Constituency
223. Midnapore
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-MIDNAPORE
CPI 57.4%won by 37.0%AITC 20.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.5% to 37.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.7% between them, down from 92.8% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,52,742
Margin
56,574
37.04%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1SANTOSH RANACommunist Party of India · CPI87,62957.4%
- 2RAMA PRASAD TEWARYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC31,05520.3%
- 3ARIF AHMEDIndian National Congress · INC14,0479.2%
- 4DINEN ROYIndependent · IND12,2798.0%
- 5PRANATOSH MAITIIndependent · IND4,3012.8%
- 6APARNA DATTAAMB · AMB1,9461.3%
- 7NIKHIL KUMAR JANASamajwadi Party · SP1,4851.0%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–AITC swing
- +31.5%
- CPI share
- 49.2% → 57.4%
- AITC share
- 43.7% → 20.3%
- Turnout
- — → —