Constituency
53. Gauhati East
Community mirrorAssam · Assam Assembly Election, 2016
AS-GAUHATI-EAST
BJP 78.5%won by 59.4%INC 19.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 59.4%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 34.3% to 78.5% of the vote here (+44.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.5% of the vote between them, up from 71.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 18.6% to 75.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,16,521
Turnout
75.1%
Valid votes
1,62,579
Margin
96,637
59.44%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1SIDDHARTHA BHATTACHARYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,27,60278.5%
- 2BOBBEETA SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC30,96519.0%
- 3None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,2880.8%
- 4DR. AVIJIT CHAKRABORTYBGANP · BGANP5910.4%
- 5PRODYUT KUMAR BORALDP · LDP4990.3%
- 6RAKTIMAVA SWAMIIndependent · IND3770.2%
- 7BIPUL KUMAR TALUKDARIndependent · IND2430.1%
- 8BHUPEN SARMAIndependent · IND1960.1%
- 9PRADIP KUMAR DASRSSC · RSSC1890.1%
- 10SUBHASH CHANDRA GUPTATNRMPI · TNRMPI1820.1%
- 11KAZI NEKIB AHMEDIndependent · IND1810.1%
- 12PRANAB JYOTI DASRPIA · RPIA1370.1%
- 13BANDANA BARMAN BARUAHRAJPA · RAJPA1290.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +62.6%
- BJP share
- 34.3% → 78.5%
- INC share
- 37.4% → 19.0%
- Turnout
- 56.5% → 75.1%