Constituency
278. Raniganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2021
WB-RANIGANJ
AITC 42.9%won by 2.0%BJP 40.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 2.0%.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 35.3% to 42.9% of the vote here (+7.6%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.8% of the vote between them, up from 77.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.1% to 72.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,52,439
Turnout
72.2%
Valid votes
1,82,211
Margin
3,556
1.95%
Candidates
8 contested · winner AITC- 1TAPAS BANERJEEAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC78,16442.9%
- 2DR. BIJAN MUKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP74,60840.9%
- 3HEMANT KUMAR PRABHAKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM21,68811.9%
- 4None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA2,0061.1%
- 5RAJ KUMARJanata Dal (United) · JDU1,6120.9%
- 6NILKANTHA BAURIBMP · BMP1,6090.9%
- 7AVIJIT BOWRIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,5400.8%
- 8NIRAJ RAJAKPM · PM9840.5%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–BJP swing
- −15.2%
- AITC share
- 35.3% → 42.9%
- BJP share
- 18.2% → 40.9%
- Turnout
- 77.3% → 72.2%