Constituency
172. Shibpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-SHIBPUR
AITC 51.9%won by 15.9%AIFB 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.5% to 15.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.8% between them, down from 95.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.0% to 78.3%.
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Electorate
2,16,988
Turnout
78.3%
Valid votes
1,69,839
Margin
27,014
15.91%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AITC- 1JATU LAHIRIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC88,07651.9%
- 2JAGANNATH BHATTACHARYYAAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB61,06236.0%
- 3RAMAPRASAD BHATTACHARYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,3637.9%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,1321.8%
- 5BRIJ LAL PRASADBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,9351.1%
- 6SHYAM SUNDAR HAZRAIndependent · IND9360.6%
- 7KARTICK SHILSUCI · SUCI7750.5%
- 8RAJAT BHATAKIndependent · IND5600.3%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–AIFB swing
- −12.6%
- AITC share
- 61.8% → 51.9%
- AIFB share
- 33.4% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- 82.3% → 78.3%