Constituency
278. Raniganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2026
WB-RANIGANJ
BJP 49.6%won by 9.1%AITC 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 9.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 40.9% to 49.6% of the vote here (+8.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.1% of the vote between them, up from 83.8% — a tighter two-way 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
1,96,484
Margin
17,786
9.05%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1PARTHA GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP97,41649.6%
- 2KALOBARAN MONDALAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC79,63040.5%
- 3NARAN BAURICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,0306.6%
- 4NOTANOTA · NOTA2,4521.2%
- 5FAIZ AHMADIndian National Congress · INC1,5430.8%
- 6AJAY KUMAR PASWANIndependent · IND1,0300.5%
- 7ASHISH CHANDRA GARAIIndependent · IND6490.3%
- 8SAGAR SENIndian National League · INL3970.2%
- 9RAHUL GHOSHAam Janata Unnayan Party · AJUP3370.2%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–AITC swing
- +11.0%
- BJP share
- 40.9% → 49.6%
- AITC share
- 42.9% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- 72.2% → —