Constituency
34. Kaliaganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-KALIAGANJ
INC 52.6%won by 21.7%AITC 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.1% to 21.7%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 30.9% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.5% between them, down from 91.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.3% to 85.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,50,603
Turnout
85.7%
Valid votes
2,14,642
Margin
46,602
21.71%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PRAMATHA NATH RAYIndian National Congress · INC1,12,86852.6%
- 2BASANTA ROYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC66,26630.9%
- 3RUPAK ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP27,25212.7%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,5331.6%
- 5BASUDEB DEBSHARMABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,8500.9%
- 6JITEN ROY SINHASWJP · SWJP1,5600.7%
- 7JAGADISH RAJBHARCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,3130.6%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–AITC swing
- −25.9%
- INC share
- 47.6% → 52.6%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- 87.9% → 85.7%