Constituency
280. Asansol Dakshin
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-ASANSOL-DAKSHIN
AITC 38.5%won by 7.7%CPM 30.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.7% to 7.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.4% between them, down from 93.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.6% to 75.0%.
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Electorate
2,47,366
Turnout
75.0%
Valid votes
1,85,554
Margin
14,283
7.70%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1TAPAS BANERJEEAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC71,51538.5%
- 2HEMANT PRABHAKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM57,23230.8%
- 3COL. DIPTANSU CHAUDHURYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP49,19926.5%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,9112.1%
- 5CHHOTON RUIDASBMUP · BMUP2,0961.1%
- 6SUKANTA HEMBRAMJDP · JDP1,6010.9%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- −10.1%
- AITC share
- 55.7% → 38.5%
- CPM share
- 38.0% → 30.8%
- Turnout
- 78.7% → 75.0%