Baranagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

In the 2011 elections, Tapas Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Sukumar Ghosh of RSP.

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Uttar 24 Parganas district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Trinamool Congress	28	23
Congress	1	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	3	16
Forward Bloc	0	3
Revolutionary Socialist Party	0	1
Communist Party of India	1	1

Note: New constituencies – 7, constituencies abolished – 2 (See template talk page for details)

In the 2006, 2001 and 1996 state assembly elections, Amar Chaudhuri of RSP won the Baranagar assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Atin Ghosh of Trinamool Congress in 2006[15] and 2001,[14] and Silbhadra Dutta of Congress in 1996.[13] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Matish Roy of RSP defeated Ajoy Ghoshal of Congress in 1991,[12] Pranab Kanti Ghosh of Congress in 1987,[11] Sambhu Nath Dutta of Congress in 1982,[10] and Kumud Bhattacharjee of Congress in 1977.[9][19]

Shiba Pada Bhattacharjee of CPI defeated Jyoti Basu of CPI(M) in 1972.[8] Jyoti Basu, representing CPI(M) from 1967 onwards and undivided CPI prior to that, won the Baranagar seat in 1971,[7] 1969,[6] 1967,[5]1962,[4]1957[3] and in independent India’s first election in 1951.[2]