Constituency
35. Raiganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-RAIGANJ
INC 59.0%won by 34.4%AITC 24.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.3% to 34.4%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 24.6% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.6% between them, down from 95.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,78,888
Turnout
83.4%
Valid votes
1,49,168
Margin
51,247
34.36%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1MOHIT SENGUPTAIndian National Congress · INC87,98359.0%
- 2PURNENDU DEY (BABLU)All India Trinamool Congress · AITC36,73624.6%
- 3PRADIP SARKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,9618.7%
- 4ARUN CHANDRA DEYSamajwadi Party · SP6,1544.1%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,9851.3%
- 6HARI CHARAN DASKPPU · KPPU1,1800.8%
- 7SWAPAN KUMAR DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9900.7%
- 8BENOY KUMAR DASIndependent · IND6920.5%
- 9SANATAN DUTTASUCI · SUCI4870.3%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–AITC swing
- −15.3%
- INC share
- 49.7% → 59.0%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 24.6%
- Turnout
- 84.5% → 83.4%