Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on Durgapur in West Bengal. The seat was reserved for scheduled castes.
As a consequence of the order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, this parliamentary constituency ceased to exist from 2009; some of the assembly segments under this constituency will be part of a new Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency, others will be part of Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency.
This page also includes results for Ausgram Lok Sabha constituency during the short period of its existence from 1962 to 1971.
Assembly segments Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments: Gangajalghati (SC) (assembly constituency no. 249) Barjora (assembly constituency no. 250) Sonamukhi (SC) (assembly constituency no. 256) Durgapur I (assembly constituency no. 264) Durgapur II (assembly constituency no. 265) Kanksa (SC) (assembly constituency no. 266) Galsi (assembly constituency no. 269)
Members of Parliament Lok SabhaDurationConstituencyName of M.P.Party affiliationThird1962-67AusgramMono Mohan DasIndian National CongressFourth1967-71B.DasCommunist Party of India (Marxist)Fifth 1971-77Krishna Chandra HalderCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Sixth1977-80DurgapurKrishna Chandra HalderCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Seventh1980-84Krishna Chandra HalderCommunist Party of India (Marxist)Eighth1984-89Purna Chandra MalikCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Ninth1989-91Purna Chandra MalikCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Tenth1991-96Purna Chandra MalikCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Eleventh1996-98Sunil KhanCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Twelfth1998-99Sunil KhanCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Thirteenth1999-04Sunil KhanCommunist Party of India (Marxist)Fourteenth2004-09Sunil KhanCommunist Party of India (Marxist) For Members of Parliament from this area in subsequent years see Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency and Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency.
Election results 2004
General election 1999
General election 1998
General elections 1962-2004 Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are generally mentioned below: YearVotersVoter turnoutWinnerRunners up%ageCandidate%agePartyCandidate%ageParty1962*233,06546.71Mono Mohan Das51.17INCKrishna Chandra Halder40.61CPI1967*308,90858.81B. Das51.49CPI(M)Mono Mohan Das48.51INC1971*363,98157.86Krishna Chandra Halder46.40CPI(M)Mahadeb Saha20.05Bangla Congress1977 3,59,28053.03Krishna Chandra Haldar63.20CPI (M)Manoranjan Pramanick36.80INC19805,13,17069.40Krishna Chandra Halder57.27CPI (M)Surya Kumar Roy38.17INC (I)19846,45,27077.85Purna Chandra Malik53.07CPI (M)Gopal Mondal46.93INC19897,32,79071.82Purna Chandra Malik65.68CPI (M)Gopal Mondal28.88INC19917,67,87073.75Purna Chandra Malik55.35CPI (M)Bhagabat Maji30.73INC19969.17,97080.56Sunil Khan55.68CPI (M)Chittaranjan Pramanik35.29INC19989,21,90077.37Sunil Khan51.81CPI (M)Suryya Ray36.10BJP19998,85,34073.01Sunil Khan53.15CPI (M)Anil Kumar Saha39.58BJP20048,47,77073.66Sunil Khan59.61CPI (M)Shib Narayan Saha26.87BJP * Results for Ausgram constituency
See also List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha
References