Constituency
228. Dantan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-DANTAN
CPI 60.4%won by 26.8%AITC 33.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.5% to 26.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.1% of the vote between them, up from 89.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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
1,37,569
Margin
36,864
26.80%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1NANDA GOPALCommunist Party of India · CPI83,14960.4%
- 2BIKRAM CHANDRAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC46,28533.6%
- 3PRANAB PADYAIndian National Congress · INC8,1355.9%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–AITC swing
- +1.3%
- CPI share
- 57.2% → 60.4%
- AITC share
- 31.8% → 33.6%
- Turnout
- — → —