Constituency
156. Sealdah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-SEALDAH
INC 58.5%won by 32.5%CPI 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.2% to 32.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.6% between them, down from 92.4% — 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
39,313
Margin
12,759
32.45%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SOMENDRA NATH MITRAIndian National Congress · INC23,01158.5%
- 2PRABIR DEBCommunist Party of India · CPI10,25226.1%
- 3DULALESWAR ROYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC5,09112.9%
- 4TARUN KUMAR KARIndependent · IND2670.7%
- 5DAYANAND PRASADIndependent · IND2190.6%
- 6SWARAJ RANJANIndependent · IND2150.5%
- 7PRADYUT KUMAR GHOSHIndependent · IND1590.4%
- 8DILIP TRIPATHIIndependent · IND990.3%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −3.7%
- INC share
- 64.3% → 58.5%
- CPI share
- 28.1% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- — → —