Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency)


Barrackpore is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Barrackpore in West Bengal. All of the seven assembly segments of No. 15 Barrackpore are in North 24 Parganas district.

Overview

The Barrackpore constituency stretching from the north western edges of Kolkata metropolis in to the North 24-Parganas district is an industrial area with a difference - "the eastern bank of the Hooghly here, from Barrackpore to Shyamnagar, is an expanse of chimneys that pierce the sky like a cardiogram…Smoke billows from only one or two of them. The Empire Jute Mill is at work on occasional weeks. Loomtex Cotton is shut. Naihati Jute is shut. Gouripore Jute, shut. The ordnance factories, Ishapore Rifle and Metal & Steel, are coping with dwindling orders for guns and bombs but their workers at least have a modicum of government security. Bengal Enamel and Mahaluxmi Cotton, both in Palta, are forgotten, their land having been sold for apartment blocks. Dunbar Cotton has sold its real estate. Lakkhi Cotton does not exist, private residential high-rises having already been built on its land. To the north, the Kakinada Paper Mill is shut, as is the Meghni Mill. Workers of Barrackpore’s sick industries lead measly lives."
More than half of the voters are from the working class and around 35% of them are Hindi-speaking.

Assembly segments

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 15 Barrackpur is composed of the following assembly segments from 2009:
In 2004, Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:Amdanga, Bijpur, Naihati, Bhatpara, Jagatdal, Noapara, Titagarh

Members of Parliament

Election results

General election 2019

General election 2014

General election 2009

2009 Indian general election
West Bengal summary
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General election 2004

General election 1999

General elections 1951-2004

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
YearVotersVoter TurnoutWinnerRunners up
%ageCandidate%agePartyCandidate%ageParty
1951159,20743.58Ramananda Das51.24Indian National CongressDebprasad Ghosh18.89Bharatiya Jan Sangh
195724174756.18Bimal Coomar Ghose54.98Praja Socialist PartyLabonya Prova Dutta36.35Indian National Congress
1962404,18168.76Renu Chakraborty57.56Communist Party of IndiaRam Dhari Singh33.76Indian National Congress
196742454870.88Md. Ismail39.16Communist Party of India Renu Chakrabarty32.90Communist Party of India
1971522,10368.65Md. Ismail56.29Communist Party of India Renu Chakravarty39.72Communist Party of India
1977470,02072.23Saugata Roy64.60INCMahammad Ismail33.78CPI
1980482,4668.94Mahammad Ismail56.72CPI Debi Ghosal34.61INC
1984617.1079.30Debi Ghosal53.52INCMohammad Amin44.64CPI
1989733,76078.84Tarit Baran Topdar50.56CPI Debi Ghosal45.41INC
1991695,87074.81Tarit Baran Topdar47.56CPI Debi Ghosal38.78INC
1996825,30081.53Tarit Baran Topdar49.54CPI Debi Ghosal42.23INC
1998846,37082.56Tarit Baran Topdar46.01CPI Tarun Adhikary42.65WBTC
1999845,19081.25Tarit Baran Topdar48.06CPI Jayanta Bhattacharya43.15AITC
2004794,68081.01Tarit Baran Topdar55.77CPI Arjun Singh34.99AITC