West Bengal Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Schedule, phase, seats, candidates and all you need to know about West Bengal General Elections

The Lok Sabha Elections of West Bengal, will once again be talk of the town as the current scenarios of alliance and opposition is taking a new turn at regular intervals, as despite being part of I.N.D.I.A bloc, the ruling state party of TMC have decided to fight the elections alone, while contesting on all the 42 seats.

When are West Bengal Lok Sabha Elections 2024?

The state of West Bengal will have their 18th Lok Sabha polls distributes during the entire electoral period, as it will begin with phase one on April 19 and end with phase seven on June 1.

Phase 1: Date of polling- April 19

1. Coochbehar
2. Alipurduars
3. Jalpaiguri

Phase 2: Date of polling- April 26

1. Darjeeling
2. Raiganj
3. Balurghat

Phase 3: Date of polling- May 7

1. Maldaha Uttar
2. Maldaha Dakshin
3. Jangipur
4. Murshidabad

Phase 4: Date of polling- May 13

1. Baharampur
2. Krishnanagar
3. Ranaghat
4. Bardhaman – Purba
5. Bardhaman – Durgapur
6. Asansol
7. Bolpur
8. Birbhum

Phase 5: Date of polling- May 20

1. Bangaon
2. Barrackpur
3. Howrah
4. Uluberia
5. Sreerampur
6. Hooghly
7. Arambag

Phase 6: Date of polling- May 25

1. Tamluk
2. Kanthi
3. Ghatal
4. Jhargram
5. Medinipur
6. Purulia
7. Bankura
8. Bishnupur

Phase 7: Date of polling- June 1

1. Dum Dum
2. Barasat
3. Basirhat
4. Jaynagar
5. Mathurapur
6. Diamond Harbour
7. Jadavpur
8. Kolkata Dakshin
9. Kolkata Uttar

How many phases West Bengal will have?

West Bengal was one of three states, whose General Elections were contested in all the seven phases in 2019. Once again, in the General Elections of 2024, the state will be having their Lok Sabha polls contested in all the seven phases along with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

How many Lok Sabha constituencies West Bengal has?

West Bengal is the state with the third highest number of states with 42 Lok Sabha seats, only behind Uttar Pradesh with 80 and Maharashtra with 48, and all the seats are typically contested over different issues rather than one common mantra. Notably, out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, 30 seats are contested as unreserved seats, while ten seats are reserved for SC candidates and two seats are reserved for ST candidates.

Check out the complete list of constituencies and elected members from West Bengal General Elections of 2024:

Candidates list of 2024 Elections

After the complete domination of the BJP-led NDA alliance in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, INC, TMC, RJD, SP and many other parties, decided to come under one banner of I.N.D.I.A bloc. However, despite being a part of the newly formed alliance, Mamata Banerjee-led TMC, has decided to contest the General Elections of 2024 alone, while contesting on all the 42 seats, making the West Bengal General Election of 2024, a three-way tussle between, NDA, I.N.D.I.A and TMC.

Check out the complete list of all the candidates for West Bengal General Elections 2024: