Joynagar Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Joynagar Lok Sabha Constituency is one of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal. Joynagar Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 19) was formed in 1962. It is composed of seven Vidhan Sabha segments.

73.51 per cent of over 1.49 crore electorate exercised their franchise in West Bengal in the final phase.

Dr Ashok Kandary of Bharatiya Janata Party, Tapan Mondal of Indian National Congress, Pratima Mondal of All India Trinamool Congress and Sankar Deb Mondal of Bahujan Samaj Party are few prominent candidates contesting for general elections 2019 from Joynagar Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal.

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

Serial No.	Name Of Candidate	Party Affiliation
1	DR. ASHOK KANDARY	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	TAPAN MONDAL	Indian National Congress
3	PRATIMA MONDAL	All India Trinamool Congress
4	SANKAR DEB MONDAL	Bahujan Samaj Party
5	SUBHAS NASKAR	Revolutionary Socialist Party
6	ASHOKE BAIRAGI	New Democratic Party of India
7	JAYKRISHNA HALDAR	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
8	SWAPAN KUMAR MANDAL	Rashtriya Janasachetan Party (R.J.P.)

The Assembly Constituencies that fall in Joynagar parliamentary constituency are - Gosaba (SC), Basanti (SC), Kultali (SC), Joynagar (SC), Canning Paschim (SC), Canning Purba and Magrahat Purba (SC).

The election in this constituency was held in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha election 2019 on May 19 and the results will be declared on May 23.

Pratima Mondal of Mamata Banerjee-led AITC was elected as the Member of Parliament from this constituency in the 2014 Lk Sabha polls. Mondal got 494,746 votes and defeated Subhas Naskar of the RSP who managed to get 386,362 votes.