Constituency
45. Malda
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-MALDA
CPIM 41.1%won by 7.3%INC 33.7%
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 7.3%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 41.1% of the vote here (+41.1%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 33.7% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.8% between them, down from 81.4% — 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
1,55,046
Margin
11,336
7.31%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPIM- 1SUBHENDU CHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM63,65441.1%
- 2BHUPENDRA NATH HALDERIndian National Congress · INC52,31833.7%
- 3DULAL SARKARAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC30,05319.4%
- 4DWIJEN BARMANIndependent · IND3,1472.0%
- 5AMAL BARMANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,0612.0%
- 6TAPESH SARKARIndependent · IND2,8131.8%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–INC swing
- +7.3%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 41.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- — → —