Constituency
502. Cooch Behar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-COOCH-BEHAR
AIFB 44.7%won by 3.0%AITC 41.7%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Forward Bloc held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.8% to 3.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.3% of the vote between them, up from 79.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,29,086
Turnout
84.3%
Valid votes
11,21,043
Margin
33,749
3.01%
Candidates
10 contested · winner AIFB- 1NRIPENDRA NATH ROYAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB5,00,67744.7%
- 2ARGHYA ROY PRADHANAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC4,66,92841.7%
- 3BHABENDRA NATH BARMANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP65,3255.8%
- 4BANGSHI BADAN BARMANIndependent · IND37,2263.3%
- 5NIRANJAN BARMANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP22,9252.0%
- 6HITENDRA DASIndependent · IND11,3741.0%
- 7DALENDRA ROYAMB · AMB6,4860.6%
- 8NUBASH BARMANIndependent · IND3,7370.3%
- 9HAREKRISHNA SARKARRPIA · RPIA3,4050.3%
- 10KRISHNA KANTA BARMANIndependent · IND2,9600.3%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- AIFB
- Winner now
- AIFB
- AIFB–AITC swing
- −20.8%
- AIFB share
- 51.5% → 44.7%
- AITC share
- 27.8% → 41.7%
- Turnout
- 82.9% → 84.3%