Constituency
164. Howrah South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-HOWRAH-SOUTH
CPIM 48.1%won by 27.3%JDU 20.8%
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 27.3%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 48.1% of the vote here (+48.1%).
- New challengerJanata Dal (United) (JDU) finished second with 20.8% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.8% between them, down from 96.9% — 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
84,258
Margin
23,006
27.30%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPIM- 1KRISHNA KISOR RAYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM40,49348.1%
- 2AMITAVA DATTAJanata Dal (United) · JDU17,48720.8%
- 3SAMAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,25214.5%
- 4VIJAY UPADHYAYSamajwadi Party · SP11,34413.5%
- 5SWAMINATH PRASADIndependent · IND1,0121.2%
- 6BIJAY PRATAP RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9251.1%
- 7BRAHMACHARI DUBEYIndependent · IND4100.5%
- 8SAMIT GANGULYIndependent · IND3350.4%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–JDU swing
- +27.3%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 48.1%
- JDU share
- 0.0% → 20.8%
- Turnout
- — → —