Constituency
71. Beldanga
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-BELDANGA
INC 49.4%won by 17.2%AITC 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.3% to 17.2%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 32.2% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- 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
2,19,501
Turnout
80.2%
Valid votes
1,76,050
Margin
30,281
17.20%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SEIKH SAFIUJJAMANIndian National Congress · INC87,01749.4%
- 2GOLAM KIBRIA MIAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC56,73632.2%
- 3ALOK GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP25,65114.6%
- 4ITTEFA HOSSAINIndian Union Muslim League · IUML2,8651.6%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,2291.3%
- 6MARJINA KHATUNSamajwadi Party · SP1,5520.9%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–AITC swing
- −28.1%
- INC share
- 45.3% → 49.4%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- 82.0% → 80.2%