Constituency
33. Hemtabad
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-HEMTABAD
CPM 40.7%won by 6.6%AITC 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.7% to 6.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.7% of the vote between them, up from 68.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
2,32,634
Turnout
85.0%
Valid votes
1,97,736
Margin
13,136
6.64%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1DEBENDRA NATH ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM80,41940.7%
- 2SABITA KSHETRYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC67,28334.0%
- 3BHANU RAM BARMANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP40,79520.6%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,4371.2%
- 5ALAKESH BARMANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,0651.0%
- 6JYOTIRMAY BARMANSUCI · SUCI2,0481.0%
- 7BESHILA BARMANIndependent · IND1,4590.7%
- 8KANAI LAL BISWASIndependent · IND1,2300.6%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −16.1%
- CPM share
- 45.5% → 40.7%
- AITC share
- 22.8% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- 85.0% → 85.0%