Constituency
160. Rashbehari
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-RASHBEHARI
AITC 44.1%won by 10.6%INC 33.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.8% to 10.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 21.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 33.6% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.7% between them, down from 94.3% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,05,943
Turnout
66.9%
Valid votes
1,37,857
Margin
14,553
10.56%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AITC- 1SOBHANDEB CHATTOPADHYAYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC60,85744.1%
- 2ASHUTOSH CHATTERJEEIndian National Congress · INC46,30433.6%
- 3SAMIR BANERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP23,38117.0%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,8722.8%
- 5SWATI GHOSHSUCI · SUCI1,3351.0%
- 6OMPRAKASH PRAJAPATIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9680.7%
- 7UTTAM KUMAR DASIndependent · IND5870.4%
- 8TARULATA DUTTAIndependent · IND5530.4%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–INC swing
- −55.0%
- AITC share
- 65.6% → 44.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 33.6%
- Turnout
- 67.7% → 66.9%