Constituency
518. Barasat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-BARASAT
AITC 51.0%won by 12.0%AIFB 39.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 12.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 44.1% to 51.0% of the vote here (+6.9%).
- 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
12,26,654
Turnout
83.6%
Valid votes
10,25,539
Margin
1,22,901
11.98%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AITC- 1KAKALI GHOSH DASTIDARAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC5,22,53051.0%
- 2SUDIN CHATTOPADHYAYAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB3,99,62939.0%
- 3BRATIN SENGUPTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP55,3535.4%
- 4ARUN KUMAR BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP18,3811.8%
- 5DR. BHASKAR GHOSHAUDF · AUDF9,1610.9%
- 6KUMARI KAMALA DASIndependent · IND7,5270.7%
- 7SUBRATA BOSEIndependent · IND6,9130.7%
- 8WALIUR RAHAMANMUL · MUL6,0450.6%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- AIFB
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–AIFB swing
- +13.0%
- AITC share
- 44.1% → 51.0%
- AIFB share
- 45.1% → 39.0%
- Turnout
- 83.1% → 83.6%