Constituency
191. Balagarh
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-BALAGARH
AITC 47.4%won by 8.8%CPM 38.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.7% to 8.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.0% between them, down from 93.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.9% to 85.6%.
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Electorate
2,37,968
Turnout
85.6%
Valid votes
2,03,683
Margin
17,837
8.76%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1ASHIM KUMAR MAJHIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC96,47247.4%
- 2PANCHU GOPAL MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM78,63538.6%
- 3SUBASH CHANDRA HALDERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,75710.2%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,8751.9%
- 5SUBRATA MONDALPDS · PDS2,2261.1%
- 6GAUTAM MONDALCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,7180.8%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- −3.0%
- AITC share
- 52.3% → 47.4%
- CPM share
- 40.6% → 38.6%
- Turnout
- 88.5% → 85.6%