Constituency
17. Jalpaiguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2021
WB-JALPAIGURI
AITC 42.3%won by 0.4%BJP 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 0.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 941 votes (0.42%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,68,201
Turnout
84.2%
Valid votes
2,25,933
Margin
941
0.42%
Candidates
11 contested · winner AITC- 1DR. PRADIP KUMAR BARMAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC95,66842.3%
- 2SOUJIT SINGHA (PIKU)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP94,72741.9%
- 3SUKHBILAS BARMAIndian National Congress · INC24,22810.7%
- 4None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA3,3811.5%
- 5SUBHASH KUMAR SARKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6090.7%
- 6RAKHI SARKARIndependent · IND1,5560.7%
- 7HAREKRISHNA SARKARIndependent · IND1,1470.5%
- 8ISWAR BARAIAB · AB1,0110.4%
- 9HARIDAS BISWASIndependent · IND9620.4%
- 10PALENDRA NATH ROYSUCI · SUCI8980.4%
- 11PRAHLAD ROYIndependent · IND7460.3%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–BJP swing
- −34.8%
- AITC share
- 42.9% → 42.3%
- BJP share
- 7.7% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- 86.1% → 84.2%