| Type: | LS |
| Medinipur | |
| Established: | 1951 |
| Reservation: | None |
| Party: | Trinamool Congress |
| Mp: | June Malia |
| Incumbent Image: | June Malia.jpg |
| Latest Election Year: | 2024 |
| State: | West Bengal |
| Assembly Cons: | Egra Dantan Keshiary Kharagpur Sadar Narayangarh Kharagpur Medinipur |
| Electors: | 18,11,243[1] |
Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency (formerly, Midnapore Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Midnapore in West Bengal. Six of the seven assembly segments of No. 34 Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency are in Paschim Medinipur district and one is in Purba Medinipur district.
As per order of the Delimitation Commission issued in 2006 in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 34 Medinipur is composed of the following segments:[2]
| Constituency number | Name | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) | District | Party (as of 2021) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 218 | Egra | None | Purba Medinipur | TMC |
| 219 | Dantan | None | Paschim Medinipur | TMC |
| 223 | Keshiary | ST | Paschim Medinipur | TMC |
| 224 | Kharagpur Sadar | None | Paschim Medinipur | BJP |
| 225 | Narayangarh | None | Paschim Medinipur | TMC |
| 228 | Kharagpur | None | Paschim Medinipur | TMC |
| 236 | Medinipur | None | Paschim Medinipur | Vacant |
Prior to delimitation, Midnapore Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:[3] Patashpur (assembly constituency no. 215), Midnapore (assembly constituency no. 223), Kharagpur Town (assembly constituency no. 224), Kharagpur Rural (assembly constituency no. 225), Keshiari (ST) (assembly constituency no. 226), Narayangarh (assembly constituency no. 227) andDantan (assembly constituency no. 228)
| Lok Sabha | Duration | Name of M.P. | Party Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | 1952-57 | Tudu Bharat Lal | [4] | |
| Durga Charan Banerjee | ||||
| 1952-57^ | Subodh Chandra Hansda[5] | |||
| Constituency renamed from Midnapore-Jhargram to Midnapore | ||||
| Second | 1957-62 | Narasingha Malla Ugal Sanda Deb[6] | ||
| Subodh Hansda | ||||
| Third | 1962-67 | Gobinda Kumar Singhu[7] | ||
| Fourth | 1967-69 | Sachindra Nath Maity | [8] | |
| 1969-71^ | V. K. Krishna Menon | |||
| 1971-77 | Subodh Chandra Hansda | [9] | ||
| Sixth | 1977-80 | Sudhir Kumar Ghosal | [10] | |
| Seventh | 1980-84 | Narayan Choubey | [11] [12] | |
| Eighth | 1984-89 | |||
| Ninth | 1989-91 | Indrajit Gupta[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] | ||
| Tenth | 1991-96 | |||
| Eleventh | 1996-98 | |||
| Twelfth | 1998-99 | |||
| Thirteenth | 1999-01 | |||
| 2001-04^ | Prabodh Panda[18] [19] | |||
| Fourteenth | 2004-09 | |||
| Constituency renamed from Midnapore to Medinipur | ||||
| Fifteenth | 2009-14 | Prabodh Panda[20] | ||
| Sixteenth | 2014-2019 | Sandhya Roy | [21] | |
| Seventeenth | 2019-2024 | [22] | ||
| Eighteenth | 2024-Incumbent | |||
^By poll
A by-election was held in this constituency in 2001 which was necessitated by the death of sitting MP Indrajit Gupta. In the by-election, Prabodh Panda of Communist Party of India defeated his nearest rival Manorajnan Dutta of Trinamool Congress.
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are generally mentioned below:
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | |
| 1951* | Durga Charan Bandopahyay | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | Atul Chandra Basu | Indian National Congress |
| Bishnupada Hazra | Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party | |||
| Bharat Lal Tudu | Indian National Congress | Subodh Hansda | Kisan Mazoor Praja Party | |
| 1957* | Narasingha Malla Ugal Sanda Deb | Indian National Congress | Rabindra Nath Mitra | Communist Party of India |
| Subodh Hansda | Indian National Congress | Chandra Mohan Saren | Praja Socialist Party | |
| 1962 | Gobinda Kumar Singha | Indian National Congress | Saroj Roy | Communist Party of India |
| 1967 | Sachindra Nath Maity | Bangla Congress | G.K.Singha | Indian National Congress |
| 1969 | V. K. Krishna Menon | Bangla Congress (supported by Communist-led United Front) | Krishnadas Roy | Indian National Congress[23] [24] |
| 1971 | Subodh Chandra Hansda | Indian National Congress | Narayan Choubey | Communist Party of India |
| 1977 | Sudhir Kumar Ghosal | Janata Party | Narayan Choubey | Communist Party of India |
| 1980 | Narayan Choubey | Communist Party of India | Sudhir Kumar Ghosal | Indian National Congress (I) |
| 1984 | Narayan Choubey | Communist Party of India | Ajit Kumar Khanra | Indian National Congress |
| 1989 | Indrajit Gupta | Communist Party of India | Gouri Choubey | Indian National Congress |
| 1991 | Indrajit Gupta | Communist Party of India | Birendra Bijoy Malladev | Indian National Congress |
| 1996 | Indrajit Gupta | Communist Party of India | D P Roy | Indian National Congress |
| 1998 | Indrajit Gupta | Communist Party of India | Manoranjon Dutta | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 1999 | Indrajit Gupta | Communist Party of India | Manoranjon Dutta | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2001 | Prabodh Panda | Communist Party of India | Manoranjon Dutta | All India Trinamool Congress |
| 2004 | Prabodh Panda | Communist Party of India | Rahul (Biswajit) Sinha | Bharatiya Janata Party |