Live : Jangipur Assembly Election 2021

West Bengal's Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency is in the Murshidabad district. It comprises seven assembly constituencies-Suti, Jangipur, RaghunathGanj, Sagardighi, Lalgola, Nabagram and Khargram. The Nabagram and Khargram seats are reserved for candidates belonging to scheduled caste category. The Jangipur constituency will go to polls on April 23 in the third phase of seven-phase Lok Sabha election.

Once a CPM bastion, Jangipur has been witnessing Congress victory since 2004.

The 13th President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, was elected to the 14th and 15th Lok Sabha from the Jangipur seat. He had succeeded two-time elected MP and CPM leader Abul Hasnat Khan.

Pranab Mukherjee was succeeded by his son Abhijit Mukherjee in 2012 by-poll as the Jangipur seat went vacant after he was elected as the President.

Abhijit Mukherjee was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha from the Jangipur seat as a Congress candidate. This time he is again contesting from the Jangipur seat against 10 other contestant which includes TMC nominated Khalilur Rahaman, BJP's Mafuja Khatun, CPM candidate Md. Zulfikar Ali and BSP's Shamimul Islam.

2 contestants have filed their nomination as independent candidates.

In 2014, Congress defeated CPM by a margin of 8161 votes.

Last time, the voter turnout in the last election was 80.43%. 11079 votes were exercised under NOTA option.

The results of the 17th Lok Sabha polls will be released on May 23.