The 2014 Indian general election in West Bengal was held for 42 seats in the Lok Sabha .
2014 Indian general election in West Bengal Turnout 82.2% (pp ) First party Second party Leader Mamata Bannerjee Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Party AITC INC Alliance – UPA Leader's seat Did not contest Baharampur Last election 31.2%, 19 seats 13.5%, 6 seats Seats won 34 4 Seat change Popular vote 20,313,280 4,946,581 Percentage 39.8% 9.7% Swing pp pp Third party Fourth party Leader Surjya Kanta Mishra S. S. Ahluwalia Party CPI(M) BJP Alliance LF NDA Leader's seat Did not contest Darjeeling Last election 33.1%, 15 seats 6.1%, 1 seat Seats won 2 2 Seat change Popular vote 11,720,997 8,691,765 Percentage 23% 17% Swing pp pp
List of major parties' candidates in West Bengal for 2014 edit Results by constituency edit
No. Constituency Turnout % Winner Party Margin 1 Cooch Behar 82.62 Renuka Sinha All India Trinamool Congress 87,107 2 Alipurduars 83.30 Dasrath Tirkey All India Trinamool Congress 21,397 3 Jalpaiguri 85.17 Bijoy Chandra Barman All India Trinamool Congress 69,606 4 Darjeeling 79.51 S.S.Ahluwalia Bharatiya Janata Party 1,97,239 5 Raiganj 79.89 Md. Salim Communist Party of India (Marxist) 1,634 6 Balurghat 84.77 Arpita Ghosh All India Trinamool Congress 1,06,964 7 Maldaha Uttar 81.60 Mausam Noor Indian National Congress 65,705 8 Maldaha Dakshin 81.09 Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury Indian National Congress 1,64,111 9 Jangipur 80.43 Abhijit Mukherjee Indian National Congress 8,161 10 Baharampur 79.43 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Indian National Congress 3,56,567 11 Murshidabad 85.22 Badaruddoza Khan Communist Party of India (Marxist) 18,453 12 Krishnanagar 84.56 Tapas Paul All India Trinamool Congress 71,255 13 Ranaghat 84.45 Tapas Mandal All India Trinamool Congress 2,01,767 14 Bangaon 83.36 Mamata Thakur All India Trinamool Congress 2,11,785 15 Barrackpore 81.77 Dinesh Trivedi All India Trinamool Congress 2,06,773 16 Dum Dum 80.64 Saugata Roy All India Trinamool Congress 1,54,934 17 Barasat 83.96 Dr. Kakali Ghoshdostidar All India Trinamool Congress 1,73,141 18 Basirhat 85.47 Idris Ali All India Trinamool Congress 1,09,659 19 Jaynagar 81.52 Pratima Mondal All India Trinamool Congress 1,08,384 20 Mathurapur 85.39 Choudhury Mohan Jatua All India Trinamool Congress 1,38,436 21 Diamond Harbour 81.07 Abhishek Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 71,298 22 Jadavpur 79.88 Sugata Bose All India Trinamool Congress 1,25,203 23 Kolkata Dakshin 69.33 Subrata Bakshi All India Trinamool Congress 1,36,339 24 Kolkata Uttar 66.68 Sudip Bandyopadhyay All India Trinamool Congress 96,226 25 Howrah 74.79 Prasun Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 1,96,956 26 Uluberia 81.95 Sultan Ahmed All India Trinamool Congress 2,01,222 27 Srerampur 79.50 Kalyan Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 1,52,526 28 Hooghly 82.88 Dr. Ratna De (Nag) All India Trinamool Congress 1,89,084 29 Arambagh 85.16 Aparupa Poddar All India Trinamool Congress 3,46,845 30 Tamluk 87.63 Adhikari Suvendu All India Trinamool Congress 2,46,481 31 Kanthi 86.71 Adhikari Sisir Kumar All India Trinamool Congress 2,29,490 32 Ghatal 84.92 Adhikari Deepak (Dev) All India Trinamool Congress 2,60,891 33 Jhargram 85.26 Uma Saren All India Trinamool Congress 3,47,883 34 Medinipur 84.22 Sandhya Roy All India Trinamool Congress 1,84,666 35 Purulia 81.98 Dr. Mriganka Mahato All India Trinamool Congress 1,53,877 36 Bankura 82.23 Moon Moon Sen All India Trinamool Congress 98,506 37 Bishnupur 86.72 Khan Saumitra All India Trinamool Congress 1,49,685 38 Bardhaman Purba 86.22 Sunil Kumar Mondal All India Trinamool Congress 1,14,479 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur 84.10 Mamtaz Sanghamita All India Trinamool Congress 1,07,331 40 Asansol 77.76 Babul Supriyo Bharatiya Janata Party 70,480 41 Bolpur 84.83 Anupam Hazra All India Trinamool Congress 2,36,112 42 Birbhum 85.34 Satabdi Roy (Banerjee) All India Trinamool Congress 6,726
Analysis edit According to DNA newspaper's analysis: "BJP emerged as a potential force in West Bengal where it is traditionally considered weak.". While BJP won only 2 seats, BJP candidates for the first time, returned runner-up in 3 seats and it also got 16.8% vote share - BJP's best performance so far surpassing its previous best of 11.66% in 1991 elections. However. Trinamool Congress dominated the election winning 34 seats. The CPI-M led Left Front was decimated winning only 2 seats as the BJP made inroads in its vote share. It was also argued that, ""resurgence of the Left can never be ruled out"[3]
Assembly segments wise lead of Parties edit Postal Ballot wise lead of Parties edit References edit 
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