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Hooghly, West Bengal — Lok Sabha Election Results

Compiled by EveryElectionResult.com's data team · Last updated 2026-08-30

Hooghly (West Bengal) was won by Locket Chatterjee (Bharatiya Janata Party) at the 2019 Lok Sabha general election, with a margin of 73,362 votes over Dr. Ratna De (Nag). This page covers every Lok Sabha general election in Hooghly, West Bengal, from 1951 to 2019.

Full Election History, 1951–2019

Election Winner Party Votes Vote Share Runner-up Margin
1951 N. C. Chatterjee Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh 71,798 36.2% Renuka Roy (Indian National Congress) 4,900 (2.5 pts)
1957 Provat Kar Communist Party of India 81,329 35.0% Sachindra Chowdhury (Indian National Congress) 2,973 (1.3 pts)
1962 Provat Kar Communist Party of India 108,359 34.6% Nirmal Kumar Sen (Indian National Congress) 2,643 (0.9 pts)
1967 B. K. Modak CPI (Marxist) 198,229 51.2% P. K. Palit (Indian National Congress) 9,570 (2.5 pts)
1971 Bijoy Krishna Modak CPI (Marxist) 202,672 47.5% Phani Ghosh (Indian National Congress) 31,471 (7.4 pts)
1977 Bijoy Krishna Modak CPI (Marxist) 223,818 62.6% Bishnu Charan Banerjee (Indian National Congress) 106,259 (29.7 pts)
1980 Rup Chand Pal CPI (Marxist) 280,605 56.2% Santimohan Roy (Congress (I)) 78,393 (15.7 pts)
1984 Indumati Bhattacharyya Indian National Congress 320,436 50.5% Rup Chand Pal (CPI (Marxist)) 10,967 (1.7 pts)
1989 Rupchand Pal CPI (Marxist) 423,701 53.6% Umasankar Halder (Indian National Congress) 69,547 (8.8 pts)
1991 Rupchand Pal CPI (Marxist) 383,238 49.0% Umasnkar Halder (Indian National Congress) 55,659 (7.1 pts)
1996 Rupchand Pal CPI (Marxist) 452,353 49.3% Gouri Sankar Banerjee (Indian National Congress) 38,497 (4.2 pts)
1998 Rupchand Pal CPI (Marxist) 431,229 46.2% Tapan Dasgupta (West Bengal Trinamool Congress) 6,116 (0.7 pts)
1999 Rupchand Pal CPI (Marxist) 440,674 47.9% Tapan Das Gupta (All India Trinamool Congress) 12,485 (1.4 pts)
2004 Rupchand Pal CPI (Marxist) 496,890 53.7% Indrani Mukherjee (All India Trinamool Congress) 166,966 (18.1 pts)
2009 Dr. Ratna De (Nag) All India Trinamool Congress 574,022 49.4% Rupchand Pal (CPI (Marxist)) 81,523 (7.0 pts)
2014 Dr. Ratna De (Nag) All India Trinamool Congress 614,312 45.5% Pradip Saha (CPI (Marxist)) 189,084 (14.0 pts)
2019 Locket Chatterjee Bharatiya Janata Party 671,448 46.5% Dr. Ratna De (Nag) (All India Trinamool Congress) 73,362 (5.1 pts)

Full Result Breakdown by Election

1951

CandidatePartyVotesShare
N. C. Chatterjee Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh 71,798 36.2%
Renuka Roy Indian National Congress 66,898 33.7%
Bejoy Modak Communist Party of India 52,087 26.3%
Sachindra Mohan Nandy Samajwadi Party 7,602 3.8%

1957

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Provat Kar Communist Party of India 81,329 35.0%
Sachindra Chowdhury Indian National Congress 78,356 33.7%
Nirmal Ch. Chatterjee Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh 72,650 31.3%

1962

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Provat Kar Communist Party of India 108,359 34.6%
Nirmal Kumar Sen Indian National Congress 105,716 33.8%
Nirmal Ch. Chatterjee Independent 98,679 31.6%

1967

CandidatePartyVotesShare
B. K. Modak CPI (Marxist) 198,229 51.2%
P. K. Palit Indian National Congress 188,659 48.8%

1971

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Bijoy Krishna Modak CPI (Marxist) 202,672 47.5%
Phani Ghosh Indian National Congress 171,201 40.1%
Chitta Basu All India Forward Bloc 29,457 6.9%
Prabhat Kumar Palit Congress (O) 23,630 5.5%

1977

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Bijoy Krishna Modak CPI (Marxist) 223,818 62.6%
Bishnu Charan Banerjee Indian National Congress 117,559 32.9%
Nirmal Kumar Sen Independent 12,536 3.5%
Satya Charan Ghosh RPI 3,599 1.0%

1980

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Rup Chand Pal CPI (Marxist) 280,605 56.2%
Santimohan Roy Congress (I) 202,212 40.5%
Prabhas Palit Janata Party 12,631 2.5%
Ghosh Satya Charan RPI 2,330 0.5%
Snehamoy Dutta Independent 1,575 0.3%

1984

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Indumati Bhattacharyya Indian National Congress 320,436 50.5%
Rup Chand Pal CPI (Marxist) 309,469 48.8%
Snehamoy Datta Independent 2,621 0.4%
Parmanand Gour Independent 2,180 0.3%

1989

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Rupchand Pal CPI (Marxist) 423,701 53.6%
Umasankar Halder Indian National Congress 354,154 44.8%
Rabi Choudhury Independent 3,698 0.5%
Jatindra Nath Baral Bahujan Samaj Party 3,218 0.4%
Satish Mal Independent 1,908 0.2%
Joy Banerjee Independent 1,543 0.2%
Paresh Nath Mukherjee AMB 1,398 0.2%
Gautam Das Independent 810 0.1%
Ramjiut Patwa DDP 716 0.1%

1991

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Rupchand Pal CPI (Marxist) 383,238 49.0%
Umasnkar Halder Indian National Congress 327,579 41.9%
Sunil Das Bharatiya Janata Party 58,406 7.5%
Chittagantait Independent 3,747 0.5%
Sanjib Bhattacharyya Independent 3,507 0.4%
Jatindra Nath Boral Bahujan Samaj Party 3,452 0.4%
Ramjiut Patwa DDP 1,492 0.2%
Satish Chandra Mal Independent 755 0.1%

1996

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Rupchand Pal CPI (Marxist) 452,353 49.3%
Gouri Sankar Banerjee Indian National Congress 413,856 45.1%
Biswanath Ghosh Bharatiya Janata Party 37,812 4.1%
Baidyanath Tudu JMM 6,646 0.7%
Mantu Debnath Shiv Sena 2,389 0.3%
Mrityunjoy Mallick Independent 1,464 0.2%
Gora Chand Auddy Independent 1,260 0.1%
Ram Bali Singh Independent 1,126 0.1%
Goutam Das Independent 554 0.1%

1998

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Rupchand Pal CPI (Marxist) 431,229 46.2%
Tapan Dasgupta West Bengal Trinamool Congress 425,113 45.6%
Ipsita Roy Indian National Congress 76,120 8.2%

1999

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Rupchand Pal CPI (Marxist) 440,674 47.9%
Tapan Das Gupta All India Trinamool Congress 428,189 46.6%
Dilip Nath Indian National Congress 48,068 5.2%
Ajit Kumar Koley Independent 1,376 0.1%
Subhra Prosad Ghosh Independent 943 0.1%

2004

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Rupchand Pal CPI (Marxist) 496,890 53.7%
Indrani Mukherjee All India Trinamool Congress 329,924 35.7%
Asok Kumar Das Indian National Congress 70,173 7.6%
Keshab Chandra Soren JDP 16,931 1.8%
Matilal Mandal Bahujan Samaj Party 11,001 1.2%

2009

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Dr. Ratna De (Nag) All India Trinamool Congress 574,022 49.4%
Rupchand Pal CPI (Marxist) 492,499 42.4%
Dr. Chuni Lal Chakraborty Bharatiya Janata Party 39,784 3.4%
Swapan Murmu JDP 12,417 1.1%
Sajal Adhikari CPI (ML) Liberation 12,068 1.0%
Satya Gopal Dey Independent 10,119 0.9%
Suryya Kanta Ray Bahujan Samaj Party 9,933 0.9%
Alok Pathak Independent 6,908 0.6%
Arabinda Sen Samajwadi Party 4,894 0.4%

2014

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Dr. Ratna De (Nag) All India Trinamool Congress 614,312 45.5%
Pradip Saha CPI (Marxist) 425,228 31.5%
Dr. Chandan Mitra Bharatiya Janata Party 221,271 16.4%
Pritam Ghosh Indian National Congress 42,226 3.1%
None Of The Above Independent 16,517 1.2%
Sajal Adhikari CPI (ML) Liberation 9,152 0.7%
Paban Mazumder SUCI(C) 7,682 0.6%
Vijay Kumar Mahato Bahujan Samaj Party 5,519 0.4%
Sanghamitra Mukherjee RJP(RJP) 3,766 0.3%
Shukchand Murmu JDP 3,197 0.2%

2019

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Locket Chatterjee Bharatiya Janata Party 671,448 46.5%
Dr. Ratna De (Nag) All India Trinamool Congress 598,086 41.4%
Pradip Saha CPI (Marxist) 121,588 8.4%
Pratul Chandra Saha Indian National Congress 25,374 1.8%
Bhaskar Ghosh SUCI(C) 8,082 0.6%
Sajal Adhikari CPI (ML) Liberation 8,012 0.6%
Vijay Kumar Mahato Bahujan Samaj Party 5,138 0.4%
Noor Hossain Mondal Independent 3,509 0.2%
Dulal Ch. Hembram Independent 3,080 0.2%

Margin Over Time

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

1951: Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh margin 2.5 pts 1957: Communist Party of India margin 1.3 pts 1962: Communist Party of India margin 0.9 pts 1967: CPI (Marxist) margin 2.5 pts 1971: CPI (Marxist) margin 7.4 pts 1977: CPI (Marxist) margin 29.7 pts 1980: CPI (Marxist) margin 15.7 pts 1984: Indian National Congress margin 1.7 pts 1989: CPI (Marxist) margin 8.8 pts 1991: CPI (Marxist) margin 7.1 pts 1996: CPI (Marxist) margin 4.2 pts 1998: CPI (Marxist) margin 0.7 pts 1999: CPI (Marxist) margin 1.4 pts 2004: CPI (Marxist) margin 18.1 pts 2009: All India Trinamool Congress margin 7.0 pts 2014: All India Trinamool Congress margin 14.0 pts 2019: Bharatiya Janata Party margin 5.1 pts 1951 1957 1962 1967 1971 1977 1980 1984 1989 1991 1996 1998 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019

Trend

Hooghly has been contested at 17 Lok Sabha general elections on record since 1951. Parties that have won this seat over that span: Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh, Communist Party of India, CPI (Marxist), Indian National Congress, All India Trinamool Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Hooghly in the 2019 Lok Sabha election?

Locket Chatterjee (Bharatiya Janata Party) won Hooghly, West Bengal, in 2019 with 671,448 votes (46.5%), a margin of 73,362 votes over Dr. Ratna De (Nag).

Which parties have won Hooghly since 1951?

Since 1951, Hooghly has been won by: All India Trinamool Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party, CPI (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh, Indian National Congress.

What was the closest result in Hooghly?

The closest result on record for Hooghly was 1998, when CPI (Marxist) beat West Bengal Trinamool Congress by just 6,116 votes (0.7 percentage points).

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