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125. Basirhat Uttar

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West Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016

WB-BASIRHAT-UTTAR

CPM 45.7%won by 0.2%AITC 45.5%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.4% to 0.2%.

  • TurnoutTurnout rose 3.0% to 89.6%.
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 492 votes (0.23%) — among the closest results anywhere.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
2,38,670
Turnout
89.6%
Valid votes
2,13,885
Margin
492
0.23%

Candidates

5 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1RAFIKUL ISLAM MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM97,82845.7%
  2. 2A.T.M. ABDULLAH (RONY)All India Trinamool Congress · AITC97,33645.5%
  3. 3TARAFAN GAZIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,0726.1%
  4. 4ABUL KASEM DHALIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,0061.4%
  5. 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,6431.2%

Since 2011

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–AITC swing
−2.1%
CPM share
45.2% → 45.7%
AITC share
42.8% → 45.5%
Turnout
86.6% → 89.6%
124. Basirhat Dakshin126. Hingalganj
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