Constituency
520. Barrackpore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-BARRACKPORE
CPM 55.8%won by 20.8%AITC 35.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 20.8%.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,81,008
Turnout
81.0%
Valid votes
7,94,426
Margin
1,65,071
20.78%
Candidates
12 contested · winner CPM- 1Tarit Baran TopdarCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,43,04855.8%
- 2Arjun SinghAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC2,77,97735.0%
- 3Debi GhosalIndian National Congress · INC43,7505.5%
- 4Subrata BiswasIndependent · IND9,0721.1%
- 5Chapala MajumderBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,4730.8%
- 6Tarkeshwar SinghIndependent · IND3,9200.5%
- 7Amal Kumar SenIndependent · IND3,0710.4%
- 8Dinesh Kumar SharmaIndependent · IND1,9270.2%
- 9Arjun Prasad SinghIndependent · IND1,8750.2%
- 10Tapan SinhaIndependent · IND1,4660.2%
- 11Arjun BagIndependent · IND9470.1%
- 12Ganesh DasIndependent · IND9000.1%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- +15.9%
- CPM share
- 48.1% → 55.8%
- AITC share
- 43.2% → 35.0%
- Turnout
- 79.9% → 81.0%