| Type: | LS |
| Barasat | |
| Established: | 1952-present |
| Reservation: | None |
| Electors: | 1,512,792[1] |
Barasat Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Barasat in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 17 Barasat Lok Sabha constituency are in North 24 Parganas district.
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 17 Barasat is composed of the following Assembly segments from 2009:[2]
| Constituency number | Name | District | Party | MLA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | Habra | North 24 Parganas | TMC | Jyotipriya Mallick |
| 101 | Ashoknagar | TMC | Narayan Goswami | |
| 115 | Rajarhat New Town | TMC | Tapash Chatterjee | |
| 116 | Bidhannagar | TMC | Sujit Bose | |
| 118 | Madhyamgram | TMC | Rathin Ghosh | |
| 119 | Barasat | TMC | Chiranjeet Chakraborty | |
| 120 | Deganga | TMC | Rahima Mondal |
| Lok Sabha | Duration | Constituency | Name of M.P. | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | 1952-57 | Santipur | Arun Chandra Guha | [3] [4] | |
| Second | 1957-62 | Barasat | |||
| Third | 1962-67 | ||||
| Fourth | 1967-71 | Dr. Ranenendra Nath Sen | [5] [6] | ||
| 1971-77 | |||||
| Sixth | 1977-80 | Chitta Basu | [7] [8] | ||
| Seventh | 1980-84 | ||||
| Eighth | 1984-89 | Tarun Kanti Ghosh | [9] | ||
| Ninth | 1989-91 | Chitta Basu | [10] [11] [12] | ||
| Tenth | 1991-96 | ||||
| Eleventh | 1996-98 | ||||
| Twelfth | 1998-99 | [13] [14] | |||
| Thirteenth | 1999-04 | ||||
| Fourteenth | 2004-09 | Subrata Bose | [15] | ||
| Fifteenth | 2009-14 | Kakali Ghosh Dastidar | [16] [17] | ||
| Sixteenth | 2014-2019 | ||||
| Seventeenth | 2019-2024 | ||||
| Eighteenth | 2024-Incumbent | ||||
|-! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" width=225 |Party! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats won! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seat change! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Vote percentage|-| style="text-align:left;" |Trinamool Congress| style="text-align:center;" | 19| style="text-align:center;" | 18| style="text-align:center;" | 31.8|-| style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress| style="text-align:center;" | 6| style="text-align:center;" | 0| style="text-align:center;" | 13.45|-| style="text-align:left;" |Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | NA|-|-| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India (Marxist)| style="text-align:center;" | 9| style="text-align:center;" | 17| style="text-align:center;" | 33.1|-| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India| style="text-align:center;" | 2| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | 3.6|-| style="text-align:left;" |Revolutionary Socialist Party| style="text-align:center;" | 2| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | 3.56|-| style="text-align:left;" |Forward bloc| style="text-align:center;" | 2| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | 3.04|-| style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Janata Party| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | 1| style="text-align:center;" | 6.14|-|}
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
| Year | Voters | Voter Turnout | Winner | Runners up | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| %age | Candidate | %age | Party | Candidate | %age | Party | ||
| 1957 | 273525 | 56.56 | Arun Chandra Guha | 51.10 | Indian National Congress | Bhowani Sankar Sen Gupta | 48.90 | Communist Party of India |
| 1962 | 385,859 | 59.64 | Arun Chandra Guha | 50.17 | Indian National Congress | Bhowani Sankar Sen Gupta | 37.70 | Communist Party of India[18] |
| 1967 | 365,429 | 74.09 | Ranendra Nath Sen | 40.84 | Communist Party of India | Arun Chandra Guha | 31.59 | Indian National Congress |
| 1971 | 349,894 | 64.10 | Ranendra Nath Sen | 33.29 | Communist Party of India | Hemanta Gangopadhyay | 30.54 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1977 | 372,420 | 61.05 | Chitta Basu | 56.15 | Forward Bloc | Ranen Sen | 24.23 | Communist Party of India |
| 1980 | 571,760 | 75.33 | Chitta Basu | 53.03 | Forward Bloc | Harasit Ghosh | 36.30 | Indian National Congress (I) |
| 1984 | 703,870 | 83-83 | Tarun Kanti Ghosh | 49.46 | Indian National Congress | Chitta Basu | 47.64 | Forward Bloc |
| 1989 | 898,100 | 85.87 | Chitta Basu | 50.52 | Forward Bloc | Tarun Kanti Ghosh | 44.38 | Indian National Congress |
| 1991 | 893, 570 | 83.11 | Chitta Basu | 43.60 | Forward Bloc | Ashok Krishna Dutt | 35.84 | Indian National Congress |
| 1996 | 1,072,010 | 86.33 | Chitta Basu | 46.24 | Forward Bloc | Dr. Ranjit Kumar Panja | 42.86 | Indian National Congress |
| 1998 | 1,070,950 | 84.10 | Dr. Ranjit Kumar Panja | 47.13 | Trinamool Congress | Chitra Ghosh | 40.83 | Forward Bloc |
| 1999 | 1,043,590 | 80.88 | Dr. Ranjit Kumar Panja | 50.28 | Trinamool Congress | Saral Deb | 40.88 | Forward Bloc |
| 2004 | 1,153,580 | 83.11 | Subrata Bose | 45.13 | Forward Bloc | Dr. Ranjit Kumar Panja | 44.07 | Trinamool Congress |