Constituency
258. Sonamukhi
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2011
WB-SONAMUKHI
AITC 49.8%won by 4.4%CPM 45.4%
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 4.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 30.7% to 49.8% of the vote here (+19.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 45.4% — it did not contest here in 2006.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.2% of the vote between them, up from 87.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,80,448
Turnout
91.5%
Valid votes
1,65,070
Margin
7,289
4.42%
Candidates
3 contested · winner AITCSince 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
- −26.2%
- AITC share
- 30.7% → 49.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 45.4%
- Turnout
- — → 91.5%