Constituency
36. Tapan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-TAPAN
RSP 56.8%won by 34.2%BJP 22.6%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.5% to 34.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.3% between them, down from 91.2% — 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
1,31,085
Margin
44,822
34.19%
Candidates
6 contested · winner RSP- 1KHARA SORENRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP74,41456.8%
- 2COLUMBUS TIRKIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP29,59222.6%
- 3LAKSHIRAM HEMRAMIndian National Congress · INC19,07814.6%
- 4MUNSI TUDUIndependent · IND3,0532.3%
- 5KALIDAS TAPNAIndependent · IND2,6812.0%
- 6MATILAL HASDABahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,2671.7%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–BJP swing
- −9.2%
- RSP share
- 49.3% → 56.8%
- BJP share
- 5.9% → 22.6%
- Turnout
- — → —