Constituency
541. Asansol
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-ASANSOL
CPM 48.7%won by 8.2%AITC 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.1% to 8.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.1% to 71.5%.
- 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
12,50,052
Turnout
71.5%
Valid votes
8,93,704
Margin
72,956
8.16%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1BANSA GOPAL CHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,35,16148.7%
- 2GHATAK MOLOYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC3,62,20540.5%
- 3SURYYA RAYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP49,6465.6%
- 4AJAY SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP14,4901.6%
- 5JYOTIRMOY MAITYIndependent · IND13,1901.5%
- 6GOUTAM DASLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP10,1811.1%
- 7JARASANDHA SINHAIndependent · IND8,8311.0%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −9.0%
- CPM share
- 51.0% → 48.7%
- AITC share
- 33.9% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- 66.4% → 71.5%