2009 Indian general election in West Bengal information
2009 Indian general election in West Bengal
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outgoing members
elected members
All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Turnout
81.42% ( 3.38 pp)
Party
Leader
%
Seats
+/–
AITC
Mamata Banerjee
31.18
19
+18
CPI(M)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
33.10
9
−17
INC
Pranab Mukherjee
13.45
6
0
CPI
Swapan Banerjee
3.60
2
−1
RSP
Manoj Bhattacharya
3.56
2
−1
AIFB
Debabrata Biswas
3.04
2
−1
BJP
Tathagata Roy
6.14
1
+1
SUCI(C)
Tarun Mondal
0.13
1
+1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
West Bengal
Prime Minister before
Prime Minister after
Manmohan Singh INC
Manmohan Singh INC
The Indian general election, 2009 in West Bengal were held for 42 seats with the state going to polls in the last three phases of the general elections. There was pre-poll alliance in the state between the Indian National Congress and the Trinamool Congress against the Left Front. Indian National Congress contested on 14 seats across the state whereas the Trinamool Congress contested on 27 seats[1] and SUCI(C) contested one seat. The alliance was largely successful as the Trinamool Congress, the Congress and the SUCI(C) won 19, 6 and 1 seat respectively, dislodging the Left Front, which won only 15 seats out of 42.
^"State-Wise Position". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2009.
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