Constituency
228. Kharagpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-KHARAGPUR
AITC 48.4%won by 10.8%CPM 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 10.8%.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 45.1% to 48.4% of the vote here (+3.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.1% between them, down from 91.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,99,151
Turnout
88.8%
Valid votes
1,76,797
Margin
19,099
10.80%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1DINEN ROYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC85,63048.4%
- 2SK SAJAHAN ALICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM66,53137.6%
- 3GOUTAM BHATTACHARJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,72210.0%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,4611.4%
- 5MANIK CHANDRA PORIASUCI · SUCI2,4021.4%
- 6SEKH ANUWARIndependent · IND2,0511.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–CPM swing
- +12.5%
- AITC share
- 45.1% → 48.4%
- CPM share
- 46.8% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- 89.9% → 88.8%