Constituency
253. Barjora
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-BARJORA
CPM 43.4%won by 0.3%AITC 43.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 0.3%.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 616 votes (0.31%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- NOTANOTA drew 2.1% of the vote.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,31,414
Turnout
86.5%
Valid votes
2,00,084
Margin
616
0.31%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SUJIT CHAKRABORTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM86,87343.4%
- 2SOHAM CHAKRABORTYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC86,25743.1%
- 3AGASTHI SUJITBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,9918.0%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4,2352.1%
- 5SUDARSHAN ADHIKARISUCI · SUCI2,3521.2%
- 6RAGHUNATH ROYIndependent · IND2,3261.2%
- 7INDRANI SARDARBMUP · BMUP2,0501.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–AITC swing
- +5.1%
- CPM share
- 42.9% → 43.4%
- AITC share
- 47.7% → 43.1%
- Turnout
- 87.0% → 86.5%