Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency)
| Existence | 1951-present |
|---|---|
| Reservation | None |
| Current MP | Dinesh Trivedi |
| Party | Trinamool Congress |
| Elected Year | 2014 |
| State | West Bengal |
| Total Electors | 1,287,222 |
| Assembly Constituencies |
Amdanga Bijpur Naihati Bhatpara Jagatdal Noapara Barrackpur |
Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Barrackpore in West Bengal. All of the seven assembly segments of No. 15 Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency) are in North 24 Parganas district.
The Barrackpore 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 Barrackpore 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 Barrackpore’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.
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:
In 2004, Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following assembly segments:Amdanga (assembly constituency no. 89), Bijpur (assembly constituency no. 128), Naihati (assembly constituency no. 129), Bhatpara (assembly constituency no. 130), Jagatdal (assembly constituency no. 131), Noapara (assembly constituency no. 132), Titagarh (assembly constituency no. 133)
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