Constituency
224. Kharagpur Sadar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-KHARAGPUR-SADAR
BJP 39.3%won by 4.0%INC 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 4.0%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 6.8% to 39.3% of the vote here (+32.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.5% between them, down from 86.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,18,231
Turnout
71.7%
Valid votes
1,56,386
Margin
6,309
4.03%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1DILIP KUMAR GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP61,44639.3%
- 2GYAN SINGH SOHANPALIndian National Congress · INC55,13735.3%
- 3TEWARY RAMA PRASADAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC34,08621.8%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,3921.5%
- 5SURANJAN MAHAPATRASUCI · SUCI1,3080.8%
- 6SK ASGAR ALIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,0580.7%
- 7MATA PRASAD GUPTAIndependent · IND9590.6%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +52.3%
- BJP share
- 6.8% → 39.3%
- INC share
- 55.1% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- 70.2% → 71.7%