Constituency
59. Raghunathganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-RAGHUNATHGANJ
INC 47.3%won by 14.3%AITC 32.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.6% to 14.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 32.9% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.2% between them, down from 91.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.9% to 79.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,07,987
Turnout
79.8%
Valid votes
1,66,082
Margin
23,786
14.32%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1AKHRUZZAMANIndian National Congress · INC78,49747.3%
- 2ABUL KASEM MOLLAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC54,71132.9%
- 3ABUL HASNATRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP16,4749.9%
- 4GOLAM MODASHBARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,0736.1%
- 5MOJIBUR RAHAMANSDPI · SDPI2,4541.5%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,3961.4%
- 7RABIUL ALAMSUCI · SUCI1,4770.9%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–AITC swing
- −36.7%
- INC share
- 51.0% → 47.3%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 32.9%
- Turnout
- 86.8% → 79.8%