Basirhat, West Bengal — Lok Sabha Election Results
Compiled by EveryElectionResult.com's data team · Last updated 2026-08-30
Basirhat (West Bengal) was won by Nusrat Jahan Ruhi (All India Trinamool Congress) at the 2019 Lok Sabha general election, with a margin of 350,369 votes over Sayantan Basu. This page covers every Lok Sabha general election in Basirhat, West Bengal, from 1951 to 2019.
Full Election History, 1951–2019
Election
Winner
Party
Votes
Vote Share
Runner-up
Margin
1951
Chakravartty Renu
Communist Party of India
172,182
27.5%
Datta Satya Hari (Indian National Congress)
22,970 (3.7 pts)
1957
Paresh Nath Kayal
Indian National Congress
205,832
24.1%
Renu Chakravartty (Communist Party of India)
19,828 (2.3 pts)
1962
Humayun Kabir
Indian National Congress
167,476
53.7%
Abdur Razzak Khan (Communist Party of India)
54,059 (17.3 pts)
1967
H. Kabir
BAC
240,491
70.9%
A. K. M. Ishaque (Indian National Congress)
141,639 (41.7 pts)
1971
A. K. M. Ishaque
Indian National Congress
128,640
41.3%
Md. Abdullarasul (CPI (Marxist))
54,910 (17.6 pts)
1977
Alhaj M.A. Hannan
Bharatiya Lok Dal
168,644
49.3%
A.K.M. Ishaque (Indian National Congress)
12,186 (3.6 pts)
1980
Indrajit Gupta
Communist Party of India
311,121
57.6%
Abdul Gaffar Quazi (Congress (I))
95,854 (17.8 pts)
1984
Indrajit Gupta
Communist Party of India
315,444
51.9%
Kamal Basu (Indian National Congress)
39,043 (6.4 pts)
1989
Monoranjan Sur
Communist Party of India
382,555
50.3%
Sardar Amjad Ali (Indian National Congress)
20,343 (2.7 pts)
1991
Monoranjan Sur
Communist Party of India
357,774
47.0%
Sardar Amjad Ali (Indian National Congress)
71,642 (9.4 pts)
1996
Ajay Chakraborty
Communist Party of India
453,126
50.6%
Dilip Majumder (Indian National Congress)
86,016 (9.6 pts)
1998
Ajay Chakraborty
Communist Party of India
425,442
48.9%
Dr Sudipto Roy (West Bengal Trinamool Congress)
120,076 (13.8 pts)
1999
Ajoy Chakraborty
Communist Party of India
407,903
47.6%
M. Nuruzzaman (All India Trinamool Congress)
82,587 (9.6 pts)
2004
Ajay Chakraborty
Communist Party of India
462,605
51.0%
Sujit Bose (All India Trinamool Congress)
182,084 (20.1 pts)
2009
Sk. Nurul Islam
All India Trinamool Congress
479,650
46.2%
Ajay Chakraborty (Communist Party of India)
60,383 (5.8 pts)
2014
Idris Ali
All India Trinamool Congress
492,326
38.7%
Nurul Huda (Communist Party of India)
109,659 (8.6 pts)
2019
Nusrat Jahan Ruhi
All India Trinamool Congress
782,078
54.9%
Sayantan Basu (Bharatiya Janata Party)
350,369 (24.6 pts)
Full Result Breakdown by Election
1951
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Chakravartty Renu
Communist Party of India
172,182
27.5%
Datta Satya Hari
Indian National Congress
149,212
23.8%
Roy Patiram
Indian National Congress
128,716
20.6%
Mondal Girindra Nath
Independent
61,252
9.8%
Roy Chaudhury Susil Kumar
Independent
58,875
9.4%
Dutta Fani
Independent
35,502
5.7%
Roy Chowdhury Sunil Krishna
Independent
20,304
3.2%
1957
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Paresh Nath Kayal
Indian National Congress
205,832
24.1%
Renu Chakravartty
Communist Party of India
186,004
21.8%
Pratima Bose
Indian National Congress
173,728
20.3%
Dharmadas Roy
Communist Party of India
140,516
16.4%
A. K. M. Ishaque
Independent
92,014
10.8%
Matindra Nath Halder
Independent
31,258
3.7%
Girindra Nath Mondal
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
25,397
3.0%
1962
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Humayun Kabir
Indian National Congress
167,476
53.7%
Abdur Razzak Khan
Communist Party of India
113,417
36.4%
Devaprosad Ghosh
Jharkhand Party
30,742
9.9%
1967
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
H. Kabir
BAC
240,491
70.9%
A. K. M. Ishaque
Indian National Congress
98,852
29.1%
1971
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
A. K. M. Ishaque
Indian National Congress
128,640
41.3%
Md. Abdullarasul
CPI (Marxist)
73,730
23.6%
Mohammad Elias
Communist Party of India
53,755
17.2%
K. Abubackar Makkar
Independent
40,284
12.9%
Bijesh Chandra Sen
Congress (O)
10,620
3.4%
Phani Dutta
Independent
4,775
1.5%
1977
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Alhaj M.A. Hannan
Bharatiya Lok Dal
168,644
49.3%
A.K.M. Ishaque
Indian National Congress
156,458
45.7%
Jahangir Kabir
Independent
9,543
2.8%
A.K.M. Hassan Uzzaman
Independent
7,583
2.2%
1980
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Indrajit Gupta
Communist Party of India
311,121
57.6%
Abdul Gaffar Quazi
Congress (I)
215,267
39.9%
Alhaj M.A. Hannan
Janata Party
8,365
1.5%
Alhaj Md. Adbus Salam
Indian Union Muslim League
3,449
0.6%
Paresh Nath Kayal
Independent
900
0.2%
Mihir Kumar Haldar
Independent
894
0.2%
1984
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Indrajit Gupta
Communist Party of India
315,444
51.9%
Kamal Basu
Indian National Congress
276,401
45.5%
Mohammed Ali Mazhar Hassan
Indian Union Muslim League
5,623
0.9%
Liyakat Ali Mondal
Independent
3,545
0.6%
Harendra Nath Roy
Bharatiya Janata Party
2,781
0.5%
Tushar Kanti Ghosh
Independent
1,707
0.3%
Jasoara Sayam
Independent
1,506
0.2%
Shamsul Haque
Independent
772
0.1%
1989
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Monoranjan Sur
Communist Party of India
382,555
50.3%
Sardar Amjad Ali
Indian National Congress
362,212
47.6%
Subrata Chatterjee
Independent
5,520
0.7%
Liakat Ali Mandal
Independent
4,118
0.5%
Md. Ali Mazhar Hassan
Independent
3,841
0.5%
Biswa Pati Biswas
Bahujan Samaj Party
1,542
0.2%
Dipak Kumar Sarkar
Independent
549
0.1%
1991
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Monoranjan Sur
Communist Party of India
357,774
47.0%
Sardar Amjad Ali
Indian National Congress
286,132
37.6%
Sukumar Banerji
Bharatiya Janata Party
103,035
13.5%
Debaprasad Bhanja Choudhury
Independent
4,279
0.6%
Dhiendra Nath Ghosh
Janata Party
3,370
0.4%
Shyam Narayan Jeshowara
DDP
1,770
0.2%
Al-Gaz Abdul Salam
Indian Union Muslim League
1,670
0.2%
Liakat Ali Mondal
Independent
1,509
0.2%
Amarendra Nath Biswas
Bahujan Samaj Party
1,383
0.2%
1996
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Ajay Chakraborty
Communist Party of India
453,126
50.6%
Dilip Majumder
Indian National Congress
367,110
41.0%
Ramendra Kumar Bhattacharya
Bharatiya Janata Party
62,620
7.0%
Debaprasad Bhanja Chaudhuri
Independent
4,585
0.5%
A K M Nasiruddin
INL
4,530
0.5%
Alhaz Abdus Salam
Indian Union Muslim League
1,843
0.2%
Liakat Mondol
BKUS
1,118
0.1%
1998
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Ajay Chakraborty
Communist Party of India
425,442
48.9%
Dr Sudipto Roy
West Bengal Trinamool Congress
305,366
35.1%
Susanta Ghosh
Indian National Congress
131,887
15.1%
Molla Jaforulla
INL
6,364
0.7%
Biddyut Poddar
Shiv Sena
1,114
0.1%
Biswapati Sur
Independent
736
0.1%
1999
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Ajoy Chakraborty
Communist Party of India
407,903
47.6%
M. Nuruzzaman
All India Trinamool Congress
325,316
38.0%
Abu Tayeb M. Moazam Hossin
Indian National Congress
118,612
13.9%
Md. Sahadat Ali
Indian Union Muslim League
2,417
0.3%
Arun Ghosh
Independent
2,047
0.2%
2004
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Ajay Chakraborty
Communist Party of India
462,605
51.0%
Sujit Bose
All India Trinamool Congress
280,521
30.9%
Syed Md. Nizamuddin
Indian National Congress
109,629
12.1%
Md. Quamruzzaman
Samajwadi Party
25,773
2.8%
Kartick Chandra Sarkar
Independent
12,487
1.4%
Gopal Debnath
Bahujan Samaj Party
7,301
0.8%
Ashrafi Hassan Shahidullah
INL
4,780
0.5%
Ajoy Ghora
Independent
4,489
0.5%
2009
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Sk. Nurul Islam
All India Trinamool Congress
479,650
46.2%
Ajay Chakraborty
Communist Party of India
419,267
40.4%
Swapan Kumar Das
Bharatiya Janata Party
68,031
6.6%
Siddiqullah Chowdhury
AUDF
41,423
4.0%
Ranjit Gain
Independent
13,930
1.3%
Jiaul Haque
Bahujan Samaj Party
7,626
0.7%
Chhalauddin Molla
LJP
4,239
0.4%
Salim Makkar
Indian Union Muslim League
4,043
0.4%
2014
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Idris Ali
All India Trinamool Congress
492,326
38.7%
Nurul Huda
Communist Party of India
382,667
30.0%
Samik Bhattacharya
Bharatiya Janata Party
233,887
18.4%
Abdur Rahim Quazi
Indian National Congress
102,130
8.0%
Chowdhury Siddiqullah
AIUDF
25,178
2.0%
None Of The Above
Independent
9,971
0.8%
Ranjit Gayen
Independent
8,088
0.6%
Gopal Das
Bahujan Samaj Party
7,016
0.6%
Ajay Kumar Bain
SUCI(C)
6,532
0.5%
Md. Hafiz
Independent
5,976
0.5%
2019
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Nusrat Jahan Ruhi
All India Trinamool Congress
782,078
54.9%
Sayantan Basu
Bharatiya Janata Party
431,709
30.3%
Quazi Abdur Rahim
Indian National Congress
104,183
7.3%
Pallab Sengupta
Communist Party of India
68,316
4.8%
Parimal Mistri
Independent
10,953
0.8%
Abul Kashem Dhali
Bahujan Samaj Party
4,680
0.3%
Subhasis Kumar Bhowmik
Independent
4,301
0.3%
Amiya Sarkar
Independent
4,065
0.3%
Ajay Kumar Bain
SUCI(C)
3,824
0.3%
Abdul Hannan Sardar
Independent
3,433
0.2%
Md. Tabarok Hossain Molla
AILP
2,707
0.2%
Mizanoor Rahaman
Independent
2,375
0.2%
Imamul Hasan Mallik
BNARP
1,609
0.1%
Margin Over Time
Winning margin (percentage points) at each election, coloured by the winning party's broad bloc (Congress / BJP / Left / other).
Trend
Basirhat has been contested at 17 Lok Sabha general elections on record since 1951. Parties that have won this seat over that span: Communist Party of India, Indian National Congress, BAC, Bharatiya Lok Dal, All India Trinamool Congress.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who won Basirhat in the 2019 Lok Sabha election?
Nusrat Jahan Ruhi (All India Trinamool Congress) won Basirhat, West Bengal, in 2019 with 782,078 votes (54.9%), a margin of 350,369 votes over Sayantan Basu.
Which parties have won Basirhat since 1951?
Since 1951, Basirhat has been won by: All India Trinamool Congress, BAC, Bharatiya Lok Dal, Communist Party of India, Indian National Congress.
What was the closest result in Basirhat?
The closest result on record for Basirhat was 1957, when Indian National Congress beat Communist Party of India by just 19,828 votes (2.3 percentage points).