Constituency
247. Saltora
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-SALTORA
AITC 46.2%won by 6.8%CPM 39.4%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.8% to 6.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.6% between them, down from 93.4% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
2,12,955
Turnout
86.4%
Valid votes
1,83,938
Margin
12,523
6.81%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AITC- 1SWAPAN BOURIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC84,97946.2%
- 2SASTHI CHARAN BOURICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM72,45639.4%
- 3SNEHASIS MONDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,9918.2%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4,8012.6%
- 5DIPAK KUMAR BHUIYABMUP · BMUP2,2601.2%
- 6DIPEN BAURISUCI · SUCI2,2371.2%
- 7MAHANANDA MAJIIndependent · IND2,2141.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- −1.0%
- AITC share
- 50.6% → 46.2%
- CPM share
- 42.8% → 39.4%
- Turnout
- 86.5% → 86.4%