Barasat Lok Sabha constituency
Barasat Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Barasat in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 17 Barasat Lok Sabha constituency are in North 24 Parganas district.
Assembly segments
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 17 Barasat is composed of the following Assembly segments from 2009:Election results
General election 2009
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General elections 1957-2004
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 | ||
| 1957 | 273525 | 56.56 | Arun Chandra Guha | 51.10 | Indian National Congress | Bhowani Sankar Sen Gupta | 48.90 | Communist Party of India |
| 1962 | 385,859 | 59.64 | Arun Chandra Guha | 50.17 | Indian National Congress | Bhowani Sankar Sen Gupta | 37.70 | Communist Party of India |
| 1967 | 365,429 | 74.09 | Ranendra Nath Sen | 40.84 | Communist Party of India | Arun Chandra Guha | 31.59 | Indian National Congress |
| 1971 | 349,894 | 64.10 | Ranendra Nath Sen | 33.29 | Communist Party of India | Hemanta Gangopadhyay | 30.54 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1977 | 372,420 | 61.05 | Chitta Basu | 56.15 | Forward Bloc | Ranen Sen | 24.23 | Communist Party of India |
| 1980 | 571,760 | 75.33 | Chitta Basu | 53.03 | Forward Bloc | Harasit Ghosh | 36.30 | Indian National Congress |
| 1984 | 703,870 | 83-83 | Tarun Kanti Ghosh | 49.46 | Indian National Congress | Chitta Basu | 47.64 | Forward Bloc |
| 1989 | 898,100 | 85.87 | Chitta Basu | 50.52 | Forward Bloc | Tarun Kanti Ghosh | 44.38 | Indian National Congress |
| 1991 | 893, 570 | 83.11 | Chitta Basu | 43.60 | Forward Bloc | Ashok Krishna Dutt | 35.84 | Indian National Congress |
| 1996 | 1,072,010 | 86.33 | Chitta Basu | 46.24 | Forward Bloc | Dr. Ranjit Kumar Panja | 42.86 | Indian National Congress |
| 1998 | 1,070,950 | 84.10 | Dr. Ranjit Kumar Panja | 47.13 | Trinamool Congress | Chitra Ghosh | 40.83 | Forward Bloc |
| 1999 | 1,043,590 | 80.88 | Dr. Ranjit Kumar Panja | 50.28 | Trinamool Congress | Saral Deb | 40.88 | Forward Bloc |
| 2004 | 1,153,580 | 83.11 | Subrata Bose | 45.13 | Forward Bloc | Dr. Ranjit Kumar Panja | 44.07 | Trinamool Congress |