Constituency
39. Balurghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-BALURGHAT
RSP 42.8%won by 1.0%AITC 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) lost it to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP), which now leads by 1.0%.
- RSP vote shareRSP went from 39.6% to 42.8% of the vote here (+3.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.6% between them, down from 93.8% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
1,60,609
Turnout
88.1%
Valid votes
1,41,503
Margin
1,450
1.02%
Candidates
6 contested · winner RSP- 1BISWANATH CHOUDHURYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP60,59042.8%
- 2CHAKRAVORTI SHANKARAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC59,14041.8%
- 3GAUTAM CHAKRABORTYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,25810.8%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,3572.4%
- 5SAMAR KUMAR MAHATOBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6681.2%
- 6BIREN MAHANTASUCI · SUCI1,4901.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- RSPflipped
- RSP–AITC swing
- +15.7%
- RSP share
- 39.6% → 42.8%
- AITC share
- 54.3% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- 89.0% → 88.1%