Lok Sabha 2019 constituency: Will Trinamool Congress keep Medinipur?

This year, the Trinamool has nominated Manas Bhunia to contest the Lok Sabha election.

The Medinipur parliamentary constituency in West Bengal was the stronghold of the Communist Party of India (CPI) until 2014 when the Trinamool Congress took over.

Here are some facts about the Medinipur Lok Sabha seat (Getty Images)

Sandhya Roy of the ruling Trinamool defeated the CPI’s Probodh Panda, who had represented the Medinipur Lok Sabha seat since 2001, in the general election in 2014. Before Panda, the CPI has held the Medinipur general seat since1980.

This year, the Trinamool has nominated Manas Bhunia to contest the Lok Sabha election.

Here are some facts about the Medinipur Lok Sabha seat:

State: West Bengal

Name of the Lok Sabha constituency: Medinipur

Polling date: May 12

2019 candidates: Dr Manas Bhunia (Trinamool0, Dilip Ghosh (BJP), Sambhunath Chatterjee (Congress)

Sitting MP, party: Sandhya Roy, Trinamool Congress

Winning margin in 2014: 185,128

Runner up name, party: Probodh Panda, CPI

Number of voters in 2014: 1,260,032

Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 84.02%

Number of women voters in 2014: 729,310

Number of polling booths in 2014: 1,914