Constituency
173. Howrah Dakshin
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2026
WB-HOWRAH-DAKSHIN
AITC 45.3%won by 3.5%BJP 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.3% to 3.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
2,22,054
Margin
7,828
3.53%
Candidates
13 contested · winner AITC- 1NANDITA CHOWDHURYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,00,54045.3%
- 2SHYAMAL KUMAR HATIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP92,71241.8%
- 3ABHIJIT BANERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM21,5989.7%
- 4DEEPSHIKHA BHOWMICKIndian National Congress · INC2,6091.2%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA1,5740.7%
- 6RAJESH KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND7450.3%
- 7PABITRA BISWASIndependent · IND5250.2%
- 8RITA GHOSHALSUCOI · SUCOI4980.2%
- 9MADHUSRI GHOSHIndependent · IND3390.2%
- 10AMIT CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND3110.1%
- 11SAMIR BACHARIndependent · IND3030.1%
- 12AVIJIT DASIndependent · IND1590.1%
- 13AVISEK DASIndependent · IND1410.1%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–BJP swing
- −19.8%
- AITC share
- 53.9% → 45.3%
- BJP share
- 30.5% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- 73.7% → —