Constituency
231. Ghatal
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-GHATAL
AITC 49.8%won by 9.0%CPM 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.4% to 9.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.5% between them, down from 96.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.1% to 84.1%.
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Electorate
2,57,163
Turnout
84.1%
Valid votes
2,16,371
Margin
19,479
9.00%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1SHANKAR DOLAIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,07,68249.8%
- 2KAMAL CHANDRA DOLUICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM88,20340.8%
- 3ANJUSHREE DOLUIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,4684.8%
- 4TANMOY DOLUIIndependent · IND5,1642.4%
- 5ANJAN JANASUCI · SUCI2,5641.2%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,2901.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- +0.6%
- AITC share
- 52.2% → 49.8%
- CPM share
- 43.9% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- 86.3% → 84.1%