Constituency
31. Chakulia
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-CHAKULIA
AIFB 42.6%won by 18.3%BJP 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Forward Bloc held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.3% to 18.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.0% between them, down from 88.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,00,084
Turnout
75.2%
Valid votes
1,50,500
Margin
27,529
18.29%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AIFB- 1ALI IMRAN RAMZAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB64,18542.6%
- 2ASHIM KUMAR MRIDHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP36,65624.4%
- 3ALEMA NOORIEAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC36,19824.1%
- 4GOUTAM CHANDRA PAULBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8,7195.8%
- 5MIR MASUD ALAMSamajwadi Party · SP1,8391.2%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,6131.1%
- 7RAFIKUL ALAMIndependent · IND1,2900.9%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIFB
- Winner now
- AIFB
- AIFB–BJP swing
- −30.6%
- AIFB share
- 52.1% → 42.6%
- BJP share
- 3.2% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- 75.0% → 75.2%