Howrah Lok Sabha constituency

Howrah
WB-25
Howrah ; WB-25
Lok Sabha constituency
	Interactive Map Outlining Howrah Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Bally; Howrah Uttar; Howrah Madhya; Shibpur; Howrah Dakshin; Sankrail; Panchla
Established	1951
Total electors	1,505,099
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Prasun Banerjee
Party	NCPI
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2024

Howrah Lok Sabha constituency (Bengali: হাওড়া লোকসভা কেন্দ্র) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centeres on Howrah in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 25 Howrah Lok Sabha constituency are in Howrah district.

Overview

**Parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal** - 1. Cooch Behar, 2. Alipurduars, 3. Jalpaiguri, 4. Darjeeling, 5. Raiganj, 6. Balurghat, 7. Maldaha Uttar, 8. Maldaha Dakshin, 9. Jangipur, 10. Baharampur, 11. Murshidabad, 12. Krishnanagar, 13. Ranaghat, 14. Bangaon, 15. Barrackpore, 16. Dum Dum, 17. Barasat, 18. Basirhat, 19. Jaynagar, 20. Mathurapur, 21. Diamond Harbour, 22. Jadavpur, 23. Kolkata Dakshin, 24. Kolkata Uttar, 25. **Howrah**, 26. Uluberia, 27. Serampore, 28. Hooghly, 29. Arambagh, 30. Tamluk, 31, Kanthi, 32. Ghatal, 33. Jhargram, 34. Medinipur, 35. Purulia, 36. Bankura, 37. Bishnupur, 38. Bardhaman Purba, 39. Bardhaman Durgapur, 40. Asansol, 41. Bolpur, 42. Birbhum

The Hindustan Times reported, “Howrah is a 500-year-old urban agglomeration on the western bank of the Hooghly River and is best known for unplanned, densely populated habitation, one of the country's biggest rail terminuses, and a rusty manufacturing sector, especially iron foundries.”^[3]

About the foundry industry The Times of India wrote, “Some have already downed their shutters. Others keep open for three days a week. A cut in wages has been accepted by the workers, mostly without even a grumble. The foundry industry of Howrah, once known as the Sheffield of India and one of the largest employers in the state, is now gasping for breath.”^[4]

According to The Hindu, Howrah and Sreerampur constituencies have more than 25% non-Bengali voters with their roots in Rajasthan, Bihar or Uttar Pradesh.^[5]

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. 25 Howrah is composed of the following segments:^[6]

#	Name	District	Member
169	Bally	Howrah	Sanjay Singh	BJP	AITC
170	Howrah Uttar		Umesh Rai	BJP
171	Howrah Madhya		Arup Roy	AITC
172	Shibpur		Rudranil Ghosh	BJP
173	Howrah Dakshin		Nandita Chowdhury	AITC
174	Sankrail (SC)		Priya Paul
175	Panchla		Gulsan Mullick

Prior to delimitation, the constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:^[7]

Bally (AC 161)
Howrah North (AC 162)
Howrah Central (AC 163)
Howrah South (AC 164)
Shibpur (AC 165)
Domjur (AC 166)
Sankrail (SC) (AC 169)

Members of Parliament

Year	Member^[8]
1952	Santosh Kumar Dutta	Indian National Congress
1957	Mohammed Elias	Communist Party of India
1962	Mohammed Elias	Communist Party of India
1967	K. K. Chatterjee	Indian National Congress
1971	Samar Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1977
1980
1984	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	Indian National Congress
1989	Susanta Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991	Susanta Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1996	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	Indian National Congress
1998	Bikram Sarkar	All India Trinamool Congress
1999	Swadesh Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2004	Swadesh Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2009	Ambica Banerjee	All India Trinamool Congress
2013^	Prasun Banerjee
2014
2019
2024

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Howrah^[9]^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Prasun Banerjee	626,493	49.26	2.08
	BJP	Rathin Chakraborty	457,051	35.94	2.79
	CPI(M)	Sabyasachi Chatterjee	152,005	11.95	3.31
	NOTA	None of the above	10,000	0.79
Majority			1,69,442	3.9
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Howrah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Prasun Banerjee	576,711	47.18	4.53
	BJP	Rantidev Sengupta	473,016	38.73	25.42
	CPI(M)	Sumitro Adhikary	152005	8.64	5.44
	INC	Suvra Ghosh	32,107	2.63	2.68
	IND	Sekhar Mondal	6,447	0.53
	NOTA	None of the above	6,337	0.52
Majority			1,03,695	8.48
Turnout			12,22,708	74.83	+0.04
	AITC hold		Swing

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Howrah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Prasun Banerjee	488,461	43.40
	CPI(M)	Srideep Bhattacharya	2,91,505	25.90
	BJP	George Baker	2,48,120	22.05
	INC	Manoj Kumar Pandey	63,254	5.62
	NOTA	None of the above	9,929	0.88
Majority			1,96,956	17.50
Turnout			11,25,728	74.79
	AITC hold		Swing

2013 bypoll

Bye-elections 2013: Howrah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Prasun Banerjee	426,387	44.68
	CPI(M)	Srideep Bhattacharya	3,99,422	41.85
	INC	Sanatan Mukherjee	96,743	10.14
	IND	Ranjan Paul	8,921	0.93
Majority			26,965	2.82
Turnout			9,54,850	65.99
	AITC hold		Swing

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Howrah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Ambica Banerjee	477,449	48.02
	CPI(M)	Swadesh Chakrabortty	4,40,057	44.26
	BJP	Polly Mukherjee	37,723	3.79
	SP	Bijoy Uppadhya	8,615	0.87
	IND	Subarna Chakraborty	8,180	0.82
Majority			37,392	3.76
Turnout			9,93,958	73.91
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2004

2004 Indian general election: Howrah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Swadesh Chakrabortty	489,444	53.69
	AITC	Dr. Bikram Sarkar	2,42,507	26.60
	INC	Sultan Singh	1,52,100	16.68
	Independent	Mantu Das	5,788	0.63
	JD(S)	Anup Dey	4,013	0.44
	Independent	Prasadi Ram	2,927	0.32
	BSP	Rabindra Kumar Jaiswal	2,864	0.31
	Independent	Monoranjan Polley	2,445	0.27
	Independent	Bimal Mondal	2,313	0.25
	Independent	Aloke Ghosh	2,013	0.22
	Independent	Panchu Gopal Bagani	1,771	0.19
	Independent	Goutam Mondal	1,521	0.17
	Independent	Gautam Saha	1,263	0.14
	Independent	Gopal Chandra Modi	663	0.07
Majority			2,46,937	27.09
Turnout
	Swing to CPI(M) from AITC		Swing

1999

1999 Indian general election: Howrah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Swadesh Chakraborty	490,537	49.98
	AITC	Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar	3,87,088	39.44
	INC	Dr. Subhash Chandra Bandyopadhyay	90,592	9.23
	Independent	Astogopal Mondal	3,214	0.33
	SP	Bijay Kumar Singh	2,952	0.30
	BSP	Ram Bilas Prasad	1,605	0.16
	RJD	Ashok Kumar Agarwal	908	0.09
	Independent	Bechan Lal Chaudhury	869	0.09
	JD(S)	Shyam Bihari Singh	824	0.08
	Independent	Bijay Singh	729	0.07
	Independent	Debendra Kumar Sonkar	468	0.05
	Independent	Asoke Roy	438	0.04
	Independent	Ranjit Chatterjee	271	0.03
	Independent	Samar Mondal	200	0.02
	Independent	Prasanta Kumar Mahato	196	0.02
	NCP	Rajendra Prasad	195	0.02
	Independent	Shekh Alauddin Raj	193	0.02
	Independent	Sushil Bagani	120	0.01
Majority			1,03,449	10.54
Turnout			9,95,422	72.03
	Swing to CPI(M) from AITC		Swing

1998

1998 Indian general election: Howrah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Dr. Bikram Sarkar	437,224	43.18
	CPI(M)	Swadesh Chakraborty	4,30,689	42.54
	INC	Ambica Banerjee	1,34,787	13.31
	Independent	Prof. Dr. Sushen Mondal	1,794	0.18
	Independent	Ranjit Chatterjee	1,339	0.13
	Independent	Md. Shafi Alam	1,263	0.12
	Independent	Aloke Barman	1,178	0.12
	Independent	Muhammad Yakub	1,152	0.11
	Independent	Amar Nath Ojha	1,123	0.11
	Independent	Shrikant Upadhyay	699	0.07
	Independent	Aloke Banerjee	514	0.05
	Independent	Biman Chandra Roy	447	0.04
	Independent	Nandalal Show	293	0.03
Majority			6,535	0.64
Turnout			10,27,782	75.17
	Swing to AITC from CPI(M)		Swing

References

↑ "Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
↑ Sanyal, Anindita, ed. (8 June 2026). "Trinamool's Kakoli Dastidar Says 20 MPs Will Support NDA: "Written To Speaker"". NDTV. Archived from the original on 13 June 2026. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
↑ "Trinamul Congress wins Howrah Lok Sabha Polls". Hindustan Times, 5 June 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
↑ "Sheffield of India dying an untimely death". The Times of India, 20 September 2001. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
↑ "Non-Bengali voters could prove crucial in final phase". The Hindu, 11 May 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
↑ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
↑ "Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha" (PDF). Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
↑ "Howrah (West Bengal) Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 -Howrah Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name". www.elections.in.
↑ "Howrah Constituency Lok Sabha Election Results 2014 - 2024". The Times of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 17 July 2025. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
↑ "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Howrah". Election Commission of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 17 July 2025. Retrieved 17 July 2025.

External links

Howrah lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details

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[turnout-1] "Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.

[2] Sanyal, Anindita, ed. (8 June 2026). "Trinamool's Kakoli Dastidar Says 20 MPs Will Support NDA: "Written To Speaker"". NDTV. Archived from the original on 13 June 2026. Retrieved 13 June 2026.

[3] "Trinamul Congress wins Howrah Lok Sabha Polls". Hindustan Times, 5 June 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2014.

[4] "Sheffield of India dying an untimely death". The Times of India, 20 September 2001. Retrieved 13 June 2014.

[5] "Non-Bengali voters could prove crucial in final phase". The Hindu, 11 May 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2014.

[delimitation-6] "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.

[7] "Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha" (PDF). Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 October 2010.

[8] "Howrah (West Bengal) Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 -Howrah Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name". www.elections.in.

[Howrah_Constituency_Lok_Sabha_Election_Results_2014_-_2024-9] "Howrah Constituency Lok Sabha Election Results 2014 - 2024". The Times of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 17 July 2025. Retrieved 17 July 2025.

[2024_Loksabha_Elections_Results_-_Howrah-10] "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Howrah". Election Commission of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 17 July 2025. Retrieved 17 July 2025.

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