Constituency
144. Falta
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-FALTA
AITC 50.2%won by 12.5%CPM 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.7% to 12.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.8% between them, down from 93.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.0% to 88.6%.
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Electorate
2,12,340
Turnout
88.6%
Valid votes
1,88,183
Margin
23,580
12.53%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AITC- 1TAMONASH GHOSHAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC94,38150.2%
- 2BIDHAN PARUICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM70,80137.6%
- 3AMARENDRA NATH MUKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,7638.4%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,8131.0%
- 5MAMATA LASKARSUCI · SUCI1,7981.0%
- 6ATAL KUMAR PURKAITBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,5180.8%
- 7JAYASHRI CHAKRABORTYLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP1,3280.7%
- 8HARAN CHANDRA BISWASPDS · PDS7810.4%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- −5.2%
- AITC share
- 55.6% → 50.2%
- CPM share
- 37.9% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- 85.6% → 88.6%