| Type: | LS |
| Hooghly | |
| Established: | 1951 |
| Reservation: | None |
| Party: | Trinamool Congress |
| Alliance: | INDIA |
| Mp: | Rachna Banerjee |
| Latest Election Year: | 2024 |
| State: | West Bengal |
| Assembly Cons: | Singur Chandannagar Chunchura Balagarh Pandua Saptagram Dhanekhali |
| Electors: | 1,630,042[1] |
Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Hugli-Chuchura in West Bengal. All seven assembly segments of No. 28 Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency are in Hooghly district.
Hoogly constituency, shares a large industrial area on the western bank of the Hooghly river in the district with Sreerampur and has a rich agricultural hinterland.
According to The Statesman, "The Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency had remained a Communist bastion till the Trinamul snatched their thunder in the 2009 General Election. The constituency has the distinction of having a rich colonial history with the Portuguese settlement at Bandel, the French colony at Chandannagore, the Danish settlement at Serampore… and Chinsurah, a former Dutch colony. Despite ruling West Bengal for 35 years, the Marxist government alienated its people by such historical blunders as the forcible acquisition of fertile agricultural land in Singur which forms part of the Hooghly constituency."[2]
The Dunlop tyre plant at Sahaganj, in this constituency is closed. According to Hindustan Times, "The entire jute industry, with eight mills in Hooghly, is sick…From Tribeni in north to Hind Motor in south, by the bank of Hooghly exists the Hooghly industrial belt, now seeking oxygen. Two fertiliser units, one food processing unit, two cotton mills, one steel plant and many other small and medium scale units have closed down over the years."[3]
As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 28 Hooghly is composed of the following segments:[4]
| Constituency number | Name | District | Party (2021 Assembly Election Winner) | Party (Leading in 2024 Lok Sabha) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 188 | Singur | Hooghly | TMC | TMC |
| 189 | Chandannagar | TMC | TMC | |
| 190 | Chunchura | TMC | BJP | |
| 191 | Balagarh (SC) | TMC | BJP | |
| 192 | Pandua | TMC | TMC | |
| 193 | Saptagram | TMC | BJP | |
| 197 | Dhanekhali (SC) | TMC | TMC |
Prior to delimitation, Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[5] Chandernagore (assembly constituency no. 182), Singur (assembly constituency no. 183), Haripal (assembly constituency no. 184), Chinsurah (assembly constituency no. 186), Bansberia (assembly constituency no. 193), Polba (assembly constituency no. 190), Dhaniakhali (SC) (assembly constituency no. 191)
| Lok Sabha | Duration | Constituency | Name of M.P. | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | 1952-57 | Hooghly | Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee | [6] | |
| Second | 1957-62 | Provat Kar | [7] [8] | ||
| Third | 1962-67 | ||||
| Fourth | 1967-71 | Bijoy Krishna Modak | (Marxist)[9] [10] [11] [12] | ||
| Fifth | 1971-77 | ||||
| Sixth | 1977-80 | ||||
| Seventh | 1980-84 | Rupchand Pal | |||
| Eighth | 1984-89 | Indumati Bhattacharya | [13] | ||
| Ninth | 1989-91 | Rupchand Pal | (Marxist)[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] | ||
| Tenth | 1991-96 | ||||
| Eleventh | 1996-98 | ||||
| Twelfth | 1998-99 | ||||
| Thirteenth | 1999-04 | ||||
| Fourteenth | 2004-09 | ||||
| Fifteenth | 2009-14 | Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | [20] [21] | ||
| Sixteenth | 2014-19 | ||||
| Seventeenth | 2019-24 | Locket Chatterjee | [22] | ||
| Eighteenth | 2024-Incumbent | Rachna Banerjee | [23] | ||
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | ||
| 1951 | Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee | Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha | Renuka Roy | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Provat Kar | Communist Party of India | Sachindra Chosdhury | Indian National Congress | |
| 1962 | Provat Kar | Communist Party of India | Nirmal Kumar Sen | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | Bejoy Krishna Modak | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | P.K.Palit | Indian National Congress | |
| 1972 | Bejoy Krishna Modak | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Phani Ghosh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Bijoy Krishna Modak | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Bishnu Charan Banerjee | Indian National Congress | |
| 1980 | Rupchand Pal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Santimohan Roy | Indian National Congress (I) | |
| 1984 | Indumati Bhattacharya | Indian National Congress | Rupchand Pal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1989 | Rupchand Pal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Umasankar Halder | Indian National Congress | |
| 1991 | Rupchand Pal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Umasankar Halder | Indian National Congress | |
| 1996 | Rupchand Pal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Gouri Sankar Banerjee | Indian National Congress | |
| 1998 | Rupchand Pal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Tapan Dasgupta | Trinamool Congress | |
| 1999 | Rupchand Pal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Tapan Dasgupta | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2004 | Rupchand Pal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Indrani Mukherjee | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2009 | Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | Trinamool Congress | Rupchand Pal | Communist party of India (Marxist) | |
| 2014 | Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | Trinamool Congress | Pradip Saha | Communist party of India (Marxist) | |
| 2019 | Locket Chatterjee | Bharatiya Janata Party | Dr. Ratna De (Nag) | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2024 | Rachhna Banerjee | Trinamool Congress | Locket Chatterjee | Bharatiya Janata Party |