Constituency
51. Englishbazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-ENGLISHBAZAR
IND 51.7%won by 19.2%AITC 32.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 19.2%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 1.5% to 51.7% of the vote here (+50.3%).
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 32.6% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.3% between them, down from 90.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,46,790
Turnout
84.0%
Valid votes
2,07,238
Margin
39,727
19.17%
Candidates
8 contested · winner IND- 1NIHAR RANJAN GHOSHIndependent · IND1,07,18351.7%
- 2KRISHNENDU NARAYAN CHOUDHURYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC67,45632.6%
- 3SUMAN BANERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP23,17111.2%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4,3362.1%
- 5NIHAR GHOSHIndependent · IND2,2931.1%
- 6NITISH KUMAR MANDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,3930.7%
- 7SHYAM SUNDAR SHARMASamajwadi Party · SP8780.4%
- 8SADHAN CHATTERJEEHKRD · HKRD5280.3%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–AITC swing
- +17.7%
- IND share
- 1.5% → 51.7%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- 82.8% → 84.0%