| Jaynagar | |
| Type: | LS |
| State: | West Bengal |
| Established: | 1962–Present |
| Reservation: | SC |
| Assembly Cons: | Gosaba Basanti Kultali Jaynagar Canning Paschim Canning Purba Magrahat Purba |
| Mp: | Pratima Mondal |
| Party: | Trinamool Congress |
| Latest Election Year: | 2024 |
| Electors: | 1,645,203[1] |
Jaynagar is one of the 543 Parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Jaynagar Majilpur in West Bengal. All the seven legislative assembly segments of No. 19 Jaynagar Lok Sabha constituency are in South 24 Parganas 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, Jaynagar Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following legislative assembly segments from 2009:[2]
| Constituency number | Name | District | Party | MLA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 127 | Gosaba (SC) | South 24 Parganas | TMC | Subrata Mondal |
| 128 | Basanti (SC) | TMC | Shyamal Mondal | |
| 129 | Kultali (SC) | TMC | Ganesh Chandra Mondal | |
| 136 | Jaynagar (SC) | TMC | Biswanath Das | |
| 138 | Canning Paschim (SC) | TMC | Paresh Ram Das | |
| 139 | Canning Purba | TMC | Saokat Molla | |
| 141 | Magrahat Purba (SC) | TMC | Namita Saha |
| Lok Sabha | Duration | Name of M.P. | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Third | 1962–1967 | Paresh Nath Kayal | [3] | |
| Fourth | 1967–1971 | Chitta Roy | [4] | |
| 1971–1977 | Sakti Kumar Sarkar | [5] | ||
| Sixth | 1977–1980 | [6] | ||
| Seventh | 1980–1984 | Sanat Kumar Mandal | [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] | |
| Eighth | 1984–1989 | |||
| Ninth | 1989–1991 | |||
| Tenth | 1991–1996 | |||
| Eleventh | 1996–1998 | |||
| Twelfth | 1998–1999 | |||
| Thirteenth | 1999–2004 | |||
| Fourteenth | 2004–2009 | |||
| Fifteenth | 2009–2014 | Tarun Mandal | [15] | |
| Sixteenth | 2014–2019 | Pratima Mondal | [16] | |
| Seventeenth | 2019–2024 | |||
| Eighteenth | 2024–Incumbent | |||
|-! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" width=225 |Party! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats won! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seat change! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Vote percentage|-| style="text-align:left;" |Trinamool Congress| style="text-align:center;" | 19| style="text-align:center;" | 18| style="text-align:center;" | 31.8|-| style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress| style="text-align:center;" | 6| style="text-align:center;" | 0| style="text-align:center;" | 13.45|-| style="text-align:left;" |Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | NA|-|-| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India (Marxist)| style="text-align:center;" | 9| style="text-align:center;" | 17| style="text-align:center;" | 33.1|-| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India| style="text-align:center;" | 2| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | 3.6|-| style="text-align:left;" |Revolutionary Socialist Party| style="text-align:center;" | 2| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | 3.56|-| style="text-align:left;" |Forward bloc| style="text-align:center;" | 2| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | 3.04|-| style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Janata Party| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | 6.14|-|}
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
| Year | Voters | Voter Turnout | Winner | Runners up | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| %age | Candidate | %age | Party | Candidate | %age | Party | ||
| 1962 | 297,962 | 55.98 | Paresh Nath Kayal | 53.28 | Indian National Congress | Sailendra Nath Haldar | 46.72 | Communist Party of India |
| 1967 | 373,749 | 71.07 | Chitta Roy | 43.95 | Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | Paresh Nath Kayal | 35.84 | Indian National Congress |
| 1971 | 393,696 | 70.16 | Sakti Kumar Sarkar | 41.61 | Indian National Congress | Nirmal Kumar Sinha | 22.18 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1977 | 380,210 | 60.73 | 48.92 | Janata Party | Nirmal Kanti Mondal | 32.49 | Indian National Congress | |
| 1980 | 528,330 | 75.97 | 45.72 | Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | Gobinda Chandra Naskar | 36.32 | ||
| 1984 | 611,190 | 80.11 | 44.17 | Ardhendu Sekhar Naskar | 40.76 | |||
| 1989 | 758,240 | 81.34 | 45.35 | Ardhendu Sekhar Naskar | 36.78 | |||
| 1991 | 754,350 | 78.88 | 46.01 | Narayan Naskar | 28.02 | |||
| 1996 | 894.59 | 84.11 | 48.17 | Jogesh Roy | 31.60 | |||
| 1998 | 858,360 | 77.98 | 48.48 | Krishnapada Majumdar | 27.49 | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 1999 | 815.92 | 73.05 | 49.39 | Krishnapada Majumdar | 34.80 | |||
| 2004 | 807,320 | 71.01 | 55.81 | Asit Baran Thakur | 27.22 |