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{{Infobox settlement



|name = Barasat 
|official_name =
|other_name =
|native_name = 
|settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha constituency 
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|pushpin_map = India West Bengal#India
|map_caption = Location in West Bengal
|coordinates = {{coord|22|43|0|N|88|29|0|E|region:IN-{{IndAbbr|[[West Bengal]]}}|display=inline,title}}

|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{IND}}
|subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[North 24 Parganas district|North 24 Parganas]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No.]]
|subdivision_name3 = 119
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Open
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency)|Barasat]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 208,810 (2011)

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|website =
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'''Barasat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[North 24 Parganas district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], No. 119 Barasat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: [[Barasat]] municipality and [[Chhota Jagulia]] [[gram panchayat]] of [[Barasat I (Community development block)|Barasat I]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]],<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/WestBengal/FINAL%20ORDER%20NOTIFICATION_English.pdf | title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006 | access-date=15 October 2010 |work = West Bengal| publisher= Election Commission of India}}</ref>

Barasat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 17 [[Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable"ìÍĦĤĠčw
|-
! Election<br/> Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
|-
|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]||Barasat||Amulya Dhan Mukhopadhyay||[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha1952>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||||[[Chitta Basu (politician)|Chitta Basu]]||[[All India Forward Bloc]]<ref name=vidhansabha1957>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||||[[Ashok Krishna Dutt]]||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1962>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||||H.K.Basu ||All India Forward Bloc <ref name=vidhansabha1967>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Saral Deb||All India Forward Bloc <ref name=vidhansabha1969>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Saral Deb||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1971>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1972||||Kanti Rangan Chatterjee||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1972>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||Saral Deb||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1977>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||Saral Deb||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1982>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||Saral Deb||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1987>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1987/StatisticalReportWestBengal87.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1991||||Saral Deb||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1991>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-West%20Bengal91.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1996||||Ashoke Mukherjee||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1996>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-WB96.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||Ashoke Mukherjee||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha2001>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Dr. Bithika Mondal||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha2006>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_WB_2006.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||||[[Chiranjeet Chakraborty|Deepak Chakraborty (Chiranjeet)]]||All India Trinamool Congress<ref name=vidhansabha2011>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]||||Deepak Chakraborty (Chiranjeet)||All India Trinamool Congress
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]||||Deepak Chakraborty (Chiranjeet)||All India Trinamool Congress
|}

==Election results==

===2021===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2021]]: Barasat constituency}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Chiranjeet Chakraborty|Deepak Chakraborty (Chiranjeet)]]
|votes = 104,431
|percentage = 46.27
|change = -2.17
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Sankar Chatterjee
|votes = 80,648
|percentage = 35.73
|change = +24.78
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Sanjib Chattopadhyay
|votes = 34,171
|percentage = 15.14
|change = -21.15
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 2,688
|percentage = 1.19
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Sunil Chandra Roy
|votes = 940
|percentage = 0.42
|change = -0.95
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Tarun Dhar
|votes = 767
|percentage = 0.34
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Amra Bangalee
|candidate = Mohan Lal Adhikari
|votes = 576
|percentage = 0.26
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Amit Kumar Chakraborty
|votes = 572
|percentage = 0.25
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Jan Sangh Party
|candidate = Sudarshan Das
|votes = 496
|percentage = 0.22
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Kshama Debnath (Panda)
|votes = 418
|percentage = 0.19
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 225,707
|percentage = 80.73
|change = -2.20
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2016===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2016]]: Barasat constituency}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Chiranjeet Chakraborty|Deepak Chakraborty (Chiranjeet)]]
|votes = 99,667
|percentage = 48.44
|change = -9.84
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Sanjib Chatterjee
|votes = 74,668
|percentage = 36.29
|change = +0.55
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Dr. Bithika Mandal
|votes = 22,537
|percentage = 10.95
|change = +7.61
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Sunil Chandra Roy
|votes = 2,827
|percentage = 1.37
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 205,770
|percentage = 82.93
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
===2011===
In the 2011 election, Chiranjeet of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Sanjib Chatterjee of Forward Bloc.
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Barasat constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=119|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Barasat| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 24 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = [[Chiranjeet Chakraborty|Deepak Chakraborty (Chiranjeet)]]
|votes = 103,954
|percentage = 58.28
|change = +9.46#
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Sanjib Chatterjee
|votes = 63,743
|percentage = 35.74
|change = -11.02
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Tuhin Kumar Mondal
|votes = 5,957
|percentage = 3.34
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Tapan Sarkar
|votes = 2,302
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Bablu Jana
|votes = 1,584
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Samata Party
|candidate = Ramtanay Bhattacharya
|votes = 823
|percentage =
|change =
}}

{{Election box turnout
|votes = 178,363
|percentage = 85.42
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = All India Forward Bloc
|swing = 20.48#
}}
{{Election box end}}

<small>.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.</small>
===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006 state assembly elections]],<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> Dr. Bithika Mondal of [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]] won the Barasat assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Ashoke Mukherjee of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Ashoke Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress defeated Saral Deb of Forward Bloc in 2001<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> and 1996.<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> Saral Deb of Forward Bloc defeated Souren Sen of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1991,<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Amar Chandar Deb of Congress in 1987,<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Ashis Kumar Basu of Congress in 1982,<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Kanti Ranjan Chattopadhyay in of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp90.htm |title =90 - Barasat Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 15 October 2010}}</ref>

===1951-1972===
Kanti Rangan Chatterjee of Congress won in 1972.<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> Saral Deb of Forward Bloc won in 1971<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> and 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> H.K.Basu of Forward Bloc won in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Ashok Krishna Dutt of Congress won in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]].<ref name=vidhansabha1962/>[[Chitta Basu (politician)|Chitta Basu]] of Forward Bloc won in [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]].<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1951]], Amulya Dhan Mukhopadhyay of Congress won the Barasat seat.<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>

==References==
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{{North 24 Parganas topics}}
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{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of North 24 Parganas district]]

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