Constituency
14. Madarihat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-MADARIHAT
BJP 44.0%won by 14.5%AITC 29.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 14.5%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 26.0% to 44.0% of the vote here (+18.0%).
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 29.5% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.5% of the vote between them, up from 57.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.1% to 79.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,91,686
Turnout
79.5%
Valid votes
1,52,301
Margin
22,038
14.47%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1MANOJ TIGGABharatiya Janata Party · BJP66,98944.0%
- 2PADAM LAMAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC44,95129.5%
- 3KUMARI KUJURRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP29,88519.6%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA5,0683.3%
- 5PADAM ORAONJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM3,0892.0%
- 6SUDHIST BARAIKSUCI · SUCI2,3191.5%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–AITC swing
- −11.5%
- BJP share
- 26.0% → 44.0%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 29.5%
- Turnout
- 82.6% → 79.5%