Alipurduars Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal: Full list of candidates, polling dates

Here's the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Alipurduars Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal.

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Alipurduars Lok Sabha Constituency is one of 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in the eastern state of West Bengal. Alipurduars Constituency covers seven assembly segments – Tufanganj, Kumargram, Kalchini, Alipurduars, Falakata, Madarihat and Nagrakata.

Alipurduars registered 83.71 percent voter turnout in 2019, a gain of 0.5 percent. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1643616 while the total voter turnout is 1375814. While in 2014, the constituency registered 83.21 percent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1469042 while the total voter's turnout was 1222427.

The constituency is reserved for the members of Scheduled Tribes (ST). 

The fate of seven candidates will be decided on May 23 when counting of votes takes place and the result is declared.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Alipurduars Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal:- 

1	MILI ORAON	Revolutionary Socialist Party
2	RABICHAN RABHA	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
3	DASRATH TIRKEY	All India Trinamool Congress
4	MOHANLAL BASUMATA	Indian National Congress
5	RABICHAN RABHA	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
6	NARAYAN BARAIK	Kamatapur People’s Party (United)
7	GERGORY TRIKEY	Independent
8	JOHN BARLA	Bharatiya Janata Party
9	PRASEN JAYANT KINDO	Independent

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Trinamool Congress' candidate Dasrath Tirkey had defeated Revolutionary Socialist Party's (India) Manohar Tirkey. Tirkey had won with a margin of over 21 thousand votes.

Bharatiya Janata Party's Birendra Bara Oraon and Joseph Munda of the Indian National Congress were other candidates in the fray in the 2014 elections.

In the year 2009 elections, RSP candidate Manohar Tirkey had defeated his Trinamool Congress rival Paban Kumar Lakra by a huge margin of over 1.12 lakh votes.