Constituency
189. Chandannagore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-CHANDANNAGORE
AITC 44.8%won by 1.3%CPM 43.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.1% to 1.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.4% between them, down from 94.4% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,14,035
Turnout
78.9%
Valid votes
1,68,905
Margin
2,114
1.25%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1INDRANIL SEN EAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC75,72744.8%
- 2GAUTAM SARKAR SON OF KARTICK CHANDRA SARKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM73,61343.6%
- 3TANDRA BHATTACHARJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,2337.8%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,8532.3%
- 5GAUTAM SARKAR S/O GAURANGA SARKARIndependent · IND1,4770.9%
- 6MILAN RAKSHITSUCI · SUCI1,0020.6%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- −25.9%
- AITC share
- 60.8% → 44.8%
- CPM share
- 33.6% → 43.6%
- Turnout
- 79.2% → 78.9%