Hooghly Seat, West Bengal Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Results: TMC's 'Didi No 1' Rachana Banerjee Defeats BJP's Locket Chatterjee

Hooghly: Trinamool Congress' Rachana Banerjee emerged victorious against BJP's Locket Chatterjee by a staggering 60,000 votes. As per local media reports, the 'Didi No 1' sensation comfortably dethroned Chatterjee and secured a win in the constituency in her first ever Lok Sabha election.

Hooghly, one of the most economically developed districts in West Bengal, is famous for its jute cultivation and its jute industry. This constituency has seven assembly segments - Singur, Chandannagore, Chunchura, Balagarh, Pandua, Saptagram, and Dhanekhali - that come under the Hooghly district.

Rachana Banerjee from the Trinamool Congress and Locket Chatterjee from the BJP are the two key candidates from the Hooghly constituency.

While Chatterjee had won the seat in the last election, Rachana is a household name owing to her body of work in the Bengal film industry.

The Hooghly constituency voted 81.38 per cent on May 20, 2024.

Key Competitors

The Trinamool Congress has fielded Rachana Banerjee to contest against the BJP’s Locket Chatterjee and Mandip Ghosh from the CPI(M) among the long list of contenders racing for this vying seat. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee’s AITMC is eyeing to regain control of the parliamentary constituency, whereas the BJP is aiming to win for the second consecutive time. 

Previous polls archive 

In the 2019 general elections, Locket Chatterjee, with 6,71,448 votes and 46.06 percent of the vote share, defeated AITMC’s Ratna De with 73,362 marginal votes. 

In the 2014 elections, AITMC’s Ratna De, with 1,89,084 marginal votes, defeated CPI(M)’s Pradip Saha, securing 6,14,312 votes and 46.11 percent of the vote share. 

In 2009, with 81,523 marginal votes, Rupchand Pal from the CPI(M) was defeated by AITMC’s Ratna De with 5,74,022 votes and 49.37 percent of the vote share.

The counting of votes for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 was on June 4.