| Type: | LS |
| Cooch Behar | |
| Established: | 1957 |
| Reservation: | SC |
| Party: | Trinamool Congress |
| Mp: | Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia |
| Latest Election Year: | 2024 |
| Preceded By: | Nisith Pramanik |
| State: | West Bengal |
| Assembly Cons: | Mathabhanga Cooch Behar Uttar Cooch Behar Dakshin Sitalkuchi Sitai Dinhata Natabari |
| Electors: | 19,66,893 (2024)[1] |
Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Cooch Behar in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 1 Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency are in Cooch Behar district. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 1 Coochbehar, reserved for Scheduled castes (SC), is composed of the following segments from 2009:[2]
| Name | District | Member | Party (as of 2024) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Mathabhanga (SC) | Cooch Behar | Sushil Barman | ||
| 3 | Cooch Behar Uttar (SC) | Sukumar Roy | |||
| 4 | Cooch Behar Dakshin | Nikhil Ranjan Dey | |||
| 5 | Sitalkuchi (SC) | Baren Chandra Barman | |||
| 6 | Sitai (SC) | Vacant | |||
| 7 | Dinhata | Udayan Guha | |||
| 8 | Natabari | Mihir Goswami | |||
The area under the Mathabhanga subdivision of the Cooch Behar district will constitute the assembly constituencies of Mathabhanga and Sitalkuchi, whereas the area under the Dinhata subdivision will form the constituencies of Dinahata and Sitai.[2] The area under Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision will form Cooch Behar Uttar, Cooch Behar Dakshin and Natabari constituencies, though Natabari will contain gram panchayats from Tufanganj subdivision also.[2]
| Year | Member[3] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Upendra Nath Barman | ||
| Birendra Nath Katham | |||
| Amiya Kanta Basu | |||
| 1957 | Upendra Nath Barman | ||
| Santosh Banerjee | |||
| 1962 | Debendra Nath Karjee | ||
| 1963^ | P. C. Barman | ||
| 1967 | Benoy Krishna Das Choudhury | ||
| 1971 | |||
| 1977 | Amar Roy Pradhan | ||
| 1980 | |||
| 1984 | |||
| 1989 | |||
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | |||
| 1998 | |||
| 1999 | |||
| 2004 | Hiten Barman | ||
| 2009 | Nripendra Nath Roy | ||
| 2014 | Renuka Sinha | ||
| 2016^ | Partha Pratim Roy | ||
| 2019 | Nisith Pramanik | ||
| 2024 | Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia | ||
In 1951, Upendra Nath Barman, Birendra Nath Katham and Amiya Kanta Basu, all of Congress, won the North Bengal seat.[4] The winners and runners-up from Cooch Behar for subsequent elections are shown below. In a (by-election) in 1958[5] Nalini Ranjan Ghosh of Indian National Congress won.
| Year | Winner | Runner Up | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | ||
| 1957 | Santosh Banerjee | Indian National Congress | Shibendra Kumar Bhattacharya | All India Forward Bloc | |
| Upendranath Barman | |||||
| 1962 | Debendranath Karjee | All India Forward Bloc | Upendra Nath Barman | Indian National Congress | [6] |
| 1967 | BKD Chowdhury | PC Barman | Indian National Congress | [7] | |
| 1972 | Benoy Krishna Das Chowdhury | Indian National Congress | Nagendra Nath Roy | CPI(M) | [8] |
| 1977 | Amarendra Nath Roy Pradhan | All India Forward Bloc | Benoy Krishna Daschowdhury | Indian National Congress | [9] |
| 1980 | Amar Roy Pradhan | Ambika Charan Roy | Indian National Congress (I) | [10] | |
| 1984 | Amar Roy Pradhan | Prasenjit Barman | Indian National Congress | [11] | |
| 1989 | Amar Roy Pradhan | Sabita Roy | Indian National Congress | [12] | |
| 1991 | Amar Roy Pradhan | Sabita Roy | Indian National Congress | [13] | |
| 1996 | Amar Roy Pradhan | Sabita Roy | Indian National Congress | [14] | |
| 1998 | Amar Roy Pradhan | Gobinda Roy | Forward Bloc (Socialist) | [15] | |
| 1999 | Amar Roy Pradhan | Ambika Charan Ray | All India Trinamool Congress | [16] | |
| 2004 | Hiten Barman | Girindra Nath Barman | All India Trinamool Congress | [17] | |
| 2009 | Nripendra Nath Roy | Arghya Roy Pradhan | All India Trinamool Congress | ||
| 2014 | Renuka Sinha | All India Trinamool Congress | Dipak Kumar Roy | All India Forward Bloc | |
| 2016(By Poll) | Partha Pratim Roy | Hem Chandra Barman | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 2019 | Nisith Pramanik | Bharatiya Janata Party | Paresh Chandra Adhikari | All India Trinamool Congress | |