Constituency
117. Rajarhat Gopalpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-RAJARHAT-GOPALPUR
AITC 44.3%won by 4.2%CPM 40.1%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.8% to 4.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.4% between them, down from 95.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.3% to 71.7%.
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Electorate
2,29,140
Turnout
71.7%
Valid votes
1,64,314
Margin
6,874
4.18%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1PURNENDU BASUAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC72,79344.3%
- 2NEPALDEB BHATTACHARJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM65,91940.1%
- 3DILIP MITRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,68312.0%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,7802.3%
- 5RANJIT KUMAR DUTTAIndependent · IND1,2440.8%
- 6SHYAMAL MONDALIndependent · IND8950.5%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- −19.6%
- AITC share
- 59.8% → 44.3%
- CPM share
- 36.0% → 40.1%
- Turnout
- 78.0% → 71.7%