Existence 1951-present Current MP Kalyan Banerjee Total Electors 1,624,038 State West Bengal Female electors 776,107 | Reservation None Elected Year 2014 Member of parliament Kalyan Banerjee Male electors 847,931 | |
Assembly Constituencies Jagatballavpur
Domjur
Uttarpara
Sreerampur
Champdani
Chanditala
Jangipara Party All India Trinamool Congress Last election Indian general election, 2014 Assembly segments Jangipara, Domjur, Chanditala, Uttarpara, Champdani, Sreerampur, Jagatballavpur | ||
Srerampur (Lok Sabha constituency) (Bengali: শ্রীরামপুর লোকসভা কেন্দ্র) (previously known as Serampore-26 and changed to Srerampur-27 in the 2009 election) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Serampore in West Bengal. Five assembly segments of the constituency are in Hooghly district and two are in Howrah district.
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Overview
Srerampur is basically an industrial constituency with an agricultural hinterland. The Howrah-Hooghly industrial belt on the west bank of the Hooghly river covers the Howrah, Hooghly and Srerampur constituency.
According to The Hindu, Sreerampore and Howrah constituencies have more than 25% non-Bengali voters with their roots in Rajasthan, Bihar or Uttar Pradesh.
Assembly segments
As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 27 Sreerampur is composed of the following segments:
Prior to delimitation Serampore Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:Jagatballavpur (assembly constituency no. 167), Panchla (assembly constituency no. 168), Jangipara (assembly constituency no. 177), Chanditala (assembly constituency no. 178), Uttarpara (assembly constituency no. 179), Sreerampur(assembly constituency no. 180), Champdani (assembly constituency no. 181)
General elections 1951-2014
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
By-election 1981
A by-election was held in this constituency in 1981 which was necessitated by the Death of sitting MP Dinen Bhattacharya.In the by-election, Ajit Bag of CPIM defeated his nearest rival S.M Roy of Congress by 96,549 votes.
Source: General Election to the Lok Sabha 2014 - State wise seats won & valid votes polled by political parties
General Elections 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha - Party wise seats won and votes polled