Constituency
40. Tapan
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-TAPAN
AITC 42.8%won by 2.6%RSP 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.3% to 2.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.0% between them, down from 90.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,90,782
Turnout
88.8%
Valid votes
1,69,488
Margin
4,401
2.60%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AITC- 1BACHCHU HANSDAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC72,51142.8%
- 2UROW RAGHURashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP68,11040.2%
- 3KRISHNA KUJURBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,51012.1%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4,1012.4%
- 5BABLU KISKUBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,9131.1%
- 6EKKA KALICHARANSUCI · SUCI1,2980.8%
- 7RAM KISKUCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,0450.6%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–RSP swing
- −10.7%
- AITC share
- 51.6% → 42.8%
- RSP share
- 38.4% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- 89.7% → 88.8%