Constituency
38. Kumarganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-KUMARGANJ
AITC 41.9%won by 2.3%CPM 39.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.2% to 2.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.5% between them, down from 90.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.2% to 85.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,79,509
Turnout
85.8%
Valid votes
1,54,022
Margin
3,496
2.27%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AITC- 1TORAF HOSSAIN MANDALAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC64,50141.9%
- 2MAFUJA KHATUNCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM61,00539.6%
- 3MANAS SARKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,20114.4%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,4701.6%
- 5BIPUL TUDUBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,3950.9%
- 6GOLOK BARMANBMUP · BMUP1,0650.7%
- 7NARAYAN CHANDRA ROYIndependent · IND7060.5%
- 8RANJIT DEVSUCI · SUCI6790.4%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- −0.9%
- AITC share
- 46.9% → 41.9%
- CPM share
- 43.8% → 39.6%
- Turnout
- 89.0% → 85.8%