Constituency
116. Bidhannagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-BIDHANNAGAR
AITC 42.9%won by 4.5%INC 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.1% to 4.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 38.3% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.2% between them, down from 94.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.3% to 68.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,26,897
Turnout
68.0%
Valid votes
1,54,303
Margin
6,988
4.53%
Candidates
10 contested · winner AITC- 1SUJIT BOSEAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC66,13042.9%
- 2ARUNAVA GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC59,14238.3%
- 3SUSANTA RANJAN PALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP21,73514.1%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,2552.1%
- 5RANJAN MAJUMDERBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1630.8%
- 6ANANDA CHANDAShiv Sena · SHS8970.6%
- 7MANMOHAN GARODIAIndependent · IND7710.5%
- 8TARUN KUMAR DASSUCI · SUCI5330.3%
- 9PALASH BISWASIndependent · IND3790.2%
- 10KUNAL MAJUMDERIndependent · IND2980.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–INC swing
- −55.0%
- AITC share
- 59.5% → 42.9%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- 74.3% → 68.0%