Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) on Barasat

State 19 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 9 OF 9 contested

CPIM never finished second here

Strike rate

100%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 9 published candidatures

Best vote share68.80%in 1977

Worst vote share45.20%in 1998

Average vote share51.72% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1977

Last contested2004

Votes polled here32.24 Lacross all 9 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) vote share · a ringed point is a year they won this seat · a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2024 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

9 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2004	Samik Lahiri	4,30,890	51.60%	1	Won
1999	Samik Lahiri	4,02,761	46.90%	1	Won
1998	Samik Lahiri	4,05,048	45.20%	1	Won
1996	Samik Lahiri	4,11,844	46.30%	1	Won
1991	Amal Dutta	3,38,884	47.00%	1	Won
1989	Amal Datta	3,74,532	50.20%	1	Won
1984	Amal Datta	2,81,271	47.00%	1	Won
1980	Jyotirmoy Basu	3,10,406	62.50%	1	Won
1977	Jyotirmoy Basu	2,67,890	68.80%	1	Won

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

All India Trinamool Congress Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janta Party All India Forward Bloc Indian National Congress (I)West Bengal Trinamool Congress Muslim Leage All India Secular Front Independent Bahujan Samaj Party Shiv Sena Assam United Democratic Front Hindu Swaraj Sangathan Indian National Congress (O) ANTI-MERGER GROUP Indian National League Rashtriya Janadhikar Suraksha Party Welfare Party Of India Muslim League Kerala State Committee Amra Bangalee Bharatiya Nyay-Adhikar Raksha Party Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Jana Unnayan Mancha Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star Bahujan Mukti Party Mulnibasi Party Of India Samajwadi Party Rashtriya Janasachetan Party (R.J.P.)