Constituency
67. Burwan
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-BURWAN
INC 36.9%won by 9.9%AITC 27.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.4% to 9.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 27.0% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.9% between them, down from 93.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.3% to 78.0%.
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Electorate
1,94,415
Turnout
78.0%
Valid votes
1,51,550
Margin
15,002
9.90%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PROTIMA RAJAKIndian National Congress · INC55,90636.9%
- 2SHASTHI CHARAN MALAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC40,90427.0%
- 3BINOY SARKARRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP33,04021.8%
- 4AMIYA KUMAR DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,44010.2%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,2902.2%
- 6RANJIT DASSamajwadi Party · SP1,8761.2%
- 7JATA SANKAR THANDARIndependent · IND1,0940.7%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–AITC swing
- −37.2%
- INC share
- 47.1% → 36.9%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 27.0%
- Turnout
- 83.2% → 78.0%