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263. Monteswar

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West Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016

WB-MONTESWAR

AITC 44.1%won by 0.4%CPM 43.7%

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 0.4%.

  • TurnoutTurnout fell 3.2% to 87.0%.
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 706 votes (0.37%) — 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
2,19,094
Turnout
87.0%
Valid votes
1,90,730
Margin
706
0.37%

Candidates

7 contested · winner AITC
  1. 1SAJAL PANJAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC84,13444.1%
  2. 2CHAUDHURI MD. HEDAYATULLAHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM83,42843.7%
  3. 3BISWAJIT PODDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,4528.1%
  4. 4KHOKAN DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,6441.4%
  5. 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,4451.3%
  6. 6JAGABANDHU MALIKMPOI · MPOI1,4370.8%
  7. 7PREMCHAND SORENJDP · JDP1,1900.6%

Since 2011

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
AITCflipped
AITC–CPM swing
+2.3%
AITC share
45.3% → 44.1%
CPM share
47.2% → 43.7%
Turnout
90.3% → 87.0%
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