The 2024 Indian general election was held in West Bengal in seven phases between 19 April and 1 June 2024 to elect 42 members of the 18th Lok Sabha. The result of the election was announced on 4 June 2024.

The by-elections for Bhagabangola and Baranagar in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly was also scheduled with the general election and took place on 7 May and 1 June respectively.

West Bengal, along with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, were the only states where the 2024 Indian general election was held in all 7 phases.

Election schedule

On 16 March 2024, the Election Commission of India announced the schedule of the 2024 Indian general election, with West Bengal scheduled to vote during all the 7 phases starting from 19 April and concluding on 1 June. Poll eventPhaseIIIIIIIVVVIVIINotification date20 March 28 March 12 April 18 April 26 April29 April 7 MayLast date for filing nomination27 March4 April19 April25 April3 May6 May14 MayScrutiny of nomination28 March 5 April 20 April 26 April 4 May7 May15 MayLast Date for withdrawal of nomination30 March 8 April 22 April 29 April 6 May9 May17 MayDate of poll19 April26 April7 May13 May20 May25 May1 JuneDate of counting of votes/Result4 June 2024No. of constituencies3348789

Parties and alliances

All India Trinamool Congress

PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats contestedAll India Trinamool CongressMamata Banerjee42

Bharatiya Janata Party

PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats contestedBharatiya Janata PartySukanta Majumdar42

Secular Democratic Alliance

PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats contestedCommunist Party of India (Marxist)Mohammed Salim23Indian National CongressAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury12Revolutionary Socialist PartyTapan Hor3Communist Party of IndiaSwapan Banerjee2All India Forward BlocNaren Chatterjee2Total42

Others PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats contestedSocialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)Provash Ghosh42Indian Secular FrontNawsad Siddique17Bahujan Samaj PartyManoj Hawladar5 All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen -4Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) LiberationDipankar Bhattacharya1

Candidates ConstituencyAITCBJPSDA # Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate1Cooch Behar (SC)Jagadish Chandra BasuniaNisith PramanikNitish Chandra Roy2Alipurduars (ST)Prakash Chik BaraikManoj TiggaMili Oraon3 Jalpaiguri (SC) Nirmal Chandra RoyJayanta Kumar RoyDebraj Barman4 DarjeelingGopal LamaRaju BistaMunish Tamang5 RaiganjKrishna KalyaniKartick Chandra PaulAli Imran Ramz6 Balurghat Biplab MitraSukanta MajumdarJaydeb Siddhanta7 Maldaha UttarPrasun BanerjeeKhagen MurmuMostaque Alam8 Maldaha DakshinShahnawaz Ali RaihanSreerupa Mitra ChaudhuryIsha Khan Choudhury9 Jangipur Khalilur RahamanDhananjay GhoshMortaza Hossain Bokul10 Baharampur Yusuf PathanNirmal Kumar SahaAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury11 Murshidabad Abu Taher KhanGouri Shankar GhoshMohammed Salim12 Krishnanagar Mahua Moitra Amrita RoyS. M. Saadi13 Ranaghat (SC) Mukut Mani Adhikari Jagannath SarkarAlokesh Das14 Bongaon (SC) Biswajit Das Shantanu ThakurPradip Biswas15 Barrackpore Partha Bhowmick Arjun SinghDebdut Ghosh16 Dum DumSaugata RoyShilbhadra DuttaSujan Chakraborty17 BarasatKakoli Ghosh DastidarSwapan MajumderSanjib Chatterjee18 BasirhatHaji Nurul IslamRekha PatraNirapada Sardar19 Jaynagar (SC) Pratima MondalAshok KandariSamarendra Nath Mandal20 Mathurapur (SC)Bapi HalderAshok PurkaitSarat Chandra Haldar21 Diamond HarbourAbhishek BanerjeeAbhijit DasPratikur Rahaman22 JadavpurSaayoni GhoshAnirban GangulySrijan Bhattacharyya23 Kolkata DakshinMala RoyDebasree ChaudhuriSaira Shah Halim24 Kolkata UttarSudip BandyopadhyayTapas RoyPradip Bhattacharya25 HowrahPrasun BanerjeeRathin Chakraborty Sabyasachi Chatterjee26 Uluberia Sajda AhmedArun Uday Paul ChowdhuryAzahar Mallick27 SreerampurKalyan BanerjeeKabir Shankar BoseDipsita Dhar28 HooghlyRachna BanerjeeLocket ChatterjeeMonodip Ghosh29 Arambagh (SC)Mitali BagArup Kanti DigarBiplab Kumar Moitra30 TamlukDebangshu BhattacharyaAbhijit Gangopadhyay Sayan Banerjee31 KanthiUttam BarikSoumendu AdhikariUrbashi Bhattacharya32 GhatalDeepak Adhikari (Dev)Hiran ChatterjeeTapan Ganguly33 Jhargram (ST)Kalipada SorenPranat TuduSonamoni Tudu34 MedinipurJune MaliaAgnimitra PaulBiplab Bhatta35 PuruliaSantiram MahatoJyotirmay Singh MahatoNepal Mahato36 BankuraArup ChakrabortySubhash SarkarNilanjan Dasgupta37 Bishnupur (SC)Sujata Mondal Saumitra KhanShital Kaibartya38 Bardhaman Purba (SC) Sharmila SarkarAshim Kumar SarkarNirav Kha39 Bardhaman–Durgapur Kirti AzadDilip GhoshSukriti Ghosal40AsansolShatrughan SinhaS. S. AhluwaliaJahanara Khan41 Bolpur (SC) Asit Kumar MalPiya SahaShyamali Pradhan42 BirbhumSatabdi RoyDebtanu BhattacharyaMilton Rashid

Surveys and polls Opinion polls

Exit polls

Voter turnout Phase wise PhasePoll dateConstituenciesVoter turnout (%)I19 April 2024Cooch Behar, Alipurduars, Jalpaiguri81.91%II26 April 2024Darjeeling, Raiganj, Balurghat76.58%III7 May 2024Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, Jangipur, Murshidabad77.53%IV13 May 2024Baharampur, Krishnanagar, Ranaghat, Bardhaman Purba, Bardhaman–Durgapur, Asansol, Bolpur, Birbhum80.22%V20 May 2024Bongaon, Barrackpore, Howrah, Uluberia, Sreerampur, Hooghly, Arambagh78.45%VI25 May 2024Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal, Jhargram, Medinipur, Purulia, Bankura, Bishnupur82.71%VII1 June 2024Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin, Kolkata Uttar69.89%Total79.29%

Constituency wise Constituency Poll date Turnout Swing1Cooch Behar (SC)19 April 202482.16% 1.922Alipurduars (ST)79.76% 4.033 Jalpaiguri (SC)83.66% 2.854 Darjeeling26 April 202474.76% 4.045 Raiganj76.18% 3.646 Balurghat79.09% 4.607 Maldaha Uttar7 May 202476.03% 1.208 Maldaha Dakshin76.69% 4.559 Jangipur75.72% 5.0010 Baharampur13 May 202477.54% 1.8711 Murshidabad7 May 202481.52% 2.7712 Krishnanagar13 May 202480.65% 3.1013 Ranaghat (SC)81.87% 2.3914 Bangaon (SC)20 May 202481.04% 1.6015 Barrackpore75.41% 1.5016 Dum Dum1 June 202473.81% 2.7917 Barasat80.17% 1.0918 Basirhat84.31% 1.1219 Jaynagar (SC)80.08% 2.2120 Mathurapur (SC)82.02% 2.8421 Diamond Harbour81.04% 0.9422 Jadavpur76.68% 2.4123 Kolkata Dakshin66.95% 2.8724 Kolkata Uttar63.59% 2.1625 Howrah20 May 202471.73% 3.1026 Uluberia79.78% 1.4027 Sreerampur76.44% 2.1028 Hooghly81.38% 1.1429 Arambagh (SC)82.62% 0.8230 Tamluk25 May 202484.79% 0.5931 Kanthi84.77% 0.5232 Ghatal82.17% 0.2333 Jhargram (ST)83.47% 1.9534 Medinipur81.56% 2.4435 Purulia78.39% 3.7136 Bankura80.75% 2.2237 Bishnupur (SC)85.91% 1.0438 Bardhaman Purba (SC)13 May 202482.85% 1.6639 Bardhaman–Durgapur80.72% 1.5640Asansol73.27% 3.1041 Bolpur (SC)82.66% 3.0842 Birbhum81.91% 3.09

Results

Results by party or alliance 29121AITCBJPINC

Alliance/ Party Popular voteSeatsVotes%±ppContestedWon+/−AITC 46.20 2.984229 7NDABJP 39.10 1.154212 6rowspan="6" LF+INCCPI(M)5.70 0.58230INC4.70 0.91121 1AIFB0.20 0.2120RSP0.20 0.1930CPI0.20 0.1620Total11.002.054211Others2.80NOTA0.90Total100 - 42-

Constituency wise party or alliance votes Constituency Win Margin INDIA NDA AITC SDA BJP LF INC1Cooch Behar (SC)7,88,37530,267 10,6797,49,12539,2502Alipurduars (ST)6,19,86727,427—6,95,314 75,4473Jalpaiguri (SC)6,79,87574,092—7,66,56886,6934Darjeeling5,00,806 —83,3746,79,3311,78,5255Raiganj4,92,700—2,63,2735,60,89768,1976Balurghat5,64,61054,217—5,74,99610,3867Maldaha Uttar4,49,315—3,84,7645,27,02377,7088Maldaha Dakshin3,01,026—5,72,3954,44,0271,28,3689Jangipur5,44,427—4,27,7903,40,8141,16,63710Baharampur5,24,516—4,39,4943,71,88585,02211Murshidabad6,82,4425,18,227—2,92,0311,64,21512Krishnanagar6,28,7891,80,201 —5,72,08456,70513Ranaghat (SC)5,95,4971,23,810—7,82,3961,86,89914Bongaon (SC)6,45,812—65,1767,19,50573,69315Barrackpore5,20,2311,09,564—4,55,79364,43816Dum Dum5,28,5792,40,784—4,57,91970,66017Barasat6,92,010 1,00,000—5,77,8211,14,18918Basirhat8,03,76277,899—4,70,2153,33,54719Joynagar (SC)8,94,312 40,113 —4,24,0934,70,21920Mathurapur (SC)7,55,73161,100—5,54,6742,01,05721Diamond Harbour10,48,23086,953—3,37,3007,10,93022Jadavpur7,17,8992,58,712 —4,59,6982,58,20123Kolkata Dakshin6,15,2741,68,531—4,28,0431,87,23124Kolkata Uttar4,54,696—1,14,9823,62,13692,56025Howrah6,26,4931,52,005—4,57,0511,69,44226Uluberia7,24,622—78,5895,05,9492,18,67327Sreerampur6,73,9702,39,146—4,99,1401,74,83028Hooghly7,02,7441,39,919—6,25,89176,85329Arambagh (SC)7,12,58792,502—7,06,1886,39930Tamluk6,87,85185,389—7,65,58477,73331Kanthi7,15,431—31,1227,63,19547,76432Ghatal8,37,99074,908—6,55,1221,82,86833Jhargram (ST)7,43,47877,302—5,69,4301,74,04834Medinipur7,02,19257,785—6,75,00127,19135Purulia5,61,41014,5721,29,1575,78,48917,07936Bankura6,41,8131,05,359—6,09,03532,77837Bishnupur (SC)6,74,5631,05,411—6,80,1305,56738Bardhaman Purba (SC)7,20,3021,76,899—5,59,7301,60,57239Bardhaman-Durgapur7,20,6671,53,829—5,82,6861,37,98140Asansol6,05,6451,05,964—5,46,08159,56441Bolpur (SC)8,55,63399,383—5,28,3803,27,25342Birbhum7,17,961—2,26,2605,20,3111,97,650

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