Constituency
517. Dum Dum
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-DUM-DUM
AITC 47.0%won by 2.1%CPM 44.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 2.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 0.0% to 47.0% of the vote here (+47.0%).
- 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
12,12,220
Turnout
80.5%
Valid votes
9,75,684
Margin
20,478
2.10%
Candidates
6 contested · winner AITC- 1SOUGATA RAYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC4,58,98847.0%
- 2AMITAVA NANDYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,38,51044.9%
- 3TAPAN SIKDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP55,6795.7%
- 4DULAL CHANDRA DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9,0650.9%
- 5SUNIL PALIndependent · IND8,1770.8%
- 6SANATAN RAY CHAUDHURILoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP5,2650.5%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–CPM swing
- +51.7%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 47.0%
- CPM share
- 49.6% → 44.9%
- Turnout
- 80.9% → 80.5%