Constituency
78. Santipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-SANTIPUR
INC 47.8%won by 1.1%CPIM 46.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.4% to 1.1%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) finished second with 46.7% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.4% of the vote between them, up from 72.6% — 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
1,88,014
Margin
2,113
1.12%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1AJOY DEYIndian National Congress · INC89,83447.8%
- 2SANTANU CHAKRABARTICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM87,72146.7%
- 3UJJAL NANDIIndependent · IND4,0932.2%
- 4KANCHAN MAITRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,0382.1%
- 5AMAL SARKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,3281.2%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPIM swing
- −41.9%
- INC share
- 43.0% → 47.8%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 46.7%
- Turnout
- — → —