Constituency
164. Beleghata
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-BELEGHATA
AITC 52.8%won by 16.3%CPM 36.5%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.5% to 16.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.3% between them, down from 95.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.2% to 66.4%.
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Electorate
2,41,965
Turnout
66.4%
Valid votes
1,60,613
Margin
26,179
16.30%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AITC- 1PARESH PAULAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC84,84352.8%
- 2RAJIB BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM58,66436.5%
- 3PARTHA CHAUDHURYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,5167.2%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,1532.0%
- 5ARUN KUMAR DASIndependent · IND9900.6%
- 6CHINMOY SENGUPTAIndependent · IND9680.6%
- 7TIMIR KUMARIndependent · IND4790.3%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- −3.2%
- AITC share
- 57.5% → 52.8%
- CPM share
- 37.9% → 36.5%
- Turnout
- 70.5% → 66.4%