Kolkata North West, West Bengal — Lok Sabha Election Results

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

Kolkata North West (West Bengal) was won by Sudhangshu Seal (CPI (Marxist)) at the 2004 Lok Sabha general election, with a margin of 43,004 votes over Subrata Mukherjee. This page covers every Lok Sabha general election in Kolkata North West, West Bengal, from 1951 to 2004.

Full Election History, 1951–2004

Election	Winner	Party	Votes	Vote Share	Runner-up	Margin
1951	Meghnath Shah	Revolutionary Socialist Party	74,124	53.0%	Himatsingka Prabhu Dayal (Indian National Congress)	22,956 (16.4 pts)
1957	Asoke Kumar Sen	Indian National Congress	102,807	49.9%	Mohit Maitra (Independent)	5,927 (2.9 pts)
1962	Asoke Kumar Sen	Indian National Congress	143,725	54.5%	Snehangshu Kanta Acharyya (Communist Party of India)	33,378 (12.7 pts)
1967	A. K. Sen	Indian National Congress	154,664	45.7%	S. P. Roy (Independent)	64,826 (19.1 pts)
1971	Asoke Kumar Sen	Indian National Congress	144,055	57.3%	Prasanta Kumar Sur (CPI (Marxist))	73,279 (29.1 pts)
1977	Bijoy Singh Nahar	Bharatiya Lok Dal	179,681	57.2%	Ashoke Kumar Sen (Indian National Congress)	69,633 (22.2 pts)
1980	Ashoke Kumar Sen	Congress (I)	150,476	47.9%	Shyam Sundar Gupta (All India Forward Bloc)	43,833 (14.0 pts)
1984	Ashok Kumar Sen	Indian National Congress	242,982	64.2%	Amiya Nath Bose (All India Forward Bloc)	132,422 (35.0 pts)
1989	Debi Prasad Pal	Indian National Congress	219,586	50.9%	Ashoke Kumar Sen (Janata Dal)	54,732 (12.7 pts)
1991	Debi Prosad Pal	Indian National Congress	166,227	41.4%	Dilip Chakravarty (Janata Dal)	31,819 (7.9 pts)
1996	Debi Prosad Pal	Indian National Congress	212,637	48.3%	Shyamal Bhattacherjee (Janata Dal)	64,951 (14.8 pts)
1998	Sudip Bandyopadhyay	West Bengal Trinamool Congress	226,832	49.1%	Sarala Maheswari (CPI (Marxist))	73,483 (15.9 pts)
1999	Sudip Bandyopadhyay	All India Trinamool Congress	206,684	46.6%	Rajdeo Goala (CPI (Marxist))	94,170 (21.2 pts)
2004	Sudhangshu Seal	CPI (Marxist)	151,772	42.1%	Subrata Mukherjee (All India Trinamool Congress)	43,004 (11.9 pts)

Full Result Breakdown by Election

1951

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Meghnath Shah	Revolutionary Socialist Party	74,124	53.0%
Himatsingka Prabhu Dayal	Indian National Congress	51,168	36.6%
Singhi Bhanwarmal	Independent	4,686	3.4%
Sen Gupta Nalini Ranjan	RRP	4,595	3.3%
Moitra Mohit Kumar	Independent	1,998	1.4%
Mitter Karuna	Independent	1,383	1.0%
Roy Butto Kumar	Independent	1,018	0.7%
Sen Panchu Gopal	Independent	759	0.5%

1957

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Asoke Kumar Sen	Indian National Congress	102,807	49.9%
Mohit Maitra	Independent	96,880	47.0%
Sanjib Kr. Choudhury	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	6,307	3.1%

1962

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Asoke Kumar Sen	Indian National Congress	143,725	54.5%
Snehangshu Kanta Acharyya	Communist Party of India	110,347	41.9%
Chandi Prasad Kedia	Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh	5,913	2.2%
Dinesh Das Gupta	Socialist Party	3,554	1.3%

1967

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
A. K. Sen	Indian National Congress	154,664	45.7%
S. P. Roy	Independent	89,838	26.5%
B. Haripada	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	82,455	24.3%
P. Dey	Independent	4,124	1.2%
K. Chandiprasad	Independent	3,863	1.1%
A. D. Prasad	Independent	3,796	1.1%

1971

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Asoke Kumar Sen	Indian National Congress	144,055	57.3%
Prasanta Kumar Sur	CPI (Marxist)	70,776	28.1%
Hari Pada Bharati	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	34,397	13.7%
Bindu Prasad Gupta	Independent	2,316	0.9%

1977

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Bijoy Singh Nahar	Bharatiya Lok Dal	179,681	57.2%
Ashoke Kumar Sen	Indian National Congress	110,048	35.1%
Upendra Nath Haldar	Independent	19,839	6.3%
Shankarb Lal Bajoria	Independent	1,402	0.4%
Fazal Ahmad	Independent	754	0.2%
Loke Nath Saraf	Independent	737	0.2%
Sujit Chakrabarty	Independent	724	0.2%
Basanta Singh	Independent	695	0.2%

1980

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Ashoke Kumar Sen	Congress (I)	150,476	47.9%
Shyam Sundar Gupta	All India Forward Bloc	106,643	33.9%
Bijay Singh Nahar	Janata Party	44,611	14.2%
Ranajit Kumar Mitra	Janata Party (Secular)	3,542	1.1%
Ganadeb Mullick	Independent	2,146	0.7%
Durga Dutt Agarwal	Independent	1,322	0.4%
Mohan Lal Soni	Independent	1,041	0.3%
Bishnu Kant Thakur	Independent	708	0.2%
S.C. Roy	Independent	612	0.2%
Shew Prasad Gupta	Bahujan Samaj Party	576	0.2%
Upendra Nath Halder	Independent	500	0.2%
Ramenda Bhusan Singh	Independent	484	0.2%
Bikram Singh Chandallia	Independent	474	0.2%
Pratap Narayan Tiwari	Independent	421	0.1%
Milap Chand Choraria	Independent	324	0.1%
Karuma Nidhan Roy	Independent	288	0.1%

1984

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Ashok Kumar Sen	Indian National Congress	242,982	64.2%
Amiya Nath Bose	All India Forward Bloc	110,560	29.2%
Durga Prasad Nathany	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,781	2.9%
Ibrahim Khan	Independent	5,611	1.5%
Benoy Sirkar	Independent	1,982	0.5%
Agarwal Durga Dutt	Independent	1,233	0.3%
Arun Biswas	Independent	1,222	0.3%
Babban Singh	Independent	1,189	0.3%
Ram Beharilal Thaliya	Independent	905	0.2%
Ashok Jain(Chabra)	Independent	821	0.2%
Ram Chhabila Shahi	Independent	496	0.1%
Hifzur Rahman Khan	Independent	439	0.1%

1989

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Debi Prasad Pal	Indian National Congress	219,586	50.9%
Ashoke Kumar Sen	Janata Dal	164,854	38.2%
Shanti Lal Jain	Bharatiya Janata Party	31,677	7.3%
Gulam Samdani Asrafi	Independent	2,894	0.7%
Shibji Prasad Gupta	Independent	1,800	0.4%
Agarwal Durga Dutta	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	1,527	0.4%
Lok Nath Saraf	Independent	1,116	0.3%
Bimal Kumar Bilotia	Independent	652	0.2%
Benoy Sircar	Independent	602	0.1%
Ram Beharilal Thlia	Independent	597	0.1%
Ambar Chatterjee	AMB	560	0.1%
Md. Ayub	Independent	536	0.1%
Gopal Taparia	Independent	516	0.1%
Basant Singh	Independent	484	0.1%
Sambhu Singh	Independent	409	0.1%
Debabrata Ghosh	Independent	373	0.1%
Prakash Chandra Saksena	Independent	331	0.1%
Lakshmi Narayan Mimani	Independent	294	0.1%
Md. Maniruddin	Independent	253	0.1%
Md. Yousuf	Independent	229	0.1%
Raj Kumar Jain	Independent	219	0.1%
Baleswar Singh	Independent	206	0.0%
Rajnarayan Pathak	Independent	200	0.0%
Shankarlal Bajoria	Independent	187	0.0%
Ramendira Pandey	Independent	173	0.0%
Md. Yasin Mullick	Independent	165	0.0%
Bajaj Mahabir Prasad	Independent	156	0.0%
Indranil Kumar	Independent	97	0.0%
Tonny Malhotra	Independent	96	0.0%
Krishna Saha	Independent	80	0.0%
Jagdish Kumar Gupta	Independent	73	0.0%
Yadav Shreebhik	DDP	65	0.0%

1991

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Debi Prosad Pal	Indian National Congress	166,227	41.4%
Dilip Chakravarty	Janata Dal	134,408	33.5%
Victor Baerjee	Bharatiya Janata Party	89,155	22.2%
Singh Bimla (W)	Janata Party	2,190	0.5%
Lok Nath Saraf	Independent	1,523	0.4%
Ram Beharilal Thlia	Independent	999	0.2%
Lok Nath Choudhury	LKD	621	0.2%
Hari Naraiyan Ray	Bahujan Samaj Party	607	0.2%
Agarwal Durga Dutt	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	596	0.1%
Chhedi Lal Jalan	DDP	574	0.1%
Naraiyan Ch. Roy	Independent	539	0.1%
Shyam Sunder Bhiwaniwala	Independent	527	0.1%
Bimal Sengupta	Independent	497	0.1%
Dayasankar Tewari	Independent	480	0.1%
Asis Kumar Nandi	Independent	383	0.1%
Biswa Nath Das	Independent	280	0.1%
Roy Ranjit Kumar	HSS	272	0.1%
Bimal Kumar Bilotia	Independent	241	0.1%
Lakshmi Naraiyan Mamani	SUP	216	0.1%
Balswar Singh	Independent	207	0.1%
Ravindra Kumar Jain	Independent	203	0.1%
Ramendra Pandey	Independent	167	0.0%
Pathak Raj Naraiyan	Independent	144	0.0%
Laxmi Naraiyan Ojha	Independent	116	0.0%
Sita Ram Goenka	Independent	116	0.0%
Kapil Muni Pande	Independent	105	0.0%
Tapan Kumar Seal	Independent	100	0.0%
Durga Prasad	Independent	91	0.0%

1996

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Debi Prosad Pal	Indian National Congress	212,637	48.3%
Shyamal Bhattacherjee	Janata Dal	147,686	33.6%
Amal Dutta	Bharatiya Janata Party	59,395	13.5%
Himadri Bhusan Kali	Independent	4,374	1.0%
Kanaram	Independent	1,903	0.4%
Tapan Seal	Independent	1,691	0.4%
Rena Ghosh	Independent	1,171	0.3%
Sasanka Saha	Independent	1,061	0.2%
Sadanand Sharma	Independent	967	0.2%
Bimalkumar Bilotia	Independent	954	0.2%
Sajal Bardhan	SMP	710	0.2%
Ranjit Kumar Roy	SAP	684	0.2%
Vidya Sagar Tiwari	AIIC(T)	623	0.1%
Barun Goswami	Independent	621	0.1%
Nirmal Roy	Independent	610	0.1%
Lakshmi Narayan Nimani	Independent	603	0.1%
Md. Maniruddin Talib	Independent	535	0.1%
Kishan Lal Sanganeria	Independent	531	0.1%
Kali Nath Singh	Independent	460	0.1%
Ramendra Pandey	Independent	455	0.1%
Ram Chhabila Shahi	Independent	428	0.1%
Sanjib Karmakar	Independent	402	0.1%
Samir Kumar Sarkar	Independent	360	0.1%
Bihari Lal Thalia	Independent	339	0.1%
Tarak Bhattacharjee	Independent	305	0.1%
Saraff Lok Nath	Independent	284	0.1%
Ramesh Singh	Independent	233	0.1%
Tirthankar Choudhary	Independent	102	0.0%

1998

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sudip Bandyopadhyay	West Bengal Trinamool Congress	226,832	49.1%
Sarala Maheswari	CPI (Marxist)	153,349	33.2%
Debiprasad Pal	Indian National Congress	75,047	16.2%
Kana Ram	Shiv Sena	1,421	0.3%
Ramen Pandey	Independent	1,393	0.3%
Abdul Samad Sardar	AIIC(S)	845	0.2%
Ashoke Dutta	Independent	777	0.2%
Gholam Mohammad	Independent	698	0.2%
Narayan Saha	Independent	597	0.1%
Ashok Pandey	SAP	480	0.1%
Bihari Lal Thalia	Independent	323	0.1%
Sultan Ahmed Tarafder	Independent	206	0.0%
Amar Nath Sen	Independent	153	0.0%
Indranil Coomar	Independent	148	0.0%

1999

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sudip Bandyopadhyay	All India Trinamool Congress	206,684	46.6%
Rajdeo Goala	CPI (Marxist)	112,514	25.4%
Siddhartha Sankar Ray	Indian National Congress	106,430	24.0%
Sasanka Saha	Independent	3,888	0.9%
Masarrat Begum	Janata Dal (Secular)	3,076	0.7%
Asiruddin	Rashtriya Janata Dal	2,602	0.6%
Purna Chandra Ghosh	Independent	1,914	0.4%
Narayan Saha	Independent	1,857	0.4%
Pradyut Saha	Independent	1,173	0.3%
Indranil Coomar	Independent	1,141	0.3%
Parimal Biswas	Janata Party	1,017	0.2%
Imtiaz Alam(Fahim)	Independent	626	0.1%
Bihari Lal Thalia	Independent	564	0.1%

2004

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sudhangshu Seal	CPI (Marxist)	151,772	42.1%
Subrata Mukherjee	All India Trinamool Congress	108,768	30.2%
Bandyopadhyay Sudip	Independent	81,952	22.8%
Sudip Bandyopadhyay	Independent	3,450	1.0%
Prof. Vijay K. Arora "Samyak"	Independent	2,666	0.7%
Sudhir Kr. Bishram	Independent	2,201	0.6%
Ashim Das	Independent	2,172	0.6%
Rizwan Ahmad Siddiqui	Bahujan Samaj Party	2,127	0.6%
Subrata Banerjee	Independent	1,185	0.3%
Biplab Mukherjee	Independent	1,079	0.3%
Pandey Ramendra	Independent	969	0.3%
Gopal Ch. Saha	Independent	697	0.2%
Lok Nath Saraff	Independent	640	0.2%
Kamalesh Ojha	Independent	439	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

Kolkata North West has been contested at 14 Lok Sabha general elections on record since 1951. Parties that have won this seat over that span: Revolutionary Socialist Party, Indian National Congress, Bharatiya Lok Dal, Congress (I), West Bengal Trinamool Congress, All India Trinamool Congress, CPI (Marxist).

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Kolkata North West in the 2004 Lok Sabha election?

Sudhangshu Seal (CPI (Marxist)) won Kolkata North West, West Bengal, in 2004 with 151,772 votes (42.1%), a margin of 43,004 votes over Subrata Mukherjee.

Which parties have won Kolkata North West since 1951?

Since 1951, Kolkata North West has been won by: All India Trinamool Congress, Bharatiya Lok Dal, CPI (Marxist), Congress (I), Indian National Congress, Revolutionary Socialist Party, West Bengal Trinamool Congress.

What was the closest result in Kolkata North West?

The closest result on record for Kolkata North West was 1957, when Indian National Congress beat Independent by just 5,927 votes (2.9 percentage points).