Barrackpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

For other uses, see Barrackpore (disambiguation).

Barrackpur
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Barrackpur Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Barrackpur Barrackpur (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 22°46′0″N88°22′0″E / 22.76667°N 88.36667°E / 22.76667; 88.36667 Coordinates: 22°46′0″N88°22′0″E / 22.76667°N 88.36667°E / 22.76667; 88.36667
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Constituency No.	108
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	Barrackpore
Electorate (year)	168,641 (2011)
Government
• Incumbent MLA	Raj Chakraborty
• Political Party	AITC

Barrackpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. While Barrackpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) comes into existence in 2011, Titagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from the same year.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 108 Barrackpore (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Barrackpore municipality and Titagarh municipality. ^[1]

Barrackpore (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 15 Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Barrackpore	Phanindranath Mukhopadhyay	Indian National Congress [2]
2011		Shilbhadra Dutta	All India Trinamool Congress [3]
2016		Shilbhadra Dutta	All India Trinamool Congress
2021		Raj Chakraborty	All India Trinamool Congress

Note:For MLCAs from the area in previous years see Titagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency).

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Barrackpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Raj Chakraborty	68,887	46.47
	BJP	Dr. Chandramani Shukla	59,665	40.25
	CPI (M)	Debasish Bhowmick	16,145	10.89
	NOTA	None of the above	1,930	1.30
	BSP	Tapash Sarkar	970	0.65
Majority			9,222	6.29
Turnout			1,48,492	68.95
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Barrackpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Silbhadra Dutta	58,109	40.23
	CPI (M)	Debasish Bhowmick	50,790	35.16
	BJP	Amitava Roy	29,227	20.23
	NOTA	None of the above	2,733	1.83
	BSP	Tapas Sarkar	1,384	0.96
Majority			7,319	5.07
Turnout			1,44,450	71.78
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Silbhadra Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Madhusudan Samanta of CPI(M). ^{[3] [4]}

2011 West Bengal legislative assembly election: Barrackpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Silbhadra Dutta	79,515	60.02
	CPI (M)	Dr. Madhusudan Samanta	43,392	32.75
	BJP	Shambhu Nath Gupta	5,040	3.80
	BSP	Tapas Sarkar	1,843	1.39
	IND	Umasankar Biswakarma	1,434	1.08
Majority			36,123	27.27
Turnout			1,32,558	77.86
	AITC win (new seat)

1951

In independent India's first election in 1951, Phanindranath Mukhopadhyay of Congress won the Barrackpore seat. Thereafter, the seat was not there till 2011. ^[2]

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
2. "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
3. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
4. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Barrackpore. Empowering India. Retrieved 24 April 2011.