Constituency
282. Kulti
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-KULTI
AITC 40.8%won by 11.5%BJP 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.6% to 11.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.1% between them, down from 91.5% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
2,30,360
Turnout
73.3%
Valid votes
1,68,963
Margin
19,488
11.53%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AITC- 1UJJAL CHATTERJEEAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC68,95240.8%
- 2AJAY KUMAR PODDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP49,46429.3%
- 3ABHIJIT ACHARYYA(BAPPA)Indian National Congress · INC42,89525.4%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,8481.7%
- 5MD. SHAKIL ANSARIJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,8961.1%
- 6KALLOL RAYSUCI · SUCI1,6291.0%
- 7SAJAL DASIndependent · IND1,2790.8%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–BJP swing
- −40.5%
- AITC share
- 56.1% → 40.8%
- BJP share
- 4.1% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- 73.6% → 73.3%