Constituency
18. Rajganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2011
WB-RAJGANJ
AITC 46.6%won by 4.4%CPM 42.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 4.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 28.3% to 46.6% of the vote here (+18.3%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 42.2% — it did not contest here in 2006.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.9% of the vote between them, up from 80.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,78,412
Turnout
89.6%
Valid votes
1,59,838
Margin
7,020
4.39%
Candidates
5 contested · winner AITCSince 2006
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPIM
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–CPM swing
- −23.9%
- AITC share
- 28.3% → 46.6%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 42.2%
- Turnout
- — → 89.6%