Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency

Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on Bardhaman in West Bengal, which was abolished following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008.

Overview

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, this parliamentary constituency ceased to exist and assembly segments were part of either of the two new constituencies: Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency or Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency. Only Khandaghosh assembly segment will be part of Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency.

Vidhan Sabha segments

Prior to delimitation, Burdwan Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments in 2004:

Members of Lok Sabha

For Members of Parliament from this area in subsequent years see Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency and Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency.

Results of elections

General elections 1977-2004

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are generally mentioned below:

Year	Voters	Voter turnout	Winner			Runners up
		%age	Candidate	%age	Party	Candidate	%age	Party
1951	512,219	35.45	Atulya Ghosh	23.42	Indian National Congress	Subiman Ghosh	17.62	Forward Bloc (Marxist)
			Mono Mohan Das	20.02	Indian National Congress
1957	213,290	50.15	Subiman Ghosh	50.48	Forward Bloc	Durgapade Chaudhuri	49.52	Indian National Congress
1962	287,685	53.85	Gurucobinda Basu	55.83	Indian National Congress	Subiman Ghosh	44.17	All India Forward Bloc
1963			N C Chaterjee		Independent	N C Choudhry		Congress
1967	293,266	59.30	N.C.Chatterjee	51.27	Independent	C.Chittaranjan	38.34	Indian National Congress
1971	372,040	64.42	Somnath Chatterjee	56.72	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Bholanath Sen	38.87	Indian National Congress
1977	363,200	56.85	Raj Krishna Dawn	53.69	Janata Party	Shyama Prasad Kundu	33.66	Indian National Congress
1980	558,710	74.03	Sushil Kumar Bhattacharya	58.97	Communist Party of India	Narayan Choudhury	36.98	Indian National Congress (I)
1984	697,710	83.01	Sudhir Ray	53.50	Communist Party of India	Prodyut Guha	45.08	Indian National Congress
1989	853,780	83.31	Sudhir Ray	61.28	Communist Party of India	Prodyut Guha	38.02	Indian National Congress
1991	855,130	80.57	Sudhir Ray	57.01	Communist Party of India	Asit Baran Patra	30.64	Indian National Congress
1996	983,520	85.96	Balai Ray	59.92	Communist Party of India	Ritesh Kumar Dutta	32.70	Indian National Congress
1998	997,280	83.78	Nikhilananda Sar	58.88	Communist Party of India	Prof Santi Roy	31.18	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	984,680	80.93	Nikhilananda Sar	61.56	Communist Party of India	Anup Mukherjee	30.51	Bharatiya Janata Party
2004	998,350	81.71	Nikhilananda Sar	67.51	Communist Party of India	Anindya Gopal Mitra	20.23	Bharatiya Janata Party