Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency)


Durgapur was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on Durgapur in West Bengal. The seat was reserved for scheduled castes.
As a consequence of the order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, this parliamentary constituency ceased to exist from 2009; some of the assembly segments under this constituency will be part of a new Bardhaman-Durgapur, others will be part of Bishnupur.
This page also includes results for Ausgram during the short period of its existence from 1962 to 1971.

Assembly segments

Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:
For Members of Parliament from this area in subsequent years see Bardhaman Purba and Bardhaman-Durgapur.

Election results

General election 2004

General election 1999

General election 1998

General elections 1962-2004

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are generally mentioned below:
YearVotersVoter TurnoutWinnerRunners up
%ageCandidate%agePartyCandidate%ageParty
1962*233,06546.71Mono Mohan Das51.17INCKrishna Chandra Halder40.61CPI
1967*308,90858.81B. Das51.49CPIMono Mohan Das48.51INC
1971*363,98157.86Krishna Chandra Halder46.40CPIMahadeb Saha20.05Bangla Congress
19773,59,28053.03Krishna Chandra Haldar63.20CPI Manoranjan Pramanick36.80INC
19805,13,17069.40Krishna Chandra Halder57.27CPI Surya Kumar Roy38.17INC
19846,45,27077.85Purna Chandra Malik53.07CPI Gopal Mondal46.93INC
19897,32,79071.82Purna Chandra Malik65.68CPI Gopal Mondal28.88INC
19917,67,87073.75Purna Chandra Malik55.35CPI Bhagabat Maji30.73INC
19969.17,97080.56Sunil Khan55.68CPI Chittaranjan Pramanik35.29INC
19989,21,90077.37Sunil Khan51.81CPI Suryya Ray36.10BJP
19998,85,34073.01Sunil Khan53.15CPI Anil Kumar Saha39.58BJP
20048,47,77073.66Sunil Khan59.61CPI Shib Narayan Saha26.87BJP

* Results for Ausgram constituency