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vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above">Ghatal <br /><span style="font-size:85%;">WB-32</span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader category" style="font-weight: bold; background: #ccf; padding: 4px;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_constituencies_of_the_Lok_Sabha" title="List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha constituency</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 300px; height: 300px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="300" data-height="300" data-overlays="["_d3a35afd64b1e813f2ea56405e8390b9852c7a6d"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,a,a,a,300x300.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&revid=1270244426&groups=_d3a35afd64b1e813f2ea56405e8390b9852c7a6d" width="300" height="300" decoding="async" 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href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Assembly constituencies</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Panskura_Paschim_Assembly_constituency" title="Panskura Paschim Assembly constituency">Panskura Paschim</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sabang_Assembly_constituency" title="Sabang Assembly constituency">Sabang</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Pingla_Assembly_constituency" title="Pingla Assembly constituency">Pingla</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Debra_Assembly_constituency" title="Debra Assembly constituency">Debra</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Daspur_Assembly_constituency" title="Daspur Assembly constituency">Daspur</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Ghatal_Assembly_constituency" title="Ghatal Assembly constituency">Ghatal</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Keshpur_Assembly_constituency" title="Keshpur Assembly constituency">Keshpur</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1951-1977<br />2009-current</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Total electors</th><td class="infobox-data">19,39,945<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reservation</th><td class="infobox-data">None</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf; padding: 4px;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha">Member of Parliament</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/18th_Lok_Sabha" title="18th Lok Sabha">18th Lok Sabha</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Actor_Dev_at_the_53rd_International_Film_Festival_of_India.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Actor_Dev_at_the_53rd_International_Film_Festival_of_India.jpg/120px-Actor_Dev_at_the_53rd_International_Film_Festival_of_India.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Actor_Dev_at_the_53rd_International_Film_Festival_of_India.jpg/180px-Actor_Dev_at_the_53rd_International_Film_Festival_of_India.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Actor_Dev_at_the_53rd_International_Film_Festival_of_India.jpg/240px-Actor_Dev_at_the_53rd_International_Film_Festival_of_India.jpg 2x" data-file-width="801" data-file-height="1468" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Incumbent</b> <div> <b><a href="/wiki/Dev_(Bengali_actor)" title="Dev (Bengali actor)">Deepak Adhikari (Dev)</a></b> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">Trinamool Congress</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elected year</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/2024_Indian_general_election" title="2024 Indian general election">2024</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency</b> is one of the 543 constituencies of the <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">lower house of parliament</a> in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>. The constituency is based on <a href="/wiki/Ghatal_subdivision" title="Ghatal subdivision">Ghatal</a> in <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>. While six assembly segments of No. 32 Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency are in <a href="/wiki/Paschim_Medinipur_district" title="Paschim Medinipur district">Paschim Medinipur district</a>, one segment is in <a href="/wiki/Purba_Medinipur_district" title="Purba Medinipur district">Purba Medinipur district</a>. As per the order of the <a href="/wiki/Delimitation_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Delimitation Commission">Delimitation Commission</a> in respect of the <a href="/wiki/Boundary_delimitation" class="mw-redirect" title="Boundary delimitation">delimitation</a> of constituencies in the West Bengal, <a href="/wiki/Panskura_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Panskura Lok Sabha constituency">Panskura Lok Sabha constituency</a> ceased to exist; and a new Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency came into being.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Ghatal constituency existed earlier from 1951 to 1977. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Assembly_segments">Assembly segments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Assembly segments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Westbengalen_Wahlkreise_Lok_Sabha.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Westbengalen_Wahlkreise_Lok_Sabha.svg/250px-Westbengalen_Wahlkreise_Lok_Sabha.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Westbengalen_Wahlkreise_Lok_Sabha.svg/375px-Westbengalen_Wahlkreise_Lok_Sabha.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Westbengalen_Wahlkreise_Lok_Sabha.svg/500px-Westbengalen_Wahlkreise_Lok_Sabha.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="756" /></a><figcaption><b>Parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal</b> - 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. <b>Ghatal</b>, 33. Jhargram, 34. Medinipur, 35. Purulia, 36. Bankura, 37. Bishnupur, 38. Bardhaman Purba, 39. Bardhaman Durgapur, 40. Asansol, 41. Bolpur, 42. Birbhum</figcaption></figure> <p>Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency (parliamentary constituency no. 32) is composed of the following assembly segments:<sup id="cite_ref-delimitation_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-delimitation-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="50px" style="font-size:75%">Constituency number </th> <th width="150px">Name </th> <th width="100px" style="font-size:75%">Reserved for (<a href="/wiki/Dalit" title="Dalit">SC</a>/<a href="/wiki/Adivasi" title="Adivasi">ST</a>/None) </th> <th width="150px">District </th> <th>Party </th> <th>2024 Lead </th></tr> <tr> <td>205 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Panskura_Paschim_Assembly_constituency" title="Panskura Paschim Assembly constituency">Panskura Paschim</a> </td> <td rowspan="5">None </td> <td rowspan="7"><a href="/wiki/Purba_Medinipur_district" title="Purba Medinipur district">Purba Medinipur</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#04FF21"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">TMC</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#FF9933"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>226 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sabang_Assembly_constituency" title="Sabang Assembly constituency">Sabang</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#04FF21"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">TMC</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#04FF21"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">TMC</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>227 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pingla_Assembly_constituency" title="Pingla Assembly constituency">Pingla</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#04FF21"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">TMC</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#04FF21"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">TMC</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>229 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Debra_Assembly_constituency" title="Debra Assembly constituency">Debra</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#04FF21"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">TMC</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#04FF21"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">TMC</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>230 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Daspur_Assembly_constituency" title="Daspur Assembly constituency">Daspur</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#04FF21"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">TMC</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#04FF21"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">TMC</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>231 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ghatal_Assembly_constituency" title="Ghatal Assembly constituency">Ghatal</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">SC </td> <td bgcolor="#FF9933"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#04FF21"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">TMC</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>235 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Keshpur_Assembly_constituency" title="Keshpur Assembly constituency">Keshpur</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#04FF21"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">TMC</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#04FF21"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">TMC</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members_of_Parliament">Members of Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Members of Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Lok Sabha</th> <th>Duration</th> <th>Constituency</th> <th>Name of M.P.</th> <th colspan="2">Party Affiliation </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1st_Lok_Sabha" title="1st Lok Sabha">First</a></td> <td>1952-57</td> <td rowspan="9">Ghatal</td> <td>Nikunja Behari Chowdhury</td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #f50222;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">Communist Party of India</a><sup id="cite_ref-loksabha1952_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loksabha1952-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2nd_Lok_Sabha" title="2nd Lok Sabha">Second</a></td> <td>1957-62</td> <td>Nikunja Behari Maity</td> <td rowspan="3" style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF;" data-sort-value="Indian National Congress"> </td> <td scope="row" rowspan="3" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a><sup id="cite_ref-loksabha1957_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loksabha1957-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/3rd_Lok_Sabha" title="3rd Lok Sabha">Third</a></td> <td>1962-67</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sachindra_Chaudhuri" title="Sachindra Chaudhuri">Sachindra Chaudhuri</a><sup id="cite_ref-loksabha1962_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loksabha1962-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/4th_Lok_Sabha" title="4th Lok Sabha">Fourth</a></td> <td>1967-71</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Parimal_Ghosh" title="Parimal Ghosh">Parimal Ghosh</a><sup id="cite_ref-loksabha1967_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loksabha1967-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-parimal_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parimal-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/5th_Lok_Sabha" title="5th Lok Sabha">Fifth</a></td> <td>1971-77</td> <td>Jagadish Bhattachaya</td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #cc0d0d;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India (Marxist)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist)" title="Communist Party of India (Marxist)">Communist Party of India (Marxist)</a><sup id="cite_ref-loksabha1971_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loksabha1971-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-loksabha2009_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loksabha2009-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/15th_Lok_Sabha" title="15th Lok Sabha">Fifteenth</a></td> <td>2009-14</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gurudas_Dasgupta" title="Gurudas Dasgupta">Gurudas Dasgupta</a></td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #f50222;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of India"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">Communist Party of India</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/16th_Lok_Sabha" title="16th Lok Sabha">Sixteenth</a></td> <td>2014-19</td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Dev_(Bengali_actor)" title="Dev (Bengali actor)">Deepak Adhikari (Dev)</a></td> <td rowspan="3" style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #04FF21;" data-sort-value="Trinamool Congress"> </td> <td scope="row" rowspan="3" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">Trinamool Congress</a><sup id="cite_ref-loksabha2014_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loksabha2014-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/17th_Lok_Sabha" title="17th Lok Sabha">Seventeenth</a></td> <td>2019-2024 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/18th_Lok_Sabha" title="18th Lok Sabha">Eighteenth</a></td> <td>2024-<i>Incumbent</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>For Members of Parliament from the area during the period 1977-2009 see <a href="/wiki/Panskura_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Panskura Lok Sabha constituency">Panskura Lok Sabha constituency</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Election_results">Election results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Election results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_Lok_Sabha:_2024_General_Elections"><a href="/wiki/18th_Lok_Sabha" title="18th Lok Sabha">18th Lok Sabha</a>: <a href="/wiki/2024_Indian_general_election" title="2024 Indian general election">2024 General Elections</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 18th Lok Sabha: 2024 General Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2024_Indian_general_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2024 Indian general elections">2024 Indian general elections</a>:<a href="/wiki/Ghatal" title="Ghatal">Ghatal</a><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#04FF21; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">AITC</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Deepak_Adhikari" class="mw-redirect" title="Deepak Adhikari">Deepak Adhikari (Dev)</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>837,990 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>52.36 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>4.14 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Hiran_Chatterjee" title="Hiran Chatterjee">Hiranmoy Chatterjee (Hiran)</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">655,122 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.93 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.04 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #f50222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <td class="fn">Tapan Ganguly </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74,908 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.68 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.88 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FFFFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/None_of_the_above" title="None of the above">NOTA</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/None_of_the_Above" class="mw-redirect" title="None of the Above">None of the Above</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,966 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.81 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.12 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #22409A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bahujan_Samaj_Party" title="Bahujan Samaj Party">BSP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Soumen Madraji </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,941 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.50 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gopal Mondal </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,244 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.27 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF0000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Centre_of_India_(Communist)" title="Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)">SUCI(C)</a> </td> <td class="fn">Dinesh Maikap </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,158 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.26 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.14 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Saheb Chowdhury </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,237 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.20 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">182,868 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.43 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>4.18 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,600,556 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">82.51 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.23 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #04FF21"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Trinamool_Congress" title="Trinamool Congress">AITC</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="17th_Lok_Sabha:_2019_General_Elections"><a href="/wiki/17th_Lok_Sabha" title="17th Lok Sabha">17th Lok Sabha</a>: <a href="/wiki/2019_Indian_general_election" title="2019 Indian general election">2019 General Elections</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 17th Lok Sabha: 2019 General Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2019_Indian_general_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 Indian general elections">2019 Indian general elections</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ghatal" title="Ghatal">Ghatal</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#04FF21; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">AITC</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Dev_(Bengali_actor)" title="Dev (Bengali actor)">Deepak Adhikari (Dev)</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>717,959 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.22 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−2.48 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Bharati Ghosh </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">609,986 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.97 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+34.04 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #f50222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <td class="fn">Tapan Ganguly </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">97,062 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.56 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−24.88 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn">Khandakar Mohammad Saifullah </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32,793 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.21 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.78 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FFFFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/None_of_the_above" title="None of the above">NOTA</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/None_of_the_Above" class="mw-redirect" title="None of the Above">None of the Above</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,796 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.93 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">107,973 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.25 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.85 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,489,338 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">82.74 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #04FF21"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">AITC</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-15.78 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="16th_Lok_Sabha_:_General_election_2014"><a href="/wiki/16th_Lok_Sabha" title="16th Lok Sabha">16th Lok Sabha</a> : <a href="/wiki/2014_Indian_general_election" title="2014 Indian general election">General election 2014</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 16th Lok Sabha : General election 2014"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2014_Indian_general_election" title="2014 Indian general election">2014 Indian general election</a>: Ghatal<sup id="cite_ref-loksabha2014_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loksabha2014-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#04FF21; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">AITC</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Dev_(Bengali_actor)" title="Dev (Bengali actor)">Dipak Adhikari (Dev)</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>685,696 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.70 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+9.78 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #f50222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Santosh_Rana_(CPI)" title="Santosh Rana (CPI)">Santosh Rana</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">424,805 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.40 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−22.16 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Manas_Bhunia" title="Manas Bhunia">Manas Bhunia</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">122,928 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.99 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Md. Alam </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">94,842 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.93 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.94 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF0000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Centre_of_India_(Communist)" title="Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)">SUCI(C)</a> </td> <td class="fn">Anjan Jana </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,080 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF66CC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Amra_Bangalee" class="mw-redirect" title="Amra Bangalee">AMB</a> </td> <td class="fn">Goutam Kouri </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,547 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gopal Mondal </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,498 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px">Jharkhand Anushilan Party </td> <td class="fn">Gopal Murmu </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,154 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #ffdacc; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rashtriya_Janadhikar_Suraksha_Party&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rashtriya Janadhikar Suraksha Party (page does not exist)">RJSP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gobardhan Ghosh </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,983 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: red; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Democratic_Socialism_(India)" title="Party of Democratic Socialism (India)">PDS</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gangaram Sasmal </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,758 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">260,891 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.10 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,366,909 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.88 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #04FF21"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">AITC</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_election_2009">General election 2009</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: General election 2009"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2009_Indian_general_election" title="2009 Indian general election">General Election, 2009</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ghatal" title="Ghatal">Ghatal</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #f50222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Gurudas_Dasgupta" title="Gurudas Dasgupta">Gurudas Dasgupta</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">625,923 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53.50 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.42 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #04FF21; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Trinamool_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All India Trinamool Congress">AITC</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Noor_Alam_Chowdhury" title="Noor Alam Chowdhury">Noor Alam Chowdhury</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">478,739 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.92 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+10.82 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Matilal Khatua </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34,997 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.99 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #22409A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bahujan_Samaj_Party" title="Bahujan Samaj Party">BSP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Narayan Chandra Samat </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,064 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.03 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: grey; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_Justice_Party" title="Indian Justice Party">IJP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Liyakat Khan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,355 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.80 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #337316; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Jharkhand_Mukti_Morcha" title="Jharkhand Mukti Morcha">JMM</a> </td> <td class="fn">Arun Kumar Das </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,333 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.46 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px">RDMP </td> <td class="fn">Ahitosh Maity </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,515 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.30 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">147,184 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,69,934 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">86.35 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #f50222"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>For Members of Parliament from the area during the period 1977-2009 see <a href="/wiki/Panskura_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Panskura Lok Sabha constituency">Panskura Lok Sabha constituency</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_election_1971">General election 1971</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: General election 1971"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1971_Indian_general_election" title="1971 Indian general election">General Election, 1971</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ghatal" title="Ghatal">Ghatal</a><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #cc0d0d; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist)" title="Communist Party of India (Marxist)">CPI(M)</a> </td> <td class="fn">Jagadish Bhattacharyya </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">128,366 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.71 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn">Parimal Ghosh </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">127,044 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.34 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #f50222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <td class="fn">Prabhat Kar </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">62,824 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.48 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF0000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Biplobi_Bangla_Congress" title="Biplobi Bangla Congress">BBC</a> </td> <td class="fn">Surendra Nath Ghorai </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,513 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.71 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px">NCO </td> <td class="fn">Ramdas Ramanuj Das Mahanta </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16,403 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4.56 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gobardhan Dey </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,306 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.20 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,322 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,59,456 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">73.12% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #f50222"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_election_1967">General election 1967</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: General election 1967"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1967_Indian_general_election" title="1967 Indian general election">General Election, 1967</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ghatal" title="Ghatal">Ghatal</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn">Parimal Ghosh </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">138,572 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.59% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #f50222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <td class="fn">Prabhat Kar </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">109,662 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.91% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #cc0d0d; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist)" title="Communist Party of India (Marxist)">CPI(M)</a> </td> <td class="fn">Nikunja Chowdhury </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84,945 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.50% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28,910 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,33,179 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">73.27% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #00BFFF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_election_1962">General election 1962</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: General election 1962"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1962_Indian_general_election" title="1962 Indian general election">General Election, 1962</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ghatal" title="Ghatal">Ghatal</a><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sachindra Nath Chowdhury </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">179,045 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52.50% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #f50222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <td class="fn">Manoranjan Roy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">148,207 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.40% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: orange; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Akhil_Bharatiya_Hindu_Mahasabha" class="mw-redirect" title="Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha">ABHM</a> </td> <td class="fn">Basanta kumar Chakraborty </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,049 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.10 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30,838 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">(9.0%) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,34,301 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">(63.8%) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #00BFFF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_election_1957">General election 1957</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: General election 1957"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1957_Indian_general_election" title="1957 Indian general election">General Election, 1957</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ghatal" title="Ghatal">Ghatal</a><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn">Nikunja Behari Maity </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">165,597 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">59.65% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #f50222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <td class="fn">Manoranjan Roy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">112,025 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.35% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53,572 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">(9.0%) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">277,622 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">(62.6%) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #00BFFF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_election_1952">General election 1952</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: General election 1952"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1962_Indian_general_election" title="1962 Indian general election">General Election, 1952</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ghatal" title="Ghatal">Ghatal</a><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #f50222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <td class="fn">Nikunja Behari Chowdhury </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">73,435 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.70% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Maitreyee_Bose" title="Maitreyee Bose">Maitayee Basu</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">68,916 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.20% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Satcori Pati Roy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38,028 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21.10 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,519 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,80,379 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">(49.9%) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#f50222"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> <b>win</b> (new seat) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_elections_1951-1971">General elections 1951-1971</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: General elections 1951-1971"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below: </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Winner </th> <th>Party </th> <th>Runner-up </th> <th>Party </th></tr> <tr> <td>1951 </td> <td>Nikunja Behari Chowdhury </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <td>Maitreyee Basu </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a><sup id="cite_ref-loksabha1952_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loksabha1952-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1957 </td> <td>Nikunja Behari Maity </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td> <td>Nikunja Behari Chwdhury </td> <td>Communist Party of India<sup id="cite_ref-loksabha1957_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loksabha1957-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1962 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sachindra_Chaudhuri" title="Sachindra Chaudhuri">Sachindra Chaudhuri</a> </td> <td>Indian National Congress </td> <td>Manoranjan Roy </td> <td>Communist Party of India<sup id="cite_ref-loksabha1962_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loksabha1962-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1967 </td> <td>Parimal Ghosh </td> <td>Indian National Congress </td> <td>P.Kar </td> <td>Communist Party of India<sup id="cite_ref-loksabha1967_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loksabha1967-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-parimal_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parimal-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1971 </td> <td>Jagadish Bhattacharyya </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist)" title="Communist Party of India (Marxist)">Communist Party of India (Marxist)</a> </td> <td>Parimal Ghosh </td> <td>Indian National Congress<sup id="cite_ref-loksabha1971_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loksabha1971-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_constituencies_of_the_Lok_Sabha" title="List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha">List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghatal_Lok_Sabha_constituency&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://elections24.eci.gov.in/docs/grfYnWoV4R.pdf">https://elections24.eci.gov.in/docs/grfYnWoV4R.pdf</a> <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bare_URLs" title="Wikipedia:Bare URLs"><span title="A full citation of this PDF document is required to prevent link rot. 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<li><a href="/wiki/Ramjibanpur" title="Ramjibanpur">Ramjibanpur</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Community_development_blocks_in_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Community development blocks in India">Community development<br />blocks</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Medinipur_Sadar_subdivision" title="Medinipur Sadar subdivision">Medinipur Sadar subdivision</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Garhbeta_I" title="Garhbeta I">Garhbeta I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garhbeta_II" title="Garhbeta II">Garhbeta II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garhbeta_III" title="Garhbeta III">Garhbeta III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keshpur_(community_development_block)" title="Keshpur (community development block)">Keshpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midnapore_Sadar_(community_development_block)" title="Midnapore Sadar (community development block)">Midnapore Sadar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salboni_(community_development_block)" title="Salboni (community development block)">Salboni</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ghatal_subdivision" title="Ghatal subdivision">Ghatal subdivision</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chandrakona_I" title="Chandrakona I">Chandrakona I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrakona_II" title="Chandrakona II">Chandrakona II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daspur_I" title="Daspur I">Daspur I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daspur_II" title="Daspur II">Daspur II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghatal_(community_development_block)" title="Ghatal (community development block)">Ghatal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kharagpur_subdivision" title="Kharagpur subdivision">Kharagpur subdivision</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dantan_I" title="Dantan I">Dantan I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dantan_II" title="Dantan II">Dantan II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debra_(community_development_block)" title="Debra (community development block)">Debra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keshiari" title="Keshiari">Keshiari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kharagpur_I" title="Kharagpur I">Kharagpur I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kharagpur_II" title="Kharagpur II">Kharagpur II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohanpur_(community_development_block)" title="Mohanpur (community development block)">Mohanpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narayangarh_(community_development_block)" title="Narayangarh (community development block)">Narayangarh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pingla_(community_development_block)" title="Pingla (community development block)">Pingla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabang_(community_development_block)" title="Sabang (community development block)">Sabang</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Higher education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/IIT_Kharagpur" title="IIT Kharagpur">IIT Kharagpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidyasagar_University" title="Vidyasagar University">Vidyasagar University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midnapore_Medical_College_and_Hospital" title="Midnapore Medical College and Hospital">Midnapore Medical College and Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Science_and_Technology,_West_Bengal" title="Institute of Science and Technology, West Bengal">Institute of Science & Technology</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rivers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dwarakeswar_River" title="Dwarakeswar River">Dwarakeswar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kangsabati_River" title="Kangsabati River">Kangsabati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keleghai_River" title="Keleghai River">Keleghai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rasulpur_River" title="Rasulpur River">Rasulpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rupnarayan_River" title="Rupnarayan River">Rupnarayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shilabati_River" title="Shilabati River">Shilabati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subarnarekha_River" title="Subarnarekha River">Subarnarekha</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Transport</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Highway_6_(India,_old_numbering)" title="National Highway 6 (India, old numbering)">NH 6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Highway_60_(India,_old_numbering)" title="National Highway 60 (India, old numbering)">NH 60</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Eastern_Railway_zone" title="South Eastern Railway zone">South Eastern Railway zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kolkata_Suburban_Railway" title="Kolkata Suburban Railway">Kolkata Suburban Railway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asansol%E2%80%93Tatanagar%E2%80%93Kharagpur_line" title="Asansol–Tatanagar–Kharagpur line">Asansol–Tatanagar–Kharagpur line</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Railway stations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list 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<li><a href="/wiki/Daspur_Assembly_constituency" title="Daspur Assembly constituency">Daspur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghatal_Assembly_constituency" title="Ghatal Assembly constituency">Ghatal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrakona_Assembly_constituency" title="Chandrakona Assembly constituency">Chandrakona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garbeta_Assembly_constituency" title="Garbeta Assembly constituency">Garbeta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salboni_Assembly_constituency" title="Salboni Assembly constituency">Salboni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keshpur_Assembly_constituency" title="Keshpur Assembly constituency">Keshpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medinipur_Assembly_constituency" title="Medinipur Assembly constituency">Medinipur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Binpur_Assembly_constituency" title="Binpur Assembly constituency">Binpur</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Former<br />Vidhan Sabha constituencies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nandanpur_Assembly_constituency" title="Nandanpur Assembly constituency">Nandanpur</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:Paschim_Medinipur_District" title="Template:Paschim Medinipur District">Cities, towns and locations in Paschim Medinipur district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:People_from_Paschim_Medinipur_district" title="Category:People from Paschim Medinipur district">People from Pascim Medinipur district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Villages_in_Paschim_Medinipur_district" title="Category:Villages in Paschim Medinipur district">Villages in Paschim Medinipur district</a></li></ul> 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