Constituency
69. Karimpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-KARIMPUR
CPIM 47.2%won by 12.7%INC 34.5%
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 12.7%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 47.2% of the vote here (+47.2%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 34.5% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.7% between them, down from 88.5% — 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
1,56,939
Margin
19,875
12.66%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPIM- 1PRAFULLA KUMARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM74,03647.2%
- 2ARABINDA MANDALIndian National Congress · INC54,16134.5%
- 3CHIRA RANJAN MANDALAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC20,29812.9%
- 4AZAD SEKHIndependent · IND5,1583.3%
- 5JITENDRANATH HALDERBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,2862.1%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–INC swing
- +12.7%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 47.2%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 34.5%
- Turnout
- — → —