Contesting Candidates for Asansol Lok Sabha Elections 2024
Party | Candidate | Votes Polled | % of Votes Polled |
BJP | SS Ahluwalia | ||
TMC | Shatrughan Sinha | ||
CPI(M) | Jahanara Khan | ||
Congress |
In the Sixth Lok Sabha
elections held in 1977, Asansol Seat was once again bagged by Robin Sen.
Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhya of
Congress wrested the seat from Robin Sen in 1980. Riding on the wave of
sympathy generated by Indira Gandhi’s assassination, Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhya increased
his victory margin and defeated Bamapada Mukherjee of CPM by 86666 votes. While
Anada Gopal secured 334212 Bamapada got 247546 votes.
In the Ninth Lok Sabha
elections which saw the defeat of Congress Party under Rajiv Gandhi following
charges of corruption against his government, Asansol Lok Sabha seat was
wrested by Haradhan Roy of CPM who defeated Congress candidate Pradip
Bhattacharjee. Haradhan Roy, Pradip Bhattacharjee and Amarnath Keshri of BJP
secured 374281, 332044 and 21077 votes respectively.
Though Congress once again
came into the power at the centre after the failed Governments of V P Singh and
Chandarsekhar, Asansol Lok Sabha seat continued to remain with CPM whose
candidate Haradhan Roy once again defeated Deba Prasad Roy of Congress. BJP
increased its percentage of votes remarkably and it secured 19.34% of the votes
by garnering 135641.
Haradhan Roy won the seat third time in 1996. Bikash Chowdhury of
CPM emerges winner by in 1998 defeating Moloy Ghatak of West Bengal Trinamool
Congress. Congress candidate S. S.
Ahluwalia, now with BJP, came third. BJP did not field its candidate as it was
fighting the 1998 Lok Sabha Elections in alliance with Trinamool Congress.
In 1999 Bikash Chowdhury
continued his winning spree by defeating Moloy Ghatak of All India TRINAMOOL
CONGRES (AITC). Manik Upadhyay fielded by Congress came third by securing only
10.95% of the votes.
Elections to the Fourteenth
Lok Sabha in 2004 witnessed the end of the Vajpayee led NDA (National
Democratic Alliance) government. CPM once again held sway over the Asansol
seat. Its candidate Bikash Chowdhury defeated Moloy Ghatak once again.
After the death of Bikash
Chowdhury in 2005, election to Asansol Lok Sabha seat was held in which
Bangsagopal Choudhury of CPM defeated Moloy Ghatak of Trinamool Congres (TMC).
In 2009, Bangsagopal
Choudhury of CPM defeated Moloy Ghatak of Trinamool Congres (TMC) by 72956
votes though Left Front fared badly in the parliamentary elections in its
stronghold of West Bengal.
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