Constituency
518. Barasat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2014
IN-BARASAT
AITC 41.4%won by 13.6%AIFB 27.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.0% to 13.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.1% between them, down from 89.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
15,12,792
Turnout
83.9%
Valid votes
12,69,331
Margin
1,73,141
13.64%
Candidates
13 contested · winner AITC- 1DR. KAKALI GHOSHDOSTIDARAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC5,25,38741.4%
- 2DR. MORTOZA HOSSAINAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB3,52,24627.8%
- 3P.C. SORCAR JUNIORBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,96,60823.4%
- 4RIJU GHOSALIndian National Congress · INC40,6603.2%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA12,7001.0%
- 6SUKUMAR BALABahujan Samaj Party · BSP12,1781.0%
- 7MORTTAJA HOSENIndependent · IND6,9110.5%
- 8MD. RAFIKUL ISLAMWPOI · WPOI6,8950.5%
- 9SHRI KAUSHIK DAS GUPTAIndependent · IND6,3750.5%
- 10KALYAN BASAKIndependent · IND4,1220.3%
- 11PARESH CHANDRA GHOSHSUCI · SUCI2,4390.2%
- 12BIKASH HAZRABMUP · BMUP1,4780.1%
- 13SUKLA BHUIMALICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,3320.1%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–AIFB swing
- +1.7%
- AITC share
- 51.0% → 41.4%
- AIFB share
- 39.0% → 27.8%
- Turnout
- 83.6% → 83.9%