Barrackpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Barrackpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. While Barrackpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) comes into existence in 2011, Titagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from the same year.

Barrackpur
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Barrackpur Location in West Bengal Barrackpur Barrackpur (India)
Coordinates: 22°46′0″N 88°22′0″E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Constituency No.	108
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	Barrackpore
Electorate (year)	168,641 (2011)

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 108 Barrackpore (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Barrackpore municipality and Titagarh municipality.[1]

Barrackpore (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 15 Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Barrackpore	Phanindranath Mukhopadhyay	Indian National Congress[2]
2011		Shilbhadra Dutta	All India Trinamool Congress[3]
2016		Shilbhadra Dutta	All India Trinamool Congress

Note:For MLCAs from the area in previous years see Titagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency).

Election results

2011

In the 2011 election, Silbhadra Dutta of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Madhusudan Samanta of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Barrackpore constituency[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Silbhadra Dutta	79,515	60.02
	CPI (M)	Dr. Madhusudan Samanta	43,392	32.75
	BJP	Shambhu Nath Gupta	5,040	3.80
	BSP	Tapas Sarkar	1,843
	Independent	Umasankar Biswakarma	1,434
	JD(U)	Shiva Shankar Gupta	1,254
Turnout			132,478	78.56
	AITC win (new seat)

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Uttar 24 Parganas district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	28	23
Congress	1	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	3	16
Forward Bloc	0	3
Revolutionary Socialist Party	0	1
Communist Party of India	1	1

Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 2 (See template talk page for details)

1951

In independent India's first election in 1951, Phanindranath Mukhopadhyay of Congress won the Barrackpore seat. Thereafter, the seat was not there till 2011.[2]

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
2. "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
3. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
4. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Barrackpore. Empowering India. Retrieved 24 April 2011.