Constituency
162. Chowrangee
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-CHOWRANGEE
AITC 47.3%won by 11.3%INC 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 52.2% to 11.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 36.0% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.2% between them, down from 91.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,07,400
Turnout
56.2%
Valid votes
1,16,557
Margin
13,216
11.34%
Candidates
9 contested · winner AITC- 1NAYNA BANDYOPADHYAYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC55,11947.3%
- 2SOMENDRANATH MITRAIndian National Congress · INC41,90336.0%
- 3RITESH TIWARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,70713.5%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,1831.9%
- 5KARTIK KUMKAR RAYSUCI · SUCI6120.5%
- 6DEBAJYOTI SENGUPTAIndependent · IND3400.3%
- 7DIPANKAR DEYIndependent · IND2540.2%
- 8SHAHZAD ANWARLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP2510.2%
- 9ANIRBAN MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND1880.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–INC swing
- −60.6%
- AITC share
- 71.9% → 47.3%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- 54.4% → 56.2%