Indian National Congress on Asansol

State 19 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 1 OF 8 contested

INC runner-up 3 times

Strike rate

12.5%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 8 published candidatures

Best vote share48.60%in 1977

Worst vote share1.70%in 2019

Average vote share25.09% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1977

Last contested2019

Votes polled here14.58 Lacross all 8 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Indian National Congress vote share · a ringed point is a year they won this seat · a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1980, 1991, 2004, 2009, 2024 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

8 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2019	Biswarup Mondal	21,038	1.70%	4	Lost · 4th
2014	Indrani Mishra	48,502	4.20%	4	Lost · 4th
1999	Tuhin Samanta	91,204	9.80%	3	Lost · 3rd
1998	Chowdhury Siddiqullah	1,35,672	14.10%	3	Lost · 3rd
1996	Nurul Islam	3,69,062	38.40%	2	Lost · 2nd
1989	Nurul Islam	3,09,933	38.20%	2	Lost · 2nd
1984	Chowdhury Siddiqullah	3,02,801	45.70%	2	Lost · 2nd
1977	Dhirendra Nath Basu	1,79,927	48.60%	1	Won

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Bharatiya Janta Party All India Trinamool Congress Independent Indian National Congress (I)West Bengal Trinamool Congress Indian National Congress (U)Party For Democratic Socialism Bahujan Samaj Party Communist Party Of India (MARXIST-LENINIST) (LIBERATION)Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Bahujan Mukti Party Janata Pary (JP)Lok Jan Shakti Party Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Shiv Sena Doordarshi Party Indian Union Muslim League Samajwadi Party Gareeb Aadmi Party Jharkhand Disom Party