Constituency
507. Balurghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-BALURGHAT
RSP 44.4%won by 0.6%AITC 43.8%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.7% to 0.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 43.8% — it did not contest here in 2004.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.2% of the vote between them, up from 82.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.7% to 86.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,10,224
Turnout
86.7%
Valid votes
8,75,360
Margin
5,105
0.58%
Candidates
8 contested · winner RSP- 1PRASANTA KUMAR MAJUMDARRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP3,88,44444.4%
- 2BIPLAB MITRAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC3,83,33943.8%
- 3SUBHASH CHANDRA BARMANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP59,7416.8%
- 4GOBINDA HANSDABahujan Samaj Party · BSP13,9771.6%
- 5GHOSH MRIDULAUDF · AUDF10,4601.2%
- 6SAMU SORENIndependent · IND8,1820.9%
- 7CHAMRU ORAMJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM5,7220.7%
- 8PRAHALLAD BARMANIndependent · IND5,4950.6%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–AITC swing
- −44.3%
- RSP share
- 44.9% → 44.4%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 43.8%
- Turnout
- 82.0% → 86.7%