Asansol, West Bengal — Lok Sabha Election Results

Asansol (West Bengal) was won by Babul Supriyo (Bharatiya Janata Party) at the 2019 Lok Sabha general election, with a margin of 197,637 votes over Moon Moon Sen. This page covers every Lok Sabha general election in Asansol, West Bengal, from 1957 to 2019.

Full Election History, 1957–2019

Election Winner Party Votes Vote Share Runner-up Margin
1957 Mono Mohan Das Indian National Congress 186,374 29.6% Atulya Ghosh (Indian National Congress) 22,649 (3.6 pts)
1962 Atulya Ghosh Indian National Congress 70,835 38.8% Ket Narayan Misra (Communist Party of India) 8,844 (4.9 pts)
1967 D. Sen Samyukta Socialist Party 99,276 40.6% J. N. Mukhopadhyay (Indian National Congress) 6,992 (2.9 pts)
1971 Robin Sen CPI (Marxist) 132,268 49.4% Narayan Choudhury (Indian National Congress) 33,660 (12.6 pts)
1977 Robin Sen CPI (Marxist) 163,492 59.1% Syed Mohammad Jalal (Indian National Congress) 72,227 (26.1 pts)
1980 Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhya Congress (I) 175,703 42.9% Robin Sen (CPI (Marxist)) 9,652 (2.4 pts)
1984 Anada Gopal Mukherjee Indian National Congress 334,212 55.2% Bamapada Mukherjee (CPI (Marxist)) 86,666 (14.3 pts)
1989 Haradhan Roy CPI (Marxist) 374,281 49.6% Pradip Bhattacharjee (Indian National Congress) 42,237 (5.6 pts)
1991 Haradhan Roy CPI (Marxist) 316,504 45.1% Deba Prasad Roy (Indian National Congress) 94,858 (13.5 pts)
1996 Haradhan Roy CPI (Marxist) 376,806 46.4% Sukumar Bandyopadhyay (Indian National Congress) 46,950 (5.8 pts)
1998 Bikash Chowdhury CPI (Marxist) 355,382 41.1% Ajit Kumar Ghaatak (Moloy Ghaatak) (West Bengal Trinamool Congress) 26,149 (3.0 pts)
1999 Bikash Chowdhury CPI (Marxist) 377,265 46.3% Ajit Ghatak (Moloy Ghatak) (All India Trinamool Congress) 37,864 (4.6 pts)
2004 Bikash Chowdhury CPI (Marxist) 369,832 51.0% Ghatak Moloy (All India Trinamool Congress) 124,318 (17.1 pts)
2009 Bansa Gopal Chowdhury CPI (Marxist) 435,161 48.7% Ghatak Moloy (All India Trinamool Congress) 72,956 (8.2 pts)
2014 Babul Supriya Baral (Babul Supriyo) Bharatiya Janata Party 419,983 36.8% Dola Sen (All India Trinamool Congress) 70,480 (6.2 pts)
2019 Babul Supriyo Bharatiya Janata Party 633,378 51.8% Moon Moon Sen (All India Trinamool Congress) 197,637 (16.2 pts)

Full Result Breakdown by Election

1957

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Mono Mohan Das Indian National Congress 186,374 29.6%
Atulya Ghosh Indian National Congress 163,725 26.0%
Ambuja Bhusan Bose Independent 126,026 20.0%
Amarendra Nath Saha Independent 109,149 17.3%
Moni Mohan Ghose Independent 44,315 7.0%

1962

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Atulya Ghosh Indian National Congress 70,835 38.8%
Ket Narayan Misra Communist Party of India 61,991 34.0%
Deben Sen Praja Socialist Party 49,563 27.2%

1967

CandidatePartyVotesShare
D. Sen Samyukta Socialist Party 99,276 40.6%
J. N. Mukhopadhyay Indian National Congress 92,284 37.7%
K. S. Roy Communist Party of India 49,138 20.1%
H. S. Roy Independent 4,041 1.7%

1971

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Robin Sen CPI (Marxist) 132,268 49.4%
Narayan Choudhury Indian National Congress 98,608 36.8%
Deven Sen Samyukta Socialist Party 21,364 8.0%
Atulya Ghosh Congress (O) 8,144 3.0%
Sohan Prasad Verma BAC 4,606 1.7%
Yar Mohammad Independent 2,880 1.1%

1977

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Robin Sen CPI (Marxist) 163,492 59.1%
Syed Mohammad Jalal Indian National Congress 91,265 33.0%
Badal Bauri Independent 7,716 2.8%
Niroda Prasad Mukhereje Independent 5,657 2.0%
Aditya Baran Bandopadhyay Independent 4,746 1.7%
Naresh Chandra Roy Chaudhury Independent 3,897 1.4%

1980

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Ananda Gopal Mukhopadhya Congress (I) 175,703 42.9%
Robin Sen CPI (Marxist) 166,051 40.6%
Mitra Gopikaranjan (Dr. G.R. Mitra) Janata Party 27,222 6.6%
Pradip Kumar Bhattacharyya Congress (U) 9,415 2.3%
Badal Bouri Independent 8,460 2.1%
Joy Shankar Chowdhury Independent 6,190 1.5%
Doman Prasad Bhuiyan RPI 5,749 1.4%
Ghanty Manik Independent 5,070 1.2%
Mahadeb Mukherjee Independent 3,456 0.8%
Mohammad Moslen Khan Independent 2,160 0.5%

1984

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Anada Gopal Mukherjee Indian National Congress 334,212 55.2%
Bamapada Mukherjee CPI (Marxist) 247,546 40.9%
Manik Bowri Independent 7,360 1.2%
S.M.Samsul Haque Independent 4,968 0.8%
Ghanty Manik Chandra Independent 4,474 0.7%
Chhedilal Jalan Independent 3,993 0.7%
Gopal Krishna Sharma Independent 3,075 0.5%

1989

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Haradhan Roy CPI (Marxist) 374,281 49.6%
Pradip Bhattacharjee Indian National Congress 332,044 44.0%
Amarnath Keshri Bharatiya Janata Party 21,077 2.8%
Ganesh Pal CPI(ML) 12,096 1.6%
Mahendra Paswan Bahujan Samaj Party 5,019 0.7%
Ghanty Manik AMB 3,035 0.4%
Sudesh Murmu Independent 2,471 0.3%
Narayan Pandit Independent 1,510 0.2%
G. K. Sharma Independent 1,506 0.2%
Sambhunath Rajbhar DDP 914 0.1%
Samir Kumar Dey Independent 821 0.1%

1991

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Haradhan Roy CPI (Marxist) 316,504 45.1%
Deba Prasad Roy Indian National Congress 221,646 31.6%
Kinkar Tapananda Brahmachari Bharatiya Janata Party 135,641 19.3%
Balahari Mondal CPI(ML) 5,739 0.8%
Jarasandha Bouri Bahujan Samaj Party 5,600 0.8%
Mihir Upadhyay Janata Party 4,566 0.7%
Manik Chatterjee Independent 3,352 0.5%
Md. Bodradoja Independent 1,695 0.2%
Raj Nath Kurmi DDP 1,542 0.2%
Durgadas Mondal Independent 1,459 0.2%
Bikash Chandra Ghosh Independent 1,009 0.1%
Asis Rannjan Sarkar Independent 878 0.1%
Debidas Mukherjee Independent 843 0.1%
Subrata Mitra Independent 766 0.1%

1996

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Haradhan Roy CPI (Marxist) 376,806 46.4%
Sukumar Bandyopadhyay Indian National Congress 329,856 40.6%
Surendranath Lamba Bharatiya Janata Party 69,737 8.6%
Gonesh Pal Independent 11,556 1.4%
Ajit Soren JMM 8,467 1.0%
Brahmadev Ram Independent 6,215 0.8%
Gaanty Manik AMB 3,205 0.4%
Kishore Chatterjee AIIC(T) 2,737 0.3%
Harish Chandra Rajbhar Independent 1,869 0.2%
Bhrigunath Sharma Independent 1,186 0.1%
Bhabani Tosh Mukherjee Independent 891 0.1%

1998

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Bikash Chowdhury CPI (Marxist) 355,382 41.1%
Ajit Kumar Ghaatak (Moloy Ghaatak) West Bengal Trinamool Congress 329,233 38.1%
Ahluwalia S S Indian National Congress 110,618 12.8%
Sohrab Ali Rashtriya Janata Dal 43,643 5.0%
Sunil Pal Independent 9,345 1.1%
Manik Bauri Bahujan Samaj Party 8,386 1.0%
Jyotirmoy Maiti SJP(R) 7,106 0.8%
Ganes Chandra Sarkar Independent 1,127 0.1%

1999

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Bikash Chowdhury CPI (Marxist) 377,265 46.3%
Ajit Ghatak (Moloy Ghatak) All India Trinamool Congress 339,401 41.6%
Manik Upadhyay Indian National Congress 89,261 10.9%
Manik Bouri Bahujan Samaj Party 5,222 0.6%
Jitendra Mandal AMB 2,354 0.3%
Pradip Kumar Banerjee Independent 970 0.1%
Dilip Paswan Independent 819 0.1%

2004

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Bikash Chowdhury CPI (Marxist) 369,832 51.0%
Ghatak Moloy All India Trinamool Congress 245,514 33.9%
Tapas Banerjee Indian National Congress 70,867 9.8%
Sunil Mukherjee Independent 12,552 1.7%
Manik Lal Bauri Bahujan Samaj Party 8,830 1.2%
Pratap Singh Samajwadi Party 6,828 0.9%
Sailendra Nath Bhattacharyya Independent 6,286 0.9%
Atanu Chakravarty CPI (ML) Liberation 4,489 0.6%

2009

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Bansa Gopal Chowdhury CPI (Marxist) 435,161 48.7%
Ghatak Moloy All India Trinamool Congress 362,205 40.5%
Suryya Ray Bharatiya Janata Party 49,646 5.6%
Ajay Singh Bahujan Samaj Party 14,490 1.6%
Jyotirmoy Maity Independent 13,190 1.5%
Goutam Das LJP 10,181 1.1%
Jarasandha Sinha Independent 8,831 1.0%

2014

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Babul Supriya Baral (Babul Supriyo) Bharatiya Janata Party 419,983 36.8%
Dola Sen All India Trinamool Congress 349,503 30.6%
Bansa Gopal Choudhury CPI (Marxist) 255,829 22.4%
Indrani Mishra Indian National Congress 48,502 4.2%
Manash Sarkar Independent 14,263 1.2%
None Of The Above Independent 11,479 1.0%
Jyotirmoy Maiti Independent 10,227 0.9%
Kanai Banerjee JMM 5,728 0.5%
Sujit Kar Independent 5,016 0.4%
Md. Reyazuddin IUML 4,947 0.4%
Jarasandha Sinha Bahujan Samaj Party 4,663 0.4%
Atul Chandra Bouri BMP 4,256 0.4%
Ananta Lal Gupta SUCI(C) 3,115 0.3%
Md. Mustaqim GAP 2,450 0.2%
Buro Murmu JDP 2,434 0.2%

2019

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Babul Supriyo Bharatiya Janata Party 633,378 51.8%
Moon Moon Sen All India Trinamool Congress 435,741 35.6%
Gouranga Chatterjee CPI (Marxist) 87,608 7.2%
Biswarup Mondal Indian National Congress 21,038 1.7%
Md. Zahir Alam BMP 12,677 1.0%
Swaraj Das (Bapi) Independent 10,066 0.8%
Sandip Sarkar Bahujan Samaj Party 7,860 0.6%
Abhishekh Kumar Singh Shiv Sena 5,761 0.5%
Kajal Banerjee Independent 5,176 0.4%
Amarnath Chowdhury SUCI(C) 4,383 0.4%

Margin Over Time

Winning margin (percentage points) at each election, coloured by the winning party's broad bloc (Congress / BJP / Left / other).

1957: Indian National Congress margin 3.6 pts 1962: Indian National Congress margin 4.9 pts 1967: Samyukta Socialist Party margin 2.9 pts 1971: CPI (Marxist) margin 12.6 pts 1977: CPI (Marxist) margin 26.1 pts 1980: Congress (I) margin 2.4 pts 1984: Indian National Congress margin 14.3 pts 1989: CPI (Marxist) margin 5.6 pts 1991: CPI (Marxist) margin 13.5 pts 1996: CPI (Marxist) margin 5.8 pts 1998: CPI (Marxist) margin 3.0 pts 1999: CPI (Marxist) margin 4.6 pts 2004: CPI (Marxist) margin 17.1 pts 2009: CPI (Marxist) margin 8.2 pts 2014: Bharatiya Janata Party margin 6.2 pts 2019: Bharatiya Janata Party margin 16.2 pts 1957 1962 1967 1971 1977 1980 1984 1989 1991 1996 1998 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019

Trend

Asansol has been contested at 16 Lok Sabha general elections on record since 1957. Parties that have won this seat over that span: Indian National Congress, Samyukta Socialist Party, CPI (Marxist), Congress (I), Bharatiya Janata Party.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Asansol in the 2019 Lok Sabha election?

Babul Supriyo (Bharatiya Janata Party) won Asansol, West Bengal, in 2019 with 633,378 votes (51.8%), a margin of 197,637 votes over Moon Moon Sen.

Which parties have won Asansol since 1957?

Since 1957, Asansol has been won by: Bharatiya Janata Party, CPI (Marxist), Congress (I), Indian National Congress, Samyukta Socialist Party.

What was the closest result in Asansol?

The closest result on record for Asansol was 1980, when Congress (I) beat CPI (Marxist) by just 9,652 votes (2.4 percentage points).

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