Constituency
278. Raniganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2011
WB-RANIGANJ
AITC 47.8%won by 1.1%CPM 46.7%
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 1.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 20.7% to 47.8% of the vote here (+27.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 46.7% — it did not contest here in 2006.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.5% of the vote between them, up from 89.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,97,129
Turnout
78.3%
Valid votes
1,54,308
Margin
1,751
1.13%
Candidates
4 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
- −19.6%
- AITC share
- 20.7% → 47.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 46.7%
- Turnout
- — → 78.3%