Constituency
161. Ballygunge
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2021
WB-BALLYGUNGE
AITC 70.6%won by 49.9%BJP 20.7%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.9% to 49.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.3% of the vote between them, up from 81.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.1% to 60.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,48,660
Turnout
60.7%
Valid votes
1,50,962
Margin
75,359
49.92%
Candidates
12 contested · winner AITC- 1Subrata MukherjeeAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,06,58570.6%
- 2LOKENATH CHATTERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP31,22620.7%
- 3Dr. Fuad HalimCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,4745.6%
- 4None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA1,3170.9%
- 5Rajendra Ram DasBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8120.5%
- 6KAUSHIK GHOSHALIndependent · IND6430.4%
- 7CHHANDA SAHABNRP · BNRP5800.4%
- 8ANIRBAN SAHAPM · PM5410.4%
- 9ZUBIN RASHIDIndependent · IND2580.2%
- 10SANTANU SAHAIndependent · IND2130.1%
- 11AMITAVA DUTTAIndependent · IND1950.1%
- 12SEKH SADIK HUSSAINUSP · USP1180.1%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–BJP swing
- +17.8%
- AITC share
- 45.5% → 70.6%
- BJP share
- 13.4% → 20.7%
- Turnout
- 63.9% → 60.7%