Constituency
162. Howrah North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-HOWRAH-NORTH
CPIM 53.8%won by 31.8%AITC 22.0%
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 31.8%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 53.8% of the vote here (+53.8%).
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 22.0% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.9% between them, down from 92.9% — 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
97,323
Margin
30,902
31.75%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPIM- 1LAGAN DEO SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM52,36153.8%
- 2BANI SINGHA ROYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC21,45922.0%
- 3MANOJ KUMAR PANDEYIndian National Congress · INC19,38019.9%
- 4HARBANSH GIRIIndependent · IND1,0131.0%
- 5RAJ KUMAR PASWANIJP · IJP6970.7%
- 6SANJAY CHOWDHURYIndependent · IND5440.6%
- 7SARWAN SHAWIndependent · IND5290.5%
- 8BRIJLAL PRASADBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5250.5%
- 9SOMESH DASIndependent · IND4600.5%
- 10SHYAM KUMAR LALLIndependent · IND3550.4%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–AITC swing
- +31.8%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 53.8%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 22.0%
- Turnout
- — → —