Constituency
138. Canning Paschim
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-CANNING-PASCHIM
AITC 49.1%won by 9.8%INC 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.8% to 9.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 39.2% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.3% between them, down from 93.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,22,418
Turnout
85.7%
Valid votes
1,90,517
Margin
18,726
9.83%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AITC- 1SHYAMAL MONDALAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC93,49849.1%
- 2ARNAB ROYIndian National Congress · INC74,77239.2%
- 3MANOJIT MONDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,6646.6%
- 4RAMPRASAD MISTRYSUCI · SUCI3,9802.1%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,4611.3%
- 6SWADESH SANFUIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,8271.0%
- 7DEBASIS SANIIndependent · IND1,3150.7%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–INC swing
- −43.5%
- AITC share
- 53.4% → 49.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- 86.1% → 85.7%