Constituency
149. Kasba
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-KASBA
AITC 46.5%won by 6.0%CPM 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.6% to 6.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.0% between them, down from 96.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.6% to 73.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,67,233
Turnout
73.8%
Valid votes
1,97,086
Margin
11,884
6.03%
Candidates
11 contested · winner AITC- 1AHMED JAVED KHANAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC91,67946.5%
- 2SHATARUP GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM79,79540.5%
- 3BIKASH DEBNATHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,5508.9%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,7131.9%
- 5LAKKHI YADAB (ROY)Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,3560.7%
- 6KRISHNA MAITYLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP6180.3%
- 7SOMNATH DAMIndependent · IND5960.3%
- 8TAPAS KUMAR DEYIndependent · IND5750.3%
- 9SUSANTA KUMAR BISWASIndependent · IND4860.2%
- 10ARUNANSU KUMAR SARKARIndependent · IND3650.2%
- 11JAYANTA DEBNATHIndependent · IND3530.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- −5.5%
- AITC share
- 53.8% → 46.5%
- CPM share
- 42.2% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- 76.4% → 73.8%