Constituency
129. Kultali
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-KULTALI
CPM 37.4%won by 5.9%AITC 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.9% to 5.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 31.4% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.8% between them, down from 94.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.0% to 86.0%.
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Electorate
2,30,180
Turnout
86.0%
Valid votes
1,97,859
Margin
11,720
5.92%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1RAM SANKAR HALDERCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM73,93237.4%
- 2GOPAL MAJHIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC62,21231.4%
- 3JAYKRISHNA HALDARSUCI · SUCI48,05824.3%
- 4BIKRAM NASKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,3765.2%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,5520.8%
- 6TAPAN BAIRAGIIndependent · IND6910.3%
- 7PALLABI DASLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP5350.3%
- 8BHUTNATH SARDARBMUP · BMUP5030.3%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −42.7%
- CPM share
- 48.6% → 37.4%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- 89.0% → 86.0%