Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Hugli-Chuchura in West Bengal. All seven assembly segments of No. 28 Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency are in Hooghly district.
Overview
Hoogly constituency, shares a large industrial area on the western bank of the Hooghly river in the district with Sreerampur and has a rich agricultural hinterland.
According to The Statesman, "The Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency had remained a Communist bastion till the Trinamul snatched their thunder in the 2009 General Election. The constituency has the distinction of having a rich colonial history with the Portuguese settlement at Bandel, the French colony at Chandannagore, the Danish settlement at Serampore… and Chinsurah, a former Dutch colony. Despite ruling West Bengal for 35 years, the Marxist government alienated its people by such historical blunders as the forcible acquisition of fertile agricultural land in Singur which forms part of the Hooghly constituency."
The Dunlop tyre plant at Sahaganj, in this constituency is closed. According to Hindustan Times, "The entire jute industry, with eight mills in Hooghly, is sick…From Tribeni in north to Hind Motor in south, by the bank of Hooghly exists the Hooghly industrial belt, now seeking oxygen. Two fertiliser units, one food processing unit, two cotton mills, one steel plant and many other small and medium scale units have closed down over the years."
Assembly segments As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 28 Hooghly is composed of the following segments:
# Name District MemberParty2024 Lead188SingurHooghlyArup Kumar Das 189ChandannagarDeepanjan Kumar Guha190ChunchuraSubir Nag191Balagarh (SC)Sumana Sarkar192PanduaTushar Kumar Majumdar193SaptagramSwaraj Ghosh197Dhanekhali (SC)Ashima Patra
Prior to delimitation, Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:Chandernagore (assembly constituency no. 182), Singur (assembly constituency no. 183), Haripal (assembly constituency no. 184), Chinsurah (assembly constituency no. 186), Bansberia (assembly constituency no. 193), Polba (assembly constituency no. 190), Dhaniakhali (SC) (assembly constituency no. 191)
Members of Parliament YearMemberParty1952Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee1957Provat Kar19621967Bijoy Krishna Modak197119771980Rupchand Pal1984Indumati Bhattacharya1989Rupchand Pal199119961998199920042009Ratna De Nag20142019Locket Chatterjee2024Rachna Banerjee
Election results General election 2024
General election 2019
General election 2014
General election 2009
General election 2004
General elections 1951-2024 Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below: YearWinnerRunner-upCandidatePartyCandidateParty1951 Nirmal Chandra ChatterjeeRenuka Roy1957Provat KarSachindra Chowdhury1962Nirmal Kumar Sen1967Bijoy Krishna ModakP.K. Palit1972Phani Ghosh1977Bishnu Charan Banerjee1980Rupchand PalSantimohan Roy1984Indumati BhattacharyaRupchand Pal1989Rupchand PalUmasankar Halder19911996Gouri Sankar Banerjee1998Tapan Dasgupta19992004Indrani Mukherjee2009Ratna De NagRupchand Pal2014Pradip Saha2019Locket ChatterjeeRatna De Nag2024Rachna BanerjeeLocket Chatterjee
See also List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha Election Commission of India Chandannagar Subdivision
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References
External links Hooghly lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details