Constituency
526. Howrah
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-HOWRAH
AITC 48.0%won by 3.8%CPM 44.3%
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 3.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 26.6% to 48.0% of the vote here (+21.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.3% of the vote between them, up from 80.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,44,746
Turnout
73.9%
Valid votes
9,93,958
Margin
37,392
3.76%
Candidates
15 contested · winner AITC- 1AMBICA BANERJEEAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC4,77,44948.0%
- 2SWADESH CHAKRABORTTYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,40,05744.3%
- 3POLLY MUKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP37,7233.8%
- 4BIJOY UPPADHYASamajwadi Party · SP8,6150.9%
- 5SUBARNA CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND8,1800.8%
- 6RAMAVTAR GUPTABahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,6820.6%
- 7MANOJ KUMAR PASWANIndependent · IND3,7100.4%
- 8SANJAY MAKALIndependent · IND2,6030.3%
- 9SANATAN BAGIndependent · IND2,3180.2%
- 10NARAD PANDITIndependent · IND1,4590.1%
- 11GOUTAM GAYENIndependent · IND1,4230.1%
- 12SUDARSHAN MANNASTPI · STPI1,3570.1%
- 13GAURAB SAHAIndependent · IND1,2060.1%
- 14ABDUL MOMIN SEKHIndependent · IND1,1760.1%
- 15GORA CHAND KOLEYIndependent · IND1,0000.1%
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
- +30.8%
- AITC share
- 26.6% → 48.0%
- CPM share
- 53.7% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- 73.5% → 73.9%