Constituency
158. Kolkata Port
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-KOLKATA-PORT
AITC 53.2%won by 19.2%INC 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 19.1% to 19.2%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 34.0% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.2% of the vote between them, up from 78.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.5% to 63.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,17,685
Turnout
63.4%
Valid votes
1,38,050
Margin
26,548
19.23%
Candidates
12 contested · winner AITC- 1FIRHAD HAKIMAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC73,45953.2%
- 2RAKESH SINGHIndian National Congress · INC46,91134.0%
- 3AWADH KISHORE GUPTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,7008.5%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,1641.6%
- 5VIVEK KUMAR THAKURIndependent · IND1,0190.7%
- 6SARFARAZ KHANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8370.6%
- 7SUBRATA SAHAIndependent · IND8080.6%
- 8RAJ KUMAR CHHETRYIndependent · IND2900.2%
- 9BISWAJIT HALDERIndependent · IND2610.2%
- 10SK. RAJUDDINIndependent · IND2570.2%
- 11KARAN SINGHIndependent · IND2060.1%
- 12DEORAJ YADAVIndependent · IND1380.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–INC swing
- −29.4%
- AITC share
- 48.6% → 53.2%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- 65.9% → 63.4%