CALCUTTA NORTH EAST
Constituency no. 22 in West Bengal · Lok Sabha seat contested 11 times since 1967.
Winner, 2004
Md. Salim
CPM
Elections held
11
1967–2004
Most successful party
INC
won 4 of 11
Margin, 2004
73,780
12.97% of valid votes
Result, 2004
Runner-up
AITCAjit Kumar Panja (250, Chittaranjan Avenue, Kolkata-700 006)
- Votes
- 2,10,647
- Vote share
- 37.03%
- Behind by
- 73,780
Electors
8,03,853
Total votes polled
5,68,885
Valid votes
5,68,885
NOTA votes
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Turnout
70.8%
Full result, 2004
10 candidates · 5,68,885 valid votes
Md. SalimCPMwon
2,84,427
50.0%
Ajit Kumar Panja (250, Chittaranjan Avenue, Kolkata-700 006)AITC
2,10,647
37.0%
Indira Mukherjee ( Moushumi Chatterjee)INC
56,449
9.9%
Ajit Kumar Panja ( Mamudpur, P.s- Chandrakona, Ghatal, West Medinipur)IND
4,792
0.8%
Pintu KunduIND
4,180
0.7%
Debojyoti BasuIND
2,626
0.5%
Chandra Prakash DubeyBSP
2,226
0.4%
Mahua RoyIND
1,311
0.2%
Angshuman PaulIND
1,309
0.2%
Imtiaz AhmedIND
918
0.2%
Past results
Most recent 5 of 11 elections
| Year | Winner | Party | Votes | Vote share | Runner-up | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Md. Salim | CPM | 2,84,427 | 50.00% | Ajit Kumar Panja (250, Chittaranjan Avenue, Kolkata-700 006) | 73,780 |
| 1999 | Ajit Kumar Panja | AITC | 2,97,491 | 45.17% | Md. Salim | 41,574 |
| 1998 | AJIT KUMAR PANJA | WBTC | 3,10,361 | 47.10% | PRASANTA CHATTERJEE | 64,872 |
| 1996 | AJIT KUMAR PANJA | INC | 3,35,855 | 51.98% | DIPEN GHOSH | 64,985 |
| 1991 | AJIT KUMAR PANJA | INC | 2,76,399 | 49.52% | PRATAP CHANDRA | 71,456 |
Who has held it
Wins by party across every election above
Turnout and closeness over time
Turnout
Winning margin
Frequently asked
Straight answers to the questions this page exists to answer.
Who won the CALCUTTA NORTH EAST constituency in 2004?
Md. Salim (CPM) won CALCUTTA NORTH EAST in 2004, by a margin of 73,780 votes.
Which party has won CALCUTTA NORTH EAST the most times?
INC, with 4 of the 11 wins recorded since 1967.
How many times has CALCUTTA NORTH EAST gone to the polls?
11 times, from 1967 to 2004.
Who has won CALCUTTA NORTH EAST the most times?
AJIT KUMAR PANJA, with 5 wins between 1984 and 1998.
