| Election Name: | 2014 Indian general election in West Bengal |
| Country: | India |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | Indian general election in West Bengal, 2009 |
| Previous Year: | 2009 |
| Election Date: | 17 April, 24 April, 30 April, 7 May, 12 May |
| Next Year: | 2019 |
| Seats For Election: | All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha |
| Turnout: | 82.2% (0.8 pp) |
| Leader1: | Mamata Bannerjee |
| Party1: | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Alliance1: | – |
| Leaders Seat1: | Did not contest |
| Last Election1: | 31.2%, 19 seats |
| Seats1: | 34 |
| Seat Change1: | 15 |
| Party2: | Indian National Congress |
| Leader2: | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury |
| Alliance2: | United Progressive Alliance |
| Leaders Seat2: | Baharampur |
| Last Election2: | 13.5%, 6 seats |
| Seats2: | 4 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Party4: | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| Leader4: | Surjya Kanta Mishra |
| Leaders Seat4: | Did not contest |
| Alliance4: | Left Front (West Bengal) |
| Last Election4: | 33.1%, 15 seats |
| Seats4: | 2 |
| Seat Change4: | 13 |
| Leader5: | S. S. Ahluwalia |
| Party5: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Alliance5: | National Democratic Alliance (India) |
| Leaders Seat5: | Darjeeling |
| Last Election5: | 6.1%, 1 seat |
| Seats5: | 2 |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Map Size: | 350px |
| Prime Minister | |
| Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
| Before Party: | INC |
| After Party: | BJP |
| Before Election: | Manmohan Singh |
| After Election: | Narendra Modi |
| Popular Vote1: | 20,313,280 |
| Percentage1: | 39.8% |
| Popular Vote2: | 4,946,581 |
| Percentage2: | 9.7% |
| Popular Vote4: | 11,720,997 |
| Percentage4: | 23% |
| Popular Vote5: | 8,691,765 |
| Percentage5: | 17% |
| Outgoing Members: | List of members of the 14th Lok Sabha#West Bengal |
| Elected Members: | List of members of the 15th Lok Sabha#West Bengal |
| Swing1: | 8.1 pp |
| Swing2: | 10.1 pp |
| Swing4: | 3.9 pp |
| Swing5: | 10.9 pp |
| Map2 Image: | West Bengal Lok Sabha 2014.svg |
The 2014 Indian general election in West Bengal was held for 42 seats in the Lok Sabha.
| Constituency No. | Constituency | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) | TMC Candidate[1] | Left Front Candidate[2] | BJP Candidate | Congress Candidate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cooch Behar | SC | Renuka Sinha | Dipak Kumar Roy | Hemchandra Burman | Keshab Chandra Ray | |
| 2 | Alipurduars | ST | Dasarath Tirkey | Manohar Tirkey | Birendra Bora Oraon | Joseph Munda | |
| 3 | Jalpaiguri | SC | Bijoy Bhusan Burman | Mahendra Kumar Roy | Satyalal Sarkar | Sukhbilas Barma | |
| 4 | Darjeeling | None | Baichung Bhutia | Saman Pathak | S. S. Ahluwalia | Sujoy Ghatak | |
| 5 | Raiganj | None | Satya Ranjan Dasmunshi | Md. Salim | Nimu Bhowmick | Deepa Dasmunshi | |
| 6 | Balurghat | None | Arpita Ghosh | Bimal Sarkar | Biswapriya Roychowdhary | Om Prakash Mishra | |
| 7 | Maldaha Uttar | None | Soumitra Roy | Khagen Murmu | Subashkrishna Goswami | Mausam Noor | |
| 8 | Maldaha Dakshin | None | Dr Moazzen Hossen | Abul Hasnat Khan | Bishnu Pada Roy | Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury | |
| 9 | Jangipur | None | Haji Nurul Islam | Muzaffar Hossain | Samrat Ghosh | Abhijit Mukherjee | |
| 10 | Baharampur | None | Indranil Sen | Pramothes Mukherjee | Debesh Kumar Adhikari | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | |
| 11 | Murshidabad | None | Mohammed Ali | Badaruddoza Khan | Sujit Kumar Ghosh | Abdul Mannan Hossain | |
| 12 | Krishnanagar | None | Santanu Jha | Satyabrata Mukherjee | Razia Ahmed | ||
| 13 | Ranaghat | SC | Tapas Mondal | Archna Biswas | Supravat Biswas | Pratap Roy | |
| 14 | Bangaon | SC | Kapil Krishna Thakur | Debesh Das | K.D. Biswas | Ila Mandal | |
| 15 | Barrackpur | None | Subhashini Ali | R.K. Handa | Samrat Topedar | ||
| 16 | Dum Dum | None | Asim Dasgupta | Tapan Sikdar | Dhananjay Moitra | ||
| 17 | Barasat | None | Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar | Mortaza Hossain | P.C. Sarkar (Jr.) | Rizul Ghoshal | |
| 18 | Basirhat | None | Idris Ali | Nurul Huda | Samik Bhattacharya | Abdur Rahim Quazi | |
| 19 | Jaynagar | SC | Pratima Mondal | Subhas Naskar | Biplab Mondal | Arnab Roy | |
| 20 | Mathurapur | None | C M Jatua | Rinku Naskar | Tapan Naskar | Manoranjan Halder | |
| 21 | Diamond Harbour | None | Abhishek Banerjee | Dr. Abul Hasnat | Avijit Das | Mohmd Qumarhuzzan Qumar | |
| 22 | Jadavpur | None | Sugata Bose | Sujan Chakraborty | Swarup Prashad Ghosh | Samir Aich | |
| 23 | Kolkata Dakshin | None | Subrata Bakshi | Nandini Mukherjee | Tathagata Roy | Mala Roy | |
| 24 | Kolkata Uttar | None | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | Rupa Bagchi | Rahul Sinha | Somendra Nath Mitra | |
| 25 | Howrah | None | Prasun Banerjee | Sreedip Bhattacharya | George Baker | Manoj Kumar Pandey | |
| 26 | Uluberia | None | Sultan Ahmed | Sabiruddin Mollah | R.K. Mahanti | Asit Mitra | |
| 27 | Sreerampur | None | Kalyan Banerjee | Tirthankar Roy | Bappi Lahiri | Abdul Mannan | |
| 28 | Hooghly | None | Ratna De Nag | Pradip Saha | Chandan Mitra | Pritam Ghosh | |
| 29 | Arambag | SC | Aparupa Poddar (Afrin Ali) | Sakti Mohan Malik | Madhusudhan Bag | Sambhu Nath Malik | |
| 30 | Tamluk | None | Suvendu Adhikari | Sk. Ibrahim Ali | Badsah Alam | Anwar Ali | |
| 31 | Kanthi | None | Sisir Adhikari | Tapas Sinha | Kamalendu Pahari | Kunal Banerjee | |
| 32 | Ghatal | None | Dipak Adhikari (Deb) | Santosh Rana | Md Alam | Manas Bhunia | |
| 33 | Jhargram | ST | Dr Uma Soren | Pulin Bihari Baske | Bikash Mudi | Anita Hansdar | |
| 34 | Medinipur | None | Sandhya Roy | Prabodh Panda | Prabhakar Tiwari | Bimal Raj | |
| 35 | Purulia | None | Mriganko Mahato | Narahari Mahato | Bikash Banerjee | Nepal Mahato | |
| 36 | Bankura | None | Munmun Sen | Basudeb Acharia | Subash Sarkar | Neel Madhava Gupta | |
| 37 | Bishnupur | SC | Soumitra Khan | Susmita Bauri | Dr. Jayanta Mondal | Narayan Chander Khan | |
| 38 | Bardhaman Purba | SC | Sunil Mandal | Iswar Chandra Das | Santosh Roy | Chandana Majhi | |
| 39 | Bardhaman-Durgapur | None | Mamtaj Sanghamita | Sk. Saidul Haque | Deboshree Chowdhury | Pradip Agasty | |
| 40 | Asansol | None | Dola Sen | Bansa Gopal Chowdhury | Babul Supriyo | Indrani Mishra | |
| 41 | Bolpur | SC | Anupam Hazra | Dr.Ram Chandra Dome | Kamini Mohan Sarkar | Tapan Kumar Saha | |
| 42 | Birbhum | None | Satabdi Roy | Dr. Mohammed Qamre Elahi | Joy Banerjee | Syed Siraj Jimmi |
| 2 | 4 | 2 | 34 | |
| BJP | INC | CPI(M) | AITC |
| Name of Party | Vote Share % | Change | Seats won | Changes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39.05% | +8.13 | 34 | +15 | ||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) + | 29.71% | 2 | −13 | ||
| 17.02% | +10.88 | 2 | +1 | ||
| 9.58% | −3.85 | 4 | −2 |
According to DNA newspaper's analysis: "BJP emerged as a potential force in West Bengal where it is traditionally considered weak.". While BJP won only 2 seats, BJP candidates for the first time, returned runner-up in 3 seats and it also got 16.8% vote share - BJP's best performance so far surpassing its previous best of 11.66% in 1991 elections. However. Trinamool Congress dominated the election winning 34 seats. The CPI-M led Left Front was decimated winning only 2 seats as the BJP made inroads in its vote share. It was also argued that, ""resurgence of the Left can never be ruled out"[3]
| Party | Assembly segments[4] | Constituencies | Position in Assembly (as of 2016 election) | Constituencies | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All India Trinamool Congress | 214 | 211 | ||||||
| Left Front | 29 | 32 | ||||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 23 | 3 | ||||||
| Indian National Congress | 28 | 44 | ||||||
| Others | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Total | 294 | |||||||
| Party | No. of Constituencies | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| All India Trinamool Congress | 16 | ||
| Left Front | 23 | ||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 2 | ||
| Indian National Congress | 1 | ||
| Total | 42 | ||
| Region | Total seats | All India Trinamool Congress | Bharatiya Janata Party | Indian National Congress | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Others | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ganges Delta | 10 | 10 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | |
| North Bengal | 8 | 01 | 01 | 04 | 02 | 00 | |
| Northern Hills | 4 | 03 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | |
| Rarh Bengal | 10 | 10 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | |
| South Bengal | 10 | 10 | 01 | 00 | 00 | 00 | |
| Total | 42 | 34 | 02 | 04 | 02 | 00 |