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Medinipur, West Bengal — Lok Sabha Election Results

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

Medinipur (West Bengal) was won by Dilip Ghosh (Bharatiya Janata Party) at the 2019 Lok Sabha general election, with a margin of 88,952 votes over Manas Ranjan Bhunia. This page covers every Lok Sabha general election in Medinipur, West Bengal, from 1951 to 2019.

Full Election History, 1951–2019

Election Winner Party Votes Vote Share Runner-up Margin
1951 Bandopadhyaya Durga Charan Bharatiya Jana Sangh 151,494 26.6% Basu Atul Chandra (Indian National Congress) 45,508 (8.0 pts)
1957 Narasingha Malla Ugal Sanda Deb Indian National Congress 194,817 26.6% Subodh Hansda (Indian National Congress) 34,565 (4.7 pts)
1962 Gobinda Kumar Singhu Indian National Congress 131,291 49.5% Soroj Roy (Communist Party of India) 37,419 (14.1 pts)
1967 S. N. Maity BAC 185,407 56.6% G. K. Singha (Indian National Congress) 43,283 (13.2 pts)
1971 Subodh Chandra Hansda Indian National Congress 140,326 40.3% Choubey Narayan (Communist Party of India) 22,009 (6.3 pts)
1977 Ghosal Sudhir Kumar Bharatiya Lok Dal 180,061 55.2% Choubey Narayan (Communist Party of India) 34,124 (10.5 pts)
1980 Narayan Choubey Communist Party of India 276,144 57.6% Sudhir Kumar Ghosal (Congress (I)) 124,351 (25.9 pts)
1984 Narayan Choubey Communist Party of India 318,511 53.1% Ajit Kumar Khanra (Indian National Congress) 56,997 (9.5 pts)
1989 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 428,260 57.1% Gouri Choubey (Indian National Congress) 132,320 (17.7 pts)
1991 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 396,281 54.8% Birendra Bijoy Malladev (Indian National Congress) 163,523 (22.6 pts)
1996 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 488,569 56.3% D P Roy (Indian National Congress) 210,649 (24.3 pts)
1998 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 452,671 52.7% Dutta Manoranjan (Bharatiya Janata Party) 275,519 (32.1 pts)
1999 Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 414,545 48.6% Manoranjon Dutta (Bharatiya Janata Party) 28,773 (3.4 pts)
2004 Prabodh Panda Communist Party of India 480,034 52.8% Rahul ( Biswajit) Sinha (Bharatiya Janata Party) 160,760 (17.7 pts)
2009 Prabodh Panda Communist Party of India 493,021 47.3% Dipak Kumar Ghosh (All India Trinamool Congress) 48,017 (4.6 pts)
2014 Sandhya Roy All India Trinamool Congress 579,860 46.0% Prabodh Panda (Communist Party of India) 184,666 (14.7 pts)
2019 Dilip Ghosh Bharatiya Janata Party 685,433 49.1% Manas Ranjan Bhunia (All India Trinamool Congress) 88,952 (6.4 pts)

Full Result Breakdown by Election

1951

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Bandopadhyaya Durga Charan Bharatiya Jana Sangh 151,494 26.6%
Basu Atul Chandra Indian National Congress 105,986 18.6%
Hazra Bishnupada KMPP 91,171 16.0%
Tudu Bharat Lal Indian National Congress 76,921 13.5%
Hansda Subodh KMPP 72,803 12.8%
Mahato Pran Krishna FBL(MG) 39,634 7.0%
Santlal Mahendra Independent 31,198 5.5%

1957

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Narasingha Malla Ugal Sanda Deb Indian National Congress 194,817 26.6%
Subodh Hansda Indian National Congress 160,252 21.9%
Rabindra Nath Mitra Communist Party of India 155,005 21.1%
Chandra Mohan Saren Praja Socialist Party 128,556 17.5%
Amiya Krishna Khan Bharatiya Jana Sangh 62,171 8.5%
Charu Chandra Besra Independent 32,284 4.4%

1962

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Gobinda Kumar Singhu Indian National Congress 131,291 49.5%
Soroj Roy Communist Party of India 93,872 35.4%
Durga Prasanna Satpathi Praja Socialist Party 29,234 11.0%
Satyendra Nath Bose Jharkhand Party 6,110 2.3%
Ranajit Singha Sahas Roy Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh 4,988 1.9%

1967

CandidatePartyVotesShare
S. N. Maity BAC 185,407 56.6%
G. K. Singha Indian National Congress 142,124 43.4%

1971

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Subodh Chandra Hansda Indian National Congress 140,326 40.3%
Choubey Narayan Communist Party of India 118,317 34.0%
Subhendu Roy CPI (Marxist) 39,569 11.4%
Krishna Das Roy Congress (O) 29,985 8.6%
Binoyendra Nath Dasgupta BAC 20,193 5.8%

1977

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Ghosal Sudhir Kumar Bharatiya Lok Dal 180,061 55.2%
Choubey Narayan Communist Party of India 145,937 44.8%

1980

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Narayan Choubey Communist Party of India 276,144 57.6%
Sudhir Kumar Ghosal Congress (I) 151,793 31.7%
Narendra Das Janata Party 28,618 6.0%
Gyan Singh Sohanpal Congress (U) 9,882 2.1%
Bhusan Mondal SUC 4,506 0.9%
Dulai Chandra Murmu JKD 4,305 0.9%
Satya Ghosh Independent 3,134 0.7%
Bhim Charan Tudu Independent 1,095 0.2%

1984

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Narayan Choubey Communist Party of India 318,511 53.1%
Ajit Kumar Khanra Indian National Congress 261,514 43.6%
Abdul Rahim Independent 5,677 0.9%
Dilip Maiti SUC 3,927 0.7%
Bachneshwar Saha Independent 2,527 0.4%
Gour Hari Bhattacharya Independent 1,868 0.3%
Ashoke Chendra Dey Independent 1,550 0.3%
Jitendra Nath De Independent 1,344 0.2%
Indra Deo Das Independent 762 0.1%
Sushil Kumar Independent 666 0.1%
Tarak Das Dutta Independent 522 0.1%
Mirza Ohidur Rahaman Beg Independent 424 0.1%

1989

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 428,260 57.1%
Gouri Choubey Indian National Congress 295,940 39.5%
Dulal Chandra Murmu JKD 12,650 1.7%
Dilip Maiti Independent 6,522 0.9%
Satish Chandra Biswas Bahujan Samaj Party 2,456 0.3%
Dinabandhu Mukherjee AMB 2,070 0.3%
Sushil Kumar Independent 810 0.1%
Satyanarayan Kotwala DDP 708 0.1%

1991

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 396,281 54.8%
Birendra Bijoy Malladev Indian National Congress 232,758 32.2%
Monoranjan Dutta Bharatiya Janata Party 68,772 9.5%
Dilip Maity Independent 6,372 0.9%
Mirza Ohidur Rahaman Janata Party 5,550 0.8%
Padma Lochan Roy Independent 4,717 0.7%
Chandra Mohan Hansda HJP 4,526 0.6%
Satish Chandra Biswas Bahujan Samaj Party 1,852 0.3%
Satya Naraiyan Kotwala DDP 1,335 0.2%
Sushil Kumar Independent 678 0.1%

1996

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 488,569 56.3%
D P Roy Indian National Congress 277,920 32.0%
Manoranjan Datta Bharatiya Janata Party 58,751 6.8%
Sudeb Banprasthi Independent 9,290 1.1%
Naba Kumar Shau AMB 7,828 0.9%
Dilip Maiti Independent 7,286 0.8%
Jatin Pratihar JKP(N) 7,008 0.8%
Debashish Konar Independent 2,313 0.3%
Shachin Mahato HJKP 2,305 0.3%
Sarif Mollick Indian Union Muslim League 1,831 0.2%
Prabhakar Mahato JKP 1,721 0.2%
Padma Lochan Roy SAP 1,046 0.1%
Ajit Kumar Maity Independent 772 0.1%
Vivek Kumar Baderia Independent 742 0.1%
Sushil Kumar Independent 294 0.0%
Satyanarayan Kothoyala Independent 260 0.0%

1998

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 452,671 52.7%
Dutta Manoranjan Bharatiya Janata Party 177,152 20.6%
Dr Nitish Sengupta West Bengal Trinamool Congress 131,352 15.3%
Satish Chandra Jana Indian National Congress 90,737 10.6%
Sheik Abu Bakar Independent 3,448 0.4%
Kalipada Tudu JKP 1,702 0.2%
Gajen Nayak AMB 1,148 0.1%

1999

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 414,545 48.6%
Manoranjon Dutta Bharatiya Janata Party 385,772 45.3%
Samir Roy Indian National Congress 47,013 5.5%
Akshay Kumar Khan Independent 4,512 0.5%
Mritunjoy Chakraborty Independent 650 0.1%

2004

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Prabodh Panda Communist Party of India 480,034 52.8%
Rahul ( Biswajit) Sinha Bharatiya Janata Party 319,274 35.1%
Narayan Chandra Paria Indian National Congress 68,338 7.5%
Panchanan Pradhan Independent 10,243 1.1%
Madhumanti Sengupta Nationalist Congress Party 9,901 1.1%
Mritunjoy Chakraborty Independent 9,440 1.0%
Asit Kumar Khatua JKP(N) 7,249 0.8%
Lalit Kumar Jaiswal Shiv Sena 4,020 0.4%

2009

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Prabodh Panda Communist Party of India 493,021 47.3%
Dipak Kumar Ghosh All India Trinamool Congress 445,004 42.7%
Pradip Patnaik Bharatiya Janata Party 52,061 5.0%
Asok Kumar Golder Bahujan Samaj Party 12,216 1.2%
Sanjay Mishra Independent 11,092 1.1%
Nepal Das JMM 10,324 1.0%
Partha Addhya Independent 6,974 0.7%
Amit Moitra Independent 4,290 0.4%
Mukul Kumar Maiti RDMP 4,016 0.4%
De Sukumar Independent 3,498 0.3%

2014

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Sandhya Roy All India Trinamool Congress 579,860 46.0%
Prabodh Panda Communist Party of India 395,194 31.4%
Prabhakar Tewari Bharatiya Janata Party 180,112 14.3%
Dr. Bimal Kumar Raj Indian National Congress 48,883 3.9%
None Of The Above Independent 13,626 1.1%
Tushar Jana SUCI(C) 9,783 0.8%
Kavita Rani Bahujan Samaj Party 8,639 0.7%
Ashok Bera AB 7,883 0.6%
Soumen Samanta PDS 6,062 0.5%
Mukim Khan JMM 5,335 0.4%
Ramkrisna Sarkar Independent 4,655 0.4%

2019

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Dilip Ghosh Bharatiya Janata Party 685,433 49.1%
Manas Ranjan Bhunia All India Trinamool Congress 596,481 42.8%
Biplab Bhatta Communist Party of India 62,319 4.5%
Sambhunath Chattapadhyay Indian National Congress 20,807 1.5%
Rabindra Nath Bera AB 8,570 0.6%
Ramkrishna Sarkar Bahujan Samaj Party 7,568 0.5%
Tushar Jana SUCI(C) 6,603 0.5%
Tapas Kumar Kar Independent 4,183 0.3%
Ashoke Sarkar Shiv Sena 3,093 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: Bharatiya Jana Sangh margin 8.0 pts 1957: Indian National Congress margin 4.7 pts 1962: Indian National Congress margin 14.1 pts 1967: BAC margin 13.2 pts 1971: Indian National Congress margin 6.3 pts 1977: Bharatiya Lok Dal margin 10.5 pts 1980: Communist Party of India margin 25.9 pts 1984: Communist Party of India margin 9.5 pts 1989: Communist Party of India margin 17.7 pts 1991: Communist Party of India margin 22.6 pts 1996: Communist Party of India margin 24.3 pts 1998: Communist Party of India margin 32.1 pts 1999: Communist Party of India margin 3.4 pts 2004: Communist Party of India margin 17.7 pts 2009: Communist Party of India margin 4.6 pts 2014: All India Trinamool Congress margin 14.7 pts 2019: Bharatiya Janata Party margin 6.4 pts 1951 1957 1962 1967 1971 1977 1980 1984 1989 1991 1996 1998 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019

Trend

Medinipur has been contested at 17 Lok Sabha general elections on record since 1951. Parties that have won this seat over that span: Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Indian National Congress, BAC, Bharatiya Lok Dal, Communist Party of India, All India Trinamool Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Medinipur in the 2019 Lok Sabha election?

Dilip Ghosh (Bharatiya Janata Party) won Medinipur, West Bengal, in 2019 with 685,433 votes (49.1%), a margin of 88,952 votes over Manas Ranjan Bhunia.

Which parties have won Medinipur since 1951?

Since 1951, Medinipur has been won by: All India Trinamool Congress, BAC, Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Bharatiya Janata Party, Bharatiya Lok Dal, Communist Party of India, Indian National Congress.

What was the closest result in Medinipur?

The closest result on record for Medinipur was 1999, when Communist Party of India beat Bharatiya Janata Party by just 28,773 votes (3.4 percentage points).

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