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261. Raina

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West Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016

WB-RAINA

AITC 45.8%won by 0.2%CPM 45.5%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 0.2%.

  • TurnoutTurnout fell 4.6% to 87.6%.
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 448 votes (0.22%) — among the closest results anywhere.
  • 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
2,35,247
Turnout
87.6%
Valid votes
2,06,093
Margin
448
0.22%

Candidates

4 contested · winner AITC
  1. 1NEPAL GHORUIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC94,32345.8%
  2. 2KHAN BASUDEBCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM93,87545.5%
  3. 3KASHINATH PATRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,5897.1%
  4. 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,3061.6%

Since 2011

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
AITCflipped
AITC–CPM swing
+6.5%
AITC share
44.8% → 45.8%
CPM share
51.1% → 45.5%
Turnout
92.2% → 87.6%
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