Constituency
52. Chandipur
Community mirrorTripura · Tripura Assembly Election, 2018
TR-CHANDIPUR
CPM 47.9%won by 1.0%BJP 46.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.2% to 1.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 46.8% — it polled just 1.8% in 2013.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
42,889
Turnout
90.3%
Valid votes
38,737
Margin
402
1.04%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1TAPAN CHAKRABORTICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,54547.9%
- 2KABERI SINGHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,14346.8%
- 3NIRMALENDU DEBIndian National Congress · INC1,0252.6%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4321.1%
- 5DASARATH SARKARIndependent · IND2140.6%
- 6BIDYUT BIKASH SINGHAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1890.5%
- 7GOURANGA DEBNATHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1890.5%
Since 2013
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- −55.6%
- CPM share
- 58.4% → 47.9%
- BJP share
- 1.8% → 46.8%
- Turnout
- 91.8% → 90.3%