Constituency
257. Indus
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-INDUS
AITC 48.1%won by 9.6%CPM 38.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.3% to 9.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.7% between them, down from 95.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.4% to 90.0%.
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Electorate
2,19,065
Turnout
90.0%
Valid votes
1,97,205
Margin
18,837
9.55%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1GURUPADA METEAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC94,94048.1%
- 2DILIP KUMAR MALIKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM76,10338.6%
- 3NIRMAL KUMAR DHARABharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,2468.2%
- 4BASUDEB DIGERIndependent · IND3,8371.9%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,6701.9%
- 6BHAIRAB LOHARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,4091.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- +7.3%
- AITC share
- 49.1% → 48.1%
- CPM share
- 46.8% → 38.6%
- Turnout
- 92.5% → 90.0%