Constituency
105. Bhatpara
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-BHATPARA
AITC 54.6%won by 26.6%IND 27.9%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 47.0% to 26.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 27.9% — it polled just 1.7% in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.5% between them, down from 94.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,44,737
Turnout
75.0%
Valid votes
1,08,577
Margin
28,935
26.65%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AITC- 1ARJUN SINGHAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC59,25354.6%
- 2JITENDRA SHAW (JITU)Independent · IND30,31827.9%
- 3RUMESH KUMAR HANDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,33313.2%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,0151.9%
- 5GOPAL RAUTIndependent · IND7880.7%
- 6PARTHA BHATTACHARYYASUCI · SUCI6880.6%
- 7DHARMENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND6780.6%
- 8SHATRUGHNA SINGHIndependent · IND5040.5%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–IND swing
- −42.6%
- AITC share
- 70.9% → 54.6%
- IND share
- 1.7% → 27.9%
- Turnout
- 76.4% → 75.0%