Constituency
78. Tehatta
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2021
WB-TEHATTA
AITC 44.9%won by 3.2%BJP 41.7%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.7% to 3.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.2% — 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).
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,55,038
Turnout
85.5%
Valid votes
2,18,109
Margin
6,915
3.17%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AITC- 1Tapas Kumar SahaAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC97,84844.9%
- 2Ashutosh PaulBharatiya Janata Party · BJP90,93341.7%
- 3Subodh Chandra BiswasCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM23,23910.7%
- 4Tarak Nath BiswasBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,8760.9%
- 5None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA1,7360.8%
- 6Rabindranath HalderIndependent · IND1,4390.7%
- 7Surya BiswasPM · PM6380.3%
- 8Chiranjit SardarIndependent · IND4000.2%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–BJP swing
- −37.4%
- AITC share
- 49.0% → 44.9%
- BJP share
- 8.4% → 41.7%
- Turnout
- 86.3% → 85.5%