Barasat is an Assembly constituency in the North 24 Parganas district, in the South East Bengal region of West Bengal.

The Barasat constituency went to polls on April 17, 2021.

The assembly seat is reserved for the General category.

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In the 2016 Assembly elections, Barasat was won by Chiranjeet Chakrabarti of AIFB.

Before that, in the 2011 elections, the seat was held by Chiranjeet Chakrabarti of TMC.

In the 2016 assembly polls, Chiranjeet Chakrabarti garnered 99667 votes, securing over 48.44 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 24999 votes.

In percentage terms, the victory margin was 12.15 percent.

The constituency polled 206181 votes in the 2016 West Bengal assembly polls with a voter turnout of 83.09 percent.

The Barasat constituency has a literacy level of 84.95 percent.

A total of 7 candidates stood in the 2016 elections.

(Edited by : Yashi)