Constituency
168. Kashipur-Belgachia
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-KASHIPUR-BELGACHIA
AITC 50.4%won by 18.0%CPM 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.4% to 18.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.8% between them, down from 94.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.5% to 64.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,21,148
Turnout
64.8%
Valid votes
1,43,391
Margin
25,810
18.00%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AITC- 1MALA SAHAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC72,26450.4%
- 2KANINIKA BOSE (GHOSH)Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM46,45432.4%
- 3ADITYA TANDONBharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,29313.5%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,6461.8%
- 5MD AZIMULLAHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9890.7%
- 6JYOTSNA RAY PAINIndependent · IND6830.5%
- 7TAPAS GHOSHIndependent · IND5530.4%
- 8ASHOKE KUMAR NASKARIndependent · IND5090.4%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- −10.4%
- AITC share
- 61.7% → 50.4%
- CPM share
- 33.3% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- 67.3% → 64.8%