Constituency
219. Dantan
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2011
WB-DANTAN
CPI 49.4%won by 2.9%AITC 46.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.8% to 2.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,79,499
Turnout
89.3%
Valid votes
1,60,317
Margin
4,650
2.90%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1ARUN MOHAPATRACommunist Party of India · CPI79,11849.4%
- 2SHAIBAL GIRIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC74,46846.5%
- 3SHAILENDRA JANABharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,9092.4%
- 4MUKUL KUMAR MISHRAIndependent · IND1,6531.0%
- 5SOUMEN SAMANTAPDS · PDS1,1690.7%
Since 2006
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–AITC swing
- −23.9%
- CPI share
- 60.4% → 49.4%
- AITC share
- 33.6% → 46.5%
- Turnout
- — → 89.3%