Tripura West Lok Sabha constituency

Tripura West
TR-1
Tripura West ; TR-1
Lok Sabha constituency
	Interactive Map Outlining Tripura East Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Northeast India
State	Tripura
Assembly constituencies	30: Simna, Mohanpur, Bamutia, Barjala, Khayerpur, Agartala, Ramnagar, Town Bordowali, Banamalipur, Majlishpur, Mandaibazar, Takarjala, Pratapgarh, Badharghat, Kamalasagar, Bishalgarh, Golaghati, Suryamaninagar, Charilam, Boxanagar, Nalchar, Sonamura, Dhanpur, Bagma, Radhakishorpur, Matarbari, Kakraban-Salgarh, Rajnagar, Belonia and Santirbazar
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Biplab Kumar Deb
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2024

Tripura West Lok Sabha constituency (Bengali: ত্রিপুরা পশ্চিম লোকসভা কেন্দ্র) is one of two Lok Sabha constituencies in Tripura state in northeastern India. It includes the state capital Agartala.

Assembly segments

Tripura West Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:^[1]

#	Name	District	Member
1	Simna	West Tripura	Brishaketu Debbarma	Tipra Motha Party
2	Mohanpur		Ratan Lal Nath	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Bamutia		Nayan Sarkar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4	Barjala		Sudip Sarkar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
5	Khayerpur		Ratan Chakraborty	Bharatiya Janata Party
6	Agartala		Sudip Roy Barman	Indian National Congress
7	Ramnagar		Dipak Majumdar	Bharatiya Janata Party
8	Town Bordowali		Manik Saha	Bharatiya Janata Party
9	Banamalipur		Gopal Chandra Roy	Indian National Congress
10	Majlishpur		Sushanta Chowdhury	Bharatiya Janata Party
11	Mandaibazar		Swapna Debbarma	Tipra Motha Party
12	Takarjala	Sipahijala	Biswajit Kalai	Tipra Motha Party
13	Pratapgarh	West Tripura	Ramu Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
14	Badarghat	West Tripura	Mina Rani Sarkar	Bharatiya Janata Party
15	Kamalasagar	Sipahijala	Antara Sarkar Deb	Bharatiya Janata Party
16	Bishalgarh		Sushanta Deb	Bharatiya Janata Party
17	Golaghati		Manab Debbarma	Tipra Motha Party
18	Suryamaninagar	West Tripura	Ram Prasad Paul	Bharatiya Janata Party
19	Charilam	Sipahijala	Subodh Debbarma	Tipra Motha Party
20	Boxanagar		Tafajjal Hossain	Bharatiya Janata Party
21	Nalchar (SC)		Kishor Barman	Bharatiya Janata Party
22	Sonamura		Shyamal Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
23	Dhanpur		Bindu Debnath	Bharatiya Janata Party
30	Bagma	Gomati	Ram Pada Jamatia	Bharatiya Janata Party
31	Radhakishorpur		Pranjit Singha Roy	Bharatiya Janata Party
32	Matarbari		Abhishek Debroy	Bharatiya Janata Party
33	Kakraban-Salgarh		Jitendra Majumder	Bharatiya Janata Party
34	Rajnagar	South Tripura	Swapna Majumder	Bharatiya Janata Party
35	Belonia		Dipankar Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
36	Santirbazar (ST)		Pramod Reang	Bharatiya Janata Party

Members of Parliament

Year	Member
1952	Birendra Chandra Dutta	Communist Party of India
1957	Bangshi Deb Barma	Indian National Congress
1962	Birendra Chandra Dutta	Communist Party of India
1967	J. K. Chaudhury	Indian National Congress
1971	Birendra Chandra Dutta	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1977	Sachindra Lal Singh	Janata Party
1980	Ajoy Biswas	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1984	Ajoy Biswas	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1989	Santosh Mohan Dev	Indian National Congress
1991	Santosh Mohan Dev	Indian National Congress
1996	Badal Choudhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1998	Samar Chowdhury
1999	Samar Chowdhury
2002^	Khagen Das
2004
2009
2014	Sankar Prasad Datta
2019	Pratima Bhoumik	Bharatiya Janata Party
2024	Biplab Kumar Deb	Bharatiya Janata Party

^By Poll

Election results

Vote share of winning candidates

2024			72.85%
2019			51.74%
2014			62.61%
2009			60.14%
2004			70.86%
2002			57.07%
1999			56.50%

2024

2024 Indian general election: Tripura West^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Biplab Kumar Deb	881,341	72.85	21.11
	INC	Ashish Kumar Saha	2,69,763	22.30	1.86
	NOTA	None of the Above	14,612	1.21	0.13
Majority			6,11,578	50.55	22.86
Turnout			12,09,809	82.66	0.78
Registered electors			14,63,526	^[3]
	BJP hold		Swing

2019

General Election, 2019: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pratima Bhoumik	573,532	51.74	46.64
	INC	Subal Bhowmik	2,67,843	24.16	8.48
	CPI(M)	Sankar Prasad Datta	1,71,826	15.50	47.11
	IPFT	Brishaketu Debbarma	44,225	3.99
	NOTA	None of the Above	11,960	1.08
	AITC	Maman Khan	8,613	0.78	10.19
Majority			3,05,669	27.69
Turnout			11,07,755	81.88
	BJP gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2014

General Election, 2014: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Sankar Prasad Datta	671,665	62.61	2.47
	INC	Arunoday Saha	1,68,179	15.68	17.95
	AITC	Ratan Chakraborti	1,17,727	10.97	10.38
	BJP	Sudhindra Chandra Dasgupta	54,706	5.10	2.38
Majority			5,03,476	46.93	20.42
Turnout			10,75,932	86.17
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

2009

General Election, 2009: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Khagen Das	563,799	60.14	10.72
	INC	Sudip Roy Barman	3,15,250	33.63	17.63
	BJP	Nilmani Deb	25,468	2.72	2.72
Majority			2,48,549	26.51	23.21
Turnout			9,37,517	85.71	20.00
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	4.88

2004

General Election, 2004: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Khagen Das	496,943	70.86	13.79
	INC	Nirmala Dasgupta	1,12,207	16.00	19.63
	AITC	Amar Mallik	67,379	9.61	4.73
	Independent	Ramu Banik	10,787	1.54	1.34
	Independent	Brajalal Debnath	7,023	1	New
	AMB	Rakhalraj Datta	6,920	0.99	0.33
Majority			3,84,736	55.00	5.28
Turnout			7,01,159	67.20	0.30
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

2002 by-election

A by-election was held in this constituency on 12 November 2002 which was necessitated by the Death of sitting MP Samar Chowdhury. In the by-election, Khagen Das of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Manik Deb of Congress by 1,50,843 votes.

Indian Parliamentary bye election, 2002: Tripura West constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Khagen Das	394,364	57.07	0.57
	INC	Manik Deb	2,43,521	35.63	23.03
	AITC	Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar	33,353	4.88	21.52
	AMB	Rakhal Raj Datta	4,538	0.66	0.36
	Independent	Sukumar Ghosh	2,132	0.31	New
	NCP	Rajkumar Kamaljit Singh	1,998	0.29	0.01
	Independent	Biswajit Debnath	1,357	0.21	New
	Independent	Ramu Banik	1,333	0.2	N/A
	Independent	Jitendra Chandra Das	828	0.12	0.18
Majority			1,50,843	49.72	19.62
Turnout			7,01,159	67.50	2.60
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1999

General Election, 1999: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Samar Chowdhury	372,553	56.5	9.80
	AITC	Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar	1,74,154	26.4	New
	INC	Pijush Kanti Biswas	83,384	12.6	31.50
	Independent	Sridam Deb Barma	5,292	0.8	N/A
	CPI(M-L)	Partha Karmakar	3,464	0.50	N/A
	Independent	Jitendra Chandra Das	2,023	0.30	N/A
	AMB	Rakhalraj Datta	1,912	0.30	New
	NCP	Bir Ballav Saha	1,895	0.30	New
	Independent	Brajalal Debnath	1,379	0.20	N/A
	Independent	Pathik Chakraborty	951	0.10	N/A
	RJD	Subrata Bhowmik	949	0.10	0.10
	JP	Madhusudan Saha	387	0.10	N/A
Majority			1,98,399	30.1	27.6
Turnout			6,59,406	70.1	12.3
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General Election, 1998

1998 Indian general election: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Samar Choudhury	347,970	47.48	3.22
	INC	Radhika Ranjan Gupta	329,094	44.91	6.03
	BJP	Hemendu Sankar Roy Choudhury	50,391	6.88	1.99
	Independent	Debendra Debbarma	2,285	0.31	N/A
	AMB	Bhuban Bijoy Majumder	1,873	0.26	0.12
	RJD	Subrata Bhowmik	1,195	0.16
Majority			18,876	2.57	9.25
Turnout
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General Election, 1996

1996 Indian general election: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Badal Choudhury	346,457	50.70	44.28
	INC	Ashok Kumar Bhattacharyya	265,646	38.88	44.59
	BJP	Hemendu Sankar Roy Choudhury	33,414	4.89	2.08
	TUS	Shyama Charan Tripura	23,933	3.50
	Independent	Harinath Deb Barma	4,228	0.62	N/A
	JD	Nikhil Debnath	3,677	0.54
	AMB	Bhuban Bijoy Majumder	2,618	0.38	1.06
	Independent	Sukumar Saha	1,153	0.17	N/A
	Independent	Brajalal Debnath	1,110	0.16	N/A
	Independent	Swapan Acharjee	585	0.09	N/A
	Independent	Anukul Chandra Saha (Sadhubhai)	503	0.07	N/A
Majority			80,811	11.82	65.23
Turnout
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General Election, 1991

1991 Indian general election: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Santosh Mohan Deo	464,743	83.47
	CPI(M)	Manik Sarkar	35,759	6.42
	Independent	Bhupen Datta Bhaumik	19,833	3.56
	BJP	Brojesh Chakraborty	15,662	2.81
	AMB	Rakhal Raj Dutta	7,998	1.44
	Independent	Nikhil Debnath	3,523	0.63
	Independent	Biswas Mohan Debbarma	2,974	0.53
	Independent	Ratan Kumar Sarkar	2,879	0.52
	Independent	Akhil Debbnath	2,570	0.46
	Independent	Manik Sarkar	831	0.15
Majority			428,984	77.05
Turnout
	INC hold		Swing

General Election, 1984

1984 Indian general elections: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Santosh Mohan Dev	410,904	60.95
	CPI(M)	Manik Sarkar	244,749	36.31
	BJP	Maharaj Kumar Nakshatra Bikram Deb Barma	7,376	1.09
	Independent	Akhilchandra Debnath	4,472	0.66
	AMB	Bhuban Bijoy Majumdar	3,608	0.54
	Independent	Nikhil Debnath	2,526	0.37
	Independent	Kirti Jiban Majumdar	484	0.07
Majority			166,155	24.64
Turnout
	INC hold		Swing

General Election, 1980

1980 Indian general election: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Ajoy Biswas	198,335	46.83
	INC	Ashok Kr. Bhattacharya	142,990	33.76
	TUS	Biswa Kumar Deb Barma	50,555	11.94
	Independent	Bhuban Bijoy Majumder	21,315	5.03
	JP	Dwijen Dey	5,657	1.34
	INC(U)	Tarit Mohan Das Gupta	4,639	1.10
Majority			55,345	13.07
Turnout
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General Election, 1977

1977 Indian general election: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JP	Sachindralal Singha	104,858	34.14
	INC(R)	Tarit Mohan Dasgupta	99,811	32.50
	CPI(M)	Nripendra Chakraborti	79,794	25.98
	TUS	Harinath Deb Barma	22,661	7.38
Majority			5,047	1.64
Turnout
	JP hold		Swing

General Election, 1971

1971 Indian general election: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Biren Dutta	88,264	45.18
	INC(R)	Anil Kumar Sen	80,026	40.96
	CPI	Saroj Ranjan Chanda	16,193	8.29
	Independent	Drao Kumar Rinag	8,833	4.52
	ABJS	Harendra Kishore Roy Barman	2,038	1.04
Majority			8,238	4.22
Turnout
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General Election, 1967

1967 Indian general election: [Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	J. K. Choudhury	125,965	57.75
	CPI(M)	B. C. Dutta	92,143	42.25
Majority			33,822	15.50
Turnout
	INC hold		Swing

General Election, 1962

1962 Indian general election: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI	Birendra Chandra Dutta	86,084	52.12
	INC	Sukhamoy Sen Gupta	69,095	41.83
	PSP	Narayan Chandra Dey	6,302	3.82
	Eastern India Tribal Union	Sneha Kumar Chakma	3,687	2.23
Majority			16,989	10.29
Turnout
	CPI hold		Swing

General Election, 1957

In 1957, there was only one constituency named Tripura, and it was a double-member seat representing a single constituency.

1957 Indian general election: Tripura
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Deb Barma Bangshi	133,078	24.18
	CPI	Deb Dasaratha	128,624	23.37
	INC	Singh Umesh Lal	120,163	21.83
	CPI	Dutta Birendra	119,798	21.77
	Independent	Choudhury Jogendra Kumar	25,227	4.58
	Independent	Deb Barma Lalit Mohan	15,806	2.87
	Independent	Chakma Sneha Kumar	7,642	1.39
Majority
Turnout
	INC hold		Swing

General Election, 1951

1951 Indian general election: Tripura West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI	Birendra Chandra Dutt	53,592	68.84
	Independent	M. K. Durjoykishore Dev Barman	10,987	14.11
	INC	Sukumar Chakraborty	10,613	13.63
	ABJS	Benoy Ganguly	2,659	3.42
Majority			42,605	54.73
Turnout
	CPI hold		Swing

References

^ "Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies" (PDF). Tripura. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2005. Retrieved 8 October 2008.
^ "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Tripura West". 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 28 September 2024. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
^ "EC releases absolute number of voters for all completed phases" (PDF). elections24.eci.gov.in. 25 May 2024.

External links

Tripura West lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule

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[1] "Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies" (PDF). Tripura. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2005. Retrieved 8 October 2008.

[2024_Loksabha_Elections_Results_-_Tripura_West-2] "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Tripura West". 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 28 September 2024. Retrieved 28 September 2024.

[3] "EC releases absolute number of voters for all completed phases" (PDF). elections24.eci.gov.in. 25 May 2024.

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