Constituency
236. Medinipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-MEDINIPUR
AITC 50.1%won by 15.5%CPI 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.9% to 15.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.7% between them, down from 94.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.1% to 84.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,51,148
Turnout
84.8%
Valid votes
2,13,083
Margin
32,987
15.48%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AITC- 1MRIGENDRA NATH MAITIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,06,77450.1%
- 2SANTOSH RANACommunist Party of India · CPI73,78734.6%
- 3TUSHAR MUKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,56710.6%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4,0601.9%
- 5SOVA DASAMB · AMB2,1711.0%
- 6SUSANTA SAHUSUCI · SUCI2,0691.0%
- 7SK. ALI UDDIN ALIAJSUP · AJSUP1,6550.8%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPI swing
- +0.6%
- AITC share
- 54.4% → 50.1%
- CPI share
- 39.5% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- 88.0% → 84.8%