Results/Lok Sabha/West Bengal/2009 Results/Lok Sabha
ECI results
State board · Lok Sabha

West Bengal Lok Sabha 2009

Results board · 42 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha
StateWest Bengal
Seats
42
Constituencies
Majority
22
Seats needed of 42
Electors
5.25Cr
On the roll
Votes polled
4.28Cr
81.5% of electors
Median turnout
82.6%
Median of 42 seats
AITC short
−3
Below majority · 19 − 22

[01]Seat matrix

42 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won
Hemicycle of 42 seats: AITC 19, CPI(M) 9, INC 6, CPI 2, AIFB 2, RSP 2, BJP 1, IND 1. Majority line at 22 seats. Hemicycle of 42 seats: AITC 19, CPI(M) 9, INC 6, CPI 2, AIFB 2, RSP 2, BJP 1, IND 1. Majority line at 22 seats.
Majority · 22 of 42AITC 19 · 3 short of majority
AITC 1945.2% All India Trinamool Congress
CPI(M) 921.4% Communist Party of India (Marxist)
INC 614.3% Indian National Congress
CPI 24.8% Communist Party of India
AIFB 24.8% All India Forward Bloc
RSP 24.8% Revolutionary Socialist Party
BJP 12.4% Bharatiya Janata Party
IND 12.4% Independents

[02]Vote share

State level, as published
CPI(M) 33.1%9 seats · 21.4%
AITC 31.2%19 seats · 45.2%
INC 13.5%6 seats · 14.3%
BJP 6.1%1 seat · 2.4%
RSP 3.6%2 seats · 4.8%
Others 12.5%5 seats · 11.9%

Vote share not published

  • CPI2 seats
  • AIFB2 seats
  • IND1 seat

The published shares sum to 100.0%, so these parties' votes sit inside Others.

Alliances

UPA 45.7%26 seats
THIRD FRONT 43.3%15 seats
NDA 6.1%1 seat
OTHERS 4.9%Seats not published

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. AITC converted 31.2% of votes into 45.2% of seats, a seat premium of 14.0 pp.

    19 ÷ 42 = 45.2% · 45.2 − 31.2 = +14.0

  2. CPI(M) polled 33.1% of votes, the highest share, but won 9 seats (21.4%).

    9 ÷ 42 = 21.4% · 21.4 − 33.1 = −11.7

  3. Balurghat was decided by 5,105 votes, the closest of 42 seats; Jhargram had the widest margin, 2,92,345.

    min / max of margin over 42 seats with a recorded margin

  4. 1 seat was won by a margin under 1%; RSP won 1 of them.

    count(margin % < 1.0) = 1 of 42 · RSP 1

  5. In SC-reserved seats AITC won 3 of 10 (30.0%), against 45.2% of all seats.

    3 ÷ 10 = 30.0% · 19 ÷ 42 = 45.2%

  6. Turnout ran from 64.3% in Kolkata Uttar to 90.3% in Tamluk; the median seat polled 82.6%.

    min / median / max over 42 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

42 of 42 seats carry a turnout
025507510082.6%MEDIAN SEAT
< 50% 00.0% of seats
50–60 00.0% of seats
60–70 24.8% of seats
70–80 921.4% of seats
≥ 80% 3173.8% of seats
  • LowestKolkata Uttar64.3%
  • HighestTamluk90.3%
  • NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

42 rows · by constituency number
Constituency results, West Bengal Lok Sabha 2009, all 42 seats
# Constituency Winner Party Votes polled Margin Margin % Turnout %
01 Cooch BeharSC Nripendra Nath Roy All India Forward Bloc 11,22,253 33,749 3.0 84.4
02 AlipurduarsST Manohar Tirkey Revolutionary Socialist Party 9,34,622 1,12,822 12.1 76.0
03 JalpaiguriSC Mahendra Kumar Roy Communist Party of India (Marxist) 10,32,242 88,371 8.6 82.4
04 Darjeeling Jaswant Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 9,67,400 2,53,289 26.2 79.6
05 Raiganj Deepa Dasmunsi Indian National Congress 9,00,271 1,05,203 11.7 81.2
06 BalurghatCLOSEST Prasanta Kumar Majumdar Revolutionary Socialist Party 8,76,355 5,105 0.6 86.8
07 Maldaha Uttar Mausam Noor Indian National Congress 9,22,537 60,141 6.5 83.8
08 Maldaha Dakshin Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury Indian National Congress 8,31,309 1,36,280 16.4 79.0
09 Jangipur Pranab Mukherjee Indian National Congress 9,34,813 1,28,149 13.7 86.0
10 Baharampur Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Indian National Congress 9,53,789 1,86,977 19.6 80.8
11 Murshidabad Abdul Mannan Hossain Indian National Congress 10,52,242 35,647 3.4 88.2
12 Krishnanagar Tapas Paul All India Trinamool Congress 10,47,125 77,386 7.4 85.6
13 RanaghatSC Sucharu Ranjan Haldar All India Trinamool Congress 11,48,874 1,01,823 8.9 86.4
14 BangaonSC Gobinda Chandra Naskar All India Trinamool Congress 10,78,719 92,826 8.6 86.5
15 Barrackpore Dinesh Trivedi All India Trinamool Congress 8,70,792 56,024 6.4 80.5
16 Dum Dum Sougata Ray All India Trinamool Congress 9,76,769 20,478 2.1 80.6
17 Barasat Kakali Ghosh Dastidar All India Trinamool Congress 10,26,860 1,22,901 12.0 83.7
18 Basirhat Sk. Nurul Islam All India Trinamool Congress 10,38,520 60,383 5.8 86.7
19 JoynagarSC Dr. Tarun Mondal Independent 9,15,801 53,705 5.9 80.1
20 MathurapurSC Choudhury Mohan Jatua All India Trinamool Congress 10,49,016 1,29,963 12.4 85.5
21 Diamond Harbour Somendra Nath Mitra All India Trinamool Congress 10,54,561 1,51,689 14.4 81.0
22 Jadavpur Kabir Suman All India Trinamool Congress 10,85,301 56,267 5.2 81.5
23 Kolkata Dakshin Mamata Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 10,08,329 2,19,571 21.8 67.0
24 Kolkata Uttar Sudip Bandyopadhyay All India Trinamool Congress 8,78,866 1,09,278 12.4 64.3
25 Howrah Ambica Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 9,94,315 37,392 3.8 73.9
26 Uluberia Sultan Ahmed All India Trinamool Congress 10,09,905 98,936 9.8 80.7
27 Srerampur Kalyan Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 10,81,979 1,37,190 12.7 77.5
28 Hooghly Dr. Ratna De (Nag) All India Trinamool Congress 11,63,978 81,523 7.0 82.8
29 ArambaghSC Malik Sakti Mohan Communist Party of India (Marxist) 11,63,581 2,01,558 17.3 84.6
30 Tamluk Adhikari Suvendu All India Trinamool Congress 11,48,299 1,72,958 15.1 90.3
31 Kanthi Adhikari Sisir Kumar All India Trinamool Congress 11,24,817 1,29,103 11.5 90.0
32 Ghatal Gurudas Das Gupta Communist Party of India 11,70,375 1,47,184 12.6 86.4
33 JhargramSTWIDEST Pulin Bihari Baske Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,58,825 2,92,345 30.5 77.2
34 Medinipur Prabodh Panda Communist Party of India 10,43,731 48,017 4.6 82.6
35 Purulia Narahari Mahato All India Forward Bloc 9,05,208 19,301 2.1 72.0
36 Bankura Acharia Basudeb Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,85,847 1,07,802 10.9 77.7
37 BishnupurSC Susmita Bauri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 10,54,282 1,29,366 12.3 85.2
38 Bardhaman PurbaSC Anup Kumar Saha Communist Party of India (Marxist) 11,24,896 59,419 5.3 87.3
39 Burdwan - Durgapur Sk. Saidul Haque Communist Party of India (Marxist) 11,36,226 1,08,237 9.5 84.0
40 Asansol Bansa Gopal Chowdhury Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,93,860 72,956 8.2 71.5
41 BolpurSC Doctor Ram Chandra Dome Communist Party of India (Marxist) 10,79,122 1,26,882 11.8 82.5
42 Birbhum Satabdi Roy All India Trinamool Congress 10,17,879 61,519 6.0 83.3
Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 2,92,345 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 2009 · West Bengal · 42 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesState-level summary published with the same results · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

An unhandled error has occurred. Reload