Constituency
72. Baharampur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-BAHARAMPUR
INC 67.9%won by 49.0%AITC 18.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 26.0% to 49.0%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 18.9% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
2,36,629
Turnout
79.5%
Valid votes
1,88,187
Margin
92,273
49.03%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1MANOJ CHAKRABORTYIndian National Congress · INC1,27,76267.9%
- 2DR. SUJATA BANERJEEAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC35,48918.9%
- 3MALA BHATTACHARYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,80510.0%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,5231.9%
- 5KOUSIK CHATTERJEESUCI · SUCI1,7270.9%
- 6SUJIT KUMAR DASIndependent · IND8810.5%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–AITC swing
- −5.9%
- INC share
- 54.9% → 67.9%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 18.9%
- Turnout
- 80.9% → 79.5%