West Bengal, Lok Sabha election 2004

42 constituencies in West Bengal, 78.00% turnout.

Seats

Candidates

355

34 women, 4 elected

Turnout

78.00%

3.7 cr of 4.74 cr

Leading party

CPM

26 of 42 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in West Bengal

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	26	+5	32	1,42,71,042	38.57%	+3.00
INC Indian National Congress	6	+3	37	53,85,754	14.56%	+1.27
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	3	0	4	16,58,787	4.48%	+0.23
CPI Communist Party of India	3	0	3	14,84,152	4.01%	+0.54
AIFB AIFB	3	+3	3	13,52,423	3.66%	—
AITC All India Trinamool Congress	1	-7	29	77,86,178	21.04%	-4.99
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	0	-2	13	29,83,950	8.06%	-3.07
IND Independent	0	0	146	12,05,970	3.26%	+1.37
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0	36	3,31,319	0.90%	+0.65
SP Samajwadi Party	0	0	15	1,08,514	0.29%	+0.28
PDS PDS	0	0	2	81,999	0.22%	—
JKPN JKPN	0	0	3	67,782	0.18%	-0.10
JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	0	0	2	56,429	0.15%	+0.09
JDP Janta Darbar Party	0	0	4	53,664	0.15%	—
CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L)	0	0	5	36,726	0.10%	0.00
RPI RPI	0	0	1	21,711	0.06%	—
AMB AMB	0	0	4	21,148	0.06%	+0.03
INL INL	0	0	4	20,159	0.05%	—
JD(S)JD(S)	0	0	3	15,248	0.04%	+0.02
SJPR SJPR	0	0	1	15,051	0.04%	—
PBRML PBRML	0	0	1	10,446	0.03%	—
NCP Nationalist Congress Party	0	0	1	9,901	0.03%	-0.03
SHS Shiv Sena	0	0	2	9,462	0.03%	0.00
JKP JKP	0	0	1	3,664	0.01%	0.00
JD(U)JD(U)	0	0	1	3,111	0.01%	—
SAP SAP	0	0	1	3,051	0.01%	—
JUM JUM	0	0	1	2,592	0.01%	—

CPM26 (62%)
INC6 (14%)
RSP3 (7%)
CPI3 (7%)
AIFB3 (7%)
AITC1 (2%)

CPM26
INC6
RSP3
CPI3
AIFB3
AITC1

CPM26
INC6
RSP3
CPI3
AIFB3
AITC1

Constituency performance

From the 42 results in West Bengal

Closest contest

NABADWIP

won by 9,991 (0.85%)

Biggest victory

ARAMBAGH

won by 5,92,502 (61.41%)

Highest turnout

TAMLUK

87.31%

Lowest turnout

CALCUTTA NORTH WEST

59.11%

Seat change

Against West Bengal's previous Lok Sabha election (1999), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained28 (67%)
Changed hands14 (33%)

28 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 14 changed hands.

India’s constituencies have not been redrawn since the 2008 delimitation, so this compares the same seat boundary both times.

Vote share & turnout trend

West Bengal, every Lok Sabha election on record

VOTE SHARE

TURNOUT

Constituency results

All 42 seats, alphabetical · showing 1–42 of 42

Constituency	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
ALIPURDUARS	RSPJoachim Baxla	BJPManoj Tigga	1,45,12417.26%	80.5%
ARAMBAGH	CPMAnil Basu	BJPSwapan Kumar Nandi	5,92,50261.41%	81.2%
ASANSOL	CPMBikash Chowdhury	AITCGhatak Moloy	1,24,31817.14%	66.4%
BALURGHAT	RSPRanen Barman	BJPManomohan Ray	71,1467.69%	82.0%
BANKURA	CPMAcharia Basudeb	AITCDeb Prasad Kundu ( Tara)	2,30,32933.12%	68.2%
BARASAT	AIFBSubrata Bose	AITCDr. Ranjit Kumar Panja	12,1601.05%	83.1%
BARRACKPORE	CPMTarit Baran Topdar	AITCArjun Singh	1,65,07120.78%	81.0%
BASIRHAT	CPIAjay Chakraborty	AITCSujit Bose	1,82,08420.06%	82.0%
BERHAMPORE	INCAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury	RSPPramothes Mukherjee	98,9019.97%	81.2%
BIRBHUM	CPMRam Chandra Dome	INCGopal Chandra Das	1,91,61226.46%	70.3%
BOLPUR	CPMChatterjee Somnath	AITCDr. Nirmal Kumar Maji	3,10,30540.30%	74.4%
BURDWAN	CPMNikhilananda Sar	BJPAnindya Gopal Mitra	4,71,35147.28%	81.6%
CALCUTTA NORTH EAST	CPMMd. Salim	AITCAjit Kumar Panja (250, Chittaranjan Avenue, Kolkata-700 006)	73,78012.97%	70.8%
CALCUTTA NORTH WEST	CPMSudhangshu Seal	AITCSubrata Mukherjee	43,00411.94%	59.1%
CALCUTTA SOUTH	AITCMamata Banerjee	CPMRabin Deb	98,42912.74%	70.5%
CONTAI	CPMPrasanta Pradhan	AITCNitish Sengupta	59,1906.39%	85.7%
COOCH BEHAR	AIFBHiten Barman	AITCGirindra Nath Barman	2,26,56923.79%	82.9%
DARJEELING	INCDawa Narbula	CPMMoni Thapa	1,01,41611.42%	71.1%
DIAMOND HARBOUR	CPMSamik Lahiri	AITCSaugata Roy	1,53,78418.38%	75.8%
DUM DUM	CPMAmitava Nandy	BJPTapan Sikdar	98,2527.87%	80.9%
DURGAPUR	CPMSunil Khan	BJPShib Narayan Saha	2,77,50832.74%	73.7%
HOOGHLY	CPMRupchand Pal	AITCIndrani Mukherjee	1,66,96618.05%	79.6%
HOWRAH	CPMSwadesh Chakrabortty	AITCDr. Bikram Sarkar	2,46,93727.09%	73.5%
JADAVPUR	CPMSujan Chakraborty	AITCKrishna Bose	89,6688.77%	75.5%
JALPAIGURI	CPMMinati Sen	AITCParash Dutta	1,80,60520.29%	80.6%
JANGIPUR	INCPranab Mukherjee	CPMAbul Hasnat Khan	36,8604.17%	81.6%
JHARGRAM	CPMRupchand Murmu	AITCNityananda Hembram	3,51,34344.18%	77.3%
JOYNAGAR	RSPSanat Kumar Mandal	BJPAsit Baran Thakur	2,30,52128.59%	70.9%
KATWA	CPMMahboob Zahedi	AITCAhmed Sultan	1,43,34914.84%	82.6%
KRISHNAGAR	CPMJyotirmoyee Sikdar	BJPSatya Brata Mookherjee	20,3872.19%	83.3%
MALDA	INCA. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury	CPMPranab Das	1,11,10813.09%	78.0%
MATHURAPUR	CPMBasudeb Barman	AITCRadhika Ranjan Pramanik	82,0289.04%	81.5%
MIDNAPORE	CPIPrabodh Panda	BJPRahul ( Biswajit) Sinha	1,60,76017.70%	78.8%
MURSHIDABAD	INCAbdul Mannan Hossain	CPMMoinul Hassan Ahamed	15,4801.54%	84.1%
NABADWIP	CPMAlakesh Das	AITCNilima Nag ( Mallick)	9,9910.85%	84.8%
PANSKURA	CPIGurudas Dasgupta	AITCHema Choubey	2,79,47831.96%	82.4%
PURULIA	AIFBBir Singh Mahato	INCShantiram Mahato	1,45,71820.93%	70.2%
RAIGANJ	INCPriya Ranjan Dasmunsi	CPMMinati Ghosh	39,1474.27%	80.0%
SERAMPORE	CPMSantasri Chatterjee	AITCAkbar Ali Khandoker	19,6872.08%	73.6%
TAMLUK	CPMSeth Lakshman Chandra	AITCAdhikari Suvendu	57,3805.54%	87.3%
ULUBERIA	CPMHannan Mollah	AITCRajib Banerjee	1,52,11517.86%	75.4%
VISHNUPUR	CPMSusmita Bauri	AITCJanardan Saha	3,31,82941.14%	76.6%

Vote share and swing on this page are the party’s share of valid votes in West Bengal alone — a different number from its national or all-state figures, and never mixed with them.