| Barrackpur | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 108 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | North 24 Parganas |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Barrackpur |
| Established | 2011 |
| Total electors | 168,641 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent Koustav Bagchi | |
| Party | BJP |
| Elected year | 2026 |
Barrackpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview[edit | edit source]
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 108 Barrackpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Barrackpore municipality and Titagarh municipality.[1]
Barrackpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 15 Barrackpur Lok Sabha constituency.[1]
Members of the Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Shilbhadra Dutta | Trinamool Congress[2] | |
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | Raj Chakraborty | ||
Note: For MLAs from the area in previous years see Titagarh Assembly constituency.
Election results[edit | edit source]
2026[edit | edit source]
Raj Chakraborty is facing controversy over the character name "Khudiram Chaki" in his film Hok Kolorob (in early 2026), with critics claiming it insults revolutionary martyrs Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki.| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Koustav Bagchi | ||||
| AITC | Raj Chakraborty | ||||
| CPI(M) | Suman Ranjan Bandyopadhyay | ||||
| Janata Unnayan Party | Mohammad Sorifuddin | ||||
| INC | |||||
| None of the above (India) | None of the above | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
2021[edit | edit source]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Raj Chakraborty | 68,887 | 46.47 |  6.24
| |
| BJP | Chandramani Shukla | 59,665 | 40.25 | 20.02
| |
| CPI(M) | Debasish Bhowmick | 16,145 | 10.89 |  24.27
| |
| None of the above (India) | None of the above | 1,930 | 1.3 | 0.53
| |
| BSP | Tapas Sarkar | 970 | 0.65 | 0.31
| |
| Majority | 9,222 | 6.29 | 1.22
| ||
| Turnout | 1,48,492 | 68.95 | 2.83
| ||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
2016[edit | edit source]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Shilbhadra Dutta | 58,109 | 40.23 | 19.79
| |
| CPI(M) | Debasish Bhowmick | 50,790 | 35.16 | 2.41
| |
| BJP | Amitava Roy | 29,227 | 20.23 | 16.43
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,733 | 1.83 | N/A | |
| BSP | Tapas Sarkar | 1,384 | 0.96 | 0.43
| |
| Majority | 7,319 | 5.07 | 22.2
| ||
| Turnout | 1,44,450 | 71.78 | 6.08
| ||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
2011[edit | edit source]
In the 2011 election, Silbhadra Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Madhusudan Samanta of CPI(M).[2][3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Shilbhadra Dutta | 79,515 | 60.02 | ||
| CPI(M) | 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 | |||
| Trinamool Congress win (new seat) | |||||
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ↑ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Barrackpur. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
