Constituency
170. Howrah Uttar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-HOWRAH-UTTAR
AITC 46.0%won by 20.0%INC 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.7% to 20.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.9% between them, down from 82.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.6% to 67.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,98,230
Turnout
67.9%
Valid votes
1,34,646
Margin
26,959
20.02%
Candidates
16 contested · winner AITC- 1LAXMI RATAN SHUKLAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC61,91746.0%
- 2SANTOSH KUMAR PATHAKIndian National Congress · INC34,95826.0%
- 3ROOPA GANGULYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP31,41623.3%
- 4SUBODH PATHAKIndependent · IND1,1460.9%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,0700.8%
- 6SHEWNARAYAN CHANDELBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9880.7%
- 7BINA GANGULI MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND7160.5%
- 8PRAVEEN KUMAR SARAFMHB · MHB4730.4%
- 9RAVI SHANKAR YADAVIndependent · IND4470.3%
- 10DADAN SINGHIndependent · IND3330.2%
- 11SUDARSHAN MANNASTPI · STPI2450.2%
- 12ARVIND KUMAR DUBEYIndependent · IND2290.2%
- 13TAPAN BOSEIndependent · IND1830.1%
- 14JAYANT GUPTAIndependent · IND1820.1%
- 15ANU DASIndependent · IND1820.1%
- 16ASHISH AGARWALIndependent · IND1610.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–INC swing
- −29.2%
- AITC share
- 49.3% → 46.0%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- 72.5% → 67.9%