Constituency
26. Siliguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2011
WB-SILIGURI
AITC 48.1%won by 3.3%CPM 44.7%
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 3.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 13.4% to 48.1% of the vote here (+34.6%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 44.7% — it did not contest here in 2006.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.8% of the vote between them, up from 75.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,84,303
Turnout
81.3%
Valid votes
1,49,800
Margin
5,006
3.34%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AITC- 1RUDRA NATH BHATTACHARYAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC72,01948.1%
- 2ASOK NARAYAN BHATTACHARYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM67,01344.7%
- 3ARUN PRASAD SARKERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,0694.1%
- 4HARDWAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,3100.9%
- 5SHANKAR DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,0540.7%
- 6HIRALAL PASWANLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP1,0280.7%
- 7KHUSHIRANJAN MANDALAMB · AMB8040.5%
- 8ADHIR SINGHAJanata Dal (United) · JDU5030.3%
Since 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
- −10.1%
- AITC share
- 13.4% → 48.1%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 44.7%
- Turnout
- — → 81.3%