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34. Itahar

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 2006

WB-ITAHAR

CPI 46.1%won by 0.5%INC 45.6%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.3% to 0.5%.

  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.7% of the vote between them, up from 69.2% — a tighter two-way contest.

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
1,44,857
Margin
740
0.51%

Candidates

7 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1SRIKUMAR MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI66,76846.1%
  2. 2AMAL ACHARJEEIndian National Congress · INC66,02845.6%
  3. 3ABEDIN DR. ZAINALAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC6,5814.5%
  4. 4JAYANTA SARKARIndependent · IND1,9991.4%
  5. 5SULEMAN HAFIJICpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,3700.9%
  6. 6UJJWAL KUMAR RAYIndependent · IND1,1510.8%
  7. 7SHOVAN LAL MITRASamajwadi Party · SP9600.7%

Since 2001

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
CPI
CPI–INC swing
−15.5%
CPI share
42.3% → 46.1%
INC share
26.2% → 45.6%
Turnout
— → —
33. Kushmandi35. Gangarampur
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