Barasat WB-17 | |
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Lok Sabha constituency | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | East India |
State | West Bengal |
Assembly constituencies | Habra Ashoknagar Rajarhat New Town Bidhannagar Madhyamgram Barasat Deganga |
Established | 1952-present |
Total electors | 1,512,792[1] |
Reservation | None |
Member of Parliament | |
18th Lok Sabha | |
Incumbent | |
Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
Elected year | 2019 |
Barasat Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Barasat in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 17 Barasat Lok Sabha constituency are in North 24 Parganas district.
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 17 Barasat is composed of the following Assembly segments from 2009:[2]
Constituency number | Name | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) | District | Party | MLA |
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100 | Habra | None | North 24 Parganas | AITC | Jyotipriya Mallick |
101 | Ashoknagar | None | North 24 Parganas | AITC | Narayan Goswami |
115 | Rajarhat New Town | None | North 24 Parganas | AITC | Tapash Chatterjee |
116 | Bidhannagar | None | North 24 Parganas | AITC | Sujit Bose |
118 | Madhyamgram | None | North 24 Parganas | AITC | Rathin Ghosh |
119 | Barasat | None | North 24 Parganas | Chiranjeet Chakraborty | |
120 | Deganga | None | North 24 Parganas | AITC | Rahima Mondal |
Lok Sabha | Duration | Constituency | Name of M.P. | Party | |
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First | 1952-57 | Santipur | Arun Chandra Guha | Indian National Congress[3][4] | |
Second | 1957-62 | Barasat | |||
Third | 1962-67 | ||||
Fourth | 1967-71 | Dr. Ranenendra Nath Sen | Communist Party of India[5][6] | ||
Fifth | 1971-77 | ||||
Sixth | 1977-80 | Chitta Basu | All India Forward Bloc[7][8] | ||
Seventh | 1980-84 | ||||
Eighth | 1984-89 | Tarun Kanti Ghosh | Indian National Congress[9] | ||
Ninth | 1989-91 | Chitta Basu | All India Forward Bloc[10][11][12] | ||
Tenth | 1991-96 | ||||
Eleventh | 1996-98 | ||||
Twelfth | 1998-99 | Dr. Ranjit Kumar Panja | Trinamool Congress[13][14] | ||
Thirteenth | 1999-04 | ||||
Fourteenth | 2004-09 | Subrata Bose | All India Forward Bloc[15] | ||
Fifteenth | 2009-14 | Kakali Ghosh Dastidar | Trinamool Congress[16][17] | ||
Sixteenth | 2014-2019 | ||||
Seventeenth | 2019-incumbent |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar | ||||
BJP | Swapan Majumder | ||||
AIFB | Sanjib Chatterjee | ||||
NOTA | None of the above | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar | 648,444 | 46.47 | +5.08 | |
BJP | Dr. Mrinal Kanti Debnath | 538,275 | 38.57 | +15.2 | |
AIFB | Haripada Biswas | 124,068 | 8.89 | −18.86 | |
INC | Subrata Dutta | 37,277 | 2.67 | −0.53 | |
NOTA | None of the above | 17,769 | 1.27 | ||
Majority | 110,169 | 7.90 | −5.74 | ||
Turnout | 1,396,194 | 81.26 | −2.65 | ||
AITC hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar | 525,387 | 41.39 | −9.56 | |
AIFB | Mortaza Hossain | 3,52,246 | 27.75 | −11.22 | |
BJP | P. C. Sorcar, Jr. | 2,96,608 | 23.37 | +17.97 | |
INC | Riju Ghoshal | 40,660 | 3.20 | +3.20 | |
None of the Above | None of the Above | 12,700 | 1.00 | ||
BSP | Sukumar Bala | 12,178 | 0.96 | ||
Majority | 1,73,141 | 13.64 | +1.66 | ||
Turnout | 12,69,331 | 83.91 | |||
AITC hold | Swing | -10.39 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar | 522,530 | 50.96 | ||
AIFB | Sudin Chattopadhyay | 3,99,629 | 38.97 | ||
BJP | Bratin Sengupta | 55,353 | 5.39 | ||
BSP | Arun Kumar Biswas | 18,381 | 1.79 | ||
AUDF | Bhaskar Ghosh | 9,161 | 0.89 | ||
IND | Kumari Kamala Das | 7,527 | 0.73 | ||
Majority | 1,22,901 | 11.99 | |||
Turnout | 10,25,329 | 83.60 | |||
AITC gain from AIFB | Swing |
Party | Seats won | Seat change | Vote percentage |
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Trinamool Congress | 19 | 18 | 31.8 |
Indian National Congress | 6 | 0 | 13.45 |
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 1 | 1 | NA |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 9 | 17 | 33.1 |
Communist Party of India | 2 | 1 | 3.6 |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2 | 1 | 3.56 |
Forward bloc | 2 | 1 | 3.04 |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 1 | 1 | 6.14 |
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
Year | Voters | Voter Turnout | Winner | Runners up | ||||
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%age | Candidate | %age | Party | Candidate | %age | Party | ||
1957 | 273525 | 56.56 | Arun Chandra Guha | 51.10 | Indian National Congress | Bhowani Sankar Sen Gupta | 48.90 | Communist Party of India[4] |
1962 | 385,859 | 59.64 | Arun Chandra Guha | 50.17 | Indian National Congress | Bhowani Sankar Sen Gupta | 37.70 | Communist Party of India[18] |
1967 | 365,429 | 74.09 | Ranendra Nath Sen | 40.84 | Communist Party of India | Arun Chandra Guha | 31.59 | Indian National Congress[5] |
1971 | 349,894 | 64.10 | Ranendra Nath Sen | 33.29 | Communist Party of India | Hemanta Gangopadhyay | 30.54 | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6] |
1977 | 372,420 | 61.05 | Chitta Basu | 56.15 | Forward Bloc | Ranen Sen | 24.23 | Communist Party of India[7] |
1980 | 571,760 | 75.33 | Chitta Basu | 53.03 | Forward Bloc | Harasit Ghosh | 36.30 | Indian National Congress (I)[8] |
1984 | 703,870 | 83-83 | Tarun Kanti Ghosh | 49.46 | Indian National Congress | Chitta Basu | 47.64 | Forward Bloc[9] |
1989 | 898,100 | 85.87 | Chitta Basu | 50.52 | Forward Bloc | Tarun Kanti Ghosh | 44.38 | Indian National Congress[10] |
1991 | 893, 570 | 83.11 | Chitta Basu | 43.60 | Forward Bloc | Ashok Krishna Dutt | 35.84 | Indian National Congress[11] |
1996 | 1,072,010 | 86.33 | Chitta Basu | 46.24 | Forward Bloc | Dr. Ranjit Kumar Panja | 42.86 | Indian National Congress[12] |
1998 | 1,070,950 | 84.10 | Dr. Ranjit Kumar Panja | 47.13 | Trinamool Congress | Chitra Ghosh | 40.83 | Forward Bloc[13] |
1999 | 1,043,590 | 80.88 | Dr. Ranjit Kumar Panja | 50.28 | Trinamool Congress | Saral Deb | 40.88 | Forward Bloc[14] |
2004 | 1,153,580 | 83.11 | Subrata Bose | 45.13 | Forward Bloc | Dr. Ranjit Kumar Panja | 44.07 | Trinamool Congress[15] |
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