Barasat Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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The Barasat Parliamentary Constituency is one of 42 Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal. It came into being in 1957.

73.51 per cent of over 1.49 crore electorate exercised their franchise in West Bengal in the final phase.

Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar of All India Trinamool Congress, Haripada Biswas of All India Forward Bloc, Mrinal Kanti Debnath of Bharatiya Janata Party, Sukumar Bala of Bahujan Samaj Party, Subrata Dutta of Indian National Congress and Bani Chakraborty of Shivsena are few prominent candidates contesting for general elections 2019 from Barasat Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Barasat Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal.

Serial No.	Name Of Candidate	Party Affiliation
1	Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar	All India Trinamool Congress
2	Mrinal Kanti Debnath	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Sukumar Bala	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	Subrata Dutta	Indian National Congress
5	Haripada Biswas	All India Forward Bloc
6	Oli Mahammad Mallick	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star
7	Tushar Ghosh	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
8	Dipankar Baidya	Rashtriya Janasachetan Party (R.J.P.)
9	Debasish Biswas	Amra Bangalee
10	Bani Chakraborty	Shivsena
11	Saurav Basu	Rashtriya Janadhikar Suraksha Party
12	Mrinal Kanti Bhattacharjee	Independent

The Assembly Constituencies that fall in Barasat parliamentary constituency are - Habra, Ashokenagar, Rajarhat New Town, Bidhannagar, Madhyamgram, Barasat and Deganga.

The election in this constituency was held in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha election 2019 on May 19 and the results will be declared on May 23.

Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar of AITC was elected from this constituency in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. The AITC candidate got 525,387 votes and defeated Dr Mortoza Hossain of AIFB.