Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency

Barrackpur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Barrackpur in West Bengal. All of the seven assembly segments of No. 15 Barrackpur Lok Sabha constituency are in North 24 Parganas district.

Overview
The Barrackpur constituency stretching from the north western edges of Kolkata metropolis in to the North 24-Parganas district is an industrial area with a difference - "the eastern bank of the Hooghly here, from Barrackpur to Shyamnagar, is an expanse of chimneys that pierce the sky like a cardiogram…Smoke billows from only one or two of them. The Empire Jute Mill is at work on occasional weeks. Loomtex Cotton is shut. Naihati Jute is shut. Gouripore Jute, shut. The ordnance factories, Ishapore Rifle and Metal & Steel, are coping with dwindling orders for guns and bombs but their workers at least have a modicum of government security. Bengal Enamel and Mahaluxmi Cotton, both in Palta, are forgotten, their land having been sold for apartment blocks. Dunbar Cotton has sold its real estate. Lakkhi Cotton does not exist, private residential high-rises having already been built on its land. To the north, the Kakinada Paper Mill is shut, as is the Meghni Mill. Workers of Barrackpur’s sick industries lead measly lives."

More than half of the voters are from the working class and around 35% of them are Hindi-speaking.

Assembly segments
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 15 Barrackpur is composed of the following assembly segments from 2009:

General election 2009
! 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
 * }
 * 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
 * }
 * }
 * }

General elections 1951-2004
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below: