Constituency
118. Madhyamgram
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-MADHYAMGRAM
AITC 53.1%won by 17.2%INC 35.9%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.9% to 17.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 35.9% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.9% between them, down from 94.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,39,765
Turnout
86.6%
Valid votes
2,07,704
Margin
35,804
17.24%
Candidates
5 contested · winner AITC- 1RATHIN GHOSHAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,10,27153.1%
- 2TAPAS MAJUMDERIndian National Congress · INC74,46735.9%
- 3DEBASISH MITRA (BAPI)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,1488.3%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,9321.4%
- 5HIMANGSHU MONDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,8861.4%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–INC swing
- −39.9%
- AITC share
- 57.2% → 53.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- 88.5% → 86.6%