Constituency
155. Maheshtala
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-MAHESHTALA
AITC 47.8%won by 6.4%CPM 41.5%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.8% to 6.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
2,42,100
Turnout
80.9%
Valid votes
1,95,827
Margin
12,452
6.36%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1KASTURI DASAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC93,67547.8%
- 2SAMIK LAHIRICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM81,22341.5%
- 3KARTIC CH. GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,9097.6%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,1441.6%
- 5DEBASHISH BOSEPDS · PDS1,8540.9%
- 6BECHU MONDALIndependent · IND1,0220.5%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- −7.5%
- AITC share
- 52.5% → 47.8%
- CPM share
- 38.7% → 41.5%
- Turnout
- 81.7% → 80.9%