Details of 5th Phase Assembly Election in West Bengal

Sunil Kumar Gupta
Chief Electoral Officer, West Bengal

 People of West Bengal cast their votes in 53 constituencies in Hooghly, South 24 Parganas and Kolkata districts. There were 18 seats in Hooghly, 31 were in South 24 Parganas and four were in Kolkata South. This 5^th phase observed many a heavyweight candidate including the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee. Partha Chatterjee, Javed Khan, Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Sujan Chakraborty, Samik Lahiri, Rezzak Molla, Abdul Mannan, Deepa Dasmunsi Ambikesh Mahapatra etc were among the heavyweight candidates in this phase.

Mamata Bandhyopadhyay
Chief Minister of West Bengal

Click below to see contesting candidates from Kolkata, Hooghly and South 24 Pargana.

5th Phase Contesting Candidates

Basic Information:-

   

Polling Stations	14642
Candidates	349
Voters	1,23,97,832

Number of 2016 Party wise Candidates :-

Trinamool Congress	Alliance		BJP
53
	CPIM	31	53
	Forward Bloc	03
	RSP	02
	CPI	01
	Congress	14
		51

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5th Phase Nomination Details Party Wise

2011 result in these 53 seats. 

AITMC	Alliance		BJP
46	CPIM	04	Nil
	RSP	01
	Forward Bloc	01
	Congress	Nil
46		06	00

**SUCI bagged one seat.

Force Personnel by ECI for the 5^th Phase:-

Election Commission of India will collect reports randomly from micro-observers. The Commission will deploy an extra force if necessity demands. Force will increase the stamina of voters by route marching. Mobile phones of the observers will be available. The central force will participate in route march as per the orders of the observers.

680 companies of central forces will be in the action. 238 companies out of 680 will control the situation of Hooghly district.333 companies will be available in South 24 Parganas. The Commission will deploy 109 companies in Kolkata. Besides, 26 thousand state police will work together to run the election fare. 8500 will work in Hooghly. 11,500 will be in South 24 Parganas. 6000 will work in Kolkata. 682 video camera will be available. Naka search is to be going on.

District	Central Force(Company)	State Police(Number)
Hooghly	238	8500
Kolkata	109	6000
South 24 Parganas	333	11500
Total	680	26000

There 2685 polling stations in South 24 Parganas. Total sensitive area is 3526 Total number of state police is 11,632.There will be 100 quick response teams active in this district.

Police has discovered ten bombs at a club in Tiljala area. Police has found ten bombs in Chetla Alipore Youngster club. DC South has arrived at the spot with bomb squad.

Polling Percentage Till 5 p.m.

Time	South 24 Parganas	Hooghly	Kolkata
09 a.m.	20.04	20.10	15.64	19.64
11 a.m.	39.81	36.97	32.58	38.30
01 p.m.	58.24	59.83	46.35	57.1
03 p.m.	73.19	72.46	58.05	72.19
05 p.m.	79.69	78.98	63.10	78.25
Overall	78.25

Events Flow:-

Abdur Razzak Molla is suspecting of sabotage. There was a collision between the gang of Arabul and the gang of Razzak. At Saturia. ECI has instructed to lodge FIR against TMC leader Sonali Guha.Shekh Nizamuddin has been arrested as per the instruction by the commission of an FIR against him. Presiding officer was removed and the Commission has instructed to lodge an FIR against the presiding officer for the booth where the above event took place. Two TMC workers including a physically challenged person was shot injured allegedly by CPIM workers at Baruipur Purba in Arambagh. The splinter hit a boy as bombs were thrown. Police has arrested 6 convicted persons till now. TMC district president Shovan  Chatterjee has complained that CPIM did it.

Kathalberia in Canning has come in news where the firing against force has been reported. Forward Block candidate was harassed at the 117^th  polling station in Goghat. Force has done excellent job after getting any kind of chaos.CPIM worker was attacked at Poin in Arambagh. Bombs were found at Keyatala area in Kolkata.