Bahujan Samaj Party on Balurghat

State 19 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 7 contested

BSP never finished second here

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 7 published candidatures

Best vote share1.90%in 2004

Worst vote share0.30%in 2019

Average vote share0.79% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1998

Last contested2024

Votes polled here52,602across all 7 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Bahujan Samaj Party 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: 1977, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1991, 1996 — 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

7 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	Anta Hansda	5,145	0.40%	7	Lost · 7th
2019	Nalin Chandra Murmu	3,320	0.30%	8	Lost · 8th
2014	Rajen Hansda	4,581	0.40%	8	Lost · 8th
2009	Gobinda Hansda	13,977	1.60%	4	Lost · 4th
2004	Gobinda Sakar	17,230	1.90%	5	Lost · 5th
1999	Biswanath Barman	4,461	0.50%	5	Lost · 5th
1998	Purna Chandra Sarkar	3,888	0.40%	4	Lost · 4th

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Revolutionary Socialist Party Bharatiya Janta Party All India Trinamool Congress Indian National Congress Indian National Congress (I)West Bengal Trinamool Congress Independent Janta Party Amara Bengali Indian National Congress (U)Jharkhand Mukti Morcha All India United Democratic Front Assam United Democratic Front Jharkhand Party Jharkhand Disom Party Ambedkarite Party Of India All India Secular Front Rashtriya Janadhikar Suraksha Party Shiv Sena Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Bahujan Mukti Party Kamatapur People’s Party (United)Bhumiputra United Party Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star