Constituency
199. Pursurah
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-PURSURAH
AITC 51.1%won by 14.1%INC 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.5% to 14.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 37.0% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.1% between them, down from 96.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.2% to 86.3%.
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Electorate
2,38,626
Turnout
86.3%
Valid votes
2,06,014
Margin
29,127
14.14%
Candidates
5 contested · winner AITC- 1DR. M. NURUZZAMANAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,05,27551.1%
- 2PRATIM SINGHA ROYIndian National Congress · INC76,14837.0%
- 3SUBHENDU MUKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,2968.9%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,6461.8%
- 5JHANTU SAHAIndependent · IND2,6491.3%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–INC swing
- −42.1%
- AITC share
- 56.3% → 51.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- 89.5% → 86.3%