Constituency
140. Cossipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-COSSIPUR
AITC 43.2%won by 2.7%CPIM 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.8% to 2.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) finished second with 40.5% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.6% between them, down from 93.8% — 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
60,601
Margin
1,636
2.70%
Candidates
9 contested · winner AITC- 1BANDYOPADHYAY TARAKAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC26,15043.2%
- 2SALIL CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM24,51440.5%
- 3SUMAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC8,48414.0%
- 4SWAPAN KR. SAHAIndependent · IND5160.9%
- 5SIPRA BARUAIndependent · IND2780.5%
- 6ABHIJIT CHAUDHURIIndependent · IND2220.4%
- 7PRODYUT SAHA (BABU)Independent · IND1620.3%
- 8DILIP ROYIndependent · IND1470.2%
- 9KAMALESH MULLICKIndependent · IND1280.2%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPIM swing
- −48.6%
- AITC share
- 51.3% → 43.2%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- — → —