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Constituency

14. Madarihat

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West Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016

WB-MADARIHAT

BJP 44.0%won by 14.5%AITC 29.5%

What changed here

Derived

The 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%

Since 2011

Derived
Winner then
RSP
Winner now
BJPflipped
BJPAITC swing
−11.5%
BJP share
26.0% 44.0%
AITC share
0.0% 29.5%
Turnout
82.6% 79.5%