Constituency
278. Raniganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-RANIGANJ
CPM 42.3%won by 7.0%AITC 35.3%
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 7.0%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 46.7% to 42.3% of the vote here (−4.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.7% between them, down from 94.5% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
2,29,329
Turnout
77.3%
Valid votes
1,77,207
Margin
12,385
6.99%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1RUNU DUTTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM74,99542.3%
- 2BANO NARGISAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC62,61035.3%
- 3MANISH SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP32,21418.2%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,7081.5%
- 5AJIT KUMAR BADYAKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,5991.5%
- 6MAMONI ORANGBMUP · BMUP2,0811.2%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–AITC swing
- +8.1%
- CPM share
- 46.7% → 42.3%
- AITC share
- 47.8% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- 78.3% → 77.3%