Hooghly Lok Sabha Result: TMC Debutant Rachana Banerjee Unseats BJP MP Locket Chatterjee
Hooghly Lok Sabha Elections Results 2024: Trinamool Congress' (TMC) Rachna Banerjee has secured victory in the Hooghly seat, defeating BJP's Locket Chatterjee by over 60 thousand votes.
Hooghly Lok Sabha Elections Results 2024: Trinamool Congress's (TMC) Rachna Banerjee has won in the Hooghly seat, while her opponent, Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Locket Chatterjee, gave the actor-turned-politician a tough contest. Both prominent actresses of the Bengali film industry locked horns in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Rachna emerged victorious leading by over 60,000 votes against BJP's Locket Chatterjee.
Actor Rachna Banerjee has emerged as a formidable celebrity candidate who reclaimed the seat that the Bharatiya Janata Party clinched from TMC by a margin of over 73,000 votes in 2019.
Twelve candidates were contesting from the Hooghly Lok Sabha seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. For this seat, there were nine candidates in 2019, nine in 2014, and nine in the polls conducted in 2009.
Hooghly Lok Sabha Elections Results 2024: List Of Candidates
The candidates contesting in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from this seat were:
- Locket Chatterjee, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
- Manadip Ghosh, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
- Rachna Banerjee, All India Trinamool Congress (TMC)
- Jamini Bhar, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
- Paban Mazumder, Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) (SUCOIC)
- Pradip Pal, Bharatiya Nyay-Adhikar Raksha Party (BNRP)
- Ajanta Sarkar, Bharatiya National Janata Dal (BHNJD)
- Sk Kamaluddin, Independent (IND)
- Samim Ali Mollick, Independent (IND)
- Mrinal Kanti Das, Independent (IND)
- Surajit Hembram, Independent (IND)
- Sanchita Bera, Independent (IND).
In the 2019 elections, BJP’s Locket Chatterjee defeated Pradip Saha of the CPI(M) and Ratna De of the Trinamool Congress with 6,71,448 votes. After receiving 5,98,086 votes, Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) Ratna De ranked second, and Pradip Saha of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) received 1,21,588 votes to take third place.
Chinsurah Sadar, Srirampur, Chandannagar, and Arambag are the four subdivisions that make up the district of Hooghly, one of West Bengal's 42 Lok Sabha constituencies. BJP made notable gains in Hooghly in 2019. It is one of the most economically developed districts in West Bengal, with a population of 5,519,145 according to the 2011 census.
Hooghly went to polls on April 26, marking the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024 in West Bengal.
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