South 24Parganas

Seats: Jadavpur, Joynagar, Mathurapur and Diamond Harbour

Big question: South-24 Parganas was among the first districts to switch to Trinamul. How green will it be this time?

Twist in poll tale: In Diamond Harbour, Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek is the candidate to watch

Names to know (Jadavpur)

• Sugata Bose (Trinamul)
• Sujan Chakraborty (CPM)
• Swarup Prasad Ghosh (BJP)
• Samir Aich (Congress)

Names to know (Joynagar)

• Pratima Mandal (Trinamul)
• Tarun Mandal (SUCI)
• Subhas Naskar (RSP)
• Arnab Roy (Congress)
• Krishnapada Mazumdar (BJP)

Names to know (Mathurapur)

• C.M. Jatua (Trinamul)
• Rinku Naskar (CPM)
• Manoranjan Haldar (Congress)
• Tapan Naskar (BJP)

Names to know (Diamond Harbour)

• Abhishek Banerjee (Trinamul)
• Abul Hasnat (CPM)
• Samir Putatunda (PDS)
• Qamruzzaman Qamar (Congress)
• Abhijit Das (BJP)

Richest in the field: Shamali Das, 56, contesting as an Independent from Calcutta South and Jadavpur. Das, a descendant of Rani Rashmoni, has assets worth Rs 2,060 crore

Degrees galore: Harvard professor Sugata Roy is a doctorate

Young bee: Abhishek Banerjee is 26 years old Remotest poll booth: Gobardhanpur under Mathurapur Lok Sabha seat. Poll personnel will have to make a 42km bus ride from Lakshmikantapur to Ramganga and take boats across two rivers — Mridangabhanga and Saptamukhi

North-24 Parganas

Seats: Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Barrackpore, Bongaon (SC)

Big question: Will the Left be able to set its crumbling organisation on the right track to counter the ruling Trinamul?

Twist in poll tale: A magician, P.C. Sorcar Junior, is in the fray in Barasat. But will his magic work for the BJP

Names to know (Dum Dum)

• Saugata Roy (Trinamul)
• Asim Dasgupta (CPM)
• Tapan Sikdar (BJP)
• Dhananjoy Moitra (Congress)

Names to know (Barasat)

• Kakali Ghosh Dastidar (Trinamul)
• Murtaza Hossain (Forward Bloc)
• P.C. Sorcar Jr (BJP)
• Riju Ghosal (Congress)

Names to know (Basirhat)

• Idris Ali (Trinamul)
• Nurul Huda (CPI)
• Abdur Rahim Kazi (Congress)
• Samik Bhattacharya (BJP)

Names to know (Barrackpore)

• Dinesh Trivedi (Trinamul)
• Subhashini Ali (CPM)
• Samrat Topdar (Congress)
• R.K. Handa (BJP)

Names to know (Bongaon)

• Kapil Krishna Thakur (Trinamul)
• Debesh Das (CPM)
• Ila Mondal (Congress)
• K.D. Biswas (BJP)

Richest in the field: P.C. Sorcar with assets totalling about Rs 5.4 crore

Degrees galore: Asim Dasgupta, a Phd from MIT

NADIA

Seats: Krishnanagar and Ranaghat

Big question: The BJP feels it has a chance of a good showing in Krishnagar. Will its assessment hold?

Twist in poll tale: Narendra Modi’s rally on May 7 may swing the vote for the BJP

Names to know (Krishnagar)

• Tapas Paul (Trinamul)
• Satyabrata Mukherjee (BJP)
• Santanu Jha (CPM)
• Razia Ahmed (Congress)

Names to know (Ranaghat-SC)

• Tapas Mandal (Trinamul)
• Archana Biswas (CPM)
• Suprabhat Biswas (BJP)
• Pratap Kanti Roy (Congress)

Richest in the field: Satyabrata Mukherjee who has assets totalling Rs 3.76 crore

Debutants: Tapas Mandal, Razia Ahmed and Santanu Jha

Murshidabad

Seat: Behrampore

Big question: Will Trinamul’s Indranil Sen be a match for Murshidabad strongman Adhir Chowdhury in his backyard?

Twist in poll tale: A showbiz face versus an entrenched politician. If Sen wins, he will be the giant slayer in Bengal this election

Names to know (Behrampore)

• Indranil Sen (Trinamul)
• Debes Adhikary (BJP)
• Pramathesh Mukherjee (RSP)
• Adhir Chowdhury (Congress)

Richest in the field: Adhir with assets totalling about Rs 8.14 crore

Debutants: Indranil Sen and Debesh Adhikary

West Midnapore

Seat: Ghatal

Big question: Will Dev’s star power click?

Twist in poll tale: Making Dev the candidate here has made the election a must-watch

Names to know (Ghatal)

• Dev (Trinamul)
• Santosh Rana (CPI)
• Mohammad Alam (BJP)
• Manas Bhunia (Congress)

Richest in the field: Dev’s assets of Rs 14 core

Young bee: Dev is 32

Calcutta

Seats: Calcutta (North) and Calcutta (South)

Big question: Will Trinamul sail through despite a tight contest in the north? In the south, will it keep its huge margin despite the Modi wave? Subrata Bakshi had won last time by nearly 2.4 lakh votes

Twist in poll tale: The North contest is of heavyweights — Somen Mitra, Rahul Sinha, Rupa Bagchi and Sudip Bandopadhyay

Names to know Calcutta (North)

• Sudip Bandopadhyay (Trinamul)
• Rupa Bagchi (CPM)
• Rahul Sinha (BJP)
• Somen Mitra (Congress)

Calcutta (South)

• Subrata Bakshi (Trinamul)
• Nandini Mukherjee (CPM)
• Tathagata Roy (BJP)
• Mala Roy (Congress)

Richest in the field: Somen Mitra with assets totalling Rs 4.41 crore

Degrees galore: Nandini Mukherjee holds a PhD degree from University of Manchester

East Midnapore

Seats: Tamluk and Contai

Big question: How will Trinamul fare in an election in which Nandigram is not a big issue

Twist in poll tale: The CPM could not put up local candidates on the turf of father-and-son duo Sisir and Subhendu Adhikary

Names to know (Tamluk)

• Subhendu Adhikari (Trinamul)
• Sheikh Ibrahim Ali (CPM)
• Badsha Alam (BJP)
• Sk Anwar Ali (Congress)

Names to know (Contai)

• Sisir Adhikari (Trinamul)
• Tapas Sinha (CPM)
• Kamalendu Pahari (BJP)
• Kunal Banerjee (Congress)

Richest in the field: Sisir Adhikari has assets totalling Rs 1.86 core

Young bee: Sheikh Ibrahim Ali is 26 years old