Lok Sabha 2019 constituency: Once held by Somnath Chatterjee, Bolpur is in Trinamool’s kitty - Hindustan Times
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Lok Sabha 2019 constituency: Once held by Somnath Chatterjee, Bolpur is in Trinamool’s kitty

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent
Mar 17, 2019 02:00 PM IST

In 2014, the Trinamool Congress had defeated the CPI(M) by 2,36,112 votes in Bolpur parliamentary constituency.

The Trinamool Congress swept the Bolpur parliamentary constituency, once a pocket borough of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), in West Bengal in the last Lok Sabha election.

The Trinamool Congress swept the Bolpur parliamentary constituency, once a pocket borough of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), in West Bengal in the last Lok Sabha election.(AP)
The Trinamool Congress swept the Bolpur parliamentary constituency, once a pocket borough of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), in West Bengal in the last Lok Sabha election.(AP)

Anupam Hazra defeated Ram Chandra Dome of the CPI(M) with a margin of 2,36,112 votes in the parliamentary constituency number 41 in 2014. Dome had held the seat, reserved for members of Scheduled Caste community, from 2009. Hazra switched camps to the BJP recently.

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Before that, veteran parliamentarian Somnath Chatterjee won the seat in a by-poll in 1985 and held it till 2009.

The Trinamool Congress has fielded Asit Kumar Mal from Bolpur, a town close to Visva-Bharati University founded by Nobel Literature Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore, for the Lok Sabha election 2019.

Bolpur will vote during the fourth of the seven-phased Lok Sabha election on April 29. Counting of votes will be held on May 23.

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Here are some facts about Bolpur:

State: West Bengal

Name of Lok Sabha constituency: Bolpur

Sitting MP, Party: Anupam Hazra, Trinamool Congress

Winning margin in 2014: 2,36,112

Runner up name, party: Ram Chandra Dome, CPI(M

Number of voters in 2014: 13,04,756

Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 84.81%

Number of women voters in 2014: 7,40,045

Number of polling booths in 2014: 1,939

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