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Lok Sabha 2019 constituency: Trinamool will aim to keep Cooch Behar seat

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By
Apr 11, 2019 11:18 AM IST

Partha Pratim Ray of the Trinamool Congress is the sitting member of Parliament from the Cooch Behar Lok Sabha seat, once a stronghold of the All India Forward Bloc.

Cooch Behar is one of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal and reserved for members of the Scheduled Caste communities.

Partha Pratim Ray of the Trinamool Congress is the sitting member of Parliament from the Cooch Behar Lok Sabha seat, once a stronghold of the All India Forward Bloc.(AP file photo)
Partha Pratim Ray of the Trinamool Congress is the sitting member of Parliament from the Cooch Behar Lok Sabha seat, once a stronghold of the All India Forward Bloc.(AP file photo)

Partha Pratim Ray of the Trinamool Congress is the sitting member of Parliament from the Cooch Behar Lok Sabha seat, once a stronghold of the All India Forward Bloc. Ray had won the seat after a bypoll in 2016 as he defeated his nearest rival Hem Chandra Barman of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Cooch Behar seat fell vacant after the death of Trinamool’s Renuka Sinha in August 2016.

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Paresh Chandra Adhikari will contest from the Coach Behar seat in the Lok Sabha election 2019.

Polling will be held on April 11, the first of the seven-phased election, and votes will be counted on May 23.

Here are some facts about Cooch Behar parliamentary constituency ahead of the Lok Sabha election 2019:

State: West Bengal

Name of the Lok Sabha constituency: Cooch Behar

Date of voting: April 11

2019 candidates: Paresh Chandra Adhikary (Trinamool), Nisith Pramanik (BJP), Gobinda Roy (Forward Bloc), Piya Roy Chowdhury (Congress)

Sitting MP, party: Partha Pratim Ray, Trinamool

Winning margin in 2014: 87,107

Runner up name, party: Hem Chandra Barman, BJP

Number of voters in 2014: 1,332,409

Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 82.58%

Number of women voters in 2014: 764,768

Number of polling booths in 2014: 1,986

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