Constituency
35. Raiganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2011
WB-RAIGANJ
INC 49.7%won by 4.3%SP 45.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.5% to 4.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 45.4% — it polled just 0.7% in 2006.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 83.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,49,614
Turnout
84.5%
Valid votes
1,26,506
Margin
5,409
4.28%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1MOHIT SENGUPTAIndian National Congress · INC62,86449.7%
- 2KIRANMAY NANDASamajwadi Party · SP57,45545.4%
- 3SACHINDRA NATH DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,0532.4%
- 4MANJIT MONDALIndependent · IND1,0640.8%
- 5SANATAN DUTTASUCI · SUCI7500.6%
- 6SWAPAN KUMAR DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7340.6%
- 7ANINDYA GANGULYIPFB · IPFB5860.5%
Since 2006
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SP swing
- −41.8%
- INC share
- 46.7% → 49.7%
- SP share
- 0.7% → 45.4%
- Turnout
- — → 84.5%