Constituency
46. Englishbazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-ENGLISHBAZAR
INC 46.3%won by 0.6%CPIM 45.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.4% to 46.3% of the vote here (+16.9%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) finished second with 45.6% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.9% of the vote between them, up from 67.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,46,088
Margin
906
0.62%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCSince 2001
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPIM swing
- −28.8%
- INC share
- 29.4% → 46.3%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 45.6%
- Turnout
- — → —