| 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[1] |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Parliament | |
| 18th Lok Sabha | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | AITC |
| Alliance | INDIA |
| Elected year | 2024 |
Howrah Lok Sabha constituency (Bengali:হাওড়া লোকসভা কেন্দ্র) is one of the 543parliamentary constituencies inIndia. The constituency centeres onHowrah inWest Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 25 Howrah Lok Sabha constituency are inHowrah district.
TheHindustan Times reported, “Howrah is a 500-year-old urban agglomeration on the western bank of theHooghly 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.”[2]
About the foundry industryThe 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.”[3]
According toThe Hindu, Howrah and Sreerampur constituencies have more than 25% non-Bengali voters with their roots in Rajasthan, Bihar or Uttar Pradesh.[4]
As per order of theDelimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of thedelimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 25 Howrah is composed of the following segments:[5]
| No | Name | District | Member | Party | 2024 Lead | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 169 | Bally | Howrah | Rana Chatterjee | Trinamool Congress | Trinamool Congress | ||
| 170 | Howrah Uttar | Gautam Chowdhuri | |||||
| 171 | Howrah Madhya | Arup Roy | |||||
| 172 | Shibpur | Manoj Tiwary | |||||
| 173 | Howrah Dakshin | Nandita Chowdhury | |||||
| 174 | Sankrail (SC) | Priya Paul | |||||
| 175 | Panchla | Gulshan Mullick | |||||
Prior to delimitation, the constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[6]
| Lok Sabha | Duration | Name of M.P. | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | 1952-57 | Santosh Kumar Dutta[7] | Indian National Congress | |
| Second | 1957-62 | Mohammed Elias[8][9] | Communist Party of India | |
| Third | 1962-67 | |||
| Fourth | 1967-71 | K.K.Chatterjee[10] | Indian National Congress | |
| Fifth | 1971-77 | Samar Mukherjee[11][12][13] | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| Sixth | 1977-80 | |||
| Seventh | 1980-84 | |||
| Eighth | 1984-89 | Priyaranjan Dasmunsi[14] | Indian National Congress | |
| Ninth | 1989-91 | Susanta Chakraborty[15][16] | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| Tenth | 1991-96 | |||
| Eleventh | 1996-98 | Priyaranjan Dasmunsi[17] | Indian National Congress | |
| Twelfth | 1998-99 | Bikram Sarkar[18] | Trinamool Congress | |
| Thirteenth | 1999-04 | Swadesh Chakraborty[19][20] | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| Fourteenth | 2004-09 | |||
| Fifteenth | 2009-13 | Ambica Banerjee[21] | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2013-14 | Prasun Banerjee[22][23][24] | |||
| Sixteenth | 2014-19 | |||
| Seventeenth | 2019-24 | |||
| Eighteenth | 2024-29 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Prasun Banerjee | 626,493 | 49.26 |  2.08 | |
| BJP | Rathin Chakraborty | 457,051 | 35.94 |  2.8 | |
| CPI(M) | Sabyasachi Chatterjee | 152,005 | 11.95 | | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 10,000 | 0.79 | ||
| Majority | 1,69,442 | 3.9 | |||
| Turnout | |||||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| 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 | ||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| 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 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Prasun Banerjee | 4,26,387 | 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 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| 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 | |||
| AITCgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | ||||
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