Constituency
216. Kanthi Dakshin
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-KANTHI-DAKSHIN
AITC 53.7%won by 19.5%CPI 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.8% to 19.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.9% between them, down from 95.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.0% to 84.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,04,691
Turnout
84.9%
Valid votes
1,73,803
Margin
33,890
19.50%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AITC- 1ADHIKARI DIBYENDUAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC93,35953.7%
- 2UTTAM PRADHANCommunist Party of India · CPI59,46934.2%
- 3KAMALES MISHRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,2238.8%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,3111.3%
- 5SRIDHAR DASHWPOI · WPOI1,0380.6%
- 6MANAS PRADHANSUCI · SUCI1,0100.6%
- 7JAHANGIR MAHAMMAD SK.BHNP · BHNP7540.4%
- 8DR. ARUN KUMAR GIRIAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM6390.4%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPI swing
- +0.7%
- AITC share
- 57.1% → 53.7%
- CPI share
- 38.3% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- 86.9% → 84.9%