Kolkata, May 23: The results of the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha Constituency was declared today. The counting of votes began on the Diamond Harbour Parliamentary seat in West Bengal at 8 am on Thursday, May 23. Abhishek Banerjee of TMC defeated BJP's Nilanjan Roy by a margin of 3,20,594 votes.

Voting took place for the Diamond Harbour seat in the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019. A total voter turnout of 73.51 per cent was recorded, as per Election Commission of India. Stay with us for Live updates on the results for the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal. Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Results

The incumbent parliamentarian, representing the constituency is from AITC – Abhishek Banerjee. The MP emerged victorious in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections by defeating the Left Front’s CPI(M) candidate – Dr Abul Hasnat. AITC has fielded Abhishek Banerjee again this time from the constituency. To defeat the incumbent MP in the Lok Sabha elections 2019, CPI(M) has fielded Dr Fuad Halim, while Congress has announced Soumya Aich Roy as their candidate. BJP has fielded Nilanjan Roy as their candidate. West Bengal Election Results 2019 Live News Updates

As per the ECI website – updated on March 13, 2019 – there are 13,02,398 voters in the parliamentary constituency, among them 6,09,373 are females while 6,93,025 are males. The average literacy rate of the constituency is 72 per cent. This constituency has the oldest cantonment of the Indian Military and Police Training Academy of West Bengal. Small industries of cargo and food processing are present here. The female to male ratio is 960.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Schedule for Seventh Phase:

Announcement and Issue of Press Note March 10
Issue of Notification  April 22
Last date for filing nomination April 29
Scrutiny of nomination April 30
Last date for withdrawal of candidature May 2
Date Of Poll May 19
Date of Result May 23
Dates Before Elections Shall be Completed May 27

According to the Election Commission’s briefings, the process of filing nomination for Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha elections begun on April 22, which continued till April 29. The scrutiny was done on April 30, and the last date for the withdrawal of the nominations was May 2. The polling took place on May 19.

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In 2014 Lok Sabha polls, AITC bagged 34 seats – gaining 15 more than 2009, while CPI(M) could win only two seats – Raiganj and Murshidabad. Congress emerged victorious on four seats, and BJP opened their account from Asansol and Darjeeling. Lok Sabha elections took place in seven phases across the state – on April 11, April 18, April 23, April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19. The results would be declared on May 23.

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