Constituency
261. Raina
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2026
WB-RAINA
BJP 44.4%won by 0.4%AITC 44.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 0.4%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 39.5% to 44.4% of the vote here (+4.9%).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 834 votes (0.36%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
2,33,245
Margin
834
0.36%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1SUBHASH PATRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,03,48744.4%
- 2MANDIRA DALUIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,02,65344.0%
- 3SOMNATH MAJICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM19,6748.4%
- 4PAMPA MALIKIndian National Congress · INC1,9800.8%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA1,4420.6%
- 6SANJU PORELIndependent · IND1,3540.6%
- 7SHIULI SINGHIndependent · IND1,2670.5%
- 8JABA MALIKIndependent · IND7830.3%
- 9PARESH CHANDRA BAGAam Janata Unnayan Party · AJUP6050.3%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–AITC swing
- +8.3%
- BJP share
- 39.5% → 44.4%
- AITC share
- 47.5% → 44.0%
- Turnout
- 88.0% → —