Constituency
173. Howrah Dakshin
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-HOWRAH-DAKSHIN
AITC 47.8%won by 8.3%CPM 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.4% to 8.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.3% between them, down from 94.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.4% to 73.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,66,645
Turnout
73.5%
Valid votes
1,96,038
Margin
16,194
8.26%
Candidates
11 contested · winner AITC- 1BRAJAMOHAN MAJUMDERAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC93,68947.8%
- 2ARINDAM BASU (BABU)Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM77,49539.5%
- 3SAHANA GUHA RAYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,2778.3%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,8161.9%
- 5SRINATH YADAVBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2490.6%
- 6JOYDEB SANTRAIndependent · IND1,0390.5%
- 7TAPAS DASSUCI · SUCI7570.4%
- 8SUKTARA KHANIUC · IUC4960.3%
- 9KASHINATH MALICKIndependent · IND4420.2%
- 10SUBHRAJIT (LITON) BHADURIPDS · PDS4410.2%
- 11ASOK KRISHNA DASIndependent · IND3370.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- −9.2%
- AITC share
- 56.1% → 47.8%
- CPM share
- 38.6% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- 76.9% → 73.5%