Constituency
75. Sootea
Community mirrorAssam · Assam Assembly Election, 2016
AS-SOOTEA
BJP 45.9%won by 1.4%INC 44.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 1.4%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 1.3% to 45.9% of the vote here (+44.6%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.4% of the vote between them, up from 71.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 9.9% to 82.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,59,679
Turnout
82.5%
Valid votes
1,31,702
Margin
1,818
1.38%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1PADMA HAZARIKABharatiya Janata Party · BJP60,44045.9%
- 2PRANESWAR BASUMATARYIndian National Congress · INC58,62244.5%
- 3KHEMRAJ CHETRYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,9143.7%
- 4JYOTI SUBBAIndependent · IND2,4841.9%
- 5MAHENDRA URANGIndependent · IND2,1121.6%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,9411.5%
- 7ARUN NATHIndependent · IND1,1890.9%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AGP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +15.2%
- BJP share
- 1.3% → 45.9%
- INC share
- 15.1% → 44.5%
- Turnout
- 72.6% → 82.5%