Constituency
73. Chapra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-CHAPRA
CPIM 47.8%won by 17.1%INC 30.6%
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 17.1%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 47.8% of the vote here (+47.8%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 30.6% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.4% between them, down from 86.6% — 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
1,53,455
Margin
26,298
17.14%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPIM- 1SHAMSUL ISLAM MOLLAHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM73,29047.8%
- 2ABDUR RASHID MOLLICKIndian National Congress · INC46,99230.6%
- 3JULFIKAR ALI KHANAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC23,96915.6%
- 4ABU BAKKAR SHAIKHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,5581.7%
- 5ASIT MUNDARYIndependent · IND2,3281.5%
- 6BIDYUT BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,2401.5%
- 7HAFIZUR RAHAMANSamajwadi Party · SP2,0781.4%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–INC swing
- +17.1%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 47.8%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 30.6%
- Turnout
- — → —