Constituency
289. Sainthia
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-SAINTHIA
AITC 52.2%won by 19.5%CPM 32.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 19.5%.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 44.3% to 52.2% of the vote here (+7.9%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.8% between them, down from 91.2% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
2,28,000
Turnout
86.9%
Valid votes
1,98,163
Margin
38,611
19.48%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1NILABATI SAHAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,03,37652.2%
- 2DHIREN BAGDICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM64,76532.7%
- 3PIYA SAHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,02912.1%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,5991.3%
- 5PABAN KUMAR BAGDIIndependent · IND1,8600.9%
- 6NABA KUMAR DASSUCI · SUCI1,5340.8%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–CPM swing
- +22.1%
- AITC share
- 44.3% → 52.2%
- CPM share
- 46.9% → 32.7%
- Turnout
- 86.9% → 86.9%