Barrackpore (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Barrackpore
—  Vidhan Sabha constituency  —
Barrackpore
Location in West Bengal
Coordinates:
Country  India
State West Bengal
District North 24 Parganas
Constituency No. 108
Type Open
Lok Sabha constituency 15. Barrackpore
Electorate (year) 168,641 (2011)

Barrackpore (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (also spelt Barrackpur) (Bengali: ব্যারাকপুর বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. While Barrackpore (Vidhan Sabha constituency) comes in to existence in 2011, Titagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from the same year.

Contents

Extent

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]

Results

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Barrackpore [2][3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Trinamool Congress 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
e • d 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

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.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006". Government of West Bengal. http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf. Retrieved 2010-10-15. 
  2. ^ "Barrackpore". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS25108.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-13. 
  3. ^ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Barrackpore. Empowering India. http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=108. Retrieved 2011-04-24. 
  4. ^ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Barrackpore. Election Commission of India. http://www.ceowestbengal.nic.in/mis_pdf/election_2011/canddtl_3rd_phase.pdf. Retrieved 2011-04-24. 
  5. ^ "Statistical Reports of Assembly Elections". General Election Results and Statistics. Election Commission of India. http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/electionstatistics.asp. Retrieved 2010-10-15.