Constituency
161. Ballygunge
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2026
WB-BALLYGUNGE
AITC 64.8%won by 36.7%BJP 28.1%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 49.9% to 36.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Safe seatAll India Trinamool Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,67,384
Margin
61,476
36.73%
Candidates
13 contested · winner AITC- 1SOBHANDEB CHATTOPADHYAYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,08,48164.8%
- 2SHATORUPABharatiya Janata Party · BJP47,00528.1%
- 3AFREEN BEGUMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,1854.3%
- 4ROHAN MITRAIndian National Congress · INC1,9751.2%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA8190.5%
- 6AYASANUL HAQUE SK.SUCOI · SUCOI4270.3%
- 7DOLA SARKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3830.2%
- 8MEHBOOB ALAMIndependent · IND3660.2%
- 9UTTAM KUMAR DASIndependent · IND1910.1%
- 10REEPA BHATTACHARJEEIndependent · IND1620.1%
- 11SHAIK IMRANIndependent · IND1410.1%
- 12GOBINDA NASKARIndependent · IND1370.1%
- 13FAISAL KHANAam Janata Unnayan Party · AJUP1120.1%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–BJP swing
- −13.2%
- AITC share
- 70.6% → 64.8%
- BJP share
- 20.7% → 28.1%
- Turnout
- 60.7% → —