Raiganj Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Raiganj in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 5 Raiganj Lok Sabha constituency are in Uttar Dinajpur district.
Assembly segments
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 5 Raiganj is composed of the following segments from 2009:
# Name District MemberParty2024 Lead29IslampurUttar DinajpurKanaia Lal Agarwal30GoalpokharMd. Ghulam Rabbani31ChakuliaMinhajul Arfin Azad32KarandighiBiraj Biswas33Hemtabad (SC)Haripada Barman34Kaliaganj (SC)Utpal Brahmacharo35RaiganjKoushik Chowdhury
Members of Parliament YearNameParty1962Chapala Kanta Bhattacharjee 19671971Siddharta Shankar Ray1972^Maya Ray1977Md. Hayat Ali 1980Golam Yazdani 198419891991Subrata Mukherjee 199619981999Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi 20042009Deepa Dasmunsi2014Mohammed Salim 2019Debasree Chaudhuri2024Kartick Chandra Paul ^ denotes by-elections
Election results
2024
2019
2014
2009
2004
1999
1998
1996
1991
1989
1984
1980
1977
1972 by-election A by-election was held in this constituency in 1972 which was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MP Siddhartha Shankar Ray and his subsequent election to the State Assembly from the Maldaha Assembly constituency. In the by-election, Maya Ray of Congress defeated his nearest rival S.K. Niyogi, a United Front-supported Independent Candidate, by 143,624 votes, thus breaking the record of Siddhartha Shankar Ray who had won the seat in 1971 by 64,007 votes.
1971
1967
1962
Notes
See also Raiganj List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha
References