About Barasat Assembly Constituency
Barasat is constituency No. 119 of West Bengal legislative assembly. It is situated in North 24 Parganas district of the state. It is part of Lok Sabha constituency No. 17 which also goes by the same name. It is an unreserved constituency.
According to the Election Commission of India, Barasat has 2,11,207 registered voters. It comprises 1,07,949 male and 1,03,258 female voters.
This seat was won by Trinamool Congress in the 2011 assembly elections. Chiranjeet Chakrabarti, the TMC candidate, won by a formidable margin of 40,211 votes. Sanjib Chattopadhaya of Forward Bloc was the runner-up. While Chiranjeet bagged 1,03,954 votes, Chattopadhaya got 63,743. The TMC won this seat for a third consecutive term. The voter turnout was 84.51%.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Barasat Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Barasat assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Vote |
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| 2011 | 119 | Barasat | GEN | Chiranjeet Chakrabarti | M | AITC | 103954 | Sanjib Chattopadhaya | M | AIFB | 63743 |
| 2006 | 90 | Barasat | GEN | Dr. Bithika Mondal | F | AIFB | 124664 | Ashoke Mukherjee(Gopal) | M | AITC | 118077 |
| 2001 | 90 | Barasat | GEN | Ashoke (Gopal) Mukherjee | M | AITC | 107948 | Saral Deb | M | FBL | 101201 |
| 1996 | 90 | Barasat | GEN | Ashoke Mukherjee | M | INC | 106471 | Saral Deb | M | FBL | 104633 |
| 1991 | 90 | Barasat | GEN | Saral Deb | M | FBL | 76988 | Souren Sen | M | INC | 54530 |
| 1987 | 90 | Barasat | GEN | Saral Ded | M | FBL | 72694 | Amar Chandar Deb | M | INC | 49444 |
| 1982 | 90 | Barasat | GEN | Saral Deb | M | FBL | 56701 | Ashis Kumar Basu | M | INC | 36128 |
| 1977 | 90 | Barasat | GEN | Saral Deb | M | FBL | 31444 | Kanti Ranjan Chatopadhyaya | M | INC | 11465 |
| 1972 | 82 | Barasat | GEN | Kanti Rangan Chatterjee | M | INC | 32988 | Saral Deb | M | FBL | 22835 |
| 1971 | 82 | Barasat | GEN | Saral Deb | M | FBL | 17896 | Sailesh Das Gupta | M | CPM | 16512 |
| 1969 | 82 | Barasat | GEN | Saral Deb | M | FBL | 27626 | Ashoke Krishna Dutt | M | INC | 20216 |
| 1967 | 82 | Barasat | GEN | H.K.Basu | M | FBL | 32776 | A.K.Dutta | M | INC | 22716 |
| 1962 | 71 | Barasat | GEN | Asoke Krishna Dutta | M | INC | 26919 | Chitto Basu | M | FB | 23487 |
| 1957 | 177 | Barasat | GEN | Chitto Basu | M | FBM | 13455 | Amulyadhan Muhkhopadhyay | M | INC | 9422 |
| 1951 | 144 | Barasat | GEN | Amulya Dhan Mukhopadhyay | M | INC | 18276 | Hiralal Gupta | M | FBL(MG) | 2288 |
Last Updated on May 27, 2020