Constituency
222. Jhargram
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-JHARGRAM
AITC 55.0%won by 30.6%JKPN 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.8% to 30.6%.
- New challengerJKPN (JKPN) finished second with 24.4% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Safe seatAll India Trinamool Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- NOTANOTA drew 2.5% of the vote.
- 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
2,14,133
Turnout
84.3%
Valid votes
1,80,537
Margin
55,228
30.59%
Candidates
9 contested · winner AITC- 1SUKUMAR HANSDAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC99,23355.0%
- 2CHUNIBALA HANSDAJKPN · JKPN44,00524.4%
- 3AJOY KUMAR SENBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,84310.4%
- 4SUBRATA BHATTACHARYAIndian National Congress · INC7,0173.9%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4,5782.5%
- 6MAHADEB PRATIHARSUCI · SUCI2,3431.3%
- 7BABLU MURMUIndependent · IND1,7541.0%
- 8GUNADHAR MAHATOAJSUP · AJSUP1,5990.9%
- 9ASHOKE MAHATANDPOI · NDPOI1,1650.6%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–JKPN swing
- −14.1%
- AITC share
- 44.7% → 55.0%
- JKPN share
- 0.0% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- 84.3% → 84.3%