Constituency
197. Dhanekhali
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-DHANEKHALI
AITC 57.5%won by 26.9%AIFB 30.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.3% to 26.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.2% between them, down from 94.1% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatAll India Trinamool Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,49,887
Turnout
87.1%
Valid votes
2,17,750
Margin
58,644
26.93%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AITC- 1ASIMA PATRAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,25,29857.5%
- 2PRADIP MAJUMDARAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB66,65430.6%
- 3SASTHI DULEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,3387.5%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,7091.7%
- 5ASHIS HALDERIndependent · IND2,5581.2%
- 6SAJAL KUMAR DECpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,7540.8%
- 7PALLAB BAGJDP · JDP1,4390.7%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–AIFB swing
- +18.6%
- AITC share
- 51.2% → 57.5%
- AIFB share
- 42.9% → 30.6%
- Turnout
- 88.3% → 87.1%