Constituency
29. Islampur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2011
WB-ISLAMPUR
AITC 41.5%won by 9.5%CPM 32.0%
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 9.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 32.0% — it did not contest here in 2006.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.5% between them, down from 84.4% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,50,195
Turnout
79.2%
Valid votes
1,18,907
Margin
11,272
9.48%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1ABDUL KARIM CHOWDHARYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC49,32641.5%
- 2SAYEDA FARHAT AFROZCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM38,05432.0%
- 3KANAIA LAL AGARWALIndependent · IND20,87017.6%
- 4NEPAL DUTTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,7724.9%
- 5MD. NADEEM AKHTERIndependent · IND2,9412.5%
- 6UMAR ALIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,9441.6%
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
- −29.7%
- AITC share
- 39.1% → 41.5%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → 79.2%