Constituency
193. Saptagram
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-SAPTAGRAM
AITC 48.9%won by 10.3%INC 38.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.3% to 10.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 38.6% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.6% between them, down from 93.7% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,14,875
Turnout
83.9%
Valid votes
1,80,292
Margin
18,567
10.30%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1TAPAN DASGUPTAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC88,20848.9%
- 2DILIP NATHIndian National Congress · INC69,64138.6%
- 3SUSANTA SENGUPTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,4949.1%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,9041.6%
- 5SAJAL ADHIKARICpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,5360.9%
- 6KASHINATH MURMUJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,5090.8%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–INC swing
- −46.2%
- AITC share
- 56.5% → 48.9%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 38.6%
- Turnout
- 85.5% → 83.9%