Constituency
279. Jamuria
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-JAMURIA
CPM 43.3%won by 5.0%AITC 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.1% to 5.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.6% between them, down from 95.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,99,103
Turnout
78.0%
Valid votes
1,55,293
Margin
7,757
5.00%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1JAHANARA KHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM67,21443.3%
- 2V. SIVADASAN (DASU)All India Trinamool Congress · AITC59,45738.3%
- 3SANTOSH SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,04014.2%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,0181.9%
- 5KRIPAMAY DASIndependent · IND2,0511.3%
- 6PRADIP RUIDASBMUP · BMUP1,5131.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −5.1%
- CPM share
- 52.8% → 43.3%
- AITC share
- 42.7% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- 78.2% → 78.0%