Type: | LS |
Alipurduars | |
Established: | 1977 |
Reservation: | ST |
Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Mp: | Manoj Tigga |
Latest Election Year: | 2024 |
State: | West Bengal |
Assembly Cons: | Tufanganj Kumargram Kalchini Alipurduars Falakata Madarihat Nagrakata |
Electors: | 17,73,252 (2024)[1] |
Alipurduars Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Alipurduar in West Bengal. While five assembly segments of No. 2 Alipurduars Lok Sabha constituency are in Alipurduar district, one segment is in Cooch Behar district and one segment is in Jalpaiguri district. The seat is reserved for scheduled tribes.
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 2 Alipurduars, reserved for Scheduled tribes (ST), is composed of the following assembly segments from 2009:[2]
Name | District | Member | Party (as of 2024) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
9 | Tufanganj | Cooch Behar | Malati Rava Roy | ||
10 | Kumargram (ST) | Alipurduar | Manoj Kumar Oraon | ||
11 | Kalchini (ST) | Bishal Lama | |||
12 | Alipurduars | Suman Kanjilal | |||
13 | Falakata (SC) | Dipak Barman | |||
14 | Madarihat (ST) | Manoj Tigga | |||
21 | Nagrakata (ST) | Jalpaiguri | Puna Bhengra | ||
Year | Name[3] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1977 | Pius Tirkey | ||
1980 | |||
1984 | |||
1989 | |||
1991 | |||
1996 | Joachim Baxla | ||
1998 | |||
1999 | |||
2004 | |||
2009 | Manohar Tirkey | ||
2014 | Dasrath Tirkey | ||
2019 | John Barla | ||
2024 | Manoj Tigga |
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
Year | Winner | Runner-up | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | |
1977 | Pius Tirkey | Revolutionary Socialist Party | Tuna Oraon | Indian National Congress[4] |
1980 | Indian National Congress (I)[5] | |||
1984 | Philip Minj | Indian National Congress[6] | ||
1989 | Denis Lakra | |||
1991 | Philip Minj | |||
1996 | Joachim Baxla | Pius Tirkey | ||
1998 | Dhirendra Narjinarai | Bharatiya Janata Party[7] | ||
1999 | Dhirendra Narjinarai | |||
2004 | Manoj Tigga |