Constituency
518. Barasat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2019
IN-BARASAT
AITC 46.5%won by 7.9%BJP 38.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.6% to 7.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.0% of the vote between them, up from 69.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.7% to 81.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
17,18,252
Turnout
81.2%
Valid votes
13,95,429
Margin
1,10,169
7.89%
Candidates
13 contested · winner AITC- 1Dr. Kakoli GhoshdastidarAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC6,48,44446.5%
- 2Mrinal Kanti DebnathBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,38,27538.6%
- 3Haripada BiswasAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB1,24,0688.9%
- 4Subrata DuttaIndian National Congress · INC37,2772.7%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA17,7791.3%
- 6Sukumar BalaBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9,7480.7%
- 7Mrinal Kanti BhattacharjeeIndependent · IND5,6020.4%
- 8Saurav BasuR · R4,4280.3%
- 9Bani ChakrabortyShiv Sena · SHS3,1190.2%
- 10Debasish BiswasAMB · AMB2,3490.2%
- 11Tushar GhoshSUCIC · SUCIC1,7560.1%
- 12Oli Mahammad MallickCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,3070.1%
- 13Dipankar BaidyaRJNP · RJNP1,2770.1%
Since 2014
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–BJP swing
- −10.1%
- AITC share
- 41.4% → 46.5%
- BJP share
- 23.4% → 38.6%
- Turnout
- 83.9% → 81.2%