Constituency
185. Tarakeswar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-TARAKESWAR
IND 58.1%won by 23.5%BJP 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 22.8% to 23.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.7% of the vote between them, up from 86.3% — 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
1,28,827
Margin
30,271
23.50%
Candidates
3 contested · winner IND- 1PRATIM CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND74,84958.1%
- 2KRISHNA BHATTACHARJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP44,57834.6%
- 3AJIT KUMAR GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC9,4007.3%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–BJP swing
- −21.2%
- IND share
- 54.5% → 58.1%
- BJP share
- 9.8% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → —