Barrackpur, is an Assembly/Vidhan Sabha seat in South East Bengal region and North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. In the 2011 West Bengal Assembly elections, there were a total of 1,70,240 eligible electors, of which 93,534 were male, 76,707 female and voters of the third gender. PAST WINNERS/MLAS: In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections, Silbhadra Datta of TMC …
This is the phase that will tell us whether the highly polarised debate around Citizenship Amendment Act swayed voters in West Bengal or not. Of the 43 seats going to polls on April 22, the ruling Trinamool Congress had won 32 in the 2016 assembly elections with a healthy vote share of 45 per cent. MUSCLE & MONEY POWER This …