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

Cooch Behar Lok Sabha Constituency is one of 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in the eastern state of West Bengal. Cooch Behar Constituency encompasses seven assembly segments – Mathabhanga, Coochbehar Uttar, Coochbehar Dakshin, Sitalkuchi, Sitai, Dinhata and Natabari. It is reserved for the members of Scheduled Castes (SC).

Cooch Behar registered 83.88 percent voter turnout in 2019, a gain of 1.4 percent. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1810660 while the total voter turnout is 1518779. While in 2014, the constituency registered 82.48 percent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1611815 while the total voter's turnout was 1329445.

The first phase of voting in two constituencies of West Bengal ended on April 11. The fate of 11 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 Cooch Behar Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal:-

1	PRABHAT ROY	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
2	GOBINDA CHANDRA ROY	All India Forward Bloc
3	HAREKRISHNA SARKAR	Independent
4	ADHIKARY PARESH CHANDRA	All India Trinamool Congress
5	KANGSA RAJ BARMAN	Kamatapur People’s Party (United)
6	PIYA ROY CHOWDHURY	Indian National Congress
7	ADHIKARY PARESH CHANDRA	All India Trinamool Congress
8	SRI NISITH PRAMANIK	Bharatiya Janata Party
9	SUBODH BARMAN	Amra Bangalee
10	DHANANJOY BARMAN	Welfare Party Of India
11	NARESH CHANDRA ROY	Independent
12	NIRMAL KUMAR ROY	Independent

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Renuka Sinha of the Trinamool Congress had defeated Forward Bloc's Dipak Kumar Roy and won with a margin of over 87 thousand votes. She, however, died in 2016, following which by-elections were held and Trinamool Congress candidate Partha Pratim Roy won the seat.

Hem Chandra Barman of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Keshab Chandra Ray of the Indian National Congress were the other candidates who were in the fray.

In the year 2009, Forward Bloc's Nripendra Nath Roy got elected from this seat by defeating Trinamool Congress' Arghya Roy Pradhan by a margin of 33 thousand votes.

The voter turnout across 1685 polling stations for this election was 84.35 percent. BJP's Bhabendra Nath Barman, Bangshi Badan Barman - an Independent – were among other prominent candidates who contested from this seat.