Cooch Behar Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update






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.

Cooch Behar Lok Sabha Election Results 2019


CandidatePartyEVM VotesMigrant VotesPostal VotesTotal Votes% of VotesStatus
Nisith PramanikBharatiya Janata Party7286340296073159447.98Winner
Adhikary Paresh ChandraAll India Trinamool Congress6763390102467736344.431st Runner-up
Gobinda Chandra RoyAll India Forward Bloc466480162468103.072nd Runner-up
Piya Roy ChowdhuryIndian National Congress280870128282151.853rd Runner-up
NOTANone Of The Above14470020144900.954th Runner-up
Nirmal Kumar RoyIndependent70680170690.465th Runner-up
Harekrishna SarkarIndependent61440161450.46th Runner-up
Naresh Chandra RoyIndependent40680940770.277th Runner-up
Prabhat RoySocialist Unity Centre Of India (Communist)31690531740.218th Runner-up
Kangsa Raj BarmanKamatapur People'S Party (United)206601220780.149th Runner-up
Subodh BarmanAmra Bangalee19300519350.1310th Runner-up
Dhananjoy BarmanWelfare Party Of India17290417330.1111th Runner-up


Cooch Behar Bye-Elections 2016 Result

PC No.PC NameWinnerPartyVotesRunner-upPartyVotes
1Coochbehar (SC)Partha Pratim RayTMC794375Hem Chandra BarmanBJP381134



Cooch Behar Bye-Elections 2016 Candidate list

Sl.No.Candidate nameParty Name
1Nripendra Nath RoyAll India Forward Bloc
2Partha Pratim IsoreIndian National Congress
3Partha Pratim RayAll India Trinamool Congress
4Hem Chandra BarmanBharatiya Janata Party
5Kangsa Raj BarmanKamatapur People's Party (United)
6Dhananjoy BarmanWelfare Party Of India
7Nripen KarjeeSOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
8Subodh BarmanAmra Bangalee
9Naresh Chandra RoyIndependent
10Nirmal Kumar RoyIndependent


About Cooch Behar Lok Sabha Constituency

One of the 42 Lok Sabha Constituencies of West Bengal, Cooch Behar Parliamentary Constituency is reserved for the SC category and was formed before the 1951 elections. 1,329,086 is the total electorate count in the Cooch Behar Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 1). Out of these 700,250 number of electorates are males and the remaining 628,836 are belong to the female category as the Election commission of India 2009 reports suggest.It has over 1,340,000 electors and comprises of seven Vidhan Sabha segments. It represents the Cooch Behar District which belongs to the Administrative Division of Jalpaiguri. It has a total area of 3,390 sq km and is located in the eastern region of the state bordering Assam.

The 136th most populous district of India, the census data of India states the total of Cooch Behar to be 2,820,780 with male population of 1,452,000 and female population of 1,368,000. From 2001 to 2011, the district has had a population growth rate of 14% and a population density of 832 people per sq km. It has a child population of 345,000 and a sex ratio of 942 females per 1000 males. The average literacy rate of Cooch Behar is 75%, with male literacy rate of 81% and female literacy rate of 69%. There are over 1800 schools and several colleges. Bengali is the official language of the area. Agriculture, tourism and trade are the primary economic activities here. The National Highway NH-31 connects the district to the national road network.

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

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Cooch Behar 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 Cooch Behar constituency is Shri Renuka Sinha of AITC.

Year PC No. PC Name Category winner/current MPGenderPartyVoteRunner Up MPGenderPartyVote
20141Cooch Behar(SC)Renuka SinhaFAITC526499Dipak Kumar RoyMAIFB439392
20091Cooch Behar(SC)Roy,Shri Nripendra Nath MAIFB500677Arghya Roy PradhanMAITC466928
20041Cooch Behar(SC)Hiten BarmanMAIFB490982Girindra Nath BarmanMAITC264413
19991Cooch Behar(SC)Amar Roy PradhanMFBL443148Ambika Charan RayMAITC334983
19981Cooch Behar(SC)Amar RoypradhanMFBL396140Gobinda RoyMFB(S)272974
19961Cooch Behar(SC)Amar Roy PradhanMFBL393667Sabita RoyMINC304633
19911Cooch Behar(SC)Amar Roy PradhanMFBL414037Sabita Ray (W)FINC281805
19891Cooch Behar(SC)Amar Roy PradhanMFBL422168Sabita RoyFINC368698
19841Cooch Behar(SC)Amar Roy ProdhanMFBL345160Prasenjit BarmanMINC299643
19801Cooch Behar(SC)Amar Roy PradhanMFBL304158Ambika Charan RoyMINC(I)186012
19771Cooch Behar(SC)Amrendranath Roy PradhanMFBL226521Benoy Krishna DaschowdhuryMINC123663
19711Cooch Behar(SC)Benoy Krishna DaschowdhuryMINC150869Nagendra Nath Roy MCPM80265
19671Cooch Behar(SC)B. K. D. ChowdhuryMFBL167971P. C. BarmanMINC124135
1963Bye PolCooch BeharGENP.C.BarmanMINC122205B.K.DaschoudhuryMFB62611
19621Cooch Behar(SC)Debendra Nath KarjeeMFB141436Upendra Nath Barman MINC109676
19571Cooch Behar(SC)Santosh Banerjee MINC247783Sibendra Kumar BhattacharyaMFBM173392
19571Cooch Behar(SC)Upendranath BarmanMINC220572Kamalkrishna Roy SinghaMFBM127583


*PC = Parliamentary Constituency


List of Assembly Constituencies in Cooch Behar Parliamentary Constituency

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

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Mathabhanga (SC)Cooch Behar Uttar (SC)Cooch Behar Dakshin
Sitalkuchi (SC)Sitai (SC)Dinhata
Natabari 

Last Updated on June 26, 2019