Constituency
281. Asansol Uttar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-ASANSOL-UTTAR
AITC 46.1%won by 13.0%BJP 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.9% to 13.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.2% between them, down from 93.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.2% to 73.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,49,511
Turnout
73.6%
Valid votes
1,83,666
Margin
23,897
13.01%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1MOLOY GHATAKAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC84,71546.1%
- 2NIRMAL KARMAKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP60,81833.1%
- 3INDRANI MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC31,89217.4%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,7951.5%
- 5DIPALI RUIDASBMUP · BMUP2,1781.2%
- 6SHYAMA CHARAN DUTTAAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM1,2680.7%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–BJP swing
- −44.8%
- AITC share
- 62.1% → 46.1%
- BJP share
- 4.4% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- 76.8% → 73.6%