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Constituency

72. Kaliganj

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 2006

WB-KALIGANJ

RSP 43.3%won by 2.9%AITC 40.4%

What changed here

Derived

Rashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.4% to 2.9%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.7% of the vote between them, up from 63.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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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Valid votes
1,31,762
Margin
3,761
2.85%

Candidates

5 contested · winner RSP
  1. 1DHANANJOY MODAKRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP57,00643.3%
  2. 2NASIRUDDIN AHMED (LAL)All India Trinamool Congress · AITC53,24540.4%
  3. 3ABDUS SALAM MUNSHIIndian National Congress · INC12,1179.2%
  4. 4SK. KHODA BOXIndependent · IND6,4104.9%
  5. 5HABIBUR RAHAMANSamajwadi Party · SP2,9842.3%

Since 2001

Derived
Winner then
RSP
Winner now
RSP
RSP–AITC swing
−7.5%
RSP share
36.7% → 43.3%
AITC share
26.3% → 40.4%
Turnout
— → —
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