul Supriyo) of BJP.| Year | PC No. | PC Name | Category | winner/current MP | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner Up MP | Gender | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 40 | Asansol | GEN | Babul Supriya Baral (Babul Supriyo) | M | BJP | 419983 | Dola Sen | M | AITC | 349503 |
| 2009 | 40 | Asansol | GEN | Chowdhury,Shri Bansa Gopal | M | CPM | 435161 | Ghatak Moloy | M | AITC | 362205 |
| 2005 | Bye Pol | Asansol | GEN | Bansagopal Choudhury | M | CPI(M) | 410740 | Ghatak Moloy | M | AITC | 180799 |
| 2004 | 38 | Asansol | GEN | Bikash Chowdhury | M | CPM | 369832 | Ghatak Moloy | M | AITC | 245514 |
| 1999 | 38 | Asansol | GEN | Bikash Chowdhury | M | CPM | 377265 | Ajit Ghatak (Moloy Ghatak) | M | AITC | 339401 |
| 1998 | 38 | Asansol | GEN | Bikash Chowdhury | M | CPM | 355382 | Ajit Kumar Ghaatak (Moloy Ghaatak) | M | WBTC | 329233 |
| 1996 | 38 | Asansol | GEN | Haradhan Roy | M | CPM | 376806 | Sukumar Bandyopadhyay | M | INC | 329856 |
| 1991 | 38 | Asansol | GEN | Haradhan Roy | M | CPM | 316504 | Deba Prasad Roy | M | INC | 221646 |
| 1989 | 38 | Asansol | GEN | Haradhan Roy | M | CPM | 374281 | Pradip Bhattacharjee | M | INC | 332044 |
| 1984 | 38 | Asansol | GEN | Anada Gopal Mukherjee | M | INC | 334212 | Bamapada Mukherjee | M | CPM | 247546 |
| 1980 | 38 | Asansol | GEN | Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhya | M | INC(I) | 175703 | Robin Sen | M | CPM | 166051 |
| 1977 | 38 | Asansol | GEN | Robin Sen | M | CPM | 163492 | Syed Mohammad Jalal | M | INC | 91265 |
| 1971 | 36 | Asansol | GEN | Robin Sen | M | CPM | 132268 | Narayan Choudhury | M | INC | 98608 |
| 1967 | 36 | Asansol | GEN | D. Sen | M | SSP | 99276 | J. N. Mukhopadhyay | M | INC | 92284 |
| 1962 | 32 | Asansol | GEN | Atulya Ghosh | M | INC | 70835 | Ket Narayan Misra | M | CPI | 61991 |
| 1957 | 9 | Asansol | GEN | Mono Mohan Das | M | INC | 186374 | Ambuja Bhusan Bose | M | IND | 126026 |
| 1957 | 9 | Asansol | GEN | Atulya Ghosh | M | INC | 163725 | Amarendra Nath Saha | M | IND | 109149 |
*PC = Parliamentary Constituency
List of Assembly Constituencies in Asansol Parliamentary Constituency
The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Asansol parliamentary constituency.| Names of Assembly Constituencies | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pandabeswar | Raniganj | Jamuria |
| Asansol Dakshin | Asansol Uttar | Kulti |
| Barabani | ||
Last Updated on June 26, 2019