Constituency
55. Farakka
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2021
WB-FARAKKA
AITC 54.9%won by 32.2%BJP 22.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 32.2%.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 33.8% to 54.9% of the vote here (+21.1%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.6% between them, down from 84.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.3% to 81.6%.
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Electorate
2,28,348
Turnout
81.6%
Valid votes
1,86,424
Margin
59,945
32.16%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AITC- 1MANIRUL ISLAMAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,02,31954.9%
- 2GHOSH HEMANTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP42,37422.7%
- 3MAINUL HAQUEIndian National Congress · INC36,20519.4%
- 4ANUP KUMAR SINHAIndependent · IND1,6470.9%
- 5None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA1,6380.9%
- 6MD MERAJ SORIFRSSCMJP · RSSCMJP1,5590.8%
- 7KANAI GHOSHIndependent · IND6820.4%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–BJP swing
- +8.1%
- AITC share
- 33.8% → 54.9%
- BJP share
- 9.8% → 22.7%
- Turnout
- 85.0% → 81.6%