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31. Raiganj

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 2006

WB-RAIGANJ

INC 46.7%won by 9.5%NCP 37.2%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.7% to 9.5%.

  • New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 37.2% — it did not contest here in 2001.
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,66,576
Margin
15,760
9.46%

Candidates

11 contested · winner INC
  1. 1CHITTA RANJAN RAYIndian National Congress · INC77,78946.7%
  2. 2DILIP KUMAR DASNationalist Congress Party · NCP62,02937.2%
  3. 3NIMAI KABIRAJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,6606.4%
  4. 4SUBHAS BARMANIndependent · IND3,8132.3%
  5. 5NARESH CHANDRAIndependent · IND2,9091.7%
  6. 6AJIT KUMAR DASCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,7721.7%
  7. 7BHAJAGOBINDA BARMANIndependent · IND1,7131.0%
  8. 8BINOY KUMAR MALLICKIndependent · IND1,4040.8%
  9. 9DHANGOPAL BARMANIndependent · IND1,2350.7%
  10. 10NAGENDRA NATH SARKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1580.7%
  11. 11HARADEB KUMAR BARMANSamajwadi Party · SP1,0940.7%

Since 2001

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–NCP swing
−36.9%
INC share
46.4% → 46.7%
NCP share
0.0% → 37.2%
Turnout
— → —
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