Constituency
42. Harirampur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-HARIRAMPUR
CPM 42.8%won by 2.7%AITC 40.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 2.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.0% between them, down from 89.7% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,96,518
Turnout
84.9%
Valid votes
1,66,816
Margin
4,504
2.70%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1RAFIKUL ISLAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM71,44742.8%
- 2BIPLAB MITRAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC66,94340.1%
- 3PHANI BHUSAN MAHATABharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,84511.9%
- 4TARUN SARKARKPPU · KPPU2,0201.2%
- 5BIBHUTI TUDUJDP · JDP1,9041.1%
- 6ANARUL HAQUE ANSARIJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,6731.0%
- 7None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,6481.0%
- 8DURGA HEMBRAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,3360.8%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–AITC swing
- +7.9%
- CPM share
- 42.3% → 42.8%
- AITC share
- 47.4% → 40.1%
- Turnout
- 84.4% → 84.9%