Constituency
24. Kurseong
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-KURSEONG
GNLF 53.6%won by 28.0%IND 25.6%
What changed here
DerivedGNLF held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.6% to 28.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Independent (IND).
- Safe seatGNLF won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,18,168
Margin
33,058
27.98%
Candidates
4 contested · winner GNLF- 1SHANTA CHHETRIGNLF · GNLF63,29553.6%
- 2BUDDHIMAN RAIIndependent · IND30,23725.6%
- 3MAHENDRA CHHETRICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM20,49017.3%
- 4MATILDA GURUNGBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,1463.5%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- GNLF
- Winner now
- GNLF
- GNLF–IND swing
- −11.1%
- GNLF share
- 53.3% → 53.6%
- IND share
- 14.2% → 25.6%
- Turnout
- — → —