Elections in West Bengal – 2015 Results

 

About West Bengal Elections

 
West Bengal is a state that is situated on the eastern coast of India on the shore of Bay of Bengal. Kolkata is the capital of West Bengal. The official language of the state is Bengali. There are 42 parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal. Election for Lok Sabha will be conducted on 7th April.
 
West Bengal, one in every of the India’s most inhabited states, has control regular elections since the constitution of its initial legislature in 1952. The state incorporates a unicameral legislative assembly with one house that of the State Assembly. The Vidhan Sabha or the state legislature has 294 directly members and one member nominative from the Anglo Indian Community. The state assembly had 240 members within the initial Vidhan Sabha and 251 within the second Vidhan Sabha. the quantity was bit by bit accumulated to 295 within the eighth assembly in 1977. The tenure of the state assembly is for 5 years unless it’s dissolved.

West Bengal is drawn within the Indian parliament by forty two directly elective members within the Lok Sabha or the lower house and sixteen members within the Rajya Sabha or the higher house. The state conjointly holds elections for the native bodies like the Municipalities, Zilla Parishads and Gram Panchayats.

The main political parties with in the state area unit the party of Republic of India (Marxist) (CPM), and also the Indian National Congress (INC). The All Republic of India Trinamool Congress (TMC) was fashioned in 1998, and is currently a significant regional party of the state.

Though the opposition was in power within the state within the sixties, The CPM came into power within the seventies. Shri Jyoti Basu of the party of Republic of India (Marxist) was the Chief Minister of the State from 1977 to 2000, the longest serving Chief Minister of any state in Republic of India . Smt Mamta Bannerjee of the TMC won the state assembly elections in 2011 and is that the current Chief Minister of the state. She is that the initial non CPM Chief Minister of the state in thirty four years.

In the Lok Sabha elections in 2009, the All {india|India|Republic of Republic of India|Bharat|Asian country|Asian nation} Trinamool Congress (AITC) won nineteen seats and also the party of India (Marxist) CPM won nine seats. The opposition won half-dozen seats.
 

Political Parties of the state

 
The main national parties of the state are:
 
The Communist party of India (CPI)
The Communist party of India (Marxist)(CPM)
The Indian National Congress
The Bharatiya Janata party
The main regional parties are
All India Trinamool Congress (TMC)
All India Forward Block
Revolutionary Socialist Party
Gorakha National Liberation Front (registered but unrecognized)
Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (registered but unrecognized)
Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)
Socialist Unity center of India (Communist)

 

Administration Process

 
The constitutional head of the state is Governor and he is appointed by the President. The state is run by the chief minister and his council of ministers. The state of West Bengal has unicameral Legislature with Legislative Assembly. It has 294 members who are elected directly and a member nominated from Anglo Indian community. The term for government if five years.
 

List of Chief Ministers of West Bengal

 

Sl.No.	Name of Chief Ministers	From	To	Party
1	Mamata Banerjee	May 20, 2011	Present	AITC
2	Buddhadeb Bhattacharya	Nov 6, 2000	May 13, 2011	CPM
3	Jyoti Basu	Jun 21, 1977	Nov 6, 2000	CPM
4	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	Mar 19, 1972	Jun 21, 1977	INC
5	President’s rule	Jun 28, 1971	Mar 19, 1972
6	Prafulla Chandra Ghosh	Apr 2, 1971	Jun 28, 1971	INC
7	President’s rule	Mar 19, 1970	Apr 2, 1971
8	Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee	Feb 25, 1969	Mar 19, 1970	BAC
9	President’s rule	Feb 20, 1968	Feb 25, 1969
10	Prafulla Chandra Ghosh	Nov 2, 1967	Feb 20, 1968	Independent Progressive Democratic Alliance Front
11	Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee	Mar 15, 1967	Nov 2, 1967	BAC
12	Prafulla Chandra Sen	Jul 8, 1962	Mar 15, 1967	INC
13	President’s rule	Jul 1, 1962	Jul 8, 1962
14	Bidhan Chandra Roy	Jan 14, 1948	1 July 1962	INC
15	Prafulla Chandra Ghosh	Aug 15, 1947	Jan 14, 1948	INC

 

West Bengal Governors

 

Sl.No.	Name of Governor	From	To
1	Keshari Nath Tripathi	Jul 14, 2014	Present
2	D. Y. Patil	Jul 5, 2014	Jul 14, 2014
3	M.K. Narayanan	Jan 24, 2010	Jun 30, 2014
4	Devanand Konwar (additional charge)	Dec 14, 2009	Jan 24, 2010
5	Gopalkrishna Gandhi	Dec 14, 2004	Dec 14, 2009
6	Viren J. Shah	Dec 4, 1999	Dec 14, 2004
7	Shyamal Kumar Sen (acting)	May 18, 1999	Dec 4, 1999
8	Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (additional charge)	Apr 27, 1998	May 18, 1999
9	K.V. Raghunatha Reddy	Aug 14, 1993	Apr 27, 1998
10	B. Satyanarayan Reddy (additional charge)	Jul 13, 1993	Aug 14, 1993
11	Saiyid Nurul Hasan	Feb 7, 1990	Jul 12, 1993
12	T. V. Rajeswar	Mar 20, 1989	Feb 7, 1990
13	Saiyid Nurul Hasan	Aug 12, 1986	Mar 20, 1989
14	Uma Shankar Dikshit	Oct 1, 1984	Aug 12, 1986
15	Satish Chandra (acting)	Aug 16, 1984	Oct 1, 1984
16	Anant Prasad Sharma	Oct 10, 1983	Aug 16, 1984
17	Bhairab Dutt Pande	Sep 12, 1981	Oct 10, 1983
18	Tribhuvana Narayana Singh	Nov 6, 1979	Sep 12, 1981
19	Anthony Lancelot Dias	Aug 21, 1971	Nov 6, 1979
20	Shanti Swaroop Dhavan	Sep 19, 1969	Aug 21, 1971
21	Deep Narayan Sinha (acting)	Apr 1, 1969	Sep 19, 1969
22	Dharma Vira	Jun 1, 1967	Apr 1, 1969
23	Padmaja Naidu	Nov 3, 1956	Jun 1, 1967
24	Phani Bhusan Chakraborty (acting)	Aug 8, 1956	Nov 3, 1956
25	Harendra Coomar Mookerjee	Nov 1, 1951	Aug 8, 1956
26	Kailash Nath Katju	Jun 21, 1948	Nov 1, 1951
27	Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari	Apr 29, 1905	Jun 21, 1948

 

List of Cabinet Ministers of West Bengal

 

Ministries	Name of Minsiter
Chief Minister and Minister in Charge (MIC), Home, Personnel & Administrative Reforms, Information & Cultural, Affairs, Power, Land & Land, Reforms, Health & Family, Affairs, Hill Affairs, Minority, Affairs & Madrasha, Micro , and Small Scale Enterprises, and Textiles	Mamata Banerjee
Parliamentary Affairs, Education (Primary, School and Higher Education)	Partha Chatterjee
Finance and Excise, Commerce & Industries, Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction , Information Technology, Electronics	Amit Mitra
Power & Non Conventional Energy Sources	Manish Gupta
Public Health & Engineering , Panchayat & Rural Development	Subrata Mukherjee
Mass Education Extension and Library Services	Abdul Karim Chowdhury
Consumer Affairs	Sadhan Pande
Backward Classes Welfare	Upen Biswas
Disaster Management, Fire & Emergency Services and Civil Defence	Javed Khan
Public Works Department (PWD)	Shri Shankar Chakraborty
No Portfolio	Sabitri Mitra
Food & Supplies	Jyotipriya Mallick
Self Help Group and Self Employment	Santiram Mahato
Co operation	Shri Jyotirmoy Kar
Labour	Shri Moloy Ghatak
Tourism	Shri Bratya Basu
Statistics	Janab Noore Alam Chowdhury
Planning	Shri Rachhpal Singh
Food Processing and Horticulture	Shri Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury
Forests	Shri Binay Krishna Burman
North Bengal Development	Shri Gautam Deb
Correctional Administration	Shri Janab Haider Aziz Safw
Science & Technology and Bio -Technology	Shri Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay
Technical Education and Training	Shri Ujjal Biswas
Textile	Shri Shyamapada Mukherjee
Municipal Affairs and Urban Development	Shri Janab Firhad Hakim
Paschimanchal Unnayan Affairs	Dr. Sukumar Hansda
Water Resources	Shri Soumen Kumar Mahapatra
Agriculture Marketing	Shri Arup Roy
Agriculture	Shri Purnendu Basu
Programme Implementation	Shri Rabindra Nath Battacharya
Irrigation & Waterways	Shri Rajib Bandyopadhyay
Fisheries	Shri Chandra Nath Sinha
Transport, In -land Water Transport, Sports	Shri Madan Mitra
Housing and Youth Affairs	Shri Aroop Biswas
Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation	Shri Manjul Krishna Thakur
Law & Judicial Department (Independent Charge), Health & Family Welfare (MoS)	Smt. Chandrima Bhattacharya
Sunderban Unnayan Affairs (Independent) Irrigation & Waterways (MoS), Fishries (MoS)	Shri Manturam Pakhira
Minister of State, Minister with Independent Charge, Animal Husbandry, MoS, Micro and Small Scale Enterprises	Shri Swapan Debnath
Minister of State, Public Health Engineering	Shri Pundarikakshya Saha
Minister of State, Land and Land Reforms, Agriculture and Child Development	Shri Bacharam Manna
Minister of State, Minorities Affairs & Madrasah Education	Shri Giyas Uddin Molla
Minister of State (Independent Charge), Women & Child Welfare, Additional Charge of Social Welfare Department	Dr. (Smt.) Sashi Panja
Minister of State (Independent Charge) AYUSH Branch of Department of Health and Family Welfare, Minister of State, School Education, Higher Education	Shri Asish Banerjee

 

Rajya Sabha Members of West Bengal

 

Name	Party	Term	Name	Party	Term
Shri D. Bandyopadhyay	All India Trinamool Congress	19/08/2011 to 18/08/2017	Shri Ritabrata Banerjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	03/04/2014 to 02/04/2020
Shri P. Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress	19/08/2011 to 18/08/2017	Shri Srinjoy Bose	All India Trinamool Congress	03/04/2012 to 02/04/2018
Shri Mithun Chakraborty	All India Trinamool Congress	03/04/2014 to 02/04/2020	Shri Jogendranath Chowdhury	All India Trinamool Congress	03/04/2014 to 02/04/2020
Shri Kunal Kumar Ghosh	All India Trinamool Congress	03/04/2012 to 02/04/2018	Shri Vivek Gupta	All India Trinamool Congress	03/04/2012 to 02/04/2018
Shri Md. Nadimul Haque	All India Trinamool Congress	03/04/2012 to 02/04/2018	Shri Ahamed Hassan	All India Trinamool Congress	03/04/2014 to 02/04/2020
Shri Derek O Brien	All India Trinamool Congress	19/08/2011 to 18/08/2017	Shri Mukul Roy	All India Trinamool Congress	03/04/2012 to 02/04/2018
Shri Sukhendu Sekhar Roy	All India Trinamool Congress	19/08/2011 to 18/08/2017	Shri Tapan Kumar Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	03/04/2012 to 02/04/2018
Dr. Kanwar Deep Singh	All India Trinamool Congress	03/04/2014 to 02/04/2020	Shri Sitaram Yechury	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	19/08/2011 to 18/08/2017