Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency of West Bengal: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Medinipur is one of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal. Voting in Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency in the sixth phase was on May 12 and counting is on May 23.

Compared to 84.95 percent in 2014, this time 80.35 percent polling was recorded in eight seats in West Bengal.

Dilip Ghosh of Bharatiya Janata Party, Biplab Bhatta of Communist Party of India, Manas Ranjan Bhunia of All India Trinamool Congress and Sambhunath Chattapadhyay of Indian National Congress are few prominent candidates contesting for general elections 2019 from Medinipur Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal.

Medinipur parliamentary constituency comprises of seven assembly segments namely Egra, Dantan, Keshiary (ST), Kharagpur Sadar, Narayangarh, Kharagpur and Medinipur.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Medinipur Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal.

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Dilip Ghosh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Biplab Bhatta	Communist Party of India
3	Manas Ranjan Bhunia	All India Trinamool Congress
4	Ramkrishna Sarkar	Bahujan Samaj Party
5	Sambhunath Chattapadhyay	Indian National Congress
6	Ashoke Sarkar	Shivsena
7	Tushar Jana	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
8	Rabindra Nath Bera	Amra Bangalee
9	Tapas Kumar Kar	Independent

In 2014 Lok Sabha election, Trinamool Congress's Sandhya Roy had won the Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency with a margin of 185128 votes.

Sandhya Roy had bagged 581,860 votes as against Communist Party of India candidate Prabodh Panda who secured 395,194 votes.