Constituency
272. Mangalkot
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-MANGALKOT
AITC 45.9%won by 6.1%CPM 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 6.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.7% between them, down from 92.4% — the field split more ways.
- 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
2,28,313
Turnout
85.8%
Valid votes
1,95,786
Margin
11,874
6.06%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1CHOWDHURY SIDDIQULLAHAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC89,81245.9%
- 2CHOUDHURY SAHAJAHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM77,93839.8%
- 3GOPAL CHATTOPADHYAYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,78010.6%
- 4RAMKRISHNA MALIKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,3151.7%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,2101.1%
- 6RASIK SARENSUCI · SUCI1,7310.9%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–CPM swing
- +6.1%
- AITC share
- 46.1% → 45.9%
- CPM share
- 46.2% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- 86.8% → 85.8%