Constituency
256. Sonamukhi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-SONAMUKHI
CPIM 56.4%won by 25.7%AITC 30.7%
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 25.7%.
- CPIM vote shareCPIM went from 0.0% to 56.4% of the vote here (+56.4%).
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) 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
1,23,162
Margin
31,704
25.74%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPIM- 1NIRESH BAGDICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPIM69,45556.4%
- 2DIPALI SAHAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC37,75130.7%
- 3GOUTAM LOHARIndian National Congress · INC9,6187.8%
- 4TARANI ROYCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL6,3385.1%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPIMflipped
- CPIM–AITC swing
- +63.7%
- CPIM share
- 0.0% → 56.4%
- AITC share
- 37.9% → 30.7%
- Turnout
- — → —