Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: Howrah Seats Goes To TMC As Prasun Banerjee Wins With A Margin Of 1,69,442 Votes

Prasun Banerjee, TMC candidate has won the Lok Sabha Election 2024 from the Howrah Lok Sabha constituency with a total of 1,69,442 vote margin. The opposition candidate Dr Rathin Chakravarty declared as a runner-up candidate.
Prasun Banerjee is a former Indian professional football player who contested the Lok Sabha elections in the TMC seat. The 1979, Arjuna Award winner won the by-poll of the Howrah Sadar parliament seat with a TMC ticket and was re-elected to the lower house in 2014 and 2019. In the last general election, Prasun Banerjee won the elections with 47.18 percent votes defeating Rantidev Sengupta with over 1,00,000 votes.

Earlier the Howrah Lok Sabha constituency was tossed between Congress and the Communist Party of India. In 1998, TMC broke this trend of alternative Congress and Communist government in Howrah. The TMC candidate Bikram Sarkar won the elections in 1998 followed by Communist Party candidate Swadesh Chakraborty. In 2009 Ambica Banerjee won the Howrah seat on TMC ticket and since then Prasun Banerjee maintained the TMC success.
In 2019, Prasun Banerjee secured 47.18% votes while BJP candidate Rantidev Sengupta won 38.73% votes. CPI (M) candidate Sumitro Adhikary received 8.64% votes.
In 2014, Prasun Banerjee’s vote share was 43.40 whereas CPI (M) candidates vote share was 25.90%. The BJP candidate George Baker got 22.05% votes. In 2013 by-elections Prasun Banerjee’s vote share was 44.68%.