Constituency
25. Siliguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-SILIGURI
CPIM 55.4%won by 35.2%INC 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), which now leads by 35.2%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 55.4% of the vote here (+55.4%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 20.2% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.6% between them, down from 83.6% — the field split more ways.
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
2,12,747
Margin
74,971
35.24%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPIM- 1ASOK BHATTACHARYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM1,17,94355.4%
- 2NANTU PAULIndian National Congress · INC42,97220.2%
- 3PRATUL CHAKRABORTYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC28,60413.4%
- 4KESHAV CHANDRA LAMAGNLF · GNLF11,6795.5%
- 5GAUTAM BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND3,6991.7%
- 6VIKASH VERMAShiv Sena · SHS2,4361.1%
- 7KEDAR NATH SINHAIndependent · IND2,3501.1%
- 8DAULAT SINCHURIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,0170.9%
- 9RANENDRA NATH BARMAAMB · AMB1,0470.5%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–INC swing
- +35.2%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 55.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 20.2%
- Turnout
- — → —