Constituency
198. Tarakeswar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2011
WB-TARAKESWAR
AITC 55.1%won by 14.5%CPM 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 14.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 0.0% to 55.1% of the vote here (+55.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 40.6% — it did not contest here in 2006.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,97,378
Turnout
89.2%
Valid votes
1,76,072
Margin
25,472
14.47%
Candidates
4 contested · winner AITC- 1RACHHPAL SINGHAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC97,02255.1%
- 2PRATIM CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM71,55040.6%
- 3GANESH CHAKRABORTYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,5042.6%
- 4PALASH HANSDAJDP · JDP2,9961.7%
Since 2006
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–CPM swing
- +14.5%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 55.1%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → 89.2%