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Constituency

219. Dantan

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West Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2021

WB-DANTAN

AITC 48.1%won by 0.3%BJP 47.8%

What changed here

Derived

All India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.4% to 0.3%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.0% of the vote between them, up from 90.6% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
2,35,417
Turnout
84.0%
Valid votes
1,97,798
Margin
623
0.31%

Since 2016

Derived
Winner then
AITC
Winner now
AITC
AITCBJP swing
−45.7%
AITC share
53.5% 48.1%
BJP share
7.5% 47.8%
Turnout
84.5% 84.0%