Constituency
485. Barasat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984
IN-BARASAT
INC 49.5%won by 1.8%FBL 47.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 49.5% of the vote here (+49.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.1% of the vote between them, up from 89.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 8.6% to 82.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,39,673
Turnout
82.6%
Valid votes
6,93,855
Margin
12,612
1.82%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1TARUN KANTI GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC3,43,18449.5%
- 2CHITTA BASUFBL · FBL3,30,57247.6%
- 3ALHAZ ABDUS SAILAMMUL · MUL9,9331.4%
- 4NRIPENDRA NATH GHOSHIndependent · IND4,3810.6%
- 5JAGANNATH BISWASIndependent · IND4,0980.6%
- 6IFTAKHAR REHMAN (BENU)Independent · IND8580.1%
- 7SUBASH SARKARIndependent · IND8290.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–FBL swing
- +54.8%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 49.5%
- FBL share
- 53.0% → 47.6%
- Turnout
- 74.0% → 82.6%