Constituency
284. Bolpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2006
WB-BOLPUR
RSP 58.5%won by 34.1%AITC 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.7% to 34.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.9% between them, down from 93.8% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatRashtriya Sarvajan Party 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
1,25,631
Margin
42,866
34.12%
Candidates
8 contested · winner RSP- 1TAPAN HORERashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP73,49358.5%
- 2RAKSHIT CHITTA RANJANAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC30,62724.4%
- 3ABDUR RAHIMIndian National Congress · INC12,68610.1%
- 4JATI SANKARIndependent · IND3,6622.9%
- 5PURNIMA DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,8551.5%
- 6PINAKI RANJAN BHARATIIndependent · IND1,1900.9%
- 7MD. SADDAKKASJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,0830.9%
- 8ARABINDA GHOSHIndependent · IND1,0350.8%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–AITC swing
- +21.4%
- RSP share
- 53.3% → 58.5%
- AITC share
- 40.6% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- — → —