Constituency
75. Domkal
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-DOMKAL
CPM 36.6%won by 3.5%AITC 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.8% to 3.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 33.1% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.7% between them, down from 92.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.7% to 83.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,33,841
Turnout
83.8%
Valid votes
1,95,962
Margin
6,890
3.52%
Candidates
13 contested · winner CPM- 1ANISUR RAHAMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM71,70336.6%
- 2SOUMIK HOSSAINAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC64,81333.1%
- 3ABDUR RAHAMAN SEKHIndian National Congress · INC46,29423.6%
- 4NANDA DULAL PALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,6522.4%
- 5ABDUR RAHAMAN MANDALIndependent · IND1,7560.9%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,5800.8%
- 7JAKIR HOSSAIN SEKHIndian Union Muslim League · IUML1,1780.6%
- 8SYED GOLAM GAUSWPOI · WPOI9900.5%
- 9DR NAZRUL ISLAMMPOI · MPOI8570.4%
- 10BUDDHADEV DASIndependent · IND7690.4%
- 11NUJRUL ISLAMIndependent · IND6270.3%
- 12ANISUR RAHAMAN SEKHIndependent · IND3850.2%
- 13SAMSUZZAMANSUCI · SUCI3580.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −43.7%
- CPM share
- 47.2% → 36.6%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- 89.5% → 83.8%