Constituency
542. Bolpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-BOLPUR
CPM 49.9%won by 11.8%INC 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.3% to 11.8%.
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 15.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- TurnoutTurnout rose 8.1% to 82.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,07,730
Turnout
82.5%
Valid votes
10,78,811
Margin
1,26,882
11.76%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1DOCTOR RAM CHANDRA DOMECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,38,38349.9%
- 2ASIT KUMAR MALIndian National Congress · INC4,11,50138.1%
- 3ARJUN SAHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP70,0846.5%
- 4ADARA BAURIAUDF · AUDF21,3252.0%
- 5PROFESSOR BIJAY DALUIIndependent · IND14,5811.4%
- 6NIHAR HAZRAIndependent · IND11,7981.1%
- 7VIDYASAGAR METEBahujan Samaj Party · BSP11,1391.0%
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–INC swing
- −47.5%
- CPM share
- 65.6% → 49.9%
- INC share
- 6.3% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- 74.4% → 82.5%