Jadavpur Lok Sabha Constituency: A High Profile Constituency With Intellectuals Won By Congress, Communist Party And TMC Earlier
Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency was passed between Congress and the Communist Party of India – Marxist CPI till 1999 when Trinamool Congress (TMC) came into the fore. Since the TMC came into power in West Bengal the Jadavpur seat is represented by the TMC candidates except once in 2004-09. It was CPI who wrested the constituency then. The Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency is considered as a high-profile seat with significant “intellectual” and urban voters.
This year CPI (M) candidate is Srijan Bhattacharyya, the AITC candidate is Saayoni Ghosh, and the BJP candidate is Anirban Ganguly for the Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency.
The past two years voting trend of the Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency reflects the gowth and downfall of political parties in the constituency.
| Result | 2014 Elections | 2019 Elections | Increment/decrement in vote share remarks |
| First Position | TMC – Sugata Bose | TMC – Mimi Chakraborty | TMC registered only a 1.99 percent increase in its vote share in 2019 in comparison to 2014
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| Second Position | CPI (M) – Sujan Chakraborty | BJP – Anupam Hazra | BJP registered a whopping 15% increment in its vote share in 2019 in comparison to 2014
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| Third Position | Sarup Prasad Ghosh | CPI (M) – Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya | CPI registered a 15% decrement in its vote share in 2019 in comparison to 2014 |
As the Jadavpur seat is unique in terms of giving an opportunity to academicians to win since 1977, except twice in the past – once in 1984 to Mamata Banerjee and Mimi Chakraborty in 2019.
To gain from its past years progress in the constituency BJP also fielded intellectual Anirban Ganguly from the Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency. He is the Chairman and Trustee of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation and has numerous academic and educational distinctions. Dr Ganguly holds a PhD in education from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and and is member of BJP’s National Executive Committee (NEC) and a member of the Core Committee of the West Bengal State Unit of BJP.
