Constituency
78. Tehatta
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-TEHATTA
AITC 49.0%won by 8.7%CPM 40.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 8.7%.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 19.9% to 49.0% of the vote here (+29.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.3% of the vote between them, up from 74.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.1% to 86.3%.
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Electorate
2,30,569
Turnout
86.3%
Valid votes
1,99,060
Margin
17,396
8.74%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1DUTTA GOURI SANKARAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC97,61149.0%
- 2RANJIT KUMAR MANDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM80,21540.3%
- 3ARJUN KUMAR BISWASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,8098.4%
- 4ARABINDA BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,9181.0%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,4440.7%
- 6SHERFUL ANSARYSUCI · SUCI1,0630.5%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–CPM swing
- +31.6%
- AITC share
- 19.9% → 49.0%
- CPM share
- 42.8% → 40.3%
- Turnout
- 88.4% → 86.3%