Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency

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

Most successful parties from Barrackpore Loksabha

1. Communist Party of India (Marxist) (10 times) 52.94 (50.0%)
2. Indian National Congress (3 times) 17.65 (16.7%)
3. Trinamool Congress (2 times) 17.65 (16.7%)
4. Communist Party of India (1 time) 5.88 (5.55%)
5. Bharatiya Janata Party (1 time) 5.88 (5.55%)
6. Praja Socialist Party (1 time) 5.88 (5.55%)

Barrackpur WB-15
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Barrackpore Lok Sabha Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Amdanga Bijpur Naihati Bhatpara Jagatdal Noapara Barrackpur
Established	1951
Total electors	15,08,728 (2024)[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Partha Bhowmick
Party	AITC
Alliance	INDIA
Elected year	2024

Overview

Parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal - 1. Cooch Behar, 2. Alipurduars, 3. Jalpaiguri, 4. Darjeeling, 5. Raiganj, 6. Balurghat, 7. Maldaha Uttar, 8. Maldaha Dakshin, 9. Jangipur, 10. Baharampur, 11. Murshidabad, 12. Krishnanagar, 13. Ranaghat, 14. Bangaon, 15. Barrackpur, 16. Dum Dum, 17. Barasat, 18. Basirhat, 19. Jaynagar, 20. Mathurapur, 21. Diamond Harbour, 22. Jadavpur, 23. Kolkata Dakshin, 24. Kolkata Uttar, 25. Howrah, 26. Uluberia, 27. Serampore, 28. Hooghly, 29. Arambagh, 30. Tamluk, 31, Kanthi, 32. Ghatal, 33. Jhargram, 34. Medinipur, 35. Purulia, 36. Bankur, 38. Bardhaman Purba, 39. Bardhaman Durgapur, 40. Asansol, 41. Bolpur, 42. Birbhum

The Barrackpur 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 Barrackpur 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 Barrackpur’s sick industries lead measly lives."^[2]

More than half of the voters are from the working class^[2] and around 35% of them are Hindi-speaking.^[3]

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:^[4]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
102	Amdanga	North 24 Parganas	Rafiqur Rahaman		Trinamool Congress		Trinamool Congress
103	Bijpur		Subodh Adhikary
104	Naihati		Sanat Dey
105	Bhatpara		Pawan Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party		Bharatiya Janata Party
106	Jagatdal		Somenath Shyam Ichini		Trinamool Congress		Trinamool Congress
107	Noapara		Manju Basu
108	Barrackpur		Raj Chakraborty

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Constituency	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
First	1952-57	Barrackpore	Ramananda Das		Indian National Congress[5]
Second	1957-62		Bimal Kumar Ghosh		Praja Socialist Party[6]
Third	1962-67		Renu Chakravartty		Communist Party of India[7]
Fourth	1967-71		Mohammed Ismail		Communist Party of India[8][9]
Fifth	1971-77
Sixth	1977-80		Saugata Roy		Indian National Congress[10]
Seventh	1980-84		Mohammad Ismail		Communist Party of India[11]
Eighth	1984-89		Debi Ghosal		Indian National Congress[12]
Ninth	1989-91		Tarit Baran Topdar		Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13][14][15][16][17][18]
Tenth	1991-96
Eleventh	1996-98
Twelfth	1998-99
Thirteenth	1999-04
Fourteenth	2004-09
Fifteenth	2009-14		Dinesh Trivedi		Trinamool Congress[19][20]
Sixteenth	2014-19
Seventeenth	2019-2024		Arjun Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party[21]
Eighteenth	2024-Incumbent		Partha Bhowmick		Trinamool Congress

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Barrackpur^[22][23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Partha Bhowmick	520,231	45.56	4.08
	BJP	Arjun Singh	4,55,793	39.92	2.90
	CPI(M)	Debdut Ghosh	1,09,564	9.60	1.03
Majority			64,438	5.64	4.39
Turnout			1,141,860
	AITC gain from BJP		Swing	1.87

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Barrackpur^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Arjun Singh	472,994	42.82	+20.90
	AITC	Dinesh Trivedi	458,137	41.48	−4.11
	CPI(M)	Gargi Chatterjee	117,456	10.63	−15.29
	INC	Mohammad Alam	15,746	1.43	−1.47
Majority			14,857	1.25
Turnout			1,104,699	76.91	−4.95
Registered electors			1,436,431
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	+12.50

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Barrackpur^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dinesh Trivedi	479,206	45.59	−3.69
	CPI(M)	Subhashini Ali	272,433	25.92	−16.92
	BJP	Rumesh Kumar Handa	230,401	21.92	+18.36
	INC	Samrat Topadar	30,491	2.90	+2.90
	BSP	Tapash Sarkar	5458
	Independent	Dina Shankar Singh	5036
	CPI(ML)L	Omprakash Rajbhar	4416
	Independent	Omprakash Shaw	3555
	Independent	Girish Chandra Singh	3132
	SUCI(C)	Pradip Chaudhuri	2200
	CPI(ML) Red Star	Sharmistha Choudhury	2036
	AAP	Mihir Biswas	1787
	LJP	Jainal Abudeen Ahmed	10,979	1.04	−−−
Majority			206,773	19.67	+13.23
Turnout			1,051,130	81.86	+1.40
	AITC hold		Swing	-3.69

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Barrackpur^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dinesh Trivedi	428,699	49.28
	CPI(M)	Tarit Baran Topdar	372,675	42.84
	BJP	Prabhakar Tewari	30,970	3.56
	BSP	Ashok Sonkar	9,359	1.08
	Independent	Rabi Shankar Paul	7,111
	Independent	Binod Kumar Singh	5,169
	CPI(ML)L	Subrata Sengupta	5,071
	Independent	Dharmendra Singh	4,720
	Independent	Dinesh Kumar Sharma	3,322
	Independent	Gopal Rout	2,872
Majority			56,024	6.44
Turnout			8,69,968[24]	80.46
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2009 Indian general election
West Bengal summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage
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

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Barrackpur^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Tarit Baran Topdar	443,048	55.77
	AITC	Arjun Singh	277,977	34.99
	INC	Debi Ghosal	43,750	5.51
	Independent	Subrata Biswas	9,072	1.14
	BSP	Chapala Majumder	6,473	0.81
	Independent	Tarkeshwar Singh	3,920	0.49
	Independent	Amal Kumar Sen	3,071	0.39
Majority			165,071	20.78
Turnout			7,94,426	80.98
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General election 1999

General Election, 1999: Barrackpur^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Tarit Baran Topdar	399,269
	AITC	Jayanta Bhattacharya	358,494	34.99
	INC	Ashok Shukla	59,732	5.51
	Independent	Subrata Biswas	9,072	1.14
	BSP	Chapala Majumder	6,473	0.81
	Independent	Tarkeshwar Singh	3,920	0.49
	Independent	Amal Kumar Sen	3,071	0.39
Majority			40,775	4.78
Turnout			7,94,426	80.98
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

General elections 1951-2004

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

Year	Voters	Voter Turnout	Winner			Runners up
		%age	Candidate	%age	Party	Candidate	%age	Party
1951	159,207	43.58	Ramananda Das	51.24	Indian National Congress	Debprasad Ghosh	18.89	Bharatiya Jan Sangh
1957	241747	56.18	Bimal Coomar Ghose	54.98	Praja Socialist Party	Labonya Prova Dutta	36.35	Indian National Congress
1962	404,181	68.76	Renu Chakraborty	57.56	Communist Party of India	Ram Dhari Singh	33.76	Indian National Congress
1967	424548	70.88	Md. Ismail	39.16	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Renu Chakrabarty	32.90	Communist Party of India
1971	522,103	68.65	Md. Ismail	56.29	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Renu Chakravarty	39.72	Communist Party of India
1977	470,020	72.23	Saugata Roy	64.60	INC	Mahammad Ismail	33.78	CPI (M)
1980	482,46	68.94	Mahammad Ismail	56.72	CPI (M)	Debi Ghosal	34.61	INC (I)
1984	617.10	79.30	Debi Ghosal	53.52	INC	Mohammad Amin	44.64	CPI (M)
1989	733,760	78.84	Tarit Baran Topdar	50.56	CPI (M)	Debi Ghosal	45.41	INC
1991	695,870	74.81	Tarit Baran Topdar	47.56	CPI (M)	Debi Ghosal	38.78	INC
1996	825,300	81.53	Tarit Baran Topdar	49.54	CPI (M)	Debi Ghosal	42.23	INC
1998	846,370	82.56	Tarit Baran Topdar	46.01	CPI (M)	Tarun Adhikary	42.65	WBTC
1999	845,190	81.25	Tarit Baran Topdar	48.06	CPI (M)	Jayanta Bhattacharya	43.15	AITC
2004	794,680	81.01	Tarit Baran Topdar	55.77	CPI (M)	Arjun Singh	34.99	AITC

See also

• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha