The 2004 Indian general election were held in Indian state West Bengal in 2004 to elect all 42 seats of Lok Sabha in the state. The election took place on 10 May 2004 and a turnout of 77.7% was recorded.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front had an overwhelming victory in the state by winning 35 seats. On the national level, Indian National Congress became the single largest party and formed the new government with its allies and taking external support from Left Front and other parties.
Schedule The election schedule was declared by Election Commission of India on 29 February 2004.
Poll event Date Notification date 16 April Last date for filing nomination 23 April Scrutiny of nomination 24 April Last Date for withdrawal of nomination 26 April Date of poll 10 May Date of counting of votes 13 May
Parties and alliances
+ No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested1.Communist Party of India (Marxist) Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee322.Revolutionary Socialist Party Manoj Bhattacharya43.All India Forward Bloc Debabrata Biswas34.Communist Party of India Swapan Banerjee3 Other Left Front members that didn't fielded candidates in the election but supported the alliance were Biplobi Bangla Congress, Democratic Socialist Party, Marxist Forward Bloc, West Bengal Socialist Party, Revolutionary Communist Party of India and other left front parties.
+ No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested1.Indian National Congress Pranab Mukherjee372. Party of Democratic Socialism Samir Putatundu 23. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha N/A 1 4. Independent — — N/A 2 Gorkha National Liberation Front supported the Congress candidate in Darjeeling constituency.
+ No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested1. All India Trinamool Congress Mamata Banerjee 292. Bharatiya Janata Party Tathagata Roy13
List of Candidates ConstituencyLeft FrontNDAUPA # Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate1Cooch Behar (SC) Hiten Barman Girindra Nath Barman Sailen Barma2Alipurduars (ST) Joachim Baxla Manoj Tigga Ratan Lal Baraik3Jalpaiguri Minati Sen Parash Dutta Dipak Krishna Bhowmik4Darjeeling Moni Thapa Dr. G. S. Yonzone Dawa Narbula5Raiganj Minati Ghosh Zainal Abedin Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi6Balurghat (SC) Ranen Barman Manomohan Ray Dipti Barman7Malda Pranab Das Badsha Alam A. B. A. Ghani Khan8Jangipur Abul Hasnat Khan Mohammad Shish Pranab Mukherjee9Murshidabad Moinul Hassan Ahamed Mohammad Ali Abdul Mannan Hossain10Berhampore Promothes Mukherjee Tapas Kumar Chatterjee Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury11Krishnagar Jyotirmoyee Sikdar Satyabrata Mookherjee Asim Kumar Saha12Nabadwip (SC) Alokesh Das Nilima Nag (Mallick) Howladar Nripendra Nath13Barasat Subrata Bose Ranjit Kumar Panja Prabir Banerjee14Basirhat Ajay Chakraborty Sujit Bose Syed Md. Nizamuddin15Joynagar (SC) Sanat Kumar Mandal Asit Baran Thakur Tarun Kanti Naskar16Mathurapur (SC) Basudeb Barman Radhika Pramanik Manoranjan Halder17Diamond Harbour Samik Lahiri Saugata Roy Daulat Ali Sheikh18Jadavpur Sujan Chakraborty Krishna Bose Prof. Omprakash Mishra19Barrackpore Tarit Baran Topdar Arjun Singh Debi Ghosal20Dum Dum Amitava Nandy Tapan Sikdar Tapas Majumder21Calcutta North West Sudhangshu Seal Subrata Mukherjee Sudip Bandyopadhyay22Calcutta North East Md. Salim Ajit Kumar Panja Moushumi Chatterjee23Calcutta South Rabin Deb Mamata Banerjee Nafisa Ali24Howrah Swadesh Chakraborty Bikram Sarkar Sultan Singh25Uluberia Hannan Mollah Rajib Banerjee Kazi Abdul Rajjak26Serampore Santasri Chatterjee Akbar Ali Khondkar Kesto Mukherjee27Hooghly Rupchand Pal Indrani Mukherjee Asok Kumar Das28Arambagh Anil Basu Swapan Kumar Nandi Datta Pradip29Panskura Gurudas Dasgupta Hema Choubey Nazim Ahmed30Tamluk Lakshman Seth Suvendu Adhikari Sudarsan Panja31Contai Prasanta Pradhan Nitish Sengupta Kshitindra Mohan Sahoo32Midnapore Prabodh Panda Rahul Sinha Narayan Chandra Paria33Jhargram (ST) Rupchand Murmu Nityananda Hembram Mongal Soren34Purulia Bir Singh Mahato Niyati Mahato Santiram Mahato35Bankura Basudeb Acharia Deb Prasad Kundu Natabar Bagdi36Vishnupur (SC) Susmita Bauri Janardan Saha Achintya Majhi37Durgapur (SC) Sunil Khan Shib Narayan Saha Dhibar Shova38Asansol Bikash Chowdhury Moloy Ghatak Tapas Banerjee39Burdwan Nikhilananda Sar Anindya Gopal Mitra Champak Garai40Katwa Mahboob Zahedi Ahmed Sultan Saifuddin Choudhury41Bolpur Somnath Chatterjee Dr. Nirmal Kumar Maji Dhananjoy Ghosh42Birbhum (SC) Ram Chandra Dome Arjun Saha Gopal Chandra Das
Results Results by Party/Alliance Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/− rowspan="5" LF CPI(M) 1,42,71,042 38.57 3.00 32 26 5 RSP 16,58,787 4.48 0.23 4 3 CPI 14,84,152 4.01 0.54 3 3 AIFB 13,52,423 3.66 0.21 3 3 1 Total 1,87,66,404 50.72 3.98 42 35 6rowspan="3" NDA AITC 77,86,178 21.04 5.00 29 1 7 BJP 29,83,950 8.06 3.07 13 0 2 Total 1,07,70,128 29.10 8.07 42 1 9rowspan="5" UPAINC 53,85,754 14.56 1.27 37 6 3 PDS 81,999 0.22 2 0 JMM 56,429 0.15 0.09 1 + 1 0 IND 1,72,750 0.47 2 0 Total 56,96,932 15.40 42 + 1 6 Others 7,33,549 2.00 84 0 IND 10,33,220 2.79 0.90 144 0 Total 3,70,00,233 100% - 355 42 -
Results by constituency Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin % # Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %1Cooch Behar (SC)Hiten BarmanAIFB490,98251.54Girindra Nath BarmanAITC264,41327.76226,56923.792Alipurduars (ST)Joachim BaxlaRSP384,25245.70Manoj TiggaBJP239,12828.44145,12417.263JalpaiguriMinati SenCPM424,16347.65Parash DuttaAITC243,55827.36180,60520.294DarjeelingDawa NarbulaINC396,97344.70Moni ThapaCPM295,55733.28101,41611.425RaiganjPriya Ranjan DasmunsiINC421,90445.98Minati GhoshCPM382,75741.7139,1474.276Balurghat (SC)Ranen BarmanRSP415,29844.87Manomohan RayBJP344,15237.1871,1467.697MaldaA. B. A. Ghani Khan Ch.INC412,91348.63Pranab DasCPM301,80535.54111,10813.098JangipurPranab MukherjeeINC431,64748.88Abul Hasnat KhanCPM394,78744.7036,8604.179MurshidabadAbdul Mannan HossainINC461,89545.86Moinul Hassan AhamedCPM446,41544.3215,4801.5410BerhamporeAdhir Ranjan ChowdhuryINC508,09551.24Promothes MukherjeeRSP409,19441.2798,9019.9711KrishnagarJyotirmoyee SikdarCPM397,56142.73Satyabrata MookherjeeBJP377,17440.5420,3872.1912Nabadwip (SC)Alokesh DasCPM560,17647.56Nilima Nag (Mallick)AITC550,18546.719,9910.8513BarasatSubrata BoseAIFB520,38445.13Ranjit Kumar PanjaAITC508,22444.0712,1601.0514BasirhatAjay ChakrabortyCPI462,60550.97Sujit BoseAITC280,52130.91182,08420.0615Joynagar (SC)Sanat Kumar MandalRSP450,04355.81Asit Baran ThakurBJP219,52227.22230,52128.5916Mathurapur (SC)Basudeb BarmanCPM440,86248.56Radhika Ranjan PramanikAITC358,83439.5382,0289.0417Diamond HarbourSamik LahiriCPM430,89051.51Saugata RoyAITC277,10633.13153,78418.3818JadavpurSujan ChakrabortyCPM505,39649.44Krishna BoseAITC415,72840.6789,6688.7719BarrackporeTarit Baran TopdarCPM443,04855.77Arjun SinghAITC277,97734.99165,07120.7820Dum DumAmitava NandyCPM619,32549.61Tapan SikdarBJP521,07341.7498,2527.8721Calcutta North WestSudhangshu SealCPM151,77242.15Subrata MukherjeeAITC108,76830.2043,00411.9422Calcutta North EastMd. SalimCPM284,42750.00Ajit Kumar PanjaAITC210,64737.0373,78012.9723Calcutta SouthMamata BanerjeeAITC393,56150.93Rabin DebCPM295,13238.1998,42912.7424HowrahSwadesh ChakraborttyCPM489,44453.69Dr. Bikram SarkarAITC242,50726.60246,93727.0925UluberiaHannan MollahCPM424,74949.88Rajib BanerjeeAITC272,63432.02152,11517.8626SeramporeSantasri ChatterjeeCPM404,08242.70Akbar Ali KhandokerAITC384,39540.6219,6872.0827HooghlyRupchand PalCPM496,89053.72Indrani MukherjeeAITC329,92435.67166,96618.0528ArambaghAnil BasuCPM744,46477.16Swapan Kumar NandiBJP151,96215.75592,50261.4129PanskuraGurudas DasguptaCPI541,51361.92Hema ChoubeyAITC262,03529.96279,47831.9630TamlukSeth Lakshman ChandraCPM507,22848.99Adhikari SuvenduAITC449,84843.4557,3805.5431ContaiPrasanta PradhanCPM464,74350.15Nitish SenguptaAITC405,55343.7659,1906.3932MidnaporePrabodh PandaCPI480,03452.84Rahul (Biswajit) SinhaBJP319,27435.14160,76017.7033Jhargram (ST)Rupchand MurmuCPM509,04564.01Nityananda HembramAITC157,70219.83351,34344.1834PuruliaBir Singh MahatoAIFB341,05748.99Shantiram MahatoINC195,33928.06145,71820.9335BankuraAcharia BasudebCPM417,79860.07Deb Prasad Kundu (Tara)AITC187,46926.96230,32933.1236Vishnupur (SC)Susmita BauriCPM518,50764.28Janardan SahaAITC186,67823.14331,82941.1437Durgapur (SC)Sunil KhanCPM505,25059.61Shib Narayan SahaBJP227,74226.87277,50832.7438AsansolBikash ChowdhuryCPM369,83251.00Ghatak MoloyAITC245,51433.85124,31817.1439BurdwanNikhilananda SarCPM673,09167.51Anindya Gopal MitraBJP201,74020.23471,35147.2840KatwaMahboob ZahediCPM494,71651.20Ahmed SultanAITC351,36736.36143,34914.8441BolpurChatterjee SomnathCPM504,83665.56Dr. Nirmal Kumar MajiAITC194,53125.26310,30540.3042Birbhum (SC)Ram Chandra DomeCPM372,29451.42Gopal Chandra DasINC180,68224.95191,61226.46
Bye-Elections Held ConstituencyWinnerRunner UpMargin No. Name Date Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %38Asansol5 September 2005Bansa Gopal Chowdhury410,74061.33Moloy Ghatak180,79927.00229,941The Asansol Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the death of the incumbent MP, Bikash Chowdhury.40Katwa16 September 2006Abu Ayesh Mondal541,49660.32Susanta Ghosh356,16239.68185,334The Katwa Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the death of the incumbent MP, Mahboob Zahedi.34PuruliaOctober 2006Narahari Mahato378,50153.03Shantiram Mahato291,46840.8487,033The Purulia Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the resignation of the incumbent MP, Birsingh Mahato.7MaldaOctober 2006Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury437,16150.67Sailen Sarkar353,77041.0083,391The Malda Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the death of the incumbent MP.
Assembly Segment wise lead PartyAssembly segmentsPosition in Assembly (as of 2006 election) Communist Party of India (Marxist)168176 Indian National Congress3521 Trinamool Congress2830 Revolutionary Socialist Party2020 Communist Party of India208 All India Forward Bloc1523 Bharatiya Janata Party 7 0 Others 116Total294
Post-election Union Council of Ministers from West Bengal #NameConstituencyDesignationDepartmentFromToParty1Pranab MukherjeeJangipurCabinet MinisterMinistry of Defence23 May200424 Oct2006Ministry of External Affairs24 Oct200622 May2009Ministry of Finance(Additional Charge)24 Jan200922 May20092Priya Ranjan DasmunsiRaiganjCabinet MinisterMinistry of Water Resources23 May200418 Nov2005Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs1 Nov20056 Apr2008Ministry of Information & Broadcasting18 Nov200511 Nov2008Minister without portfolio11 Nov200822 May2009
See also 2004 Indian general election 2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election 2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
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