Constituency
97. Gaighata
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-GAIGHATA
AITC 48.6%won by 15.3%CPI 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 15.5% to 15.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.9% between them, down from 95.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.4% to 86.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,24,311
Turnout
86.0%
Valid votes
1,92,949
Margin
29,572
15.33%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AITC- 1PULIN BIHARI RAYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC93,81248.6%
- 2KAPIL KRISHNA THAKURCommunist Party of India · CPI64,24033.3%
- 3SANKAR THAKURBharatiya Janata Party · BJP28,79614.9%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,5870.8%
- 5ANIL BAIRAGIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,5020.8%
- 6NANDITA MONDALIndependent · IND1,3880.7%
- 7NANIBALA BISWAS ( DAS)SUCI · SUCI9170.5%
- 8BIKASH BISWASIndependent · IND7070.4%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPI swing
- −0.1%
- AITC share
- 55.6% → 48.6%
- CPI share
- 40.1% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- 88.4% → 86.0%